All Quotes

I refuse to buy a PS3 or Xbox for my home for fear that it might ruin my life. I think I would cease to accomplish anything productive, would quickly dispense with all human contact, and would very well end up with a nasty case of arthritis in my over-used digits from constant gameplay.
‐‐ Beau Willimon

I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art.
‐‐ Balthus

I refuse to consign the whole male sex to the nursery. I insist on believing that some men are my equals.
‐‐ Brigid Brophy

I refuse to dance. And I can't dance anyway. I'm not in a band for that.
‐‐ Liam Gallagher

I refuse to discuss tabloid rumors.
‐‐ LeAnn Rimes

I refuse to do shows that are narrowly constructed, that appeal to only one sentiment. I do a lot of Jewish material in front of non-Jews and a lot of non-Jewish material in front of Jews on the simple theory that the non-Jews are entitled to a glimpse of a Jewish world and the Jews are entitled to a glimpse of the world.
‐‐ Theodore Bikel

I refuse to dress 'hot' for Halloween, 'cause I always have to have makeup and hair and look cute for my job. So on Halloween, I either go gory or weird or funny.
‐‐ Rachel Platten

I refuse to feel guilty. I feel guilty about too much in my life but not about money. I went through periods when I had nothing, so somebody in my family has to get stinkin' wealthy.
‐‐ Jim Carrey

I refuse to give energy to the negative. I've got a great fella and two great little girls.
‐‐ Melissa McCarthy

I refuse to go along with the status quo of more wasteful federal spending, and I refuse to let the Obama Administration continue to force their misguided ideology through regulatory overreach.
‐‐ Paul Gosar

I refuse to go into a fast-food outlet - to use the toilet even - in case anyone got the wrong idea and thought I was sneaking in a quick burger.
‐‐ Jonny Wilkinson

I refuse to imprison our acts in the rigid mould of sentences.
‐‐ Ella Maillart

I refuse to let what happened to me make me bitter.
‐‐ Nicole Kidman

I refuse to lie to children.
‐‐ Maurice Sendak

I refuse to make uninspired music.
‐‐ Ben Harper

I refuse to put make-up on just because the paparazzi are on my doorstep. I find it morally wrong.
‐‐ Lily Allen

I refuse to say things behind people's backs.
‐‐ Marilyn Manson

I refuse to sit on my laurels.
‐‐ Patricia Cornwell

I refuse to spend my life worrying about what I eat. There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.
‐‐ John Mortimer

I refuse to stand up in front of a rabbi and my friends and the woman I love - who I will tell you I can love with all my heart - and promise she will be the only one I will ever have until the day I die. That's a lie.
‐‐ Gene Simmons

I refuse to take shortcuts.
‐‐ Colin Kaepernick

I refuse to this day to do e-mail because everybody I know that does it, it takes another two or three hours a day. I don't want to give two or three more hours away.
‐‐ Jeff Foxworthy

I refuse to totally grow up. I've always been someone who says and does things that push politically correct boundaries.
‐‐ Robbie Williams

I refuse to work evenings or weekends. If a script sees my character meeting for dinner, I put a line through the words and make them meet for lunch.
‐‐ Armando Iannucci

I refuse to work unless I get paid, so I don't get a lot of work sometimes.
‐‐ Frank Gehry

I refused David Letterman's proposal of marriage for obvious reasons, but thanks for asking.
‐‐ Teri Garr

I refused to accept anything, doubted everything. So, doubting everything, I had to find something that had not existed before, something I had not thought of before. Any idea that came to me, the thing would be to turn it around and try to see it with another set of senses.
‐‐ Marcel Duchamp

I refused to beat my head against stone, of course.
‐‐ Herbert Lom

I refused to conform to an image that a lot of people thought a president's brother should adopt.
‐‐ Billy Carter

I refused to do a lot on mobile Internet until around 2009. But because we didn't start early, it took us some time to figure out what's the important thing, what's the most relevant thing for Baidu.
‐‐ Robin Li

I refused to learn English for two years when we moved to London, hoping to send my family back home. It was tough, but at the same time, it has given me a sense of displacement that actually really suits the life that I'm living now.
‐‐ Anya Taylor-Joy

I refused to take no for an answer.
‐‐ Bessie Coleman

I refused to wear make-up on TV. I wanted my music to be heard.
‐‐ Suzi Quatro

I regard a great ad as the most beautiful thing in the world.
‐‐ Leo Burnett

I regard affirmative action as pernicious - a system that had wonderful ideals when it started but was almost immediately abused for the benefit of white middle-class women.
‐‐ Camille Paglia

I regard Christian and Jewish fundamentalism, and all other forms of fundamentalism, as the enemies of God - and I hope you'll quote me on that.
‐‐ Arthur Hertzberg

I regard food as fuel. I am not a brunch person.
‐‐ David Rubenstein

I regard freedom of expression as the primary right without which one can not have a proper functioning democracy.
‐‐ Lord Hailsham

I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.
‐‐ Gilbert K. Chesterton

I regard it as a waste of time to think only of selling: one forgets one's art and exaggerates one's value.
‐‐ Camille Pissarro

I regard it in fact as the great advantage of the mathematical technique that it allows us to describe, by means of algebraic equations, the general character of a pattern even where we are ignorant of the numerical values which will determine its particular manifestation.
‐‐ Friedrich August von Hayek

I regard Jesus, like the Buddha, as a figure with the power to shape our lives.
‐‐ Jay Parini

I regard many of the neoconservatives as personal friends, but that's not stopped them from behaving with extraordinary viciousness towards those of us who raised the immigration issue.
‐‐ Peter Brimelow

I regard myself as a beautiful musical instrument, and my role is to contribute that instrument to scripts worthy of it.
‐‐ Ed Asner

I regard myself as a grand juror waiting to hear the evidence from the prosecutor, the Judiciary Committee. I'm diametrically opposed to Nixon and everything he stands for, but I want to see the evidence of high crimes and misdemeanors first.
‐‐ Thomas P. O'Neill

I regard myself as a man without charm in a country of charmers.
‐‐ Roberto Unger

I regard myself as an actress but, obviously, not in the Dame Judi Dench league. That isn't a problem because I don't think we are ever likely to be up for the same part!
‐‐ Kelly Brook

I regard myself as someone who is retired but who occasionally goes out to work. In fact, I'm offered so much good stuff that it's not so occasional.
‐‐ Michael Caine

I regard other women as my community, not my competition.
‐‐ Gina Barreca