I’m not going to deny the fact that I’ve tried pot. I hated it.
I’ve had many friends over the years who have been in same-sex relationships, and the family denies hospital visitations when one is sick. Or when the estate is settled and people who have built a life together has everything taken away from them either by the families or the taxman.
We have a tax code whose complications and levels of unfairness and levels of choosing people to give tax breaks to and choosing people to deny them to is thousands of pages long with endless complications and unbelievable manipulations by everybody.
We can’t deny the financial toll illegal immigrants take on our communities.
I do not deny that I have made drawings and watercolors of an erotic nature. But they are always works of art. Are there no artists who have done erotic pictures?
To him that waits all things reveal themselves, provided that he has the courage not to deny, in the darkness, what he has seen in the light.
No one can deny there is a lot of pressure when Pakistan and India play, especially with the expectations of the fans at home.
You can’t deny the experience of a store. It’s fantastic if you’re a global brand and you’ve got the power or the funds to support that bricks-and-mortar space, but we certainly weren’t and aren’t.
Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune’s darlings.
Dominick Cruz is my friend, we had a few beers together in the past, but you can’t deny what I have done in the UFC.
One cannot deny the great role women have played in the world community. My flight was yet another impetus to continue this female contribution.
One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.
I come from money. I’m not going to deny that.
Obviously, it gave me a chance to see Barcelona. I won’t deny that. But I also had a chance to see something in another country in terms of recycling and reusing nuclear material.
I feel totally French – I don’t feel half-French because of my dual nationality. For me, dual nationality just means I don’t deny my roots.
Rather than diminishing the idea of ‘truly needing’ a relationship – and trying to deny it, shame it, or talk ourselves out of it – why not just celebrate it? It’s exactly what the world needs.
Every time I criticize the anti-Zionists, they say, ‘You are trying to silence us.’ I don’t deny there are some people who are critical of Israel who are not anti-Semitic. But to criticize Israel, and then criticize Zionism, is not quite the same thing.
For India’s sake as much as its own, Bihar needs to be strong again, less vulnerable to the many forces that would deny democracy and curtail choice. Its people are its strength, and have many skills that other states have benefited from.
We shouldn’t deny the right of the minority to filibuster, but we need to do a much better job of making them own it. That way, the American people could figure out who is being obstructionist and who is willing to compromise.
No one can deny that Marco Rubio is an attractive candidate. Rubio has a dream, and he has a strategy to fulfill that dream. He is a more formidable candidate than Jeb Bush because he is articulate and is running as a ‘centrist conservative.’
I know I’m really good at writing for the theater. I can deny it all I want. Other people can fight me on it. It doesn’t really matter. It’s the thing I happen to know is my gift.
Philosophically, I believe that libertarianism – and the wider creed of sound individualism of which libertarianism is a part – must rest on absolutism and deny relativism.
If you want to participate in life, you have to deny your identity.
I live for the present always. I accept this risk. I don’t deny the past, but it’s a page to turn.
I’m the guy that once graduated Ranger School – a place that starves you and denies you sleep for over two months – and took a fight six days later in the IFL and won.
I’m not going to say I was opposed to the Vietnam War. I’m going to say I’m opposed to war. But I’m also opposed to protests that deny other people their rights.
Playwrights are like men who have been dining for a month in an Indian restaurant. After eating curry night after night, they deny the existence of asparagus.
I always feel quite Jewish but I used to deny it until I was in my twenties.
Given that sexual orientation is innate and that we are all, in theological terms, children of God, to deny access to some sacraments based on sexuality is as wrong as denying access to some sacraments based on race or gender.
Few would venture to deny the advantages of temperance in increasing the efficiency of a nation at war.
I know a lot of police officers who are on the force to do the right thing to protect people. But how can you deny this pattern, this disturbing pattern, Alton Sterling, Mr. Castile in my own community, Philando Castile, but then Tamir Rice, Mike Brown, Eric Garner, Sandra Bland?
It is not necessary to deny another’s reality in order to affirm your own.
I think that because human difference for so long, in all its various forms, has been the root of so much oppression, sometimes there’s the impulse to say let’s deny the difference, as though by wishing away the difference we can then wish away the oppression.
What we cannot deny is that there’s an association between exclusion, segregation, non-violent extremist thinking, and jihadism.
The dangers which threaten us are twofold: First, from the Confederate forces, composed of men whose earnest convictions and reckless bravery it is idle to deny.
I don’t much like ‘Wonderwall,’ but the effect that song has on people, I can’t deny it.
The basis for sustainable progress is legal protections grounded in an awareness of how identity has been used to deny opportunity.
Beauty is a combination of qualities. I don’t think one can deny that certain people or things feel aesthetically pleasing. But without an equally pleasing being behind that form, there is no beauty there.
In a world where it is so easy to neglect, deny, corrupt and suppress the truth, the scientist may find his discipline severe. For him, truth is so seldom the sudden light that shows new order and beauty; more often, truth is the uncharted rock that sinks his ship in the dark.
I’ve grown to love veg – I didn’t have a choice – and I’ve always been mad on cauliflower. It has a gentle nutty sweetness that intensifies when cooked; and you can’t deny that a bowlful of cauliflower cheese is one of the ultimate comfort foods.
I can’t deny that the thought of being governor, the thought of being president, is alluring. And beyond that, it would be an opportunity to make a real impact on people’s lives on a global scale. But there are a lot of other things I want to do first.
We have convinced over one billion members of the Islamic faith that we are prejudiced against their religion, that we would deny them freedom of religion, that we want suppress their culture and invade their governments.
DePaul’s plot to deny me tenure had nothing to do with my faults. In fact, and ironically, it viciously attacked me and destroyed my career because of my virtues. Which, although few in number, they still found threatening.
BJP is ready to go to any extent to protest for the rights of Ayyappa devotees. Beliefs should be respected. Man-woman equality is must, but gender equality cannot be established by giving entry to men and women together. There are several temples that deny men entry.
I make very proper clothes. But I was never that person. For a long time, I thought that was the image I needed to have for my brand. And I thought that’s the person that I needed to be. Because it gave me a distinct image that no one can deny.
The climate is changing; I don’t think you can deny that. But climate has always changed.
A man was defined, in my father’s circles, by what he could bear, the pain he could shrug off, the warmth or comfort he could deny himself.
I think we all want to successfully push back the aging process, to deny the aging process. Who among us says, ‘Yippee, I’m getting older’?
Do I wish I had never endured postpartum depression? Absolutely. But to deny the experience is to deny who I am.
I defy any British actor to deny they’ve not stood in front of the mirror and said: ‘Bond, James Bond.’
While the federal government is committed to paying 100% of the cost of new people in Medicaid, I cannot, in good conscience, deny the uninsured access to care.
But I deny that the Constitution recognizes property in man.
It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist.
A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations.
I think the days of the climate deniers are over. To deny basic science is to risk the trust of the general public.
It is impossible to deny that Christians and Muslims have a common agenda here: both faiths have at their heart the living image of a community raised up by God’s call to reveal to the world what God’s purpose is for humanity.
No one can deny who you are unless you are, in some way, minimizing the power and the force of your divine substance.
