I was eleven and I wanted to play it because it was in my blood. It was a feeling I couldn’t deny.
As much as we try to deny it, media plays a huge part in how we view the world.
It seems to me that ‘women’s writing’ by nature would not seek equivalence in the male world. It would be a writing that sought to express a distinction, not deny it.
I do not deny I brought most of my notoriety on myself, nor do I apologize for it.
The smartest thing that an actor can do is embrace the thing that made them famous as opposed to run away from it or deny that it happened. That does a disservice to most actors. To me, it looks like you’re ungrateful.
I would inevitably get the girls who were interested in me because I was the guy from E.T. It was kind of tough. I can’t deny ever capitalizing upon it but on the whole in my teens I was pretty virtuous.
Health care is a human right, but Bevin doesn’t understand that. He wants to let insurance companies deny care for people with pre-existing conditions, slashing coverage for chronic disease management, mental health services, maternity care and prescription drugs.
The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing.
Some countries that I go to are still trying to deny that it’s happening. In India, 2.1 million people are living with HIV AIDS. India manufactures most of the drugs that are used to cure HIV around the world, which is an amazing, amazing fact that most people don’t know.
A lot of people are living in a dream world – they want to deny that aging occurs or believe it doesn’t have to occur. They’ll hold on to this belief until the moment they die. The reality will eventually hit them.
Now and always, hard-line policy and those who embrace it are vessels for darker forces that are at once self-cannibalizing and combustible. No good can come of them. They are unsustainable because their sense of righteousness denies human worth.
You cannot deny the fact that, in the United States, there are some really great guys with rich experience in overt and covert special operations in Latin America, Asia, and Africa.
I don’t deny that fact that I like Gauahar. She is hardworking, self-made and self-respecting. Somewhere, I see my own personality traits in her. But that’s about it. We are not in a relationship.
I don’t like to use the word ‘fake.’ A lot of our stuff is choreographed. But there is a lot of physicality that happens during the course of a match and our careers. There’s a lot of physicality that happens to us and you can’t deny that.
If you deny the fact that things are happening to you, that this is going on, whether it’s negative or positive, you’re just putting yourself behind the 8-ball because you’re not facing it head on and dealing with it in a positive way that you’ve learned how to.
If we do not step forward, then we step back. If we do not protect a right, then we deny it.
No one supposes that the government of the United States is supreme, beyond the sphere plainly defined by the constitution: Neither does any one deny that the State is supreme within its proper sphere of action.
It is impossible to deny that people in power face more temptations than ordinary citizens.
We can’t afford to deny our past in a bid to be empowered. But what we can do is contextualize the past.
When I played in a band, people just stand there and look at you and criticize what they didn’t like. But if you watch a D.J. show, people go crazy from beginning to end. Say what you want against D.J.’s, but you can’t deny that the energy level in the audience is for the most part far above what rock bands have.
It’s one thing to earnestly try but fail to bring the two sides together. Though Democrats will deny it, that was the case with George W. Bush.
I stopped painting in 1990 at the peak of my success just to deny people my beautiful paintings, and I did it out of spite.
Whether you are on the left or the right, we should all agree that organized human smugglers are putting innocent lives at risk. As a former undercover officer in the CIA, I am appalled that we are not maximizing the use of intelligence to deny and disrupt these transnational smuggling networks.
The more we deny that we have a dark side, the more power it has over us.
I eat everything. I love it! I couldn’t deny myself food. What a waste of a life.
You can’t deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
War stories deal in death. War illuminates love, while love is the greatest expression of hope, without which any story rings untrue to life. And to deny hope in a story about such darkness is to create false art.
To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.
One can’t deny what has happened to us in the past. The secret is to enjoy and be proud of the music we’ve created and the people with whom we have been linked. It’s all a long chain of involvement in the world, and we are proud to be yet another link in this chain.
I want to play for Liverpool in the Premier League on a regular basis, I will never deny that.
A coldly rationalist individualist can deny that he has any obligation to make sacrifices for the future.
A true servant of God will never teach a false doctrine. He will never deny new revelation. He never will tell you that the canon of scripture is full, or that the New Testament is the last revelation ever intended to be given to man.
Of course, nobody would deny the importance of human beings for theological thinking, but the time span of history that theologians think about is a few thousand years of human culture rather than the fifteen billion years of the history of the universe.
When public men indulge themselves in abuse, when they deny others a fair trial, when they resort to innuendo and insinuation, to libel, scandal, and suspicion, then our democratic society is outraged, and democracy is baffled.
I think that we can’t deny the public’s want for balancing out the images that are out there depicting women. Not all of us are 17 and a size two.
There are plenty of recommendations on how to get out of trouble cheaply and fast. Most of them come down to this: Deny your responsibility.
I can’t deny that Eric Clapton’s and Eddie Van Halen’s lead stuff has influenced a stack of people, but for me, it’s the rhythm thing that’s way more impressive and important to a band.
No person who denies the existence of a supreme being shall hold any office under this Constitution.
He was just Dad. But it’s hard to deny who he was when you’re brought out on stage, and you’re standing beside this great man singing at the end of a show, and the crowd loves him.
In some ways it’s taken me decades to come clean and make honest work – and still to this day, sometimes I find myself wanting to hide behind my work and deny the more biographical aspects.
Being able to jump off a swing is actually a useful and meaningful thing for a child to do… those are the tests that help us understand the limits of our body. That’s a positive learning experience that we deny children on a regular basis.
Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their political ideal set in the preamble of the Constitution affirms a life of liberty, equality and fraternity. Their social ideal embodied in their religion denies them.
And if these be unprincipled agents who scruple at nothing, he will be a bold man who will deny that there are always to be found men at the bar who lend their services most cordially to back and support these agents in their most desperate cases.
Whenever culture has gone through a radical change, as ours has – from industrial age to information age – there are people who will deny that things have changed; they resist it and refuse to change.
The wages that are being paid in the Premier League are very tempting. It would be hypocrisy to deny that.
What could begin to deny self, if there were not something in man different from self?
The major religions, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, they deny somehow that God has a feminine face. However, if you go to the holy texts, you see there is this feminine presence.
It is clear that it is not man who has created the universe – whether you believe in God or in gods or deny any divine presence – man cannot alter the laws that govern the universe without damaging it.
I think my speeches are hilarious. I think I’m a natural comedian, but I like denying people the chance to laugh. I want to deny you the relief of the punchline.
I’m not going to deny it. I’m a neat person, there’s no question. But I don’t become obsessed with it.
To deny that human beings are filled with anti-social passions betrays a denial of reality and a lack of self-awareness. One has to be taught nonsense for a great many formative years to believe it.
The ambivalence of writing is such that it can be considered both an act and an interpretive process that follows after an act with which it cannot coincide. As such, it both affirms and denies its own nature.
It’s what I tell my daughters: Know that your birthright is to shine your light, and don’t let anybody deny you of that right. Take responsibility for your life.
That money talks, I’ll not deny, I heard it once: It said, ‘Goodbye’.
