"Cicero's words also increased my personal satisfaction by supporting my long-standing rejection of a conventional point of view."
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"Don't hang a dismal picture on the wall, and do not daub with sables and glooms in your conversation. Don't be a cynic and disconsolate preacher. Don't bewail and bemoan. Omit the negative propositions. Nerve us with incessant affirmatives. Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good. When that is spoken which has a right to be spoken, the chatter and the criticism will stop. Set down nothing that will not help somebody."
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"Some actors couldn't figure out how to withstand the constant rejection. They couldn't see the light at the end of the tunnel."
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"Every rejection is incremental payment on your dues that in some way will be translated back into your work."
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"Methodologically speaking, the rejection by [John] Boswell of the categorical opposition between homosexual and heterosexual, which plays such a significant role in the way our culture conceives of homosexuality, represents an advance not only in scholarship but in cultural criticism as well."
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"Then she kissed me and I realized she probably was right, there must be fifty ways to leave your lover."
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"I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me. People feel with their hearts, Ellen, and since he has destroyed mine, I have not power to feel for him."
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"In a word, to perceive an object abstractly means not to perceive some aspects of it. It clearly implies selection of some attributes, rejection of other attributes, creation or distortion of still others. We make of it what we wish. We create it."
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"It goes without saying that I will do anything at any price to pull myself out of a situation like this [rejection] so that I can start work immediately on my next Salon picture and ensure that such a thing should not happen again."
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"My rejection at the Salon brought an end to my hesitation [to settle in Paris] since after this failure I can no longer claim to cope... alas, that fatal rejection has virtually taken the bread out of my mouth."
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"Refuse to let the fear of rejection hold you back. Remember, rejection is never personal."
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"For a woman to direct a movie in Hollywood, she has to go through so many layers of rejection by the powers that be - I suppose including myself - that it is harder to get to that point. So you can't just create something. And I think there is a whole unconscious mountain."
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"I don't want anyone who doesn't want me."
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"To be no part of any body, is to be nothing."
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"A writer should have another lifetime to see if he's appreciated."
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"Self-rejection is the biggest sin that you can commit."
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"For the Palestinians' efforts to delegitimize Israel will end in failure. Palestinian leaders will not achieve peace or prosperity if Hamas insists on a path of terror and rejection. And Palestinians will never realize their independence by denying the right of Israel to exist."
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"When you are an actor, rejection and disappointment are an occupational hazard."
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"The limitation of the ethical phenomenon to its place and time does not imply its rejection but, on the contrary, its validation. One does not use canons to shoot sparrows."
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"Any one whose disposition leads him to attach more weight to unexplained difficulties than to the explanation of facts will certainly reject my theory."
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