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The best lesson that I've learned from my mother is that she just never accepted no for an answer and I think that's something that has stayed with me.

The danger I faced was not accepted as reasonable grounds for deferring my tax payments, as authorities, who despite being told all of this, still chose to pursue action against me, as opposed to finding an alternative solution.

Frankenstein can be a metaphor for abandonment, or wanting to be accepted for who you are, or not liking who you are and wanting to actually change that.

You're Dominican only if you do this, this, and that. And if you do this and that, you'll be accepted to a certain degree and if you don't, people will scorn you for it.

We're accepted as long as we conform to what we are expected to be, and I'm sure that's not any different for anyone else.

But she never just accepted me for the way I was.

One can experience an unconditional affirmation of life only when one has accepted death, not as contrary to life, but as an aspect of it.

I go where I'm invited. And all I can tell you is if we accepted every invitation we had, I'd be away every day of my life.

It takes a certain brashness to attack the accepted economic legendsbut noneat all toperpetuatethem. So theyare perpetuated.

I was never accepted into certain parts of New England society because my grandfather was an Irish barkeep.

My relationship with George Steinbrenner was great. He was the boss, and I accepted that.

The woman was sane; she accepted the heavy penalties of reality and enjoyed its gifts also.

The idea of morphology of languages is something that I'm really interested in. How does German turn to Dutch, and how does Dutch turn to Anglo-Saxon and eventually English? Morphology is actually taking place through things like Twitter or GChat today, where we're changing how things are spelled, and those spellings are accepted as standard now. Morphology happens over time. It's not necessarily a bad thing.

I spent my whole adolescence, when you just want to be accepted, looking much younger than everyone else.

But I accepted that because God gave me other qualities and I’m grateful.

It's a pretty widely-accepted notion that the atmosphere is a ridiculously complex system, and the best we can do with our models is a rough approximation.

A poor idea well written is more likely to be accepted than a good idea poorly written

Sh!t. F_ck sh!t.'.... 'Sh!t f_ck would have also been accepted.

As soon as an idea is accepted it is time to reject it.

As I get older, everything feels like it's fundamentally connected, and once you've accepted the idea that business is right, and the free market - though there's never really been one - is right, then everything else just follows naturally from there.

The book has never been written which is to be accepted without any allowance.

Singletons should not have to explain themselves all the time but should have an accepted status — like geisha girls do

Back in 1992, I had my first story accepted by 'The New Yorker.'

I never accepted a knighthood because to me, is honour enough?

I dreamt of being a writer once I started to read. I started to write 'Bonjour Tristesse' in bistros around the Sorbonne. I finished it, I sent it to editors. It was accepted.