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Deny Quotes - Page 2

I deny that either singers or conductors can "create" or work creatively - this, as I have always said, is a conception that leads to the abyss.

Letter to Giulio Ricordi (April 11, 1871) quoted in "Giuseppe Verdi" (1959) by Franco Abbiati, Milano: Ricordi, vol. 3, (p. 448), translated by Edward Downes in "Verdi: The Man in His Letters" edited by Franz Werfel and Paul Stefan, New York: L. B. Fischer, (pp. 301-302), 1942.

Anytime you deny the acknowledgement of God you are undermining the entire basis for which our country exists.

"Defender of the Decalogue". Interview with Thomas R. Eddlem, www.thenewamerican.com. November 21, 2002.

I have always been concerned with painting that simultaneously insists on a flat surface and then denies it.

Julia Brown, Helen Frankenthaler, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (1998). “After Mountains and Sea: Frankenthaler 1956-1959”, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation

I personally think that if you deny something or if you hide something you're inadvertently admitting it's wrong.

"Exclusive: Amber Heard talks about being out in Hollywood" by J. Halterman, www.afterellen.com. December 4, 2010.

To feel abandoned is to deny the intimacy of your surroundings.

David Whyte (2009). “The Three Marriages: Reimagining Work, Self and Relationship”, p.50, Penguin

Within a system which denies the existence of basic human rights, fear tends to be the order of the day.

Acceptance message for the 1990 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, July 1991.