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Nothing is harder than to accept oneself.
Max Frisch

Nothing, Oneself, Harder

We do not accept that ours will ever be a nation of haves and have-nots. We must always be a nation of haves and soon-to-haves.
Mitch Daniels

Actually, today I had to defend the Bush Administration in France again. They refuse to accept, because of their political ideology, that he has actually done more than any American President for Africa. But it's empirically so.
Bob Geldof

Today, Political, Done

You enter a state of controlled passivity, you relax your grip and accept that even if your declared intention is to justify the ways of God to man, you might end up interesting your readers rather more in Satan.
Ian Mcewan

God, End, Rather

I was diagnosed with asthma when I was 18 during my freshman year at UCLA. I refused to accept it - and I hid it from my coaches and teammates. But ignoring my problem didn't make it go away.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee

Problem, Away, Year

The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
Agnes de Mille

Creative, Second, Demon

I accept any challenge.
Jennifer Hudson

Confrontation is something that I accept as part of the project though not its purpose.
Andy Goldsworthy

Purpose, Though, Project

Many people have compared me to the Victorian adventure writer, Rider Haggard. I accept that as a compliment. As a boy growing up in Central Africa I read all Haggard's African novels.
Wilbur Smith

Read, Adventure, Growing

America traditionally represents the greatest possibility of someone's going from nothing to something. Why? In theory, if not practice, the government stays out of the way and lets individuals take risks and reap rewards or accept the consequences of failure. We call this capitalism - or, at least, we used to.
Larry Elder

Government, Failure, Greatest

It took a long time for me to accept I was an actor, a professional actor, and that, actually, I make a living out of this.
Robert Carlyle

Time, Long, Living

And as I grew older, I then auditioned for the Royal Academy of Music in London, and they said, well, no, we won't accept you, because we haven't a clue - you know - of the future of a so-called 'deaf' musician. And I just couldn't quite accept that.
Evelyn Glennie

Music, Future, Said

As a Jew, it is my historic responsibility to defend the Jewish people. I feel this responsibility for the survival of the Jewish people. We're not going to accept any decision by anybody else about security of the State of Israel. It is our role and only our role.
Ariel Sharon

Decision, Else, State

There is no good terror and bad terror. Terror is terror. There's not terror that you can accept and terror that you cannot accept. Terror is terror. Murder is murder.
Ariel Sharon

Good, Bad, Cannot

If there will be a serious Palestinian prime minister who makes a 100 percent effort to end terrorism, then we can have peace. Each side has to take steps. If terror continues, there will not be an independent Palestinian state. Israel will not accept it, if terror continues.
Ariel Sharon

Peace, End, Serious

You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.
Barry Mann

Rejection, Able

Books aren't written - they're rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn't quite done it.
Michael Crichton

Done, After, Books

Evolution is a bankrupt speculative philosophy, not a scientific fact. Only a spiritually bankrupt society could ever believe it. Only atheists could accept this Satanic theory.
Jimmy Swaggart

Society, Philosophy, Fact

The Beijing Olympics and the Shanghai World Expo show just how much effort China is willing to spend to enter the global stage. But while China desires to understand the world, it fails to accept its universal values.
Ai Weiwei

Understand, Show, Effort

You never do a movie and not want it to work. You accept whatever it is. You have to, but nobody in their right mind would not want the movie to be getting talked about at the end of the year.
Albert Brooks

Work, Mind, End

It would be good for us Africans to accept ourselves as we are and recapture some of the positive aspects of our culture.
Wangari Maathai

Good, Positive, Culture

Growth begins when we begin to accept our own weakness.
Jean Vanier

Growth, Weakness, Begin

I've come to accept that the life of a frontrunner is a hard one, that he will suffer more injuries than most men and that many of these injuries will not be accidental.
Pele

Life, Men, Hard

I did not do anything wrong as a governor, even if you accept the verdict as it is, it doesn't indicate that.
Edwin Edwards

Wrong, Governor, Indicate

After 13 years, I couldn't accept to be number two.
Guy Lafleur

Two, After, Number

When you don't get what you want, it just makes you accept real life.
Bai Ling

Life, Real, Makes

Sometimes you're looking to play perfect tennis but it's not going to happen all the time and you have to accept it.
Andy Murray

Time, Happen, Perfect

The gifts that one receives for giving are so immeasurable that it is almost an injustice to accept them.
Rod McKuen

Giving, Almost, Injustice

My kids are growing up and it's hard to accept they are their own person and they're independent.
Ray Romano

Hard, Person, Kids

So, if you're doing good longform with talented people than you can step out and you can be the president or a construction worker and people accept that. It's really the roles you give yourself.
Amy Poehler

Good, Yourself, Give

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