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Abandoned Quotes
On unfinished work and the choice to set it aside.
Not every abandoned project ends badly. A filmmaker unhappy with how a movie wrapped can still watch it find an audience, and a cluttered hard drive full of half-built ideas is a familiar feeling for anyone who creates. This page gathers quotes on that theme. Compare with Like quotes nearby.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't really have an interest in politics when I first entered the workforce. What I wanted to do was help people who grew up like me. When I was a kid growing up in Tucson, my father lost his job and we lost everything - including our home. We lived in an abandoned gas station for two years until we were able to get back on our feet.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Republicans abandoned the pretext of democracy to fight a war for power long ago.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was in high school, my friends and I would drive out into the country to abandoned houses and structures... haha... to ghost hunt. We would scare each other so bad! We would sometimes camp out by the abandoned buildings just to scare ourselves! Such good times. The adrenaline of real fear is so cool!
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have always been interested in abandoned cars. I can't tell you how many times I've been in a car, driving, and there's a car sitting in a pasture, totally abandoned. Or on the edge of a creek or something. I always wonder: why did somebody park it in the pasture and leave?
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is nothing lonelier than a cat who has been loved, at least for a while, and then abandoned on the side of the road.
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Matterhorn' is my metaphor of the Vietnam War - we built it, we abandoned it, we assaulted it, we lost, and then we abandoned it again.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm just sick of the way things are. We're in an age in which we can't live without accepting the logic of the market. Contemporary politics is all about short-term pragmatism. We have abandoned religion and philosophy... What we have left is the automatisation of doing what the market tells us.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I abandoned chemistry to concentrate on mathematics and physics. In 1942, I travelled to Cambridge to take the scholarship examination at Trinity College, received an award and entered the university in October 1943.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When a book goes well, it abandons me. I am the most abandoned writer in the world.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother had abandoned the family, so grandmother raised me. And she was instrumental in that she taught me that the world is a glorious place. She taught me to embrace humanity. And she'd say there's never an excuse for joy. And to be thankful.
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was never a time that I thought of renouncing my Filipino citizenship. I never abandoned my country. I've been here through thick and thin. Jojo Binay is a Filipino.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was always most interested in drawing - most of my childhood drawings are black-and-white line work. And when I kind of abandoned comics, through college and art school, I was doing a lot of painting. But once I started doing comics again, everything else just fell by the wayside.
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- Nov 07, 2020
That policy was abandoned very quickly, and the military police were tagged with the responsibility of conducting training, which they did. We were not equipped or set up with personnel to recruit new Iraqi guards.
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- Nov 07, 2020