Accepted Quotes

I had been accepted to film school, but my parents couldn't afford it, and yet they made too much money for me to get a scholarship.

Mickey is one of the prime examples: Mickey has never been suspected of being an American export. It was deja vu. They gave him a local name and he's been accepted everywhere he goes.

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

In the past, two colleagues died each season. It was generally accepted this could happen.

The acknowledged legislators of the world take the world as given. They dislike mysteries, for mysteries cannot be coded, or legislated, and wonder cannot be made into law. And so these legislators police the accepted frontiers of things.

Controversial proposals, once accepted, soon become hallowed.

Pretty people aren't as accepted as other people. It's like, 'She's pretty and thin and she's got to have problems. She's messed up.'

I chose to not wear a wire and tape people. I chose to not get immunity until - were accepted, whatever - until the independent counsel's office was comfortable with what I said was the truth.

That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.

I am flattered to have been the woman to have opened the door for female rockers to be accepted into the mainly male industry.

We may take it to be the accepted idea that the Mosaic books were not handed down to us for our instruction in scientific knowledge, and that it is our duty to ground our scientific beliefs upon observation and inference, unmixed with considerations of a different order.

I accepted the face that as much as I want to lead others, and love to be around other people, in some essential way, I am something of a loner.

However, while the Nazi barbarians and their collaborators threatened the entire world, I could not accept his philosophy and, after several earlier attempts, was finally accepted into the Canadian Infantry Corps during the last year of World War II.

I realized pretty soon that I have to do more than just play bass in the background way. So, I developed a kind of playing which only a handful of musicians accepted.

My ego's not the kind that says, 'I want to be an actor and be accepted as that.'

The value of an arts education is widely accepted, especially in California.

All sorts of spiritual gifts come through privations, if they are accepted.

You had many jazz musicians who lived in the United States, who had a hard time being accepted over here and had to play in sort of these inferior type dives.

I always wanted to be a dentist from the time I was in high school, and I was accepted to dental school in the spring of 1972. I was planning to go, but after the Olympics there were other opportunities.

We said we'd fly the flag without him and carry on. I didn't give him a kiss because I still hadn't accepted what was happening. I was hoping that some miracle was going to happen. Of course, it didn't. I wish I had kissed him now.

I don't really care about being accepted now. I wish I had been like that earlier.

I've gone the full spectrum - from gospel to blues to jazz to soul to pop - and the public has accepted what I've done through it all. I think it means I've been doing something right at the right time.

Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not on reasoning but on doctrinaire adherence to religious principles.

I feel good in my own skin because I've accepted the fact that I'm me. That's what's so great about being alive and being on this planet: Everybody's different.

Boxing traditionally was received very well and accepted on both sides.

Later, after flying in the Navy for four or five years, spending some time on an aircraft carrier, I applied to and was accepted in a program where I went to graduate school first and then to the Naval Test Pilots School.

The only reason why I would like to be accepted? Because if your movies don't do well, after a while you don't get to make any more movies.

Total falsehoods can be easily exposed for what they are by citing exceptions to their claims. Hence, they are less likely to be accepted as the total truth.

A couple of weeks after that, Zebra Books phoned with an offer, and I accepted.

All the other chiefs and tribes have accepted the Great Law of Peace. They now live in peace with one another.