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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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At the beginning of the nineteenth century we abandoned tradition, it's at that point that I intend to renew it because the present is built on the past just as the past was built on the times that went before...

Quotes by Adolf Loos

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I understand a ship to be made for the carrying and preservation of the cargo, and so long as the ship can be saved, with the cargo, it should never be abandoned. This Union likewise should never be abandoned unless...

Abraham Lincoln

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I wasn't happy the way I completed 'Asuran' or abandoned the film as it isn't complete. People are liking it and it's making money and I'm glad but I'm not happy with how I had to finish it.

Quotes by Vetrimaaran

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The Spanish offered me their protection, and liberty to those who would fight for the cause of the kings. I accepted their offers, seeing myself entirely abandoned by my brethren, the French.

Quotes by Toussaint Louverture

Country Quotes

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When I was in Philadelphia during the Depression in 1930 or '31, I got a very sad job as a night watchman in a garage. The cars in the garage had been abandoned by their owners, since they had lost...

Quotes by Tom Glazer

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Altman was told they wouldn't do the film with me. He could easily have abandoned me, but he stood by me and really bailed me out.

Quotes by Tim Robbins

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When I started on MySpace, people wanted to support me, but once I rose to fame with the MTV show, they felt like I had abandoned them for some reason, that I was too famous to talk to them anymore.

Quotes by Tila Tequila

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The news is staged, anticipated, reported, analyzed until all interest is wrung from it and abandoned for some new novelty.

Quotes by Thomas Griffith

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Could I anticipate the enmity of those for whom I encountered such opposition? If they had been willing, I should have gained the victory. But the head faints when it is abandoned by the other members. If they had been...

Quotes by Thomas Becket

Life Quotes

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We've all but abandoned soaps in our own culture. I lost my beloved 'Guiding Light' in 2009, and 'One Life to Live' was just the latest casualty to fall beneath the programming axes.

Quotes by Teresa Medeiros

These lines treat abandonment less as failure than as an honest part of making things. For related reading, visit Life quotes or Me quotes.