I refuse to be molded into some stereotypical ballplayer that has no interests, really, no life, no depth, no intelligence.

- Barry Zito

I refuse to work unless I get paid, so I don't get a lot of work sometimes.

- Frank Gehry

Americans are people who prefer the Continent to their own country, but refuse to learn its languages.

- E. V. Lucas

I will not refuse to do something that I can do.

- Edward Everett

I refuse to imprison our acts in the rigid mould of sentences.

- Ella Maillart

Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle at the onset.

- Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

I refuse to be crude and selfish in any way.

- DeForest Kelley

I am called a dog because I fawn on those who give me anything, I yelp at those who refuse, and I set my teeth in rascals.

- Diogenes

Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.

- D. H. Lawrence

I refuse to take shortcuts.

- Colin Kaepernick

People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.

- A. C. Benson

I refuse to be held responsible for bringing back a wave of pasty-faced people into the world.

- Brian Molko

I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art.

- Balthus

I refuse to make uninspired music.

- Ben Harper

Artists are just children who refuse to put down their crayons.

- Al Hirschfeld

I refuse to be silenced.

- Al Goldstein

A man's mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.

- Anthony Trollope

I refuse to accept Pluto's resignation as a planet.

- Amy Lee

We have to wake up. We have to refuse to be a clone.

- Alice Walker

I'm really happy to be me, and I'd like to think people like me more because I'm happy with myself and not because I refuse to conform to anything.

- Adele