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I hate being ignored. -- Amanda Palmer
Every blessing ignored becomes a curse. -- Paulo Coelho
Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it. -- Agatha Christie
The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap. -- Spiro T. Agnew
I just want to make a point that it's not just great teachers that sometimes shape your life. Sometimes it's the absence of great teachers that shapes your life and being ignored can be just as good for a person as being lauded. -- Julia Roberts
[The Freedom of Information Act is] the Taj Mahal of the Doctrine of Unanticipated Consequences, the Sistine Chapel of Cost-Benefit Analysis Ignored. -- Antonin Scalia
If you get to a point where something happens today to stress you out, take a breath & center your thoughts on peace. Ignored thoughts die. -- Ace Antonio Hall
Failures are expected by losers, ignored by winners. -- Joe Gibbs
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. -- Aldous Huxley
Instinct is a marvelous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored. -- Agatha Christie
But feelings can't be ignored, no matter how unjust or ungrateful they seem. -- Anne Frank
My only agenda is to bring attention to otherwise ignored and shunned lives. -- Jim Goldberg
Everyone wants to be liked; everyone wants approval. No one likes being ignored. -- Mallory Ortberg
Life tends to be an accumulation of a lot of mundane decisions, which often gets ignored. -- David Byrne
Imagination is the golden-eyed monster that never sleeps. It must be fed; it cannot be ignored. -- Patricia A. McKillip
War is not a life: it is a situation, one which may neither be ignored nor accepted. -- T. S. Eliot
There's a lot of mediocrity being celebrated, and a lot of wonderful stuff being ignored or discouraged. -- Sean Penn
If you're being ignored, that's a good time to concentrate on finding yourself and creating your own mystery. -- Lykke Li
I don't mind what the critics say, so long as I get some reaction. The worst thing is to be ignored. -- Les Dawson
I ignored your aura but it grabbed me by the hand, like the moon pulled the tide, and the tide pulled the sand. -- Talib Kweli
It is impossible to treat a child too well. Children are spoiled by being ignored too much or by harshness, not by kindness. -- Sloan Wilson
The only person that deserves a special place in your life is someone that never made you feel like you were an option in theirs. -- Shannon L. Alder
If the people in the audience are talking, you're being ignored. If the people are gazing at you, you've got something they want to hear. -- Chuck Berry
One of the ridiculous aspects of being a poet is the huge gulf between how seriously we take ourselves and how generally we are ignored by everybody else. -- Billy Collins
Nowadays, many Americans have forgotten the meaning and traditions of Memorial Day. At cemeteries across the country, the graves of the fallen are sadly ignored, and worse, neglected. -- Allen West
We need women at all levels, including the top, to change the dynamic, reshape the conversation, to make sure women's voices are heard and heeded, not overlooked and ignored. -- Sheryl Sandberg
The whole world is starting to realize that it was the most unwise thing for our society to have ignored women power, to run the society with male priorities. -- Yoko Ono
For the spiritual being, intuition is far more than a hunch. It is viewed as guidance or as God talking, and this inner insight is never taken lightly or ignored. -- Wayne Dyer
We do this for the art, not the adulation. I'd rather our music get liked and we get ignored. I don't want to be adored for anything other than the music. -- Andy Partridge
If I'd trusted myself and listened to myself all the times that I ignored myself, I would have been fine. But everyone has to learn their lesson, and now I've got it. -- Kirsten Dunst
I have always been aware that you have to get people listening before you can change their minds. Any artist's big fear is being ignored, so if you get debate, that's great. -- Damien Hirst
As legislators and as Members of Congress, it is our obligation to speak up for those who are being ignored in our society. The Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) does just that. -- Gwen Moore
Ignoring the mind is a beautiful sadhana. This is what many of the sages did. They ignored the mind out of existence. It loses its influence and its potency when it is ignored. -- Mooji
The correct statement of individual rights is that everyone has the right to an opinion, but crucially, that opinion can be roundly ignored and even made fun of, particularly if it is demonstrably nonsense! -- Brian Cox
All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome. -- George Orwell
My audience is the baby-boomers, the bulk of the population. This is also a group that is being ignored by most record companies because they're not the Top 40 hit singles market. They forget these people still listen to music. -- Helen Reddy
Negative freedom is freedom from - freedom from oppression, whether it's a colonial power or addiction to alcohol oppressing you. You need to be freed from negative freedom. Positive freedom is freedom for, freedom to be. And that's what's routinely ignored today. -- Os Guinness
Rules such as "Write what you know," and "Show, don't tell," while doubtlessly grounded in good sense, can be ignored with impunity by any novelist nimble enough to get away with it. There is, in fact, only one rule in writing fiction: Whatever works, works. -- Tom Robbins
The voice of the intelligence is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted by the voice of shame. It is biased by hate and extinguished by anger. Most of all it is silenced by ignorance. -- Karl A. Menninger
I know what it's like to be ignored, and I think that is the big problem about the prison system: These people are being thrown away. There is no sense of rehabilitation. In some places, they are trying to do things. But, in most cases, it's a holding cell. -- Lee Tergesen
People say, 'Gee, you don't really do political music.' Well, I sing a lot of songs about how men and women and lovers treat each other, and none of us want to be talked down to or belittled or ignored or disrespected... So I'm proud to be a feminist. -- Bonnie Raitt
Passion is a feeling that tells you: this is the right thing to do. Nothing can stand in my way. It doesn't matter what anyone else says. This feeling is so good that it cannot be ignored. I'm going to follow my bliss and act upon this glorious sensation of joy. -- Wayne Dyer
During my own gap year, I learned an invaluable lesson - that I was a lousy teacher. Even though the children I 'taught,' in upcountry Uganda, were desperate for qualifications, they largely ignored me. Until, that is, I realised that they wanted to hear about other young persons around the world. -- Simon Hoggart
When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendors of the past; when faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless. -- Abraham Joshua Heschel
Very high altitude astronomy only works by ignoring established biological science -- Steven Magee
Powerful words that penetrate the psyche are not forgotten while silence is. -- Donna Lynn Hope
Understand that I am even ignored by the opposite sex on the internet. -- Vann Chow
Time doesn't heal all wounds, only distance can lessen the sting of them. -- Shannon L. Alder
Once everyone thought you were crazy, they ignored you even when you told the truth. -- Thomm Quackenbush
its not a good idea to argue with ignorant people but sometime ignorance can't be ignored -- Adnan Safi
It would be too easy to say that I feel invisible. Instead, I feel painfully visible, and entirely ignored. -- David Levithan
When someone you loved finds no flattery in the gift you gave them then you must ask yourself, "What was worth loving? -- Shannon L. Alder
Oliver has stated many times his dislike of hearing advice from his younger sister, so it is his own fault if he has not got sense enough to see which way the wind is blowing. -- Patricia C. Wrede
Prayer and staying positive is certainly a good start toward a happier a life, but it is not enough. The way out of Egypt requires packing up, moving on and wandering around until you find Canaan. -- Shannon L. Alder
Ignorance is never ignored. -- Sipendr
The thrill of being ignored! -- Markus Zusak
I will not be ignored. -- Vivien Leigh
Hard work can't be ignored forever. -- John Moraga
Wealth mostly ignored the real reality. -- Kristian Goldmund Aumann
Stupid people always ignored good advice -- Johanna Lindsey
Instincts and intuition should never be ignored. -- Brenda Priddy
It's better to be hated than ignored. -- G-Dragon
How people ignored each other before smartphones. -- Patrick Madrid
Questions would be asked. Answers would be ignored. -- Ben Aaronovitch
An insult angers me. Being ignored crushes me. -- Mason Cooley
A dream ignored is like a letter unopened. -- Rodger Kamenetz
Worse than bad reviews is to be ignored. -- Neil Diamond
How can the reality of 600 million Chinese be ignored? -- Janio Quadros
The mercury rule writers also ignored mercury's special qualities. -- Tom Allen
The mercury rule writers also ignored mercury's special qualities -- Tom Allen
He made a lousy passenger, barking instructions I ignored -- Karen Marie Moning
Money shouldn't be worshiped and it shouldn't be ignored. -- Alexa Von Tobel
I've always ignored the labels people put on things. -- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
To be universally liked is to be relatively ignored. -- Christian Rudder
Pain cannot be ignored. However, it can be endured. -- Charlie Huston
Boys ignored me. I never thought I was gorgeous. -- Jessica Stam
It's actually quite criminal how 'The Wire' was systematically ignored. -- Idris Elba
Malefactors of great wealth have arrogantly ignored the public welfare. -- Theodore Roosevelt
The plays raise issues that are ignored in other forums. -- Ishmael Reed
I wasn't bullied in high school, I was just ignored. -- Gerard Way
I was isolated but not ostracized, ignored but not abused. -- Claire LaZebnik
Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary." -- Al Capp
Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary. -- Al Capp
Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed if necessary. -- Al Capp
It is always the best friends who are neglected and ignored. -- George Sand
He also knew that rivals are best unmanned by being ignored. -- John Irving
Parental Discretion is advised, but will be completely f*n, ignored -- Triple H
I stifled a sigh and ignored the Imprinted Drunk Vision Girl. -- P. C. Cast
I went out last night and all the girls ignored me -- Leonardo DiCaprio
Man has, since the Enlightenment, dealt with things he should have ignored. -- Andrei Tarkovsky
The prophets of doom, in my experience, are generally ignored and usually right. -- Fay Weldon
I've been ignored for 20 years but now it's heartening to get some recognition. -- Craig Johnston
The reason most preaching is ignored today is that it deserves to be. -- Alistair Begg
Our government just won't enforce civil rights laws. The laws will be ignored. -- Major Owens
You write for the people in high school who ignored you. We all do. -- Carolyn Kizer
Note that I am not proposing that AI research be ignored or less funded. -- Vernor Vinge
It's a good thing to be laughed at. It's better than to be ignored. -- Harold MacMillan
Better to be despised, then, than to be ignored; or damned with condescending praise. -- Joyce Carol Oates
Schools have ignored the value of experience and chosen to teach by pouring in. -- John Dewey
I regularly find myself waking up to art I passed by or simply ignored. -- Charles Saatchi
Animals can communicate quite well. And they do. And generally speaking, they are ignored -- Alice Walker
Unless women are prepared to fight politically they must be content to be ignored politically. -- Alice Paul
Knowledge no longer exists if one has ignored the attributes of the Almighty Great Creator. -- Ibn Hazm
That is the most godlike feeling a human can experience; being ignored by rebellious child. -- Dennis Garvin
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There was a policy at Hughes against drinking at lunch, but the men ignored it -- Esther Williams
It is far more honest to be undeservedly ignored than to be honoured without merit. -- Denis Fonvizin
Book-publishing is all about politics. Agents, editors, which books will be puffed, which ignored, etc. -- Alexander Theroux
The great thing about being ignored is that you can speak the truth with impunity. -- Steve Aylett
Every sane and sensible and quiet thing we do is absolutely ignored by the press. -- Bertrand Russell
There was a policy at Hughes against drinking at lunch, but the men ignored it. -- Esther Williams
I had a wonderful father, and I couldn't bear that television virtually ignored black fathers. -- Esther Rolle
Fate might forgive greed, or gluttony, or even bloodlust, but it never ignores being ignored. -- Erik Bundy
I'm basically stubborn. If anyone disapproved of my being influenced by comics, I simply ignored them. -- Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero
Sometimes I wanted to believe something so badly, I deliberately manufactured excuses and ignored painful reality. -- Sylvia Day
The concept of religious freedom is largely ignored in the curriculum of our nation's public schools. -- Charles Haynes
Logic cannot model causal systems, and paradox is generated when time is ignored [as in logic]. -- Gregory Bateson
I think the real bargains are what they would call the smaller, ignored and unloved companies. -- Mario
[On the racial backlash about Hunger Games casting]: "People should have ignored the five racist idiots. -- Nina Jacobson
The introduction of resistance in form of sand and hill is too important to be ignored. -- Percy Cerutty

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