Ignore Quotes
By Alan Reiner – July 19, 2024
‘First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.’ – Mahatma Gandhi
‘I don’t focus on what I’m up against. I focus on my goals and I try to ignore the rest.’ – Venus Williams
‘Every age has its storytelling form, and video gaming is a huge part of our culture. You can ignore or embrace video games and imbue them with the best artistic quality. People are enthralled with video games in the same way as other people love the cinema or theatre.’ – Andy Serkis
‘No self-respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party who ignores her sex.’ – Susan B. Anthony
‘I’ve learned to ignore the negative people and just be a living example of confidence and self-love.’ – Khoudia Diop
‘Ignore the ignorant.’ – Ricky Martin
‘Your harshest critic is always going to be yourself. Don’t ignore that critic but don’t give it more attention than it deserves.’ – Michael Ian Black
‘Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you.’ – William Arthur Ward
‘In our society, the women who break down barriers are those who ignore limits.’ – Arnold Schwarzenegger
‘Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.’ – Sam Walton
‘Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.’ – Yevgeny Yevtushenko
‘Don’t respond to haters’ taunts – even politely. Ignore them. If nobody takes their bait, most will grow bored and move on.’ – Andrew Shaffer
‘Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.’ – Alan Perlis
‘Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.’ – Thomas Sowell
‘You try to do the best with what you’ve got and ignore everything else. That’s why horses get blinders in horse racing: You look at the horse next to you, and you lose a step.’ – Jimmy Iovine
‘I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.’ – Georgia O’Keeffe
‘In boxing, they say it’s the punch you don’t see coming that knocks you out. In the wider world, the reality we ignore or deny is the one that weakens our most impassioned efforts toward improvement.’ – Katherine Dunn
‘I’m of the opinion that as a DJ you must always play what you love and ignore what’s ‘trendy’ because true passion always eclipses what’s fashionable. Quality is always fashionable.’ – Boy George
‘It’s the same each time with progress. First they ignore you, then they say you’re mad, then dangerous, then there’s a pause and then you can’t find anyone who disagrees with you.’ – Tony Benn
‘I am woman, hear me roar, in numbers too big to ignore, and I know too much to go back and pretend.’ – Helen Reddy
‘Never ignore a gut feeling, but never believe that it’s enough.’ – Robert Heller
‘Using social media to hurt and destroy is callous, acted out by cowards hiding behind computers. My advice is to ignore negativity. Focus on the love around.’ – Martin Garrix
‘Children aren’t happy with nothing to ignore, and that’s what parents were created for.’ – Ogden Nash
‘Our school education ignores, in a thousand ways, the rules of healthy development.’ – Elizabeth Blackwell
‘To insure peace of mind ignore the rules and regulations.’ – George Ade
‘Don’t pay any attention to the critics – don’t even ignore them.’ – Samuel Goldwyn
‘We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.’ – Marian Wright Edelman
‘Advertising people who ignore research are as dangerous as generals who ignore decodes of enemy signals.’ – David Ogilvy
‘I am optimistic when I consider the spiritual dimension which the scientist’s discipline forces him to ignore.’ – William Golding
‘Acknowledging the unproductive thoughts and ineffective behavior that you’ve tried to ignore can be uncomfortable. But, stepping out of your comfort zone and choosing to proactively address bad habits will skyrocket your ability to create long-lasting change.’ – Amy Morin
‘Maybe we are all prospective migrants. The lines of national borders on maps are artificial constructs, as unnatural to us as they are to birds flying overhead. Our first impulse is to ignore them.’ – Mohsin Hamid
‘There are no rules. That is how art is born, how breakthroughs happen. Go against the rules or ignore the rules. That is what invention is about.’ – Helen Frankenthaler
‘If we intend to provide a better life, and a better world, for future generations, we can’t ignore the quality of the environment we leave them.’ – John Kasich
‘You must pay for your sins. If you have already paid, please ignore this notice.’ – Sam Levenson
‘We tend to accept information that confirms our prior beliefs and ignore or discredit information that does not. This confirmation bias settles over our eyes like distorting spectacles for everything we look at.’ – Kyle Hill
‘In June as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them.’ – Aldo Leopold
‘Often, we ignore the fact that our spiritual condition and psychological state of mind are highly affected by what is happening to us physically. Sometimes depression is simply the result of exhaustion.’ – Tony Campolo
‘Peace is a never ending process… It cannot ignore our differences or overlook our common interests. It requires us to work and live together.’ – √ìscar Arias
‘Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.’ – John Steinbeck
‘The Osage have this lovely phrase: ‘Travelers in the Mist.’ It was the term for part of an Osage clan that would take the lead whenever the tribe was venturing into unfamiliar realms. And, in a way, we are all travelers in the mist. The challenge is that, as writers, we sometimes want to ignore this murkiness, or we want to write around it.’ – David Grann
‘In a person’s career, well, if you’re process-oriented and not totally outcome-oriented, then you’re more likely to be success. I often say ‘pursue excellence, ignore success.’ Success is a by-product of excellence.’ – Deepak Chopra
‘Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent’s pressure, and the temporary failures.’ – Vince Lombardi
‘When men are romantically interested in you, it’s really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.’ – Randy Pausch
‘I’ve never really been aware of what is said about me, whether it’s positive or negative. I ignore it. I’ve always had the mind-set: ‘No one can challenge me better than myself.” – Troy Polamalu
‘The blues is like a planet. It’s an enormous topic. You can’t ignore the impact that it has had and continues to have on the whole musical culture. It’s a tree that everyone is swinging from. Without it, I don’t know where I would be. It’s indelible and indispensable.’ – Tom Waits
‘If everyone simply ignores the caste system, it will go away overnight.’ – Sanjay Gandhi
‘The public needs art – and it is the responsibility of a ‘self-proclaimed artist’ to realize that the public needs art, and not to make bourgeois art for a few and ignore the masses.’ – Keith Haring
‘Let us heed the voice of the people and recognize their common sense. If we do not, we not only blaspheme our political heritage, we ignore the common ties that bind all Americans.’ – Barbara Jordan
‘Because of poverty, we must adopt the capitalist means of production to develop our resources to get rich. However, if we ignore the issue of social justice at the beginning of China’s industrialization, we will sow the seeds of class warfare in the future.’ – Sun Yat-sen
‘Scripture is filled with examples of men and women whom God used late in life, often with great impact – men and women who refused to use old age as an excuse to ignore what God wanted them to do.’ – Billy Graham
‘I ignore the jealous, I ignore the malicious, I ignore the ignorant, and I ignore the paranoid. If the shoe fits anyone, wear it.’ – Rick Pitino
‘When you find somewhere that’s the best place to be, you kind of ignore everything else, you know what I mean?’ – Jude Bellingham
‘I think my attitudes about the past are very traditional. You can’t ignore history; you can’t escape it even if you want to. You might as well know where you come from, and you might as well know that everything has been done in some shape or form.’ – Frank Gehry
‘We all know that looks matter. What most of us don’t understand is just how much looks matter and how difficult it is for us to ignore a person’s appearance when making a social judgment.’ – Leonard Mlodinow
‘The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual – when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions – it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.’ – Isaac Bashevis Singer
‘Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as it was yesterday when you and I laid wreaths at the Garden of Remembrance.’ – Queen Elizabeth II
‘It is easy to ignore responsibility when one is only an intermediate link in a chain of action.’ – Stanley Milgram
‘An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore.’ – Edward de Bono
‘If children have the ability to ignore all odds and percentages, then maybe we can all learn from them. When you think about it, what other choice is there but to hope? We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up, or Fight Like Hell.’ – Lance Armstrong
‘We demand that people don’t deny the Holocaust, and we can’t ignore the tragedy of another nation.’ – Reuven Rivlin
‘Positional leaders ignore the fact that every person has hopes, dreams, desires, and goals of his own. And leaders must bring their vision and the aspirations of the people they lead together in a way that benefits everyone.’ – John C. Maxwell
‘Criticism, even when you try to ignore it, can hurt. I have cried over many articles written about me, but I move on and I don’t hold on to that .’ – Diana Ross
‘A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.’ – Salman Rushdie
‘Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.’ – Sophocles
‘Economists treat economics as if it is a pure science divorced from the facts of life. The result of this false accountancy is a willful confusion under cover of which industry wreaks its havoc scot-free and ignores the environmental cost.’ – Vivienne Westwood
‘I am disturbed when I see the majority of so-called Christians having such little understanding of the real nature of the faith they profess. Faith is a subject of such importance that we should not ignore it because of the distractions or the hectic pace of our lives.’ – William Wilberforce
‘It’s a touchy subject, but as a Southerner, you can’t ignore our history any more than a Renaissance painter can ignore the Virgin Mary. And it’s impossible to drive down a road or eat a vegetable or pass a church without being reminded of slavery.’ – Sally Mann
‘Humans can no longer ignore nonhumans: they end up haunting the words we use and interrupting everyday talk.’ – Timothy Morton
‘We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.’ – Thich Nhat Hanh
‘I realised that the political context had got worse since the 2010 World Cup. I tried to ignore it but I wanted, as a national coach – you may call this Utopia – to make Catalans and Basques feel good about supporting a Spanish side… to unite even the most sectarian and nationalist.’ – Vicente del Bosque
‘Humans believe so many lies because we aren’t aware. We ignore the truth or we just don’t see the truth. When we are educated, we accumulate a lot of knowledge, and all that knowledge is just like a wall of fog that doesn’t allow us to perceive the truth, what really is.’ – Don Miguel Ruiz
‘Citizens with a conscience are not going to ignore wrong-doing simply because they’ll be destroyed for it: the conscience forbids it.’ – Edward Snowden
‘You can’t ignore politics, no matter how much you’d like to.’ – Molly Ivins
‘Well, honestly, both my husband and I tend to ignore the tabloids. We see them every once in awhile or it comes to our attention that we are in a tabloid for one reason or another. But it’s always false.’ – Connie Chung
‘Choice of attention – to pay attention to this and ignore that – is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be.’ – W. H. Auden
‘From Snoop, I’ve learned quite a bit. I learned that sometimes I need to keep my mouth shut. It’s a long story, but definitely to sometimes keep my mouth shut. I also learned to always ignore the haters.’ – Chanel West Coast
‘To ignore one’s spiritual self is unsettling, to say the least. That’s a very profound outlook on it.’ – Linda Blair
‘By raising bread-and-butter issues, we remind the Government of the things that it may forget or ignore.’ – Pritam Singh
‘Of our relation to all creation we can never know anything whatsoever. All is immensity and chaos. But, since all this knowledge of our limitations cannot possibly be of any value to us, it is better to ignore it in our daily conduct of life.’ – H. P. Lovecraft
‘The best way I deal with Internet trolls is to ignore them and it works.’ – Trisha Paytas
‘It is true that a fellow cannot ignore women – but he can think of them as he ought – as sisters, not as sparring partners.’ – Jim Elliot
‘Never ignore someone with a disability, as we don’t realize how much they can inspire.’ – Sudha Chandran
‘If you can’t ignore an insult, top it; if you can’t top it, laugh it off; and if you can’t laugh it off, it’s probably deserved.’ – Russell Lynes
‘If you sit in a position where decisions that you take would have a serious effect on people, you can’t ignore a lot of experience around the world which says this drug has these negative effects.’ – Thabo Mbeki
‘When a man bores a woman, she complains. When a woman bores a man, he ignores her.’ – Mason Cooley
‘I am not saying that factory farming is the same as the Holocaust or the slave trade, but it’s clear that there is an immense amount of suffering in it, and just as we think that the Nazis were wrong to ignore the suffering of their victims, so we are wrong to ignore the sufferings of our victims.’ – Peter Singer
‘If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.’ – James A. Michener
‘You can’t ignore reality. You won’t wake up one morning and find that the Arabs of Umm al-Faham have become part of Palestine and are no longer in Israel.’ – Ami Ayalon
‘For years, we talked about how the only way to really win the political battles was to win the cultural ones. And rather than simply ignore pop culture, it would be far better to give it a big fat bear hug.’ – Greg Gutfeld
‘Sri Yukteswar showed no special consideration to those who happened to be powerful or accomplished; neither did he slight others for their poverty or illiteracy. He would listen respectfully to words of truth from a child, and openly ignore a conceited pundit.’ – Paramahansa Yogananda
‘If there’s specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can’t change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies.’ – Kathryn Bigelow
‘As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.’ – Boris Pasternak
‘I advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames.’ – Les Brown
‘Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman.’ – Susan B. Anthony
‘The biblical framework limits the authority of each institution to its specific jurisdiction. The church does not have the right to meddle in the affairs of individual families and ignore parental authority. Parents do not have authority to manage civil matters while circumventing government officials.’ – John MacArthur
‘Play your own game, but also ‘play the man.’ I take the view that my opponents are not there for me to ignore, rather to help me in my choice of shots. That means I have to be a good decision maker.’ – Seve Ballesteros
‘We ignore our feelings a lot, I realize. Many of us have to… until they really bite us in the butt.’ – Queen Latifah
‘We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don’t it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions.’ – Jessamyn West
‘While thousands of Americans die alone, Donald touts stock market gains. As my father lay dying alone, Donald went to the movies. If he can in any way profit from your death, he’ll facilitate it, and then he’ll ignore the fact that you died.’ – Mary L. Trump
‘I’ve always maintained that if I didn’t have the boot and was talking serious things on the street corner, it would be very easy to ignore me.’ – Vermin Supreme
‘A lot of communities pretend they don’t have homeless and just ignore them or try to make them go away.’ – Alexandra C. Pelosi
‘Being able to put your blinders on, ignore negative opinions, and follow your strong intuition is what’s validating to me. It’s a great feeling to know you can trust your gut.’ – Whitney Wolfe Herd
‘Your calves, biceps and neck should always be the same size in inches. Mine are 16 inches – anything bigger or smaller and you know you’re going wrong! Most men ignore working out the legs and glutes, not realising that they are the pillars of our core.’ – Arjun Rampal
‘Rather than ignore those who choose to publish their opinions without actually talking to me, I am happy to dispel any rumors or misconceptions and am quite proud to say that I am a very content gay man living my life to the fullest and feel most fortunate to be working with wonderful people in the business I love.’ – Neil Patrick Harris
‘I’d love to be the first one to say this, but it automatically turns into – we all have those responsibilities that we ignore because we don’t feel like they’re ours.’ – Rosario Dawson
‘A man is like a cat; chase him and he will run – sit still and ignore him and he’ll come purring at your feet.’ – Helen Rowland
‘The computer offers another kind of creativity. You cannot ignore the creativity that computer technology can bring. But you need to be able to move between those two different worlds.’ – Tadao Ando
‘It is an attention-getter. I mean, it’s hard to ignore a woman lugging a cello around.’ – Lori Singer
‘Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.’ – Ogden Nash
‘Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?’ – Natalie Clifford Barney
‘The best entrepreneurs know when to ignore sage advice.’ – Sarah Lacy
‘Word books traditionally focus on unusual and quirky items. They tend to ignore the words that provide the skeleton of the language, without which it would fall apart, such as ‘and’ and ‘what,’ or words that provide structure to our conversation, such as ‘hello.” – David Crystal
‘I could go insane if I obsessed over every little detail of all of my companies. My management philosophy is to pay attention to the vital few and ignore the trivial many.’ – John Paul DeJoria
‘When it comes to the grieving process, we all try to ignore that feeling – but it’s important to grieve. Even if something’s happened for the best, you need to take that moment to feel something.’ – Oliver Sykes
‘Over-dependence on finite resources, like oil, ignores the ability of our great minds to develop alternative energy for the masses, and in doing so ignores climate change and sets up our students and workforce for failure by not educating them about the needs of our future.’ – Deb Haaland
‘When I first started in Formula 1, I tried to ignore the fact I was the first black guy ever to race in the sport. But, as I’ve got older, I’ve really started to appreciate the implications.’ – Lewis Hamilton
‘You can’t ignore the obvious. Women after a certain age are believed to be good for nothing in the entertainment field, especially in the Latin world.’ – Cristina Saralegui
‘Of course there are certain things that get to me, but I try and lead by example and show people that, especially with haters, that you should just ignore them.’ – Kesha
‘There’s always going to be someone out there… who doesn’t believe in you or who thinks your head is too big or you’re not smart enough. But those are the people you need to ignore, and those are the times you need to just keep doing what you love doing.’ – Jimmy Fallon
‘Everybody has a breaking point. It’s tough to ignore the impulse to respond with anger.’ – Andrew Shaffer
‘The current approach that psychiatry takes almost ignores social worlds in which mental health problems arise and tries to become highly biomedical like other branches of medicine such as cardiology or oncology. But psychiatry has to be far more embedded in people’s personal and social worlds.’ – Vikram Patel
‘Religious fanatics want people to switch off their own minds, ignore the evidence, and blindly follow a holy book based upon private ‘revelation’.’ – Richard Dawkins
‘When I talk about the Internet, it’s because young people are there. TV and radio are still what moves the masses, and you can’t ignore that. But you also have to feed that monster that grows daily, which is the Internet.’ – Daddy Yankee
‘You realize yourself when you start reflecting – because I don’t live in the past, although your past is so much a part of what you are – that you can’t ignore it. But I don’t look at scrapbooks.’ – Lauren Bacall
‘I just ignore the negative people and trolls. They stop bothering you when you don’t acknowledge them; it suits me just right.’ – Mithila Palkar
‘Being in the special forces has really broken a lot of the limitations I thought I had. Thoughts like ‘We’ve done this much, so we should take a break now’ were ones that I had to ignore and overcome in my training. They taught me how to keep going, no matter how difficult a situation can get.’ – Lee Seung-gi
‘If Republicans aren’t willing to vote for voting rights, and if the only way to safeguard our fundamental right to vote is to blow up the filibuster, then ignore McConnell’s taunts and do it.’ – Jonathan Capehart
‘I always look at money not as a motivating factor but as an element in the composition. You can’t ignore it, but you’ve got to be very careful that it’s not motivating you.’ – Damien Hirst
‘There’s three parts to football: offense, defense, and special teams. You’d no more ignore special teams than you would offense or defense.’ – Marv Levy
‘We have to be able to show Canadians that our strength on the economy doesn’t mean we ignore all other issues.’ – Erin O’Toole
‘I first noticed my varicose veins when I was pregnant with my second child, and I’d always thought that it was something that affected older, inactive people. I looked at my lifestyle and thought, ‘I can’t be a candidate for this.’ Eventually, the pain became something I couldn’t ignore.’ – Summer Sanders
‘Sometimes films ignore other points of view because it’s simpler to tell the story that way, but the more genuine and sympathetic you are to different points of view and situations, the more real the story is.’ – Ang Lee
‘I can feel middle age approaching, but I reckon the trick is to ignore all the signs. I’m lucky in that I’ve always looked half the age I am. So the way I see it is that I’m still in my twenties!’ – Marc Warren
‘The universe will put signposts in your life. You can either ignore them or embrace them. You can choose and wish for all the things you want, but the things that are coming to you, you will never be able to hide from and the things that you want so bad that are not supposed to be for you for whatever reason, they’ll never come to you.’ – Yul Vazquez
‘Indeed, the hype around ‘Watchmen’ is its curse. If you want to enjoy the comic for what it is, ignore the attributions of literariness and the novelistic pretensions with which some critics have imbued it. This isn’t high culture, and it doesn’t pretend to be. It’s good, juicy pulp fiction with a little nuclear apocalypse thrown in.’ – Lydia Millet
‘The World Bank adjusts its poverty estimates for differences in prices across countries, but it ignores differences in needs.’ – Angus Deaton
‘Sometimes the magnetism of a song is impossible to ignore, and it demands that it be sung in a certain way.’ – Tom Waits
‘I have for some time now been deeply troubled by the growing difficulties faced by Christian communities in various parts of the Middle East. It seems to me that we cannot ignore the fact that Christians in the Middle East are increasingly being deliberately targeted by fundamentalist Islamist militants.’ – Prince Charles
‘My point is that perceptual bias can affect nut jobs and scientists alike. If we hold too rigidly to what we think we know, we ignore or avoid evidence of anything that might change our mind.’ – Martha Beck
‘If you have an ongoing relationship with a person, think of everything positive about that person that you possibly can and enter your interaction from that space. Ignore all the crap that used to drive you up the wall before. You will be amazed at what a change this attitude shift brings about.’ – Srikumar Rao
‘Current psychological priesthoods ignore the fact that the profession of psychology was originated by Gustav Theodor Fechner, a physicist who recognized that the key to understanding human nature was the relationship between external stimuli and the brain.’ – Timothy Leary
‘It’s appropriate that the word ‘ignorance’ is an extension of the word ‘ignore.’ We ignore so much and so we become ignore-ant.’ – David Icke
‘Reducing a product’s definition to a list of features and functions ignores the real opportunity – orchestrating technological capability to serve human needs and goals.’ – Alan Cooper
‘Happy Song’ is a sarcastic open letter to the world about how we use superficial and trivial things to ignore the real problems.’ – Oliver Sykes
‘I might find myself standing, transfixed, by the roadside, watching a sparrowhawk hunting among the bushes, astonished that other people could ignore it. But they might just as well be wondering how I could have failed to notice the new V6 Pentastar Sahara that just drove past.’ – George Monbiot
‘You need collaboration of its people; it’s the only way to improve a company – can you ignore that? You need a win-win for every sub-group, which will ensure exponential growth for a company.’ – Eliyahu Goldratt
‘Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life.’ – John Updike
‘Christmas is a story that has both religious and pagan origins, and to ignore its power is to ignore the power of myth – those symbols and legends that help us to ground our lives.’ – Jay Parini
‘I just hope that more people will ignore the fatalism of the argument that we are beyond repair. We are not beyond repair. We are never beyond repair.’ – Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
‘When I was younger, it was very easy to ignore me because I was like some crazy hippie kid. But as I’ve gotten older, and I’m more gray and more lines on my face, it has given me a lot more gravitas.’ – Vermin Supreme
‘Obama wants to raise the issue of immigration reform so that he can demonize Republicans as anti-Hispanic. That’s why Obama ignores the broad support for an immigration plan that would provide border security once and for all and then deal with the illegal immigrants who live here.’ – Ben Shapiro
‘Whenever you hear somebody else is auditioning for something, you sort of assume they’re going to get it. You should try to just ignore it.’ – Alden Ehrenreich
‘You can ignore a hater comment, but if you see the same comment ten times, you gotta start paying attention.’ – Nav
‘The robust English view used to be that the correct response to offensive words is to ignore them, or to answer them with a rebuke. If you invoke the law at all, it should be to protect the one who gives the offence, and not the one who takes it. Now, it seems, it is all the other way round.’ – Roger Scruton
‘We will never abdicate the security of the United States to a foreign country or refrain from taking action when appropriate. But we cannot ignore the reality that cooperative counterterrorism activities are a key to our national defense.’ – John O. Brennan
‘On Route 66, a lot of it, it’s very transient. There’s an awful lot of really, really bad food, you can’t ignore that.’ – Dave Myers
‘If I were a Democrat, I’d siphon the power of states to the federal government. I’d ignore the Constitution and prevent states from determining their own voting practices.’ – Lauren Boebert
‘From closing the digital divide to after-school activities and eating well, we cannot afford to ignore the link between deprivation and underachievement.’ – David Lammy
‘One of the things that can be helpful in terms of an explanation is to look at the ways in which cults are similar to abusive relationships. Nobody seeks out an abusive partner, but so many people stay in these relationships longer than they should – they make excuses, they ignore red flags, and they allow themselves to be emotionally manipulated.’ – Sarah Edmondson
‘Stop being a critic and be a light; don’t be a judge, be a model. I think we are far too critical. I think the best way to correct behavior is to accentuate and affirm positive behavior and to ignore negative behavior. Generally speaking, there is a time to correct, of course; but my biggest advice would be, ‘Affirm your child.” – Sean Covey
‘All living souls welcome whatever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible.’ – George Santayana
‘America must not ignore the threat gathering against us. Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof, the smoking gun that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud.’ – George W. Bush
‘There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless.’ – W. Somerset Maugham
‘A child is owed the greatest respect; if you have ever have something disgraceful in mind, don’t ignore your son’s tender years.’ – Juvenal
‘Leaders are not pale reflectors of major social conflicts; they play up some, play down others, ignore still others.’ – James MacGregor Burns
‘When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.’ – Al Franken
‘I am one who believes that we are, in fact, engaged in a worldwide war against terrorism. We must have the serenity to accept the fact that war is not going to go away if we ignore it.’ – Robert Foster Bennett
‘The Bush Administration and the Congress have to stop ignoring this crisis in international trade. The longer we ignore it, the more American jobs will move overseas. It’s just that simple.’ – Byron Dorgan
‘Crime to many is not crime but simply a way of life. If laws are inconvenient, ignore them, they don’t apply to you.’ – Dick Francis
‘This is not a screenplay. I don’t do twenty drafts. I’m not going to show this to you until it’s published or accepted for publication. You can make whatever suggestions you want, but I probably will ignore them entirely.’ – Robert B. Parker
‘Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people.’ – Adrian Mitchell
‘It’s very difficult to ignore humanitarian disasters. The royalties from my albums continue to support my charity work.’ – Cat Stevens
‘I’m unable to ignore the gift that God gave me, so I’m going to sing.’ – Lisa Nicole Carson
‘I’m like Sergeant Schultz, I know nothing. We are trying to share ideas around the world. We don’t just come up with a great idea in Brazil and ignore it in the rest of the world.’ – Rick Wagoner
‘I’m quite shy, so if there’s a guy I like, I actually ignore him because I can’t speak to him. I get all red and sweaty, and it’s embarrassing.’ – Silvia Colloca
‘I always ignore money.’ – Damien Hirst
‘To try to be authentic these days, to ask questions of the people in power – it’s difficult. This administration has evolved new techniques to handle people like me. Their strategy, in a word, is simple: ignore them.’ – Ron Suskind
‘My overall message for labor members is… that we understand that the benefits of trade are clear, but the disruption and the dislocation are painfully concentrated and we can’t ignore them.’ – Alexis Herman
‘I ignore Hallmark Holidays. And this comes from a guy who has sold a million Opus greeting cards.’ – Berkeley Breathed
‘The issue of the Betrayal was so central to that, I felt the need to comment upon it. My choices were to ignore the games and put them ‘outside’ of continuity or to integrate them. I chose the latter.’ – Raymond E. Feist
‘I like to go with the energy because when you ignore it that’s when you start doing things wrong.’ – Dana Plato
‘Influence is a very unpleasant subject and I deal with it in a maybe irresponsible way, which is to really ignore it. It would be a nightmare if we started to really think about it; it would tie our hands, it would tie everyone else’s hands.’ – Rem Koolhaas
‘Our fumbling government’s response since Beirut – during both Republican and Democratic administrations – has been to cut and run, or to flat ignore this growing threat, apparently hoping it would go away.’ – David Hackworth
‘Domestic discretionary spending on education and health care and the environment has been growing at 2 to 3 percent a year. He says we have to rein it in, but he ignores the spending category that is the big spike in the budget.’ – John Spratt
‘So much of our attention is trained on the Middle East these days, but we cannot ignore East Asia.’ – Lee H. Hamilton
‘My reaction to a lot of the current situation that we’re in is based in part on a serious concern that the present administration’s course ignores reality.’ – Vint Cerf
‘We cannot ignore the disparity in resources that continue to plague many of our school systems, especially those serving predominantly inner-city minority and impoverished children.’ – Diane Watson
‘But the fact is, no matter how good the teacher, how small the class, how focused on quality education the school may be none of this matters if we ignore the individual needs of our students.’ – Roy Barnes
‘You either ignore the comic book and make a great movie or you stay very close to the comic book.’ – Matthew Vaughn
‘Not that pleading can be taken as a test, for the forms of action, notably Debt, ignore the fundamental difference between duties imposed by law and duties created by the will of the parties.’ – Frederick Pollock
‘In fact, even the current administration now is releasing recent reports indicating that climate change is real, that global warming is occurring, that it is heavily influenced by man-made objects and that it is something we cannot ignore any longer.’ – Ron Kind
‘The British press have written some nasty and spiteful things about the way I look which used to affect me quite badly when it was new to me but luckily, I’ve learned to ignore the comments. why do they even care about how I look?’ – Melanie Chisholm
‘With the number of people I ignore, I’m lucky I work at all in this town.’ – Helena Bonham Carter
‘We are a nation that seeks out solutions and refuses to ignore challenges.’ – Chris Chocola
‘Poets should ignore most criticism and get on with making poetry.’ – Anne Stevenson
‘Yes, I do often write poems from the mind, but I hope I don’t ignore feelings and emotions.’ – Anne Stevenson
‘Viv had this kind of stage presence where you couldn’t ignore it. He walked onstage, he looked dangerous. You just didn’t know what he was going to do.’ – Neil Innes
‘It would be hard to ignore the absence of democracy in any Arab nation.’ – Jack Schwartz
‘Deconstructing the concept of race not only conflicts with people’s tendency to classify and build family histories according to common descent but also ignores the work of biologists studying non-human species.’ – J. Philippe Rushton
‘Another way to lose control is to ignore something when you should address it.’ – Jim Evans
‘But let’s be clear. We’re talking about a country where there’s no opposition. As leader he can ignore Parliament and – sorry that’s Tony Blair isn’t it? Um, so he doesn’t even have to ask the country before he goes to war – sorry that’s still Tony Blair.’ – Rory Bremner
‘It is very important that football can see beyond religion but FIFA does not just ignore its impact.’ – Sepp Blatter
‘It’s hard to think what should make your blood boil more – what happened to Billy Ray or what didn’t happen to those who abused him. It’s something we can’t ignore.’ – Morris Dees
‘If you’re interested in how people behave, if you’re interested in the way they talk about themselves, the way the conceive of themselves, it’s very hard to ignore drugs nowadays, because that is so much part of the conversation.’ – Jonathan Franzen
‘I think art education, especially in this country, which government pretty much ignores, is so important for young people.’ – Mikhail Baryshnikov
‘To worship the product and ignore its development leads to dilettantism and reaction.’ – Hans Hofmann
‘Don’t ignore the past, but deal with it, on your own pace. Once you deal with it, you are free of it; and you are free to embrace your life and be a happy loving person because if you don’t, the past will come back to haunt and keep coming back to haunt you.’ – Boris Kodjoe
‘I began taking liberties a long time ago; now it is standard practice for most directors to ignore the rules.’ – Michelangelo Antonioni
‘The difference is that with fame comes a spotlight, one which has recently made it impossible to ignore the fact that more and more of those folks we place on pedestals aren’t even pausing to consider an option other than lying.’ – Michael Musto
‘We do have a problem in this country. You can either make a movie and ignore that, or you can acknowledge it and say, this is the water that we’re living in. You know this – the movie lives in this – it’s centered around this particular problem, and I chose to acknowledge it.’ – Nick Cassavetes
‘I’ve seen disgusting excess in business, and I’ve seen disgusting excess in Washington. But at the same time, I’ve certainly learned that Washington matters and that you can’t ignore it, especially when you get into telecom.’ – Esther Dyson
‘Today’s tax cuts provide yet another illustration of the Republicans’ fiscally irresponsible economic policies that ignore the needs of America’s middle class, students, and working families.’ – Ellen Tauscher
‘It seems some have chosen to ignore or have simply forgotten the big-picture vision promoted by Dr. King and his kin.’ – Al Sharpton
‘For too long, Japan has been dragging its feet as it ignores the steps the U.S. has made to ensure a safe beef supply and shows a disregard for our prior trade pacts.’ – Randy Neugebauer
‘There is no doubt that America is a superpower of the world and we cannot ignore them.’ – Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
‘Snow and adolescence are the only problems that disappear if you ignore them long enough.’ – Earl Wilson
‘There is nothing so aggravating as a fresh boy who is too old to ignore and too young to kick.’ – Kin Hubbard
‘Today’s society will ignore almost any form of public behavior except getting in the express line with two extra items.’ – Paul Sweeney
‘People can be so apathetic. They continue to ignore the real people trapped in poverty and homelessness. It’s almost maddening.’ – Daphne Zuniga
‘No, seriously, I really don’t have much ill-will toward anyone these days; I just ignore the people that I dislike.’ – Boyd Rice
‘If the Republican Party continues to ignore its conservative base, then the Party is headed to oblivion.’ – Jerome Corsi
‘To test a modest man’s modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.’ – Franz Grillparzer
‘Ideas are not thoughts; the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to realize itself.’ – Franz Grillparzer
‘Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.’ – Stendhal
‘Social movements are at once the symptoms and the instruments of progress. Ignore them and statesmanship is irrelevant; fail to use them and it is weak.’ – Walter Lippmann
‘I just want to try to ignore the scrutiny and all the distractions and just play hard basketball and let the best come… Improving game by game and trying to improve my game is what I want to do.’ – Andrew Bogut
‘I think Stieg Larsson was pretty brave. He wanted to bring up things that we don’t like to talk about, or like to ignore.’ – Noomi Rapace
‘Of course I am political. You ‘ave to be don’t you? Every day it is about your future, your right to that future. ‘Ow can people ignore this? We ‘ave to leave a good world for our children, n’est-ce pas?’ – Emmanuelle Beart
‘As a parent and a citizen, I’ll take a Bill Gates (or Warren Buffett) over Steve Jobs every time. If we must have billionaires, better they should ignore Jobs’s example and instead embrace the morality and wisdom of the great industrialist-philanthropist Andrew Carnegie.’ – Eric Alterman
‘Ironically, tendency to ignore inconvenient facts and unwelcome evidence is actually President Reagan’s true legacy, as I noted in ‘The Nation’ back in 2000, before the current right-wing mania for President Reagan gained its full force.’ – Eric Alterman
‘What I do is sometimes – at least in Germany – met with wounding campaigns. I always face the question: should I grow myself a thick skin and ignore it, or should I let myself be wounded? I’ve decided to be wounded, since, if I grew a thick skin, there are other things I wouldn’t feel any more.’ – Gunter Grass
‘Secondary school parents tell me that they are frustrated, that their teachers ignore them, their children don’t give them much feedback because they are adolescents, they feel kind of out of the loop.’ – Jim Knight
‘The U.S. will ignore the opinion of the Iraqi people and it will compose the new government according to its own desires.’ – Muqtada al Sadr
‘While other state governments stiff their vendors, close parks, delay tax refunds, and ignore unacceptably poor service levels, Indiana state employees are setting national standards for efficiency.’ – Mitch McConnell
‘Please ignore rumors! I’ve had them for years and you have to just let them go over your head. Don’t take them personally.’ – Emma Bunton
‘I don’t believe anyone should ignore all the fires around you and stand pat and not worry about getting singed.’ – Rick Santelli
‘I’m living my dream, and that’s all you can ask for. At a certain point you have to ignore all the rest.’ – Sienna Miller
‘It’s hard sometimes to not want to know what people are saying behind your back and to ignore certain things that are being written.’ – Sienna Miller
‘It’s wonderful to feel supported, but there’s a lot of negative energy towards me as well. So I ignore it, to be honest. If I started to read it all it would completely mess up my head.’ – Sienna Miller
‘When you’re free of editorial control, you owe it to yourself to obtain feedback from friends and readers. Some take those criticisms to heart and incorporate it into their work, and some ignore them.’ – Scott McCloud
‘Then you have to be with somebody who understands your job. Understands there are gonna be dollybirds going, ‘Hi I’m Candy,’ and be prepared to ignore that. And also be prepared to be there when you get home. That’s a difficult job.’ – Jay Kay
‘You can’t ignore the system and the power you acquire as an actor if you’re in films that are successful.’ – Saffron Burrows
‘People like me who are reform-minded ignore the people who say, ‘Just criticize and don’t do anything and let’s win by default.’ That’s ridiculous.’ – Paul Ryan
‘I don’t think there’s anything wrong with a hot dog or other convenience foods, as long as they’re balanced with fresh vegetables. It’s hard to ignore 95 percent of the grocery store.’ – Tyler Florence
‘If I felt, in the event of a royal wedding, inspired to write about people coming together in marriage or civil partnership, I would just be grateful to have an idea for the poem. And if I didn’t, I’d ignore it.’ – Carol Ann Duffy
‘I think sometimes in life we want to ignore the problems of society and just think about the good. I believe in positive thinking and affirmative living, I also think it’s really important to remember all of our disenfranchised members of society.’ – Kerry Washington
‘The aspects of patriotism that hush dissent, encourage going along, and sanction comfortable distancing and compliance with what is indecent and unacceptable… those aspects are too fundamental to ignore or gloss over.’ – Bernadine Dohrn
‘We do a disservice to society if we ignore the evidence which shows that stable families tend to be associated with better outcomes for children.’ – Iain Duncan Smith
‘Being told about the effects of climate change is an appeal to our reason and to our desire to bring about change. But to see that Africans are the hardest hit by climate change, even though they generate almost no greenhouse gas, is a glaring injustice, which also triggers anger and outrage over those who seek to ignore it.’ – Sigmar Gabriel
‘It’s just impossible to ignore the activists in your party. These are the people who stuff the envelopes, and walk the precincts, and make the telephone calls, and do all the so-called grunt work that brings about a successful campaign.’ – Pat Robertson
‘Ignore the annual percentage rate when shopping for a mortgage.’ – Suze Orman
‘When people are putting pressure on me I just completely ignore it.’ – Zayn Malik
‘I can easily ignore my detractors and feel the people who respond favorably.’ – LeRoy Neiman
‘Pain is something that’s common to human life. When we ignore it, we aren’t engaging in the whole reality, and the pain begins to fester.’ – Karen Armstrong
‘The Internet now provides an immediate and very clear consensus of what it is that the audience is experiencing. It’s something that you should never let lead you, and yet at the same time, you should never ignore it.’ – J. J. Abrams
‘Everyone has that inner voice, the one that’s a Negative Nancy. I’d say to ignore that voice and to be confident and follow your heart.’ – Katharine McPhee
‘Kinkade estimated that one of his paintings hung in every twenty homes in America. Yet the art world unanimously ignores or reviles him. Me included.’ – Jerry Saltz
‘I normally ignore the History Channel.’ – Diablo Cody
‘There is this strange fog of being a young man that I would refer to as soft time. Time does not go forward there. It’s a series of doors that kind of wind back into one another, like a series of doors in the upper floor of a house. You revisit the same lessons over and over again, or you choose to ignore them.’ – Ryan Adams
‘We need a better way to talk about eating animals, a way that doesn’t ignore or even just shruggingly accept things like habits, cravings, family and history but rather incorporates them into the conversation. The more they are allowed in, the more able we will be to follow our best instincts.’ – Jonathan Safran Foer
‘I just hate one-dimensional portrayals of religion; it’s too cheap and easy to do, and ignores the nuances that go into having a belief system.’ – Vera Farmiga
‘I think I’m fascinated by the power of religion in our culture. Like a lot of secular, liberal people, I ignored it for a long time. Lately, of course, just from a political perspective, it’s impossible to ignore.’ – Tom Perrotta
‘Recently, I have come to assume that any call to my landline is from a telemarketer or an automated call from Terminex, letting me know that our regularly scheduled pest-extermination service will occur on its regular schedule. So I usually ignore my home phone.’ – Susan Orlean
‘By the time a child reaches out to an adult, the vast majority of kids have been dealing with the bullying and trying to ignore it for a long time.’ – Rosalind Wiseman
‘When you have fans who are hassling you the entire game and you ignore them, they respect you because their job is to try and distract you. And if they don’t distract you, that means you’re focused on doing your job. And who knows, by the end, sometimes you even win them over.’ – Robert Griffin III
‘There’s not a human being alive I won’t talk to. There’s a quite simple rule. If you like somebody more than you dislike them you can have a relationship. Once you accept you like 75 per cent but 25 per cent you find irritating for this or that reason, you just have to ignore that 25 per cent.’ – Robert Powell
‘All those people who go to NASCAR and sing country & western songs and live in Tennessee, they totally ignore me, they don’t come to my shows, I just don’t exist for them and they don’t exist for me.’ – Al Stewart
‘While I agree that homegrown terrorism and the jihadist threat deserve continuing attention, a single-minded approach ignores all other threats.’ – Bennie Thompson
‘Democrats don’t react the same way Republicans do, because they are not forced to react the same way Republicans are forced to react. They get to be as corrupt as, basically, they want, and just ignore it.’ – Jack Abramoff
‘Like most citizens of popular and international urban centres, I don’t take advantage of the cultural opportunities. Perhaps this comes from growing up in suburbia. Home is where you eat, sleep, read, watch television and ignore your parents. It is not where you go to the ballet and then attend a heated panel discussion about it afterwards.’ – Sloane Crosley
‘Science fiction has its own history, its own legacy of what’s been done, what’s been superseded, what’s so much part of the furniture it’s practically part of the fabric now, what’s become no more than a joke… and so on. It’s just plain foolish, as well as comically arrogant, to ignore all this, to fail to do the most basic research.’ – Iain Banks
‘Producers don’t really have any authority because you are paid by the artist, and if they choose to ignore you, they can. Your power only hangs by the tiniest thread. If you pull it too hard it will snap.’ – Trevor Horn
‘First, if you love the Kindle and it works for you, it isn’t problematic, and you should ignore all my criticisms and read the way you want to read.’ – Nicholson Baker
‘If a candidate for office starts talking about thinning the deer population or investing in barriers to reduce the number of deer on the highways, the other side will probably just ignore him, because they’re not going to know what to say about it. But there is a chance that the issue will resonate with voters in an unexpected way.’ – Bill James
‘There’s always a miasma of misinformation emerging from the higher education sector as to which are the ‘best’ courses to take. My advice would always be to ignore the perceived wisdom and look for the most reliable evidence on the ground.’ – David Puttnam
‘It gets crazy in my mind sometimes but the reason why I like to express so much positivity on my Twitter is because I think we all are battling evil thoughts. I think it’s important to not ignore them but to try to understand where they are coming from and get through them instead of suppressing them.’ – Jhene Aiko
‘I try to ignore the Internet. It’s an evil, evil place.’ – Ty Segall
‘You can’t write about the past and ignore religion. It was such a fundamental, mind-shaping, driving force for pre-modern societies. I’m very interested in what religion does to us – its capacity to create love and empathy or hatred and violence.’ – Geraldine Brooks
‘After ‘Sesame Street,’ it’s a hyper-familiar world to me and I have this childlike ability to ignore the fact that I’m talking to scraps of cloth. Every country I go to, I see posters promoting the film in different languages. ‘Los Muppets’ – I love that!’ – Feist
”Sing It Again Rod’ touches all the solo bases since Stewart’s departure from the Jeff Beck Band, wherein he cut his teeth on American audiences for $75 a week plus expenses, and wisely ignores his generally inferior work with the Faces.’ – Jon Landau
‘The attributes for entrepreneurs cut both ways. You need the ability to ignore inconvenient facts and see the world as it should be and not as it is. This inspires people to take huge leaps of faith. But this blindness to facts can be a liability, too. The characteristics that help entrepreneurs succeed can also lead to their failure.’ – Eric Ries
‘People respond faster to you on a text than an e-mail. Why is that? Why will they ignore an e-mail, but get back to a text?’ – Gayle King
‘Being in the limelight with ‘Glee,’ I’ve definitely felt pressure to stay fit. But honestly, you have to ignore it.’ – Jenna Ushkowitz
‘The more I read and watched about the meat industry, the more determined I became to keep meat out of my diet. The things I saw in slaughterhouse exposes made me feel sick and I refused to just ignore what I now knew.’ – Renee Olstead
‘Human beings and plants have co-evolved for millions of years, so it makes perfect sense that our complex bodies would be adapted to absorb needed, beneficial compounds from complex plants and ignore the rest.’ – Andrew Weil
‘I wish that the adults who are ‘in power’ cared more about what their children read. Books are incredibly powerful when we are young – the books I read as a child have stayed with me my entire life – and yet, the people who write about books, for the most part, completely ignore children’s literature.’ – Gabrielle Zevin
‘If you really think you have something good, you can’t take no for an answer. You’ve got to get in there and ignore the people who say no.’ – Billy Eichner
‘We have a tendency to put ourselves last, we concentrate on everything else; work, friends, family, home issues, but we ignore the deeper stuff until it becomes so compressed that it can explode.’ – Cecelia Ahern
‘Whether I do jazz or R&B, there are always complaints. I would just listen to the complaints about what I do instead of celebrating what I do, and that I’m different and in my own lane. It took a while for me to just ignore the doubts.’ – Ledisi
‘If you are going to make a change, don’t go halfway. Make it with conviction and stick with your new idea. Ignore the scoffers. Remember, it is a law of nature that if something is different you’re going to be taunted, jeered, and told the world is flat. Let the doubters fall off the edge.’ – Gary McCord
‘This may sound insulting to some of my cult studies friends, but there’s a lot of cult studies people who ignore, shall we say, the wider canvas – because they simply don’t know about its existence or they don’t know how it operates.’ – Peter York
‘A significant fraction of evangelical voters appear more likely to ignore the candidates’ specific economic and foreign policy platforms in favor of concerns about gay marriage or abortion.’ – Lawrence M. Krauss
‘As with email, the recipient of a texted question seems to have the option to ignore it, while nevertheless saying, ‘Hello, lovely day,’ and so on.’ – Lynne Truss
‘As far as income goes, there are three currencies in the world; most people ignore two. The three currencies are time, income and mobility, in descending order of importance. Most people focus exclusively on income.’ – Tim Ferriss
‘In all the difficult decisions that I made through the course of running Loudcloud and Opsware, I never once felt brave. In fact, I often felt scared to death. I never lost those feelings, but after much practice, I learned to ignore them. That learning process might also be called the courage development process.’ – Ben Horowitz
‘No intelligent government can continue to ignore the urgent priority of giving support and practical encouragement to marriage and family stability as the first response to growing social needs.’ – Vincent Nichols
‘I love being physical, but I am extreme either way. I can be superfit. And then I can be really lazy and ignore everything.’ – Lena Headey
‘I’m one of those pianists who tends to ignore every existing recording and lots of traditions about playing pieces when I start.’ – Jeremy Denk
‘Everyone knows the more you chase something the faster it runs and the more you ignore something the faster it comes.’ – Roshon Fegan
‘The only people with power today are the audience. And that is increasing with Twitter, Facebook, and everything else. We cater to their likes and dislikes, and you ignore that at your peril.’ – Simon Cowell
‘Politicians don’t like to face unpleasant realities. In truth, nobody does, but as individuals, we have no choice; if we neglect to plan ahead, we are held accountable. Fail to meet your responsibilities at work, and you get fired. Ignore your car’s gas gauge, and you get stranded.’ – Nathan Myhrvold
‘I could go on a long rant about how much I despise e-mail. I wish it was more socially acceptable to ignore people.’ – Steve Huffman
‘I will barnstorm American living rooms. Mainstream media will be unable to ignore me, but more importantly they will be unable to overlook the needs of average Americans in the run-up to the 2012 election.’ – Roseanne Barr
‘It’s hard for me to get interested in stories that ignore death, which is what American marketing culture would like to do: pretend that death doesn’t exist, that you can buy immortality; just buy these products, and you’ll be forever young and happy.’ – Alan Ball
‘I’m pretty forgiving, so sometimes I forget how evil people were to me. Then I think, ‘Wait a minute. Don’t let them get you.’ Then I hit ‘ignore’ on FaceBook.’ – Alexis Knapp
‘I made the decision to take on board the critical feedback. Reviews are something you can easily ignore as a performer or writer but I chose to not ignore them here and I think that I benefited. I think I’m stronger for it – and I have a tougher skin as a result.’ – Rufus Wainwright
‘Though knowledge itself increasingly ignores boundaries between fields, professors are apt to organize their pedagogy around the methods and history of their academic subculture rather than some coherent topic in the world.’ – Steven Pinker
‘It’s dangerous to buy into praise and criticism for what you do when you’re trying to present your music to people. I don’t ignore it completely, but I don’t dwell on it too much.’ – Conor Oberst
‘However you arrive at the ability to ignore self-doubt – if you can acquire it or possess it or find it or discover it – move beyond self-doubt.’ – Dwight Yoakam
‘Youth is the spirit of adventure and awakening. It is a time of physical emerging when the body attains the vigor and good health that may ignore the caution of temperance. Youth is a period of timelessness when the horizons of age seem too distant to be noticed.’ – Ezra Taft Benson
‘You can’t ignore the reality that faith and family, those two things are integral parts of having limited government, lower taxes, and free societies.’ – Rick Santorum
‘There are different types of talents and intelligences, and traditional schools sometimes ignore the creative ones. It is important for us to give kids every platform for them to find what they are good at and what they love. The arts also provide a space for newfound creativity.’ – Caity Lotz
‘Whenever I work on something, I try and throw everything I have at it. Then if the director finds it useful they use it, and if not, they ignore it!’ – John C. Reilly
‘The biggest barrier to dealing with climate change is us: our own attachment to habits that are hard to shift, and our great ability to park or ignore uncomfortable choices.’ – Geoff Mulgan
‘The way the Establishment deals with people like me is to ignore them. When you become unignorable, they will try to smear you, and that’s what I feared for a long time. Now I have somehow vaulted into this space where it’s difficult for someone to smear me because it would look as though they were being vindictive and spiteful.’ – Heather Brooke
‘Many of us are under the delusion that the police exist solely to deal with crime and keep us safe. That is to ignore the major focus of many of today’s top cops on managing reputation – both of their force and, by default, their careers.’ – Heather Brooke
‘In general, men are wired to notice obvious signs that convey interest in mating – a warm smile, for example – and ignore other subtleties, like if your lipstick is faded.’ – Helen Fisher
‘Technology will never last if it ignores human beings’ basic instinct to express and discover through expression.’ – Lemn Sissay
‘The people who believe themselves to be on the left, and who defend the agents of Islam in the name of tolerance and culture, are being rightwing. Not just rightwing. Extreme rightwing. I don’t understand how you can be so upset about the Christian right and just ignore the Islamic right. I’m talking about equality.’ – Ayaan Hirsi Ali
‘People do care where their food, or other goods, comes from, not merely if the price is right. And that means no business can afford to ignore the impacts their buying practices have on producers and on the perceptions and choices of consumers.’ – Julian Baggini
‘That’s the thing about film acting and television acting. You just release yourself and do what is true for the moment, and ignore everybody and everything and all the technical razzmatazz that goes on.’ – David Suchet
‘We ignore slow environmental changes unless they are crisis-driven, such as hurricanes in Florida.’ – Natalie Jeremijenko
‘I’ve had lots of people saying very nice things about the work. But I genuinely feel in the course of a writing career you’re going to have people say very nice things and some not-so-nice things, and if at all possible you should try to ignore both.’ – Kevin Barry
‘When someone is bullying you, don’t let it get to you. I remember my friends in school, someone said something mean to them, and they really let it get to them. And it really affected them. But I would just say try to ignore it as much as possible and just be yourself.’ – Kaitlyn Dever
‘As for kids who are struggling personally, ignore the bullies! Who cares what they think? A lot of the time, they’re not thinking, so you shouldn’t take their words to heart. Ignore, ignore, ignore, and keep pushing forward.’ – Nolan Gould
‘Often, we ignore the fact that our spiritual condition and psychological state of mind are highly affected by what is happening to us physically.’ – Tony Campolo
‘I am not playing for any lobby. I am playing for national lobby. I will ignore lobby. Anybody has useful suggestion, they can give it to me. The history will speak about it.’ – Veerappa Moily
‘People are always saying that prices are too high. When they turn out to be right, we anoint them. When they turn out to be wrong, we ignore them. They are typically right and wrong about half the time.’ – Eugene Fama
‘The best thing I’ve learned is that you have to listen to your body, and you have to be your own physician. Don’t ignore those little groaning aches and pains.’ – Valerie Cruz
‘Every morning, I go off to a small studio behind my house to write. I try to ignore all email and phone calls until lunchtime. Then I launch into the sometimes frantic busy-ness of a tightly scheduled day.’ – Daniel Goleman
‘I get a lot of abuse on Twitter. It’s mostly homophobic, but what can you do? I just either ignore it or laugh.’ – Clare Balding
‘Once you start playing a piece, there is a connection between every note. You cannot say, ‘I will not concentrate on this note.’ You cannot ignore things the way you do in the rest of your life.’ – Daniel Barenboim
‘Culture changes because of musicians and actors and actresses. There’s a responsibility there. You may ignore the responsibility. You may choose to be a bad role model. But, you are a role model nonetheless.’ – Kirk Cameron
‘I do feel my loved ones that have passed on; I feel them looking over my shoulder… So yeah, that’s pretty profound, when you’re not expecting it, you didn’t particularly believe in it and then it just sort of happens too often to ignore.’ – Bonnie Raitt
‘It is a lie that our anger justifies our impulse to hurt or ignore our antagonists. We are to forgive to be forgiven. To wait for them to repent before we forgive and repent is to allow them to choose for us a delay which could cost us happiness here and hereafter.’ – Henry B. Eyring
‘To try to teach ignoring technology is to ignore the progress that we have made over the last century. If school is preparation for the real world – a real world that is increasingly technology-driven – then to ignore technology is to become obsolete.’ – Adora Svitak
‘I’m proud of ‘Stop Making Sense,’ but it’s a little bit of an albatross; I can’t compete with it, but I can’t ignore it either.’ – David Byrne
‘I’m a workaholic, so I ignore the signs of fatigue and just keep going and going, and then conk out when I get home. It can be pretty stressful.’ – Keke Palmer
‘I struggle with deciding when to answer or ignore the constant speculation about my private life, because I feel like that doesn’t belong to anybody but me.’ – Lauren London
‘Some directors are really strong on action, manhandling you around the set; others are very focused on setting up the camera shots and practically ignore you. You have to get used to introverts, extroverts, directors who clown around for the crew, and the odd one who’s monosyllabic.’ – Gina Bellman
‘My dad used to ignore me when I was a kid. He couldn’t stand my voice, so he just used to ignore me, and then he’d impersonate me.’ – Alison Goldfrapp
‘It is no longer acceptable to ignore the suffering, and designers must take responsibility for the way that their fur is produced.’ – Twiggy
‘You wouldn’t meet a Joe Frazier down today and then up tomorrow, said hello to big shots then ignore someone on the lower level; he was the most consistent human being. What you see is what you get.’ – George Foreman
‘The planet’s environmental woes tend to be overlooked as we scramble for the latest high-tech gizmos – and conveniently ignore their energy consumption.’ – Sheherazade Goldsmith
‘Minister and writer Barbara Kaufmann has addressed the subject of guerrilla decontextualization on both the ‘Voices Compassionate Education’ website and on ‘Inner Michael’, where she offers the kind of insights into the spiritual aspects of Michael Jackson’s creative artistry that mainstream media mostly ignores.’ – Aberjhani
‘While writing, I tend to repeat the same song, endlessly, for thousands of times. This helps me ignore any lyrics, and helps create a consistent mood for each book.’ – Chuck Palahniuk
‘I know it’s cheesy, but if you listen to the universe, it gives you pointers. I strongly believe if you keep your ears open and eyes open, your path will become clear. You just have to make sure you don’t ignore it.’ – Matthew James Thomas
‘Can we ignore what is going on around us, can we disconnect ourselves, our own material situation, our spiritual selves, who we are, can we disconnect that from history and the social context of our lives? The older I get, the more I’m convinced that we cannot, that we are social creatures.’ – Martin Donovan
‘If you have only one life, you can’t altogether ignore the question: are you enjoying it?’ – Sebastian Faulks
‘When I was 16, I was taught by a wonderful teacher who let me ignore the Greek syllabus and just read Homer.’ – Alice Oswald
‘That is the best instruction you could ever give a poet: whether you’re examining a bad line in a poem or a bad motive for action, keep well your repining – meaning, don’t ignore the honest muttering in your head.’ – Alice Oswald
‘This is the harsh truth about us: not only do Filipinos ignore books, literature – we do not understand how important the arts are – not just to those of us who work at it, but to the nation as a whole.’ – F. Sionil Jose
‘When you’re a leader, you cannot ignore parts of your constituency, even if you know they’re not going to vote for you.’ – Keith Ellison
‘Children and teenagers don’t easily relate to stories about kings and dukes, and to tell only stories about kings and dukes is to ignore the regular people.’ – Tim Crouch
‘I try to take a weekly digital Sabbath, batch my emails so I deal with them a few times a day rather than constantly, and increasingly give myself permission to ignore unsolicited communiques. I try, too, to give others more slack. The respond-now culture is a two-way street. I’m trying to be more mindful of that.’ – Noreena Hertz
‘As I came to the lime light, the media asked me many questions. A lot many moral policing… ‘Wear this, wear that, why a T-shirt?’ Everybody has the right to form their opinions, and I have the right to ignore them.’ – Sania Mirza
‘There are good intentions behind many people’s conversion to veganism, including an admirable devotion to the well-being of animals and a justified skepticism about the crap the USDA allows manufacturers to put in our food. But it’s hard to ignore the often sanctimonious nature of what some nutritionists view as an ‘extremist’ way of eating.’ – Julie Klausner
‘When we think of the myth of the settling of the West, this is our creation myth. But because we think of it as mythology, not as real people interacting with other real people, we ignore the cost of human lives and blood.’ – Philipp Meyer
‘Smart companies fail because they do everything right. They cater to high-profit-margin customers and ignore the low end of the market, where disruptive innovations emerge from.’ – Clayton M. Christensen
‘It doesn’t seem to matter how often vaccines are proved safe or supplements are shown to offer nothing of value. When people don’t like facts, they ignore them.’ – Michael Specter
‘I believe that hunger for a ‘lost dimension’ of experience is a natural yearning in all of us, and it doesn’t go away just because we ignore it. It is evidenced among other places in the millions of children and adults who obsessively read the ‘Harry Potter’ books. It is said that fiction is where someone gets to tell the truth.’ – Marianne Williamson
‘Home-plate collisions are something you cannot ignore.’ – Joe Torre
‘When a black person kills a black person, the media ignores it completely.’ – Ben Shapiro
‘It is crucial for scientists to be willing to be wrong; otherwise, you might not do the most important experiments, or you may ignore your most important findings.’ – Stanley B. Prusiner
‘My husband is that rare man who is blessed with the ability to see the big picture but will not ignore the smallest detail. He will work an 18-hour day and still find time to help the kids with their homework.’ – Nita Ambani
‘That’s the thing with celebrities: the media can’t ignore them.’ – Paul Watson
‘Every U.S. president enters office promising stronger ties with our southern neighbors, only to thereupon largely ignore them.’ – Thomas P.M. Barnett
‘Some might complain that nuclear disarmament is little more than a dream. But that ignores the very tangible benefits disarmament would bring for all humankind. Its success would strengthen international peace and security. It would free up vast and much-needed resources for social and economic development. It would advance the rule of law.’ – Ban Ki-moon
‘Strong moral arguments exist for why we should often try to ignore stereotypes or override them. But we shouldn’t assume they represent some irrational quirk of the unconscious mind. In fact, they’re largely the consequence of the mind’s attempt to make a rational decision.’ – Paul Bloom
‘The Chinese government clearly does pay attention to public opinion expressed on the Internet – the extent to which they choose to adapt their practices based on it, or ignore it, seems to vary.’ – Rebecca MacKinnon
‘I hate to admit this, but before we had a baby I was kind of weirded out by breastfeeding. It looked strange, and I was always like, ‘Look away! Ignore it, ignore the boobs in the room, move along, nothing to see here!” – David Alan Basche
‘By now, you’ve heard endless warnings about the risk of short, trivial passwords. There’s a good chance you ignore them.’ – Barton Gellman
‘I think when I start out writing, I always try to write the version of the movie that I want to go see. I don’t mean it in a way that ignores the audience, but I really set out to make a movie that I want to see and that, hopefully, other people will want to go see it. So whatever’s amusing to me, I guess, I throw it all in there.’ – Brian Helgeland
‘I told my kids when they were little, ‘Look, kids, your mother and I are screwing you up somehow. We don’t understand how, or we wouldn’t do it. But we’re parents. So somehow we’re damaging you, and I want you to know that early. So just ignore me when I go to that part of my parenting.” – Pat Conroy
‘If you need five minutes every hour to look at tweets or to just surf the Internet, you need to schedule that into your schedule, allow yourself to do that. Because when people start procrastinating, what they’ve done is, they’ve tried to ignore that urge. They try to deny themselves time on Facebook or time surfing the web.’ – Charles Duhigg
‘We know there are certain chemicals that are designed to give us a rush of pleasure. But, one of the most amazing things about being human is our capacity to override that pleasure. To either say, ‘I don’t need that pleasure right now. I’m going to ignore the craving.’ Or to find something else that we find a deeper sense of reward from.’ – Charles Duhigg
‘What is the Obama Doctrine? It seems to be one of disengagement, to try to ignore the hot, religious, dry, poor countries from Algeria to Pakistan.’ – Richard Engel
‘I have very long, wild hair, a suntan and wear knee high boots and ignore all the rules about what you should or shouldn’t wear at whatever age.’ – Kate O’Mara
‘As an astronomer, I get to ignore the details of the things that we don’t understand. There’s a lot of work that we can do on scales that we do understand, and there is actually a finite size that I can associate with a super massive black hole.’ – Andrea M. Ghez
‘When something comes to my brain, I don’t ignore it. You never know what it’s going to turn into.’ – Kacey Musgraves
‘Freedom is the one value conservatives place above all others, yet time and again, their ideal of freedom ignores the growing imbalance of power in our society that’s eroding the freedoms of most people.’ – Robert Reich
‘My friends sometimes used to ignore me completely, and that would really upset me badly.’ – Kate Bush
‘When it comes to whaling, Iceland is an international outlaw. Years of global negotiations and declarations have failed utterly to end its illegal slaughter of whales. It’s time to send Iceland a message it can’t ignore: trade sanctions.’ – Pierce Brosnan
‘Sadly, if President Obama is willing to ignore the pain of race-based discrimination and injustice so as to make whites comfortable – and this, after he has already been elected and the campaign is long over – then the likelihood he will ever speak the truth about these matters, let alone address them, shrinks to nearly zero.’ – Tim Wise
‘You’d better believe that Putin sees that in Syria, Obama draws a red line and ignores the red line.’ – Ted Cruz
‘Over a period of 11 months, I was constantly afraid that Youth Care would lock me up. It was all a frightening and traumatic experience. So often, these terrible memories come to me. I can’t ignore them.’ – Laura Dekker
‘People into hard sciences, neurophysiology, often ignore a core philosophical question: ‘What is the relationship between our unique, inner experience of conscious awareness and material substance?’ The answer is: We don’t know, and some people are so terrified to say, ‘I don’t know.” – Raymond Moody
‘Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest.’ – Karin Slaughter
‘The battle going on over gay marriage in America reveals an awful lot. The Bible belt – people hate gay people. Because the Bible tells them? No, the Bible tells them an awful lot of things that they ignore.’ – Ian Mckellen
‘Opponents of legal birth control, including abortion, have tried for decades to play the race card, saying that legal abortion is racist. What they ignore is that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. accepted the Margaret Sanger Award from Planned Parenthood in 1966.’ – Karen DeCrow
‘When downed American pilots were first taken prisoner in North Vietnam in 1964, U.S. policy became pretty much to ignore them – part and parcel of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s determination to keep the costs of his increasingly futile military escalation in Southeast Asia from the public.’ – Rick Perlstein
‘Feedback for leaders is often nuanced and difficult to deliver. That said, hearing you are passive-aggressive from 10 different people described 10 different ways becomes hard to ignore.’ – Scott Weiss
‘The message of body acceptance built on Jennifer Lawrence’s soundbites only empowers those who are willing to ignore the fact that her statements reinforce our current cultural views rather than subverting them.’ – Jennifer Armintrout
‘The focus of our public discourse has been on how American companies are competing with Japanese, German, and other foreign companies. What this allows us to ignore is how each of those American companies is really in competition with the families of the workers. That’s the real competition.’ – Arlie Russell Hochschild
‘I let go of the notion of wanting someone to ignore the way I look in order to find me attractive, because really, what kind of relationship would that be? One where someone’s only attracted to you because they’re ignoring a fundamental part of you? No thanks.’ – Stella Young
‘Owning equities is an essential part of anyone’s portfolio. You just can’t ignore it over time. It’s going to add the real pop to anyone’s overall performance.’ – Warren Stephens
‘Science ignores the spiritual realm because it is not amenable to scientific analysis. As importantly, the predictive success of Newtonian theory, emphasizing the primacy of a physical Universe, made the existence of spirit and God an extraneous hypothesis that offered no explanatory principles needed by science.’ – Bruce Lipton
‘I don’t know if I have a memory of not thinking I was a writer – it goes that far back. I went to law school because I didn’t know how to earn a living otherwise. I tried to ignore the pull, but it wouldn’t let me.’ – Elizabeth Strout
‘If you ignore the murdering and the conniving, Francis Underwood is an effective politician.’ – Kevin Spacey
‘I really wanted to make the worst thing: the thing that even people who liked bad, terrible music wouldn’t like – the stuff that people would ignore, always. Something really, really stupid. Something that is destined for failure.’ – Ariel Pink
‘When advertisers ignore diversity, it is because they don’t think the lives of others matter. There is not enough of a financial imperative for those lives to matter.’ – Roxane Gay
‘Just because we don’t recognise someone from an area of our own lives, somehow it has become easy to simply ignore them and walk away.’ – Kathryn Prescott
‘When you owe money to people, you’re always going to owe money to people, so you should take care of it as soon as possible. It doesn’t go away just because you ignore it.’ – Sophia Amoruso
‘I am just reflecting the times. I can’t ignore them.’ – Sam Taylor-Johnson
‘A free and rooted society ought to consist of a web of moral obligations. We have the right to ignore them, but we ought to be actually obliged not to let other people starve or to let them lapse into destitution.’ – Pankaj Mishra
‘The business of fiction is the study of the human condition, and gender is something that many humans are obsessed with, thus making it rather difficult to ignore when studying the human condition!’ – Charles Stross
‘I just think self-satisfied people ignore certain signs about other people.’ – Lisa Cholodenko
‘Countries have largely been left alone to handle or ignore their educational problems as they see fit. In part, this was because we assumed that the contexts and challenges were so different from nation to nation that education could not be tackled at the international level.’ – Wendy Kopp
‘The silly antics that would get me in trouble at school have put me on the best-seller list. So I guess the moral here is ignore your teach… never mind. That’s not the moral. Probably.’ – MaryJanice Davidson
‘For most Americans, poetry plays no role in their everyday lives. But also for most Americans, contemporary painting or jazz or sculpture play no role either. I’m not saying poetry is singled out as a special thing to ignore.’ – Billy Collins
‘I don’t care what people are saying about me, good or bad, in blogs or on Twitter or in the media. There will always be people who don’t like you and don’t like your books. Ignore them.’ – J. A. Konrath
‘The whole kind of post-World War I settlement that formed the modern Middle East is in danger of collapsing, and we can – we, the United States, you know, the preeminent power in the world – we can say that we want to ignore that, but how long can we avert our gaze? And how long can we stay out?’ – Dexter Filkins
‘Should Hillary Clinton run for president, voters who ignore the difference between the image she seeks to project and the reality will have only themselves to blame if her presidency turns into a disaster.’ – Ronald Kessler
‘On a regular basis, to appease White House or campaign staffs, Secret Service officials order agents to ignore basic security rules and let people into events without being put through a magnetometer or metal detector.’ – Ronald Kessler
‘When I was living in Mexico and writing a book called ‘Aztec,’ I had to make a deliberate effort to ignore a lot of the ‘typically Mexican landscape’ around me – banana and citrus groves, roses and carnations, burros and toros – because they did not exist in Mexico in the 15th century, the time of my book.’ – Gary Jennings
‘I think about death most of the day, every day. We can’t escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.’ – Caitlin Doughty
‘If we ignore our death, we end up just going around completely oblivious to why we do the things we do!’ – Caitlin Doughty
‘Ignore all advice about writing. Leave your blood on every page. Every page!’ – Miriam Toews
‘I’m much better at things if I believe in them, and a lot of those little teenage starlet roles, they have problems, too, and a lot of movies just ignore that.’ – Sarah Steele
‘I can’t stand films where parents are portrayed as old and doddery, and ignore their kids.’ – Gurinder Chadha
‘In my book ‘The Winter Sea,’ set north of Aberdeen, I couldn’t just ignore the fact some people there – especially the people in the past – would speak the Doric.’ – Susanna Kearsley
‘Invoking nature with its implied supremacy ignores that many cultures have fundamentally differing ideas of even what nature is, much less how it should work.’ – Gregory Benford
‘It’s important for people to recognize that they shouldn’t ignore symptoms like shortness of breath or a cough that won’t go away, because these may be signs of COPD.’ – Caitlyn Jenner
‘As an actor, the first thing you’re taught is, ‘Don’t look into the camera; ignore it.’ – Yael Grobglas’ – Yael Grobglas
‘A risk for a poet-novelist is imbalance: The poems can flatten into prose or lose their intensity of focus; the novels can stall amid lofty writing or literary preciousness and ignore the engine of plot and character.’ – Floyd Skloot
‘Science trumps magical thinking: there was a reason the Incas called their mercury mine ‘la mina de los muertos,’ the mine of the dead. Building a life and a community upon principles that ignore such realities is doomed to fail.’ – Floyd Skloot
‘When I get moved to write a story, I don’t question the story. I dive right in, and I try to ignore the voices that are chattering away at me: ‘You can’t do that’, ‘You shouldn’t do that’. I just sort of leap and take a chance and go for it.’ – David Bergen
”A Long Way Gone’ says something about human nature that we try, most of the time, to ignore.’ – Carolyn See
‘The power and energy sectors are the biggest constituents of the infrastructure sector. If you ignore them, no development will happen.’ – Narendra Modi
‘The business case for diverse employment is not a matter we can ignore. When the business case merges with values and national objectives, this serves as a wake up call for us all. We cannot ignore the opportunity; we cannot ignore the commitment.’ – Ofra Strauss
‘I don’t care what other people say. The important pressure, you put on yourself. The pressure that others put on you? I ignore it.’ – Adolfo Cambiaso
‘I like to make an outline or cards and then utterly ignore them.’ – Margaret Stohl
‘You can’t ignore mobile. We are doing a lot of stuff in the game space, mostly nonconsole stuff, and those are primarily mobile/pad games.’ – Jon Feltheimer
‘I can’t ignore what I grew up listening to. My parents used to listen to Michael Jackson non-stop. They used to listen to Luther Vandross, Lionel Richie, Stevie Wonder.’ – Fleur East
‘When you have a political environment that is being so heavily influenced by the Tea Party that calls for shrinking the size of government, you can’t ignore it. There are political realities.’ – Steve Capus
‘Candidates ignore New Hampshire at their own peril. You all remember President Giuliani? He’s done a great job in the White House.’ – Corey Lewandowski
‘I usually work in a direction until I know how to do it, then I stop. At the time that I am bored or understand – I use those words interchangeably – another appetite has formed. A lot of people try to think up ideas. I’m not one. I’d rather accept the irresistible possibilities of what I can’t ignore.’ – Robert Rauschenberg
‘In very rare circumstances, the executive branch might choose to ignore a court decision.’ – Newt Gingrich
‘Aretha Franklin was as important to the civil-rights movement as Malcolm X and Medgar Evers. Artists can choose to take on the tremendous amount of responsibility we have, or choose to ignore it.’ – D’Angelo
‘Social media is natural to me, and it’s a very immediate way of saying something. It’s the way politics are done these days. In modern politics, you can’t ignore that even if you wanted to. I can’t imagine doing politics without it.’ – Nicola Sturgeon
‘As anyone who has tinnitus knows, it’s not something that you can ignore, and you have to deal with it on a daily basis.’ – Martin McGuinness
‘For all the benefits of being in the public eye, there is the odd downside, too. Twitter goes mad sometimes with people saying weird stuff. It is a bit strange, but you can just ignore them. It is not even worth getting worked up about.’ – Laura Trott
‘Throughout my life, I always remember that consideration of people who were less fortunate than we. We lived in an atmosphere of awareness, and we certainly did not live a life whereby we ignored, or felt that we could ignore, that which was in evidence around us.’ – Richard Attenborough
‘Defenders of Wilson are correct to beg for context when considering his legacy. But it is they who ignore the context: the role Wilson played in using war, including Haiti’s racist counterinsurgency, to nationalize white supremacy, militarism, and Christian evangelism.’ – Greg Grandin
‘I don’t want to harm my government. I want to help my government. But the fact that they are willing to completely ignore due process, they’re willing to declare guilt without ever seeing a trial, these are things that we need to work against as a society and say, ‘Hey, this is not appropriate.” – Edward Snowden
‘I cannot ignore the will of my constituents by supporting a bill that allows President Obama’s executive amnesty plan to continue unchecked.’ – Scott Garrett
‘I cannot ignore this reality, and I encourage my all colleagues to join me in this fight to end modern day slavery in our own backyard.’ – Blake Farenthold
‘The water crisis in Flint, Michigan, has shown us what can happen when we ignore the warning signs of lead poisoning and corroding pipes.’ – Elizabeth Esty
‘When I see the black experience – there’s not one, but it is specific, and you can’t ignore it.’ – Leslie Odom, Jr.
‘Once again, the ‘New York Times’ has chosen to purposefully ignore facts and professional journalism to fit their political agenda, choosing to attack my character and reputation rather than present an honest report. The suggestion that I accepted cash payments is unfounded, silly, and nonsensical.’ – Paul Manafort
‘A ton of kids at school have made fun of me; if I had to give advice to other girls, I would say, ‘Hang loose and ignore them. They shouldn’t faze you no matter how popular they think they are.” – Paris Jackson
‘Don’t ignore big problems, and don’t try to pretend that problems are smaller than they are.’ – Gina Raimondo
‘I touched the limits of our political system, which pushes one to last-minute compromises. Explanations are rarely given. It plays to people’s fears because it hasn’t built an ideological consensus. It produces flawed solutions and too often ignores reality.’ – Emmanuel Macron
‘When American workers are losing their jobs to people in other countries, Washington cannot afford to ignore this disturbing trend any longer. While Democratic presidential candidates want to just blame U.S. corporations, the reality is that their strategy won’t help protect American workers or save their jobs.’ – Kevin Brady
‘We’ve all been influenced by American naturalism, and to ignore that entirely would be impossible for me as someone who works primarily in film.’ – Ben Foster
‘We, in America and Great Britain, have never had to live with evil and ignore it, or pretend it wasn’t happening, as people did all over Europe, and indeed, even in Germany herself.’ – Michael Korda
‘It is not necessary to agree with the Arab point of view about their own history, but it is foolish to ignore it.’ – Michael Korda
‘While politicians may be forgiven for failing to predict the future – who can, alas? – it is amazing that they defiantly ignore the past.’ – Michael Korda
‘We are living in a world where image-making is important, so we ignore the facts.’ – Shimon Peres
‘The claim that too many criminals are being jailed, that there is over-incarceration, ignores an unfortunate fact: For the vast majority of crimes, a perpetrator is never identified or arrested, let alone prosecuted, convicted and jailed.’ – Tom Cotton
‘I remember I had an actor friend – a close friend from college – Anthony Zerbe. He sent me a telegram before I started my first movie, ‘Cisco Pike.’ It said, ‘Have a good time. Ignore the camera.’ That was the extent of my training.’ – Kris Kristofferson
‘The rare opportunity of writing music for a movie about the making of ‘Mary Poppins’ was impossible to ignore. The fact that it could provide emotional content in relief of the struggles that the Sherman brothers and Walt Disney endured was reason enough to take on the challenge.’ – Thomas Newman
‘ISIS’ key social media-encrypted platform is Telegram, which is engineered by a Berlin-based tech company that can simply ignore the rulings of American federal judges as well as legislation passed by the U.S. Congress.’ – Peter Bergen
‘You can’t ignore the Asian and Hispanic populations in L.A. We can let audiences know independent film is not just about white men.’ – Elvis Mitchell
‘It takes so much strength to say to your ego, ‘You know what? You’re going to keep me lonely, so I have to ignore you.” – George Michael
‘I’m pretty sure the last time any anchor could honestly ignore ratings was well before I was born.’ – Campbell Brown
‘We’ve done as best a job as we can making it clear that I’m earning what I’m earning because of me and not because of who my father is. But at the same time, I’m not ignoring things that would be dumb to ignore, like people that I can know through him and experiences I can have through him and things that I can learn from him.’ – Ben Platt
‘The business cannot ignore what customers are saying when the message is clear: We’re not on our game.’ – Steve Easterbrook
‘We’re at a point right now in our development in this country – setting the immigration issue aside – that you can’t ignore the sheer population of us in metropolitan areas all across the country, of how significant Latino-ness is in the United States.’ – Jimmy Smits
‘I was never lined up outside of my bosses office saying ‘Give me an opportunity; there’s not a woman in primetime’… I was just trying to be so good they couldn’t ignore me.’ – Megyn Kelly
‘When I started losing business to salespeople who were using used-car salesmen kind of tactics, I realized I can’t ignore the EQ thing; it’s going to kill sales.’ – Walter O’Brien
‘If the dream of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is to live, our babies must live. Our mothers must choose life. If we refuse to answer the cry of mercy from the unborn, and ignore the suffering of the mothers, then we are signing our own death warrants.’ – Alveda King
‘Being in the European Union, we would be building bridges between the 1.5 bn people of Muslim world to the non-Muslim world. They have to see this. If they ignore it, it brings weakness to the E.U.’ – Recep Tayyip Erdogan
‘Kook means the clueless beginner who paddles his surf board out to the other surfers in the lineup and starts chattering away like it’s a cocktail party, completely ignores all the finely-tuned protocols of surf that have developed over decades.’ – Peter Heller
‘We must have the courage to confront dreadful views even in the people we love the most. But that’s difficult to do when we cast large segments of our fellow citizens into a basket to be condemned and disparaged, judging them even as we ignore that many of their deplorable traits exist in us, too.’ – J. D. Vance
‘We ignore our own history. We ignore all these values and valuable people who really changed everything, who sacrificed their own lives for a better America.’ – Raoul Peck
‘I think if you ignore the generation after yours, you will be obsolete very quickly.’ – Brad Paisley
‘I love doing the dishes… not for the act of cleaning but because I get to put my headphones in, listen to music, and ignore the world for an hour, and it’s totally acceptable because I’m cleaning.’ – Garrett Clayton
‘As a child, I was fascinated by any branch of physical or biological science. Even today, I find great excitement in discovering the complexity and variability of the world we live in, getting a glimpse into the deeper reality that we mostly ignore in our everyday human activities.’ – Robert J. Shiller
‘I want to expand and not ignore the late 20th-century additions to filmed entertainment.’ – Elvis Mitchell
‘I think the Republican Party is lost in terms of whether we should be stronger on the social issues or ignore the social issues. But I think the Rand Pauls, the Ted Cruzes, that’s the future of the party.’ – Mike Gallagher
‘I don’t ignore anything. Somebody gets in my face, I get in their face.’ – Roger Ailes
‘The president does not have the option of choosing which laws he will follow and which he will ignore.’ – Steve Scalise
‘Barack Obama will never ignore our troops.’ – Tammy Duckworth
‘There’s more people to ignore in New York or Boston than there are in Milwaukee, but I would still ignore them, probably.’ – Zack Greinke
‘Parliament’s job is to conduct discussions. But many a time, Parliament is used to ignore issues, and in such situations, obstruction of Parliament is in the favour of democracy. Therefore, parliamentary obstruction is not undemocratic.’ – Arun Jaitley
‘If you have doubt about a person’s humility or smarts, don’t ignore it. More often than not, there is something causing that doubt.’ – Patrick Lencioni
‘Mostly, I would like people to ask other writers about the craft of their writing so we could learn from one another. We ask movie directors why they chose to use certain lights and angles and speeds of film, but most of the time, we ignore the craft of a writer.’ – Alexandra Fuller
‘It’s hard when you have a lot of naysayers to know when they might be right or when to ignore them and go with your gut and do something that may seem risky.’ – Kathryn Minshew
‘People in Scunthorpe don’t care what I say. And I’m not camp, either. I’m a geezer. I’m not a raving queer, I’ve got a bit of character. I just ignore people who shout at me in the street. I just stick my head in the air; I’m not interested.’ – Boy George
‘It might seem a psychotic, insane thing, quitting a job after I’d built a great career over eight years, but it was a wake-up call. All too often we ignore those, forget that we don’t know how long we’re here for and that we need to make the most of every moment.’ – Jameela Jamil
‘We cannot have people leaking classified information at any level, and we certainly take that very seriously and would not ignore that.’ – Sarah Huckabee Sanders
‘You have to listen to people that have chosen the nominee of our Republican Party. I think it would be foolish to ignore them.’ – John McCain
‘Some independent Indian films do so well at these festivals in Europe and in the United States that when they come back, India just cannot ignore them.’ – Arfi Lamba
‘If blockchain technologies ignore the eventuality of standards, we are going to see less adoption. Maybe we should think of the blockchain as a public-good utility and encourage an evolution that is not unlike the Internet’s in terms of openness and neutrality of access.’ – William Mougayar
‘A lot of financial technology is foolhardy. Saying, ‘We’re going to kill banks. We’re going to disrupt everything,’ ignores some realities.’ – Chris Larsen
‘Climate change is not an excuse for the EPA to ignore the bounds of law and issue illegal regulations that will cost jobs, shutter industries, and have little to no positive impact on the environment.’ – Luther Strange
‘Stay true to yourself, engage with your followers, and ignore the critics.’ – Ella Woodward
‘In my opinion, being an all-rounder is good. It is not right that I should be content with qawwali and ignore other forms, since I am basically trained in classical singing. We should be masters of all forms of singing.’ – Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
‘It would be ridiculous to ignore the speed and possibilities of the digital landscape.’ – Anna Wintour
‘It would be ridiculous to ignore the speed and possibilities of the digital landscape – you absolutely need to have fast-moving news online, but if you want to build a large audience over time, you absolutely have to take a risk on the big challenging stuff.’ – Anna Wintour
‘Children already ignore others and take time on their own, and I think that is something adults should refer back to as they deal with the everyday hustle of the world.’ – Farrah Abraham
‘By the beginning of the 20th century, the debate about monetary policy and the nation’s financial system had been going on for over a century. Increasingly, the shortcomings of the existing system were causing too much harm to ignore.’ – Jerome Powell
‘My father died from a heart attack. He was the sort of person who wouldn’t complain. The symptoms are not heavy – a bit of chest pain, arm strain, or indigestion. People ignore those symptoms because they think it’s trivial. Don’t feel afraid to come forward.’ – Ray Fearon
‘Canadians will usually give charity to those in need overseas but will ignore the people in their own backyards. It’s infuriating.’ – Mark Brand
‘Competing at full price is the way we like to do business, but we cannot ignore the promotional environment.’ – Karen Katz
‘When gamers look at games not as overall experiences but as chimeric potpourris of sight and sound, we take too mechanical a perspective and ignore what really makes them special.’ – Jason Schreier
‘We just have fun with our NFL Draft coverage because we understand that it’s a long process, and there can be technical glitches that we don’t profess to ignore. During our late coverage of the Draft, we sometimes get slap-happy and distort the heads of our analysts.’ – Rich Eisen
‘It is unbelievable that the federal court itself ignores that rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution apply in Puerto Rico.’ – Eduardo Bhatia
‘With each year I experience, I become more relaxed. I know now what is important to listen to and what to ignore. You only get that with age.’ – Caster Semenya
‘We’re assaulted with facts, pseudo facts, jibber-jabber, and rumour, all posing as information. Trying to figure out what you need to know and what you can ignore is exhausting.’ – Daniel Levitin
‘California is one of the strongest states with one of the solidest economies but, at the same time, ignores the reality of its farm workers.’ – Diego Luna
‘I think TV is evolving, but on the other hand, there is a presence of regressive shows happening, but I choose to ignore that because I am part of a very different and challenging soap.’ – Anita Hassanandani Reddy
‘Getting on a plane and discovering that your seat belt won’t fit around you was a moment of extreme horror. It was very hard to ignore.’ – Shonda Rhimes
‘What I really feel is necessary is that the black people in this country wil have to upset this apple cart. We can no longer ignore the fact that America is not the… land of the free and the home of the brave.’ – Fannie Lou Hamer
‘Every year, the World Economic Forum decides on a theme for its meeting of the world’s elite in Davos, Switzerland. Usually, it’s highfalutin nonsense that no one understands and everyone ignores.’ – Richard Quest
‘Videos of Antifa violence, some of them doctored, are regularly shared on conservative, pro-Trump and conspiracy theory-pushing websites, often with commentary that suggests the media purposefully ignores those events. These videos often do not often include wider context or numbers.’ – Elizabeth Flock
‘#BlackLivesMatter brought a new sense of urgency, audacity, and outrage to the issue of police violence against black men that has made it impossible to ignore, to cover up, or to justify.’ – Danny K. Davis
‘If we choose to ignore science and refuse to fund important scientific research, we voluntarily cede our place as a world leader in innovation.’ – Bill Foster
‘I didn’t know I was a zombie pedant until I started considering what from the zombie canon to keep in ‘Zone One’ and what to ignore.’ – Colson Whitehead
‘There’s a part of me as a human being and, certainly, as an actor – I’m not on Twitter and Facebook and all these things, but I can’t ignore them, because it’s not realistic to expect my kids are gonna think they’re lame.’ – Rosemarie DeWitt
‘Authors are free to ignore their editors’ advice. I often avail myself of this veto power – sometimes out of a pigheadedness for which I’ll pay the price.’ – Lionel Shriver
‘All businesses should have an element of social enterprise, and all social enterprises should not ignore the most important lessons from successful commercial businesses.’ – Holly Branson
‘I think that my general feeling about the United States is that democracy works, and I’ve believed that my whole life, and my experience as a businessperson for 30 years was if you ignore the sound and fury, American democracy works if you give it enough time.’ – Tom Steyer
‘It is the world’s limitations and the myths that we internalize about ourselves that pushes us to diminish our power and ignore it.’ – Janet Mock
‘Most trolls are seeking attention by trying to get a response. So best is to ignore.’ – Shenaz Treasury
‘In some cases, newlyweds want so badly for things to be perfect that they ignore warning signs, both in themselves and each other.’ – Emily V. Gordon
‘We ignore the similarities between the religious extremism and ethno-nationalism at our peril.’ – Deeyah Khan
‘The most dangerous thing a member of Congress could do is to ignore the citizenry who have taken up the mantle of reporting since they weren’t getting the truth from the co-opted mainstream outlets.’ – Dana Loesch
‘The NAACP ignores the wellspring of racism from within its own ranks, daring to brand anyone who disagrees with the standard they bear for the plantation-politics Democrats as ‘white nationalists.” – Dana Loesch
‘I have a weakness for treating people’s economic interests as their only interest, ignoring things like belonging and pride and the desire to send a message to those who ignore you.’ – Anand Giridharadas
‘Often, we need to ignore the words people say and attend to their underlying, urgent, life or death questions: Am I valuable? Am I loved? The great thing is that the answer is easy: Yes! The answer is always yes. We don’t have to think too hard.’ – Glennon Doyle Melton
‘The Democratic Party’s success or failure – if they expect any opportunity to gain a political foothold in the foreseeable future – resides solely on the party’s ability to reconcile with the American people, most especially with the Americans that they chose to ignore.’ – Seph Lawless
‘I’ve said this before, but I don’t like putting captions in my comic books. I feel, for me, they become a crutch, a way to ignore the essential fact that our medium is a visual medium, and the greatest pleasures to be derived from comics are how stories can be told with pictures.’ – Tom King
‘I don’t see a lot, but I think what the movie studios know and what they always know but they kind of ignore, which is that a there’s an audience for movies like ‘Get Out,’ and ‘Hidden Figures,’ and to some extent ‘Moonlight,’ which made a lot less money than ‘Hidden Figures’ did.’ – Wesley Morris
‘The American lionization of the entrepreneur is to ignore its foibles – the narcissism, the workaholism, the neglect of family, the imbalance, the obsession. These are not universally good things, though they are frequently universal to building great companies.’ – Andy Dunn
‘You need to marry someone that is your soul mate, that you’re obsessed with, and never ignore that.’ – Jessie James Decker
‘When you open your mind up, and you go into a creative state, you can’t just switch if off. When you have an idea, a creative impulse, and then you ignore it, it can keep you up when you just want to go to your bed – which is why it’s great to have voice recorders on your phone!’ – Paolo Nutini
‘The Supreme Court overrules, distinguishes, and upholds prior precedents. Sometimes it ignores them. But it does not – cannot – ‘defy’ them.’ – Wendy Long
‘A lot of times we look at the past as something that was really great, but we ignore things that have actually gotten better since then.’ – Cliff Chiang
‘At our peril, we ignore the fact that black vernacular, like the blues, both has a form and performs… For just as there would be no American music without black folks, there would be very little of our American language.’ – Kevin Young
‘The medieval Islamic world, from Central Asia to the shores of the Atlantic, was a world where scholars and men of learning flourished. But because we have tended to see Islam as the enemy of the West, as an alien culture, society, and system of belief, we have tended to ignore or erase its great relevance to our own history.’ – Prince Charles
‘Mainstream media journalists, especially in the United States and West Europe, prefer to ignore those problems in their own countries which they usually criticize in other countries, including in Russia.’ – Margarita Simonyan
‘The political solutions to the refugee crisis may be complex, but that does not mean we should abandon our humanity. We should not close our hearts, retreat behind walls, real or imagined, or ignore the pressing moral imperative to provide assistance and sanctuary for some of the world’s most desperate people.’ – Katharine Viner
‘Technology has changed how people communicate, how people relate, the speed at which this takes place. To ignore that, in the name of preaching the Word, is to forget that we’re to preach the Word to people.’ – Tony Evans
‘Nearly everyone who chooses to work for Donald Trump is disreputable in one way or another; Ali Baba didn’t find 40 wise men in the cave. But to label everyone in Trumpworld a grifter misses important subtleties. It conflates grifters and grafters, and it ignores the crucial distinction between the two.’ – Jacob Weisberg
‘The cultural conversation around privilege has grown vibrant enough that the ultimate privilege is to just ignore it altogether. Some decry this conversation as pernicious. I don’t agree.’ – Rumaan Alam
‘The more that I learn about what’s going on, it’s really hard to ignore the oppression that people are actually going through.’ – Malcolm Jenkins
‘For those who feel the need to be bullies, I ignore them.’ – Khoudia Diop
‘Ultimately, the idea of being able to escape and lose myself in a new world every time I go to ‘work’ was too appealing to ignore.’ – Reed Morano
‘A huge part of what we do as actors is learning to ignore the camera, as if it’s not even there, while simultaneously being very aware of the camera and what it’s capturing, because you can give the best performance of your life, but if you do it with the back of your head facing the camera, it’s going to get cut from the movie.’ – Geoffrey Rush
‘I’m an activist and advocate. I have empathy. It is hard to ignore causes.’ – Brandon Victor Dixon
‘As a country, we like to ignore our past. We don’t like to look at it.’ – Brandon Victor Dixon
‘Even China’s leaders routinely let the news media pool in, though they do their best to ignore them.’ – David E. Sanger
‘Although Mr. Trump will not be able to pull the United States out of the Paris climate accord, he can legally ignore its provisions, in keeping with his questioning of the existence of man-made climate change.’ – David E. Sanger
‘When bosses, leaders, and powerful men and women ignore or deny the accounts of harassment victims, they reinforce the idea that harassers are playing the game as they should and that the rest of us should fall in line.’ – Pramila Jayapal
‘I thought I’d give myself 10 years as an entertainment journalist and build up so much clout that there was no way Hollywood could ignore me when I started delivering scripts. Little did I know they were very good at ignoring it.’ – Rod Lurie
‘Life is so fragile, so brief. And we seemingly work so hard at trying to ignore that.’ – Elizabeth Berg
‘Come election time, black and white politicians put on their costumes of compassion and care, shake black hands, kiss black babies, sing ‘We Shall Overcome’ in black , and pray that we will ignore the reality of everyday suffering and the damage that is being done to our future in exchange for our votes.’ – Salim Akil
”Sticky’ is about reaching a point in a relationship where you both realize you guys shouldn’t be dating, but you’re doing it anyway just because you like to have that sense of just being able to be honest with the person and comfortable with the person. You kind of ignore all of the signs and red flags because you really want to like the person.’ – Ravyn Lenae
‘At some point, I had to ignore what people thought of me. I had to be my own biggest fan from an early age. Once I learned that, it was like a superpower. That was the armor that got me through high school.’ – Kyle
‘I think my heart will always be made of metal, but it would be ignorant of me and kind of foolish to ignore the other emotional connections you can make in all kinds of music.’ – Rob Halford
‘I try to ignore the Tonys buzz as much as possible. It’s wonderful to be thought of that way, but I have to kind of pretend it’s not happening so I can keep focus. It’s about the work I’m doing, and it’s more than enough to come away knowing that people are changed when they leave the theater.’ – Cynthia Erivo
‘I’m not going to stand by and ignore things that I think are important to talk about.’ – Richard Cordray
‘The criterion for racism is either objective or it’s meaningless: If liberals get to decide for themselves who is or isn’t a racist according to their political lights, conservatives will be within their rights to ignore them.’ – Bret Stephens
‘Ignore Trump’s tweets. Yes, it’s unrealistic. But we would all be better off if the media reported them more rarely, reacted to them less strongly, and treated them with less alarm and more bemusement.’ – Bret Stephens
‘One cannot understand how racism functions in the U.S. today if one ignores group power relations.’ – Robin DiAngelo
‘Civic poetry offers us a way to think and talk about issues that so much of public speech ignores, to make them new by dissecting and repurposing public speech, prying its falsehoods from its half-truths. It is fighting for its right to critique our would-be democracy.’ – Alissa Quart
‘We pass people in the street and ignore them when they’re clearly suffering. It makes you wish we could all feel when someone needs something.’ – Andrew Haigh
‘I normally try to ignore presidential tweets.’ – Benjamin Wittes
‘There is no way that anyone who – besides the folks that want to plain ignore facts – there’s no way that anyone can say that by building that wall we are not going to accomplish a more secure border. It’s just proven. We can do this.’ – Matt Rosendale
‘If I just point out the fact that black people hurt each other, too, then we can ignore the fact that other people harm black people. I think it’s an irresponsible argument.’ – Trip Lee
‘I try to ignore people’s opinions about my music – you don’t want to hold yourself back because of that stuff.’ – Julia Holter
‘Never ignore your intuition about friendships and people’s intentions towards you.’ – LeToya Luckett
‘When self-doubt creeps in, don’t ignore it – address it. Respond to harsh self-criticism with something more compassionate. Talk to yourself like a trusted friend and refuse to believe your unrealistic, negative inner monologue.’ – Amy Morin
‘I try my best to just ignore the negativity. Which is hard for me because it’s a lot to deal with.’ – Karrueche Tran
‘When you want to fall in love, you ignore red flags in the optimistic hope that it does work out.’ – Max Joseph
‘As president, Governor Romney would handle the Syrian conflict much differently. A President Romney would not ignore a growing conflict in a dangerous region involving allies the way Obama has, especially when chemical weapons could possibly be used.’ – Richard Grenell
‘What is needed to pass gay marriage is not a Democratic majority – this past year has proven that to be true – but politicians and judges comfortable enough to ignore what the majority of the voters want and do what is uncomfortable, unpopular – and morally right.’ – Richard Grenell
‘Obama has created a new world where countries ignore the U.S. without consequence. It’s so bad that Saudi Arabia doesn’t even want to serve on the Security Council with the U.S. because it might ruin their reputation.’ – Richard Grenell
‘The Obama Doctrine is to ignore an international crisis or go to war. There is no in between.’ – Richard Grenell
‘If our psychology seems crude and weak in what it can say about the great human experiences, it is better to make that clear and to mark where we must go than to ignore it.’ – Lawrence Kohlberg
‘After moving from Montreal (where French vs.English is the only conflict) to New York (where everyone is obsessed with race) it was impossible to ignore how intellectually lazy and knee-jerk people are when it comes to any mention of ethnicity.’ – Gavin McInnes
‘If people ignore the rules already, new regulations are not likely to deter them.’ – Jacob Rees-Mogg
‘For me, being green means cleaning up the water. Water is the key. Start with water. You can’t ignore the fact that that nearly 80% of US waterways are potentially poisoned – benzene, solvents, heavy metals, pharmaceuticals.’ – Erin Brockovich
‘Resource-rich nations should not ignore efficiency simply because energy is abundant.’ – Khalid A. Al-Falih
‘When there is hate or negative comment, I try to ignore it and try to not bother myself with such stuff.’ – Ishaan Khatter
‘Remember, I’m the guy who didn’t want the referendum – I wouldn’t have had it if I’d been prime minister. But you have to respect how people voted because this was partly about political alienation, so if the response to political alienation is to ignore it, that’s a recipe for more political alienation.’ – Ed Miliband
‘Dominant narrative is so overwhelming in politics. The smallest gaffe when the momentum is against you is a disaster. But when it is with you, everyone just ignores it.’ – Ed Miliband
‘My quality is my intuition. I can’t just ignore that, can I? Then I’d be a player of whom there are a thousand of my age.’ – Frenkie de Jong
‘If you do anything long enough, people can’t ignore you anymore.’ – Mike Portnoy
‘I have come to understand that my hatred of the gym was based on fear and prejudice, a tribal resistance to science, to improvement. But to ignore my aging physicality and not try and become the strongest and fittest I can be is curmudgeonly at best and wilfully ignorant at worst.’ – Sue Perkins
‘I could not have taken what he took, sliding into second base and having a guy stand over you and spit on you, call you every name in the book. Believe me, for him not to respond, to ignore it and not retaliate, you can’t say enough good about Jackie.’ – Vernon Law
‘When athletes take a knee during the National Anthem, we must ignore President Trump’s absurd claim that they’re ‘un-American’ and instead understand that it’s very American to peacefully protest systemic injustice.’ – Eric Swalwell
‘The role of the media in economic management is not often recognised even by professional economists. Politicians, however, ignore this at their own peril.’ – Sanjaya Baru
‘The inconvenient truth that our lazy media elites do so much to ignore is that Ocasio-Cortez, Sanders, and Warren are much closer in their views to the vast majority of ordinary Americans than the Bloombergs or the Bidens. They are the true centrists, the real moderates; they represent the actual political middle.’ – Mehdi Hasan
‘For a while now, I try to ignore the hoopla, because if you buy into that, you have to buy into the criticism. All you can do is put your work out there and move on; you just never know what will come.’ – Alan Menken
‘The goal of any worthwhile and effective journal of opinion analysis in navigating what is an increasingly tribal and divisive period in American history should be to promote real debate. That does not mean retreating to our corners and pretending that, if we ignore the perspectives we don’t like, they will magically go away.’ – Ben Domenech
‘One of the frequent blind spots for economic libertarians, speaking as one who has personally dealt with this log in the eye, is a tendency to allow principles of how economies work and the beauty of trade to make us ignore perceived threats animating people who value more than just the power to buy and sell.’ – Ben Domenech
‘From making it harder to register and stay on the rolls to moving and closing polling places to rejecting lawful ballots, we can no longer ignore these threats to democracy.’ – Stacey Abrams
‘In Georgia and around the country, people are striving for a middle class where a salary truly equals economic security. But instead, families’ hopes are being crushed by Republican leadership that ignores real life or just doesn’t understand it.’ – Stacey Abrams
‘I just ignore those who say negative comments against me. Whether I’m doing right or wrong, they would still say the same things against me.’ – Arnel Pineda
‘The amount of garbage that women are expected to put up with – we’re just expected to ignore when a man whistles at us. And it never makes us feel good – it always makes us feel unsafe.’ – Iliza Shlesinger
‘We all go through things in life. You try to stay positive, but you can’t ignore bad things that happen. You just try to work through them.’ – Urijah Faber
‘We ignore noise, and we really just to try hunker down on preparation, our practice, and going out and trying to play our best games on Sundays.’ – Julian Edelman
‘The best way to deal with aggression is to ignore it and try to get the match over as soon as possible.’ – Stephen Hendry
‘You can’t run away from the fact that you cannot ignore hard work.’ – Shankar Mahadevan
‘I have to learn to ignore my feelings. Not just the feeling of hunger and the feeling of full, but the feeling of embarrassment, too. I have to remember that this is only weird if I make it weird.’ – Joey Chestnut
‘Mistakes happen, and we must choose what to do with them. We can ignore them, or we can learn and evolve into someone better and wiser.’ – Louise Linton
‘The industry can choose to ignore my work if they want, but my fans won’t.’ – Atif Aslam
‘I learned early in my career that if you see something that is not to standard or not within the law, and you ignore it, you’ve set a new standard, and it’s lower.’ – Joseph Dunford
‘People will love or hate ‘Satta’ and ‘Stumped.’ But they cannot ignore them.’ – Raveena Tandon
‘The main actors on the world stage are the size of continents, be they nation states or voluntary groupings of nation states such as the E.U. Nostalgia can help us ignore these harsh realities for a while, but it will not make them go away.’ – Frans Timmermans
‘If the law does not give you what you want, you can oppose the law, you can work to change the law, but you cannot ignore the law. So it is fundamental that the constitutions of every one of our member states are upheld and respected.’ – Frans Timmermans
‘There are big tournaments going on around the world, and some of them you cannot ignore because, financially, they make a huge difference in our lives.’ – AB de Villiers
‘I think we take our friends for granted a lot in high school. We’re so busy worrying about our own problems that we ignore the fact that we have these people who are supporting us and taking care of us like all the time.’ – Shannon Purser
‘When we ignore the will of the people, people lose.’ – Lori Lightfoot
‘Donald Trump wants to ignore the rule of law. He ignores the Constitution. He ignores the subpoenas. The Republicans in the House and Senate are afraid to stand up to him, with only a few exceptions.’ – Richard Painter
‘It’s very hard for politicians to ignore even just a handful of letters about the same issue.’ – Jo Swinson
‘In the past, whenever I had a niggle, I would ignore it and let it heal on its own. Now, I tell the physio that I am facing some difficulty.’ – Vijay Shankar
‘Facebook, I’m learning, is like a man. You have to be smiley and fun and witty but sometimes you have to play it cool and just ignore it for a couple of hours.’ – Claudia Winkleman
‘The U.S. should not continue to ignore Latin America. Our nation shares regional and cultural ties with these neighboring countries.’ – Mercedes Schlapp
‘As a nation, we face a choice. With parts of the world on fire, can we ignore the despair beyond our borders? Or do we use our global influence and leadership to confront these challenges head-on?’ – Priti Patel
‘Every nation must concern themselves with ensuring its population has sufficient and stable access to food – ours is no exception. Nor can we afford to ignore other nations’ concerns about access to food.’ – Will Hurd
‘The CDU was a party that united different denominational and ideological currents. If the idea of a rightward shift means that we ignore those roots and only define ourselves as a conservative party, then I am strictly opposed.’ – Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer
‘Box office does matter. One cannot ignore it.’ – Vikramaditya Motwane
‘You give power to issues if you pay a lot of attention to them. The more attention you give them the more power they have. So the most powerful thing you can do is just get on and ignore it.’ – Deborah Meaden
‘You can’t really ignore what’s going on in this planet, in our world, and the way it’s all falling apart.’ – Weyes Blood
‘The CVC and CAG are independent but merely recommendatory. The government often ignores their advice.’ – Arvind Kejriwal
‘IVF is a wonderful thing. One has to ignore the injections as the reality is that nobody is going to invent a pill that you can take to get a baby.’ – Farah Khan
‘I believe that Brexit, whether it’s a bad deal or no deal, is a big deal – too big for anyone to ignore – but it’s not a done deal.’ – Layla Moran
‘As Canadians who proudly demand the equal treatment of minorities, religious freedom, gender equality and basic human rights for its citizens – allowing our political leaders to shamefully ignore these values in the name of business abroad, falls short of the high standard we rightfully set for ourselves.’ – Jagmeet Singh
‘We’ve never considered ourselves overtly political, but when it comes to English politics – people like Margaret Thatcher – you cannot just stand by and ignore all that’s happening around us.’ – Curt Smith
‘We can’t figure out why any time we play in the East, the critics either ignore us or write a pretty bad review of the show.’ – Dusty Hill
‘If Parliament is voting overwhelmingly against leaving the European Union without a deal but is voting in favour of a softer Brexit, then I don’t think it’s sustainable to ignore Parliament’s position and therefore leave without a deal.’ – David Gauke
‘At art school you realize that in order to stay engaged you have to ignore the critics, good and bad.’ – Samuel Ervin Beam
‘Before I signed with WWE, I thought my athletic career was done. I was going into the finance industry and I just thought I couldn’t compete any more. But the mind is a really powerful thing and you can unlock your potential if you choose to ignore what your mind is telling you.’ – Jake Hager
‘Most people only concentrate on their upper body and ignore their legs. It doesn’t make sense to have a bulky upper body and have skinny legs. I too, fell prey to this and had weak legs.’ – Kunal Khemu
‘Once we have delivered Brexit, no one is going to say: ‘Oh wow, you delivered Brexit, I’m going to ignore everything else to do with politics and reward you!” – James Cleverly
‘Racism is a cancer. You cannot ignore it and it’ll go away. If you ignore cancer, it simply metastasizes and consumes the whole body.’ – Daryl Davis
‘If we support human rights, we cannot ignore legalized brutality against any group of our global community.’ – Kerry Kennedy
‘I was always one who thought that if something is painful, you just ignore it and it will go away. That’s not true.’ – Michael Waltrip
‘But sometimes I fear that the people of my country can unite only beside victims’ bodies, over coffins and in cemeteries. Like tribesmen who dance around old totems, we ignore the living and can only appreciate the dead.’ – Olga Tokarczuk
‘Nobody talks about the poor. Everybody talks about the middle class and just kinda want to ignore that the poor exist. And you cannot ignore that they exist if you want to help them.’ – Nina Turner
‘I was really grateful that The Vixen, especially, was on season 10 because she was having conversations about race. You can’t ignore it, especially in the drag community, in the ‘Drag Race’ world.’ – Alaska
‘The Democrats throw money at the problems, and the Republicans tend to ignore them. The Natural Law Party goes beyond those approaches. It’s about true change.’ – Bill Duke
‘We should not ignore or isolate our roots, no matter where we stay.’ – Ram Nath Kovind
‘Ultimately, and I believe this is one of the fundamental problems with socialism, it’s that human beings do have self-interest. It’s very hard to ignore that self-interest when you’re creating a government structure.’ – Trish Regan
‘There’s always going to be people who don’t understand or accept the united science, and I will just ignore them, as I’m only acting and communicating on the science.’ – Greta Thunburg
‘I don’t care about hate and threats from climate crisis deniers. I just ignore them.’ – Greta Thunburg
‘We had such a huge fan base, they couldn’t ignore us anymore. MTV was playing us on ‘TRL.’ We even did a TRL-sponsored tour that was Good Charlotte and us.’ – Chad Gilbert
‘I always ignore the disgusting troll tweets I get because I honestly do not want to give them any attention.’ – Chloe Madeley
‘My dad tells me to ignore any expectation.’ – Bradley Wright-Phillips
‘I arrived at Princeton as a graduate student from the University of Manitoba in 1958. To my great good fortune, I fell into work with Bob Dicke, a truly great physicist who decided a few years before that that gravity is too important to ignore, as it had been in recent years in physics.’ – Jim Peebles
‘Write down your fears. Write down your thoughts. Write down the feelings you want to have. Just release it, don’t ignore it. It’s a lot easier said than done, but once you start practicing some of those things, you’ll realize that you have a lot more control over your thoughts, your feelings.’ – Camille Kostek
‘One should never ignore or be afraid of reporting or calling out a harasser. There is no shame in doing so.’ – Dia Mirza
‘My biggest challenge was when I had my first panic attack at 27. It’s not something you can ignore, you can’t sit around and get sucked into a rabbit hole.’ – Zoya Akhtar
‘I have learnt not to ignore instincts. While making a film, when your gut feels that you are going wrong, please take that seriously.’ – Zoya Akhtar
‘I’m not stupid, and the people around me aren’t stupid. You can’t ignore the economic realities of the ways that business is run and the way clients think.’ – Robert Bilott
‘We must not ignore the younger electorate in a fight for older swing voters who we can be confident will go to the polls.’ – Hilary Benn
‘Even in London, at the centre of the wealthiest region in northern Europe, in so many ways insulated from the financial realities faced by the rest of the country, the facts of austerity are becoming harder to ignore.’ – David Olusoga
‘You can never really ignore negative comments. There will always be some comments that will hurt you.’ – Neeti Mohan
‘People compliment me and if I ignore them, it doesn’t mean I’m rude. It just means I’m embarrassed.’ – Lisa Stansfield
‘The New Labour doctrine that skills training was the responsibility of employers was flawed. The idea that employers should take on a bigger role ignores the reality that employers have no incentive to train staff to leave. We can hardly expect Tesco to train checkout staff to become dental nurses.’ – David Lammy
‘At most grounds you’re not particularly conscious of the crowd but in Cardiff, with the roof closed against a good Welsh team, the noise is impossible to ignore. It can be loud enough to put you off your game and the Welsh undoubtedly possess some of the most passionate fans in the world.’ – James Haskell
‘Don’t be guilty of ignoring symptoms of rebellion when your children are small. Don’t simply excuse it as a stage they are going through and think that they will grow out of it. If you ignore it when they are small, you won’t be able to handle it when they get older and the rebellion has had time to develop into a strong force.’ – Kenneth Copeland
‘Opting for conspiracy over facts and partisanship over constitutional principles, Democrats have chosen to ignore the damning evidence of wrongdoing by the Obama-era FBI.’ – Kayleigh McEnany
‘Some people think that culture is overhyped and peripheral. A season of opera is less important than the refurbishment of a school, they say. Leaving aside the poverty of imagination and aspiration implicit in such a sentiment, it also ignores hardheaded economic reality: Britain, and London in particular, makes big money from culture.’ – Munira Mirza
‘At the end, we can embrace and love whatever we want of an author’s work. But we also can’t ignore a writer’s express wish just because we don’t happen to agree with it.’ – Maria Konnikova
‘Before the Internet, bullying ended when you withdrew from whatever environment you were in. But now, the bullying dynamic is harder to contain and harder to ignore.’ – Maria Konnikova
‘We can’t ignore signals that our bodies are giving us when something is wrong.’ – Camille Grammer
‘I’ve hit a couple barriers out there on the racetrack growing up. There’s definitely been some flak in the way. I’ve been able to handle that the best I could, ignore it, use that as motivation.’ – Bubba Wallace
‘That’s how I was taught. That’s how I was raised, to ignore the stupidity, continue on and do what I need to do.’ – Bubba Wallace
‘My least favorite thing or my pet peeve would be people who literally ignore the other people you’re with, or the situation, and they just dive right in and cut off the conversation.’ – Israel Adesanya
‘Most so-called ‘black’ people do not feel themselves at liberty to simply turn off or ignore their allotted racial designation, whether they would like to or not.’ – Thomas Chatterton Williams
‘I do think that Lovecraft is very influential to the horror genre, but I also didn’t want to ignore the fact that he’s a major racist.’ – Misha Green
‘There is almost no limit to the ability of investors to ignore the lessons of the past.’ – John C. Bogle
‘Being a role model was part of my life and I could either ignore it or take responsibility. I chose to take it.’ – Vlade Divac
‘Many are outspoken about the climate crisis, but conveniently ignore the fact that support for fossil fuels is not just incompatible with curbing emissions but dangerously counterproductive.’ – Caroline Lucas
‘Every European country faces threats which ignore national frontiers: pandemics, climate change, terrorism and organised crime.’ – David Lidington
‘I am disappointed and frustrated by the FCC’s decision to ignore the vast majority of Americans across the political spectrum, and instead side with corporations that now have the power to manipulate Internet access based on who can pay more.’ – Deb Haaland
‘Discussion of politics and government almost totally ignores the concept of training people to update their opinions in response to new evidence – i.e adapt to feedback.’ – Dominic Cummings
‘The reason why Whitehall is full of people failing in predictable ways on an hourly basis is because, first, there is general system-wide failure and, second, everybody keeps their heads down focused on the particular and they ignore the system.’ – Dominic Cummings
‘As long as you aren’t hurting anyone through your post, just do what makes you happy and what is important for you and ignore others.’ – Shibani Dandekar
‘Every professional athlete has fear, doubts and negative thoughts. But people expect you to just ignore them and move forward.’ – Dutee Chand
‘I’ve been standing up against what I call the ‘virtue signalling’ from Justin Trudeau which actually ignores the real challenges of the day and offers symbolic gestures as a substitute.’ – Erin O’Toole
‘Twitter is a cesspool but I find I can ignore most of the cess most of the time.’ – Sarah Cooper
‘Our bodies are constantly giving us signals about what we can and cannot handle. It’s when we choose to ignore them that we can get overworked and be forced to sit out for a while.’ – Christina Anstead
‘Awards give you confidence apart from official recognition. They act as a dose of encouragement, as they are judged by experts. But, at the same time, you can’t ignore the audience’s response that matters the most.’ – Atul Kulkarni
‘It’s hard to ignore the hand that feeds you, and today our communities are far more needy than they’ve ever been, and governments neither have the will nor the ability in many cases to provide the services that they need to.’ – Kenneth Cole
‘I’m very heavily trolled, but one learns to ignore such thing.’ – Aparna Sen
‘It seems like basic principle to me. According to Senate ethics rules, Members of the U.S. Senate, and their families, cannot benefit personally and financially from legislative decisions they make. Senator Feinstein, apparently, either doesn’t agree with this principle, or she has chosen to ignore it.’ – Tom Fitton
‘We can no longer remain within our exam rooms and ignore what happens in our communities. As physicians and dentists, we must have a presence in both places. Our sacred responsibility is both to help the patient in front of us and also to safeguard the health of the nation.’ – Vivek Murthy
‘When I played and got abused by another player, called a ‘black so and so,’ I always said ‘that’s out of order’ but I tried to ignore it. I’d be thinking: ‘You’re not going to bring me down to that level.’ But there were occasions when something was said and the next tackle went in a lot firmer.’ – Chris Hughton
‘During the Trump years, many people felt that his antics were impossible to ignore.’ – Brian Stelter
‘Well, I think life is politics anyway. You can’t ignore it, but you can go very wrong in politics. You can say what you thought 50 years ago, but maybe you’re wrong today.’ – Anna Karina
‘Of course the COVID situation is ghastly and undesirable, but I cannot ignore the fact that this gave me a chance to spend what I think is the maximum time in my life with my husband and children.’ – Rituparna Sengupta
‘Look at Kartik Aaryan, Ayushmann Khurrana – they aren’t from the industry, they worked very hard. Varun Dhawan is a great actor. I know how hard he works on his craft and even in the gym, so you can’t ignore that and just talk about him being a director’s son.’ – Vatsal Sheth
‘When I go to the cinema, I want to have a cinematic experience. Some people ignore the sound and you end up seeing something you might see on television and it doesn’t explore the form.’ – Lynne Ramsay
‘We cannot ignore the networks where there is an ideological battle going on.’ – Miguel Diaz-Canel
‘Bollywood movies ignore screenplay, if you notice whichever movie is a hit has an interesting screenplay.’ – Priyadarshan
‘Because I had other means of expressions, I was lucky that I didn’t go under and start becoming all convoluted in my head. That can happen, if you’re a serious actor and you’re here to really be a part of cinema, and when cinema ignores you, it can be devastating.’ – Deepti Naval
‘Every movement ignores disabled people. So, during MeToo no one was talking about the experience of disabled women; during BLM the notion of black disabled people was just ignored and so in terms of comparison we need to have this movement for disabled people.’ – Rosie Jones
‘Even after I retired I’d get messages about my injury and certain things, and you almost think it’s another message and I’ll just ignore it, but these things shouldn’t be acceptable. They aren’t acceptable but they just seem to be ok to happen.’ – Ryan Mason
‘Men mostly ignore taking care of their skin. I think a weekly scrub and a face pack for every man is a must to get rid of all the pollution, dirt and grime.’ – Tulsi Kumar
‘You can’t live in the times that you live in and be exposed to all the new music that’s happening, ignore it all, and carry on doing the same stuff as you were ten years ago.’ – Bonobo
‘When you’re traveling, it’s easy to ignore your situation. But once the dust settles, it catches up with you.’ – Bonobo
‘Of course, it’s human nature for people, when they meet me to have some preconceptions about how I look, how I sing, how I behave. I can understand that. And I’ve realized you can’t do anything about human nature except to ignore it.’ – Frank Sinatra Jr.
‘I ignore the vast majority of things people say to me online. Sometimes, I respond. But all you see is the response.’ – Trevor Bauer
‘What I learned: if you’ve done something you think the public is going to react badly to, you can’t delay it, hide from it, or ignore it. You have to address it head on and take your beating. Always take your beating.’ – Justin Kan
‘In life a lot of things happen, you have to just learn to ignore them.’ – Madalsa Sharma
‘It sounds precocious, but I knew that I had to listen to my own inner voice and ignore what everyone else was saying, even my mum.’ – Denise Lewis
‘Girls are smitten by guys who pay attention to the simple things in life which are mostly the small things that we tend to ignore.’ – Sherlyn Chopra
‘Regarding having Cerebral Palsy, I know realistically that I can’t go up there on stage and ignore it.’ – Josh Blue
‘One should not tolerate anything wrong. One should raise his/her voice against the wrongdoings. Don’t ignore, just call out.’ – Neha Bhasin
‘To be honest, I’m no Marie Kondo at the best of times. I like living in comfortable clutter and have a peculiar kind of perception that enables me to ignore it. I call it Mess Blindness.’ – Susanna Reid
‘In an ideal world, judges are not supposed to read or be influenced by media reports. But it is difficult to ignore television news which does not distinguish between reportage and comment.’ – Sucheta Dalal
‘Computers and cellphones – which require semiconductors and microchips to work – have become so essential to life all over the world that it’s easy to ignore the problems with building them.’ – Tatiana Schlossberg
‘Strategic public investment to shelter and grow champion industries is a reality of the 21st century economy. We cannot ignore or wish this away.’ – Brian Deese
‘While it’s lovely that political media are so encouraging and supportive of Biden operatives, the contrast with their posture toward Trump officials is difficult to ignore.’ – Mollie Hemingway
‘The United States – aspiring India’s favourite country – had to learn the hard way that you ignore the world outside your door at great cost to your own survival.’ – Barkha Dutt
‘Ladies, you know when you are really into a man, it is hard to see any red flags because you choose to ignore them. Yes, love is truly blind. Sometimes it takes an outside person to observe the situation.’ – Cynthia Bailey
‘Louisiana’s coast is disappearing at an alarming rate, but we cannot ignore the important role the offshore energy industry plays in breathing life into Louisiana’s economy.’ – John Bel Edwards
‘I’ve realized that I kind of ignore the sets. When I say I ignore them, I can obviously see them, and I’m like, Wow, this is amazing,’ but then I get on to whatever we’re doing.’ – Joel Fry
‘Let’s say I try to ignore the small stuff, like wet towels on the floor, the dishwasher full to the brim and not turned on. You know what men are like, they’ll never rise to our standards of excellence. But when they try, that’s enough!’ – Tess Daly
‘As far as Vern and I go, we have had situations where people have tried to take photographs of me and cut Vernon out or vice versa in an attempt to create a scandal. But we just try and live our lives and ignore it.’ – Tess Daly
‘I am pansexual as I actually remember also being attracted to women as well and thinking that maybe this like, thing where I was attracted to men was just like some weird phase or if it was something I could just ignore. My mom is queer and I have a queer uncle. So, I wasn’t completely, you know, shielded from queer representation.’ – Bob the Drag Queen
‘I always knew I could be a bit on the greedy side; I love cooking and eating and there in front of me was the evidence which I would have been daft to ignore. I could see visually where the fat was lying, basically all around my internal organs.’ – Dave Myers
‘The vast diversity of looks from the 80s are why we mustn’t ignore it completely, there is plenty to build a modern and relevant wardrobe around, and I am enthusiastically kicking my leg warmers in the air in its defence.’ – Dawn O’Porter
‘What we tend to forget in a skill-based game, is that if you start paying too much attention to mind games, you’ll get into all kinds of avoidable issues. It’s not easy to ignore them, but you have to try.’ – Anil Kumble
‘What I will NOT do is pretend someone isn’t present who is. I believe that is why I am so vocal and confrontational when there is a problem, because I will not ignore a problem and or people. It actually takes more energy to physically ignore someone.’ – Kenya Moore
‘Men ignore symptoms all the time. I think we’re hardwired just to suck it up. After being an athlete as a child, you play with pain, all of those little statements that coaches would say. And I internalized that.’ – Eric Adams
‘We live in a media saturated world. I’m sure artists of the past would have dealt with it in just the same way. If you’re in the business of communication and images, then if you ignore the media-sphere you’re just cutting off your own foot. It’s just daft.’ – Grayson Perry
‘Burnout is a real risk, especially now when there is so much news. I take real breaks, put my phone down, get out in to the countryside and ignore the news – even if its just for a few hours.’ – Katty Kay
‘I think that the future of the world isn’t something you can ignore.’ – Mike Campbell
‘I am disgusted by Biden’s brazen decision to ignore the law, embrace authoritarianism, and show a total disregard for our freedoms with his proposed vaccine mandate.’ – Ronny Jackson
‘There are those who say that we can happily ignore the lies and menaces spread on social media, that what appears on screen really doesn’t matter, that anything goes on the web, and so on. But such people have their heads in the sand.’ – Damian Green
‘This is what the Democrats want – for you to ignore whoever is pulling the strings of Joe Biden.’ – Will Cain
‘It feels dismissive to suggest relationships can ever be truly colourblind. And more importantly, I don’t believe they ever should be. To not see colour or race would be to ignore racism rather than combating it.’ – Vick Hope
‘The impression that you give to other people in an external way changes over time so it becomes harder to convince people musically that you are relevant, but we just put on blinders and ignore all those things and do what we think is interesting.’ – Ron Mael
‘We’ve really learned to ignore past failures.’ – Ron Mael
‘We must find a better way to enforce the Equalities Act, rather than require the injured party to sue a business, and we must, through legislation and legal action, get tougher on those organisations and industries who ignore or, worse still, exploit disabled people.’ – Penny Mordaunt
‘Being in this profession, one of the first things one learns is to ignore everything that is around you and focus on the job that you’ve been given.’ – Arshad Warsi
‘I’ve had so much scrutiny over the way I speak, I’ve learned to ignore all the noise but at first it was really hurtful.’ – Dorit Kemsley
‘Our global adversaries benefit when the United States burdens itself with policies that our competitors ignore.’ – Bill Hagerty
‘It’s important to provide opportunities to those who opportunity usually ignores, or works against, or excludes.’ – Fred VanVleet
‘The gun violence epidemic is out of control and it’s a crisis that is too glaring to ignore.’ – Ritchie Torres
‘Despite the hype, Equal Pay Day is, at best, a simplistic understanding of the factors that create wage differences. At worst, it’s an intentional misrepresentation of a phenomenon that almost completely ignores the choices, wishes, and motivations of women in the workplace.’ – Mary Katharine Ham
‘It may be best to ignore politicians in the same way that you can avoid films or TV shows that don’t express something truthful about humanity.’ – Simon Amstell
‘People tend to lie to themselves about their finances – they’ll ignore their credit card bills or ignore certain expenses and won’t even make a budget because they’re afraid of how much they’re spending. Take a step back, take a breather, be honest with yourself and go from there.’ – Carl Nassib
‘A lot of the positive things that I would read and hear in the media, I would ignore. I would pay more attention to the negative things to kind of see what was out there.’ – Jason Taylor
‘You don’t want to train yourself to ignore your conscience.’ – John MacArthur
‘Democratic lawmakers increasingly rely on people of color to show up at the polls to remain in office, but following an unfortunately familiar pattern, then ignore the views of the very people responsible for voting them into office.’ – Karine Jean-Pierre
‘Our system of student finance has delivered the chance of a university education to vastly more people than ever before, and made it more likely that disadvantaged young people will be offered the chance to get a degree. But it has some very real flaws, some potentially fatal, that the government ignores at its peril.’ – Nick Boles
‘Unfortunately, too many countries in the Security Council ignore the positive ways we can use digital technologies, or worse, are deploying them to do tremendous harm – both within and beyond their borders.’ – Linda Thomas-Greenfield
‘You cannot ignore 50% of your nation and think that your country is going to grow.’ – Linda Thomas-Greenfield
‘Trump can dismiss polls, but he can’t ignore people.’ – Neera Tanden
‘True conservatives would not be concerned about deficits when liberals are in power, but then ignore them entirely when the Republican party wants to prioritize tax cuts for the rich.’ – Neera Tanden
‘Any experience that you have is an opportunity to learn and sometimes tough experiences, being on the wrong side of results, can slap you in the face and give you a glaring lesson, and if you ignore that, I don’t think that is a positive thing.’ – Kane Williamson
‘There is a dark side to the world that we’re all familiar with – and you can choose to ignore it and create a sugar-coated, Disney version, or you can acknowledge both the beautiful and the dark.’ – Rick Owens
‘Enforcing our immigration laws, and punishing those that blatantly ignore them, is critically important to maintain public safety and the rule of law.’ – Mike Johnson
‘President Trump clearly understands the importance of many issues that the Obama Administration chose to ignore.’ – Brian Mast