Convince Quotes - Page 23

• How do you convince radio to play you? How do you make a good video? How do you pose for a photo session that conveys who you are? These are real challenges that if you get wrong in the real world, you're done.

  Matt Serletic

  Real, Challenges, Done

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• If I just know in my gut that a film is going to work, I'll fight to the death over it, and I convince myself. When a movie is purely a money job, the film doesn't have the same sort of intensity, and the audience almost senses it, at least that's the way I perceive it. So, yeah, the idea is to do something that you truly, truly believe in.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Believe, Fighting, Film

  Source: aalbc.com

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• I think that the British government has long been on the record saying global warming is a very serious issue and we need to do something about it. I think what they did was they took their own economic experts and they said, "This time, let's try to put together a document that will really convince the rest of the world of a position that we've been holding for a while."

  Richard Harris

  Thinking, Long, Trying

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• It's taken a while for me to convince people that I can do something other than Scully. And it still takes effort.

  Gillian Anderson

  Taken, People, Effort

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• It's hard to convince people when you haven't done anything that the things you're working on are worthy of spending their time and money on: like, "Oh man, I write really great songs, I promise!"

  Josh Jones

  Song, Writing, Men

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Pot advocates actually try to convince people who don't need or want medical marijuana to go get a card, because as those numbers go up, it's like voting for an initiative. It's saying "There are this many people who want to use this who are not getting in trouble, who are not turning around and selling it or giving it to minors." No matter what they have - cancer, HIV, depression - anybody who says they feel better after smoking marijuana, I feel they should be able to do so, especially if it's in the privacy of their own home.

  Doug Benson

  Cancer, Home, Feel Better

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• How long do we live in the fictions of our past? And how do we convince anyone that who we write is not necessarily who we are?

  Jill Talbot

  Writing, Past, Long

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I have always insisted on the need for local self-government for Russia, but I never opposed this model to Western democracy. On the contrary, I have tried to convince my fellow citizens by citing the examples of highly effective local self-government systems in Switzerland and New England, both of which I saw first-hand.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Democracy, Citing, Western

  "I Am Not Afraid of Death". Interview With Christian Neef, Matthias Schepp, www.spiegel.de. July 23, 2007.

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• We need to convince him that if he makes the decision to go, that we are ready to trade his personal security for peaceful resignation. That's very important because we're all afraid that he will stick to power to his deathbed and just kill a lot of people along the way. If he is willing to go, we shall buy him an island in the Caribbean or in the Pacific Ocean with nice girls - like a separate country for him.

  Ilya Ponomarev

  Girl, Country, Nice

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• There is a voice inside of my head that is trying to convince me that I'm not good enough and that I don't deserve to be here in Hollywood. So courage is required. The courage to decide that I have a voice and need to do what I love. To believe that this opportunity is not wasted on me. To own the fact that I am worthy.

  Aja Naomi King

  Believe, Opportunity, Not Good Enough

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Today there are a huge number of think tanks working on poverty-related issues; there are books written on the topic; and university centers being created to study poverty. But, at the same time, the media has a terribly hard time with this issue; it's very hard to convince editors and publishers to devote resources to complex investigations of the lives of America's poor. And, as a result, too often poverty is portrayed in stereotypes, in sound bites, in a few pat images rather than in its full Technicolor complexity and diversity.

  Sasha Abramsky

  Book, Hard Times, Thinking

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• My job scoring a horror movie is like being the barker at a carnival. A good barker can get anyone to walk into the roped-off tent. Especially with the main title, my job is to convince the audience to take the leap into the film even though their better sense is telling them, "I should put my popcorn down and get the hell outta here"!

  Christopher Young

  Horror, Film, Hell

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• Today we're full of liquidity in money. And what you have to do is to convince big money to change the mindset and reinvest in these new activities to accelerate this change and create new jobs.

  Emmanuel Macron

  New Job, Today, Mindset

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• I do respect Donald Trump. And I think he has a very strong view in terms of security. And we are very strong allies and we work very closely together in Middle East and in order to fight against terrorism. But we didn't agree on two to three issues, and the very first one was on climate. And what it told me is that I took a commitment vis-à-vis my voters. And I told them it was not good for the U.S. and especially the U.S. workers. I tried to convince them. I do believe that on the mid- to long-run it's not true. And I do believe it's important to have on board the U.S. government.

  Emmanuel Macron

  Strong, Believe, Commitment

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• I think the folks who joined Jim Jones's church did so because they truly believed in his stated ideals of racial equality and social justice. That's why he was able to convince one thousand of them to immigrate to the jungle of Guyana. Although history has stigmatized Jonestown residents as the people who "drank the Kool-aid," I'd argue that they were noble idealists. Furthermore, they were murdered. They didn't willingly drink poison - they were forced to do so at gunpoint. They sought the ideal, only to have their leader horribly betray them.

  Julia Scheeres

  Thinking, Justice, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• When you buy enough stocks to give you control of a target company, that's called mergers and acquisitions or corporate raiding. Hedge funds have been doing this, as well as corporate financial managers. With borrowed money you can take over or raid a foreign company too. So, you're having a monopolistic consolidation process that's pushed up the market, because in order to buy a company or arrange a merger, you have to offer more than the going stock-market price. You have to convince existing holders of a stock to sell out to you by paying them more than they'd otherwise get.

  Michael Hudson

  Giving, Financial, Enough

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• I believe so much in the power of performance I don't want to convince people. I want them to experience it and come away convinced on their own.

  Marina Abramovic

  Believe, People, Want

  "AP Interview: Being Marina Abramovic, Serbia-born performance artist relaxes iron self-control". www.foxnews.com. October 06, 2012.

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• The way I write my songs is that I have to believe what I’m writing about, and that’s why they always end up being so personal - because the kind of artists I like, they convince me, they totally win me over straight away in that thing. Like, “Oh my God, this song is totally about me.”

  Adele

  Song, Believe, Writing

  "The Many Ages Of Adele". Interview with Esther Zuckerman, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 23, 2011.

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• If you will have a person enslaved, the first thing you must do is convince yourself that the person is subhuman. The second thing you have to do is convince your allies so you'll have some help, and the third and probably unkindest cut of all is to convince that person that he or she is subhuman and deserves it.

  Maya Angelou

  Cutting, Allies, Firsts

  "Maya Angelou: It's time to lift America's spirit". CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. November 3, 2008.

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• The one thing that offends me the most is when I walk by a bank and see ads trying to convince people to take out second mortgages on their home so they can go on vacation. That's approaching evil.

  Jeff Bezos

  Business, Home, Vacation

  "The inner Bezos" by Chip Bayers, www.wired.com. March 1, 1999.

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• No animal on the face of the earth could conceive of taxation. You and I work roughly six months a year to pay our local, state and federal taxes. If nothing else, this should convince you that animals are smarter than people.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Animal, Years, People

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• To hold a people in oppression you have to convince them first that they are supposed to be oppressed.

  John Henrik Clarke

  People, Firsts, Oppression

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• I know that if I had a television in my flat I would convince myself that everything on it was really interesting. I would say, 'I'm a Celebrity - Get Me Out of Here!' is so sociologically fascinating that I think I'd better watch.

  Brian Eno

  Thinking, Interesting, Watches

  "Everyone is entertained to death". Interview with Alexis Petridis, www.theguardian.com. June 7, 2005.

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• One of the great things to pretend is that you're not only alright, you're in great shape. Now to have that come true - I've actually gone on stage depressed and that's worked its magic on me, 'cause if I can convince you that I'm alright, then maybe I can convince me.

  Carrie Fisher

  Magic, Gone, Shapes

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• Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped with it yourself. Before you can move their tears, your own must flow. To convince them, you must yourself, believe.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Leadership, Believe

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