Convinced Quotes - Page 19

• As I've grown older, I've grown more convinced there's nothing that shouldn't be talked about. If we think we're protecting each other, we're not.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Thinking, Ifs

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• I've been a sports fan all my life, and like most other actors, I'm convinced I could have been a pro athlete if Hollywood hadn't come calling.

  Jamie Foxx

  Sports, Athlete, Hollywood

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• I'm convinced that Sanford and Son shows middle-class America a lot of what they need to know.

  Redd Foxx

  Son, Class, America

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• When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?

  Benjamin Franklin

  War, Arbitration, Compromise

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• When I was a kid, we actually lived in a house that had been divided in two at one point, which meant that one room in our house opened up onto a brick wall. And I was convinced all I had to do was just open it the right way and it wouldn't be a brick wall. So I'd sidle over to the door and I'd pull it open.

  Neil Gaiman

  Wall, Kids, Doors

  "Author Neil Gaiman Plays Not My Job". Interview with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. December 22, 2011.

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• So we are pretty convinced we don't want to play huge stadiums unless we can play them well.

  Jerry Garcia

  Play, Want, Stadiums

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• As an adolescent I was convinced that France would have to go through gigantic trials, that the interest of life consisted in one day rendering her some signal service and that I would have the occasion to do so.

  Charles de Gaulle

  One Day, France, Trials

  Charles de Gaulle (1964). “The complete war memoirs of Charles de Gaulle”

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• The Japanese people are usually very prudent, even when they are convinced change is necessary.

  Carlos Ghosn

  People, Prudent

  "Carlos Ghosn: What Japan Needs Is a Vision". Interview with Joyce Barnathan, www.bloomberg.com. December 16, 2002.

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• I've become convinced that nostalgia is a fundamentally unhealthy modality. When you see it, it's usually attached to something else that's really, seriously bad. I don't traffic in nostalgia. We're becoming a global culture.

  William Gibson

  Culture, Becoming, Nostalgia

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• Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.

  Nadine Gordimer

  Power, Sides, Innocence

  Nadine Gordimer (1956). “Six Feet of the Country: Fifteen Short Stories”

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• I ask the American administration not to participate in any resolution that will double the suffering of the Palestinian people. I am convinced that the American people would not want to see the Palestinians suffer the way they do.

  Ismail Haniyeh

  People, Suffering, Want

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• If most people are not willing to see the difficulty, this is mainly because, consciously or unconsciously, they assume that it will be they who will settle these questions for the others, and because they are convinced of their own capacity to do this.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  People, Assuming, Settling

  "The Road to Serfdom". Book by Friedrich von Hayek, Ch. 15 : The Prospects of International Order, 1940 - 1943.

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• There was a time when a man was so convinced that the world was round that he was determined to prove it.

  Ernest Holmes

  Men, World, Determined

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• Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

  Victor Hugo

  Love, Life, Happiness

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• Those powers that control the tent are not threatened at all by any activity that you engage in, in the shadows, that's not moving toward the tent. And I am rather convinced that we have a generation that is so preoccupied with life in the shadows, they never even focus on getting to the sunlight where you open up the big tent.

  Jesse Jackson

  Moving, Focus, Shadow

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• We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

  Samuel Johnson

  Happiness, Believe, Long

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1837). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq”, p.467

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• For so long as the Jew has even one ally, he will be convinced - in his smallness of mind - that his salvation came from that ally. It is only when he is alone - against all of his own efforts and frantic attempts - that he will, through no choice, be compelled to turn to G-d.

  Meir Kahane

  Long, Choices, Effort

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• I am convinced, the way one plays chess always reflects the player's personality. If something defines his character, then it will also define his way of playing.

  Vladimir Kramnik

  Character, Player, Personality

  "Art, Chess, Beauty and Depth". Interview With Ugo Dossi, en.chessbase.com. December 21, 2005.

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• I believe in what I believe, and I think after all these years I've heard a lot of arguments, and I'm convinced by the superiority of the arguments that are made on the conservative side. I think that's a better way to run a society.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Running, Believe, Thinking

  The NewsBusters Interview, www.newsbusters.org. September 18, 2012.

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• My feeling is unless they've somebody lined up and they are convinced he is going to be better than Brian, I think their decision has been made in haste.

  Mark Lawrenson

  Thinking, Decision, Feelings

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• The first movie I saw where it convinced me I could be an actor was 'Mean Streets,' so whenever I see Robert De Niro and he says, 'Hi, Denis,' it's still a really big deal.

  Denis Leary

  Mean, Actors, Saws

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• I am convinced that, despite what you think of Obama, I don't think Obama has a person-to-person connection with people. I think people love him because of his race and feel sorry for him, object of sympathy. I think people feel he's a victim, he portrays himself as a victim of America; he gets sympathy that way.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Sorry, Thinking, Race

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• The Republicans ought to be nowhere near trying to help Obama save his bacon. But they don't think that's what they're doing, I'm convinced. You talk about trauma and the need for therapy, I really think that the Republicans have been genuinely psychologically traumatized by decades of media criticism.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Thinking, Media, Criticism

  "A Trap for Republicans". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. November 13, 2013.

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• A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.

  Walter Lippmann

  Air, Space, Long

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I was going to go to a four-year college and be an anthropologist or to an art school and be an illustrator when a friend convinced me to learn photography at the University of Southern California. Little did I know it was a school that taught you how to make movies! It had never occurred to me that I'd ever have any interest in filmmaking.

  George Lucas

  Photography, Art, School

  "The Force". Interview with Katie Lucas, www.seventeen.com. Jun 29, 2010.

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