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• You know, I had my mother and my father convincing me that he would be going back to Hollywood and he'd be back with the actresses and dating them and that he wasn't serious about me at all. So I had him saying one thing to me and my parents telling me something else.

  Priscilla Presley

  Mother, Father, Dating

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• The Party of the Regions has won a convincing victory. We are ready to undertake responsibility for forming the Cabinet and we are calling on everyone to join us.

  Viktor Yanukovych

  Party, Responsibility, Victory

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• President Bush has consistently used rhetoric, and that is not convincing given his past record.

  Grace Napolitano

  Past, Insomnia, President

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• The hardest part was convincing people that I was serious. The people were like 'you want to do this again'?

  Rob Zombie

  People, Zombie, Want

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• Strong and convincing art has never arisen from theories.

  Mary Wigman

  Dance, Art, Strong

  Mary Wigman, Virginia Stewart (1935). “Modern dance”

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• After convincing myself that was maybe you should at least help out your neighborhood, I really started to think about it later on in life.

  Rick Danko

  Thinking, Helping, Should

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• Whilst our Hearts are violently set upon any thing, there is no convincing us that we shall ever be of another Mind.

  Mary Astell

  Heart, Mind

  Mary Astell, Patricia Springborg (1996). “Astell: Political Writings”, p.68, Cambridge University Press

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• Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Sarcastic, Anger

  Oscar Wilde (1947). “The Happy Prince”, p.16, New Line Publishing

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• What is acting but lying and what is good lying but convincing lying?

  Laurence Olivier

  Lying, Acting, Good Actors

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

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• There is an inconvenience which attends all abstruse reasoning. that it may silence, without convincing an antagonist, and requires the same intense study to make us sensible of its force, that was at first requisite for its invention. When we leave our closet, and engage in the common affairs of life, its conclusions seem to vanish, like the phantoms of the night on the appearance of the morning; and 'tis difficult for us to retain even that conviction, which we had attain'd with difficulty.

  David Hume

  Morning, Night, Silence

  David Hume (2015). “A Treatise of Human Nature: Top Philosophy Collections”, p.339, 谷月社

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• Success is the most convincing talker in the world.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  World, Talkers

  Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

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• Words are easy. It's convincing the heart that's hard.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Heart, Easy, Hard

  Maria V. Snyder (2012). “Inside: Inside Out\Outside In”, p.238, Harlequin

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• The notion that as a man grows older his illusions leave him is not quite true. What is true is that his early illusions are supplanted by new, and to him, equally convincing illusions.

  George Jean Nathan

  Men, Illusion, Notion

  George Jean Nathan, Charles Angoff (1998). “The World of George Jean Nathan: Essays, Reviews, & Commentary”, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• Well, part of the trick of getting elected president, if you look at George W. Bush and Barack Obama, is convincing the other side, at least temporarily, not to hate and fear. And that, Trump is not going to able to do that

  Rich Lowry

  Hate, President, Sides

  "Anti-Trump groups becoming increasingly organized; Is it the media's job to confront Donald Trump?". "Kelly File" with Megyn Kelly, www.foxnews.com. March 18, 2016.

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• I find that as a female boss in the music industry, it's difficult to actually be treated as if you actually are the boss and to have people act on your instructions and take you seriously. Like you call up people who are working for you and say, "I'd like to see such-and-such document," and they tell you that you don't need it. Then you have to spend time convincing them that it doesn't matter whether they think you need it or not, they're supposed to hand it to you.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Thinking, Hands, People

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• I knew the beginning and the end – I just had to dream up a convincing middle.

  Miranda July

  Dream, Ends, Middle

  Miranda July (2011). “It Chooses You”, p.5, Canongate Books

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• America has long raised political and cultural cognitive dissonance to an art form. We are capable of living with enormous inequality and injustice while convincing ourselves that we are in fact moving toward what Churchill called the "broad, sun-lit uplands."

  Jon Meacham

  Art, Moving, America

  "Book World Live: Jon Meacham Discusses His Acclaimed Andrew Jackson Biography 'American Lion' with Readers". Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. December 16, 2008.

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• What is so inspiring about [Louis] Brandeis's writing is he saw it as a tool for democratic education. He would say things like the opinion is now convincing, now can we make it more instructive, after he'd gone through ten drafts.

  Jeffrey Rosen

  Writing, Saws, Tools

  Source: www.slate.com

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• A price decline is of no real importance to the bona fide investor unless it is either very substantial say, more than a third from cost or unless it reflects a known deterioration of consequence in the company's position. In a well-defined bear market many sound common stocks sell temporarily at extraordinary low prices. It is possible that the investor may then have a paper loss of fully 50 per cent on some of his holdings, without any convincing indication that the underlying values have been permanently affected.

  Benjamin Graham

  Real, Loss, Sound

  "The Intelligent Investor: The Classic Text on Value Investing". Book by Benjamin Graham, Chapter II, The Investor and Stock-Market Fluctuations, p. 25, 1949.

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• An artist is a man who digests his own subjective impressions and knows how to find a general objective meaning in them, and how to express them in a convincing form.

  Maxim Gorky

  Artist, Men, Form

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• A photograph presents itself not only as a visual representation, but as evidence, more convincing than a painting because of the unimpeachable mechanical means whereby it was made. We do not trust the artist's flattering hand; but we do trust film, and shadows, and light.

  John Updike

  Mean, Artist, Light

  John Updike (2009). “More Matter: Essays and Criticism”, p.667, Random House

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• No individual photo explains anything. That's what makes photography such a wonderful and problematic medium. It is the photographer's job to get this medium to say what you need it to say. Because photography has a certain verisimilitude, it has gained a currency as truthful - but photographs have always been convincing lies.

  Joel Sternfeld

  Photography, Jobs, Lying

  "False witness" by Charlotte Higgins, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2004.

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• Theists give several 'proofs' of the existence of God. These are really just arguments, because if there were convincing proof just one would suffice.

  Marcel Conche

  Giving, Argument, Proof

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• Nothing during the year is so impressively convincing as the vision Christmas brings of what this world would be if love became the daily practice of human beings.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Love Is, Years, Practice

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• When you're writing a book that is going to be a narrative with characters and events, you're walking very close to fiction, since you're using some of the methods of fiction writing. You're lying, but some of the details may well come from your general recollection rather than from the particular scene. In the end it comes down to the readers. If they believe you, you're OK. A memoirist is really like any other con man; if he's convincing, he's home. If he isn't, it doesn't really matter whether it happened, he hasn't succeeded in making it feel convincing.

  Samuel Hynes

  Lying, Believe, Book

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