Don't Believe Quotes - Page 17

• I don't believe in censorship, but I do believe that an artist has to take some moral responsibility for what he or she is putting out there.

  Tom Petty

  Believe, Responsibility, Artist

  "10 Things That Piss Off Tom Petty". Interview with David Wild, www.rollingstone.com. November 14, 2002.

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• I don't believe in curfews, because you can't treat men like they were boys without forfeiting a certain level of trust.

  Phil Jackson

  Believe, Boys, Men

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• I don't believe in rock bottom. Rock bottom is like a fishing term.

  Charlie Sheen

  Believe, Rocks, Fishing

  "Watch Charlie Sheen's Entire Insane TMZ Poolside Interview". gawker.com. February 28, 2011.

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• No, I don't believe in the wasting of time,
  But I don't believe that I'm wasting mine

  Fiona Apple

  Believe, Don't Believe, Mines

  Song: Waltz, Album: Extraordinary Machine, 2005

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• All of these declarations of what writing ought to be, which I had myself-though, thank God I had never committed them to paper-I think are nonsense. You write what you write, and then either it holds up or it doesn't hold up. There are no rules or particular sensibilities. I don't believe in that at all anymore.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Believe, Writing, Thinking

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• If you don't believe in dragons,
  It is curiously true
  That the dragons you disparage
  Choose to not believe in you.

  Jack Prelutsky

  Believe, Dragons, Ifs

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• I just know that I don't want cheating. I refuse. I deepened myself but I don't believe in myself because my thought is invented.

  Clarice Lispector

  Cheating, Believe, Want

  Clarice Lispector (2012). “Água Viva”, p.38, New Directions Publishing

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• I don't believe in superheroes but I love Batman movies. There's a part of every person that is entertained by the idealistic, the fantastic.

  Aisha Tyler

  Movie, Believe, Superhero

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• I don't think anybody who carries a rifle carries the future. Because I don't believe that you can really change the world by killing and shooting. You have the change it by creating and competing.

  Shimon Peres

  War, Believe, Thinking

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• I don't believe. I know.

  Carl Jung

  Believe, Knowledge, Don't Believe

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• The difference between those who do and those who don't is that those who don't believe it when they are told they can't.

  Simon Sinek

  Believe, Differences, Don't Believe

  FaceBook post by Simon Sinek from May 28, 2010

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• I don't believe in Beatles.

  John Lennon

  Believe, Don't Believe

  "God" (song) (1970).

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• Don't believe false teaching that says you won't suffer if you really love Jesus. Jesus will end all suffering eventually, but on earth he suffered more than anyone.

  Mark Driscoll

  Jesus, Believe, Teaching

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• If you don't believe in same-sex marriage, then don't marry somebody of the same sex.

  Wanda Sykes

  Sex, Believe, Don't Believe

  "Wanda Sykes, Is 'Sick & Tired'". "News & Notes" with Farai Chideya, www.npr.org. October 13, 2006.

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• If you don't believe you can make every putt, why bother trying?

  Ernie Els

  Believe, Trying, Bother

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• My first rule: I don't believe anything the government tells me.

  George Carlin

  Believe, Government, Firsts

  "Jammin' in New York". Documentary, Comedy, 1992.

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• I've never felt a desire (and I don't believe I ever shall) to bring the public to my work... a certain popularity seems to me the least desirable of things.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Believe, Desire, Popularity

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• I don't believe in getting something for nothing.

  Bruce Lee

  Believe, Don't Believe

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.83, Tuttle Publishing

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• I don't believe in taking foolish chances, but nothing can be accomplished if we don't take any chances at all.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Believe, Chance, Foolish

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• The provincial intellectual is doomed to arguing at low level... there is still no Australian literary world, not in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide. It is some consolation to realise that there is no literary world in Birmingham or Los Angeles either. I have heard there is one in Montreal, but I don't believe it. The literary world is in London and New York, the only cities big enough to sustain magazines which can afford to reject copy.

  Clive James

  Art, New York, Believe

  Clive James (2013). “Snakecharmers In Texas”, p.28, Pan Macmillan

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• I can never give a 'yes' or a 'no.' I don't believe everything in life can be settled by a monosyllable.

  Betty Smith

  Believe, Giving, Don't Believe

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• I don’t believe for a second that weightlifting is a sport. They pick up a heavy thing and put it down again. To me, that’s indecision.

  Paula Poundstone

  Sports, Believe, Heavy Things

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• Religion is the cause of all the problems in the world. I don’t believe in organized religion at all. It’s what separates people. One religion just represents fragments, it causes war. More people have died because of religious conflict than any other reason.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Religious, War, Believe

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• I don't believe in charmed lives. I think that tragedy is part of the lesson you learn to lift yourself up, to pick yourself up and to move on.

  Charlize Theron

  Believe, Moving, Thinking

  FaceBook post by Charlize Theron from Mar 17, 2015

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• For your information, a good novel can change the world. Keep that in mind before you attempt to sit down at a typewriter. Never waste time on something you don't believe in yourself.

  John Fante

  Believe, Typewriters, Mind

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