Prove Quotes - Page 13

• It would be nice to not have to prove myself, and for people to know that I'm good and can play a role. Whatever role that is that lets people know that I can play the next role is what I want to do.

  Madeline Zima

  Nice, Play, People

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• If I refuse to allow my leg to be amputated, its mortification and my death may prove that I was wrong; but if I let the leg go, nobody can ever prove that it would not have mortified had I been obstinate. Operation is therefore the safe side for the surgeon as well as the lucrative side.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Legs, May, Safe

  From his Preface on Doctors published with The Doctor's Dilemma (1911)

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• My ex-wife was a philosophy major at NYU. Yeah, she and I used to have deep philosophical discussions where she would prove that I didn't exist.

  Woody Allen

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Nyu

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• There is no a prior reason for supposing that the truth, when it is discovered, will necessarily prove interesting.

  Isaiah Berlin

  Supposing That, Interesting, Reason

  Isaiah Berlin (1991). “The crooked timber of humanity: chapters in the history of ideas”, Random House Inc

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• There is not a need to prove anything to anyone with your words. Let that which you are - that which you are living - be your clear example to uplift others.

  Esther Hicks

  Uplifting, Example, Needs

  Esther Hicks, Jerry Hicks (2006). “The Law of Attraction”, p.103, Hay House, Inc

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• Pop stars are capable of growing old. Mick Jagger at 50 will be marvelous - a battered old roue - I can just see him. An aging rock star doesn't have to opt out life. When I'm 50, I'll prove it.

  David Bowie

  Stars, Rocks, Growing

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• We need to start treating ourselves how we deserve to be treated, even if you feel that no one else does. Prove to the world you are worth something by treating yourself with the utmost respect and hope that other people will follow your example. And even if they don't, at least one person in the world is treating you well: You.

  Carrie Fletcher

  People, Example, Doe

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• You don't have to do offbeat films to prove that you can act. I have done it but only to prove myself that I can fit convincingly into every kind of films. I want to do the 100 crore film where the hero does all the work, and I get to relax.

  Bipasha Basu

  Hero, Relax, Doe

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• I wish I could just relax sometimes and make some money, but I always feel like I have to prove some kind of big, profound point.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Profound, Wish, Relax

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• If you cannot prove a man wrong, don't panic. You can always call him names.

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, Names, Panic

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• To say I'm ignorant only proves your ignorance.

  Behdad Sami

  Ignorance, Ignorant

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• Confidence isn't something you prove to people, it's something that comes off from who you are and how you represent yourself.

  Behdad Sami

  People, Who You Are

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• The nuclear approach I'm involved in is called a traveling-wave reactor, which uses waste uranium for fuel. There's a lot of things that have to go right for that dream to come true - many decades of building demo plants, proving the economics are right. But if it does, you could have cheaper energy with no CO2 emissions.

  Bill Gates

  Dream, Energy, Doe

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• If a man ain't nothin' else, then he's an artist. It's the only thing he can claim to be that nobody can prove he ain't.

  Will Rogers

  Artist, Men, Claims

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• Metaphysics is the science of proving what we don't understand.

  Josh Billings

  Metaphysics

  Josh Billings (1953). “Uncle Sam&s uncle Josh”

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• It is amazing to hear grown-up people rationalize homophobia and discrimination. The lengths they go to trying to prove their points take reason to its breaking point.

  Henry Rollins

  People, Point Break, Trying

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• I'm not out trying to prove anything. I'm sort of finished with that, so I get to play in other sandboxes and try and figure out what I like and I'm interested in.

  George Clooney

  Play, Trying, Figures

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• The huge turnout for Live 8 here and around the world proves that thanks to the leadership from people like Tony Blair and Gordon Brown the world is beginning to demand more action on global health and poverty.

  Bill Gates

  People, Around The World, Poverty

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• Children are not our future, and I can prove it with my usual, flawless logic. Children can't be our future, because by the time the future arrives, they won't be children anymore, so blow me!

  George Carlin

  Children, Blow, Usual

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• Kissing power is stronger than will power: Girls need to "prove their love" like a moose needs a hat rack.

  Abigail Van Buren

  Girl, Kissing, Stronger

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• In this country, a smart leader is suspect. That's just the way it is. Even George Bush's father, who was a lot smarter than the son, had to sort of prove that he wasn't that bright.

  Bill Maher

  Country, Father, Smart

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• Nothing proves the truth of surrealism so much as photography. The Zeiss lens has unexpected faculties of surprise!

  Salvador Dali

  Photography, Lenses, Unexpected

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• When I go to a nude beach, I always take a ruler, just in case I have to prove something.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Beach, Cases, Rulers

  Rodney Dangerfield (2009). “It's Not Easy Bein' Me: A Lifetime of No Respect but Plenty of Sex and Drugs”, p.109, Zondervan

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• Photography is the most transparent of the art mediums devised or discovered by man. It is probably for this reason that it proves so difficult to make the photograph transcend its almost inevitable function as document and act as a work of art as well.

  Clement Greenberg

  Photography, Art, Men

  Clement Greenberg, John O'Brian (1988). “The Collected Essays and Criticism, Volume 2: Arrogant Purpose, 1945-1949”, p.60, University of Chicago Press

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• I think if you are young and you have children, you still have so much to prove. When you have children later in life, you lose a bit of that urge for working.

  Salma Hayek

  Children, Thinking, Later In Life

  "Salma Inc". Interview With Laurie Sandell, www.marieclaire.com. April 11, 2012.

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