Prove Quotes - Page 31

• Don't let negativity affect your vision. A lot of people have said harsh things, but I don't let it affect me. If anything it gives me more enthusiasm and pushes me to do better in my career so I can prove them wrong.

  Nicole Polizzi

  Careers, People, Giving

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• History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not devised anything superior.

  Vladimir Putin

  Government, Human Rights, Provocative

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• It's mainly about working hard and proving to people you're serious about it, and stretching yourself and learning. The mistake a lot of actors make, particularly young ones, is allowing themselves to feel that they're the finished articles, the bee's knees, and it's not true.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Work, Mistake, People

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• I haven’t always been thrilled with my work. But the fear of not proving the people wrong who think you can’t emerge from a franchise and do well, that’s a very strong driving force.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Strong, Thinking, People

  "Harry Potter Grows Up: An Interview With Daniel Radcliffe". Interview with Christina Patterson, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 3, 2012.

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• I know I'm not a coal miner, but I do long hours and I never complain, and there is nowhere else I'd rather be. So, yeah, that's how I'd define myself. I want to do it right, and prove people wrong once and for all about the myth of child stars.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Stars, Children, Coal Miners

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• I've always thought that as long as directors and casting directors don't see me as just Harry Potter, I'll be OK. People have shown a lot of faith in me, and I owe them a huge debt. They're letting me prove that I'm serious about this.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Long, People, Directors

  "Daniel Radcliffe takes steps to 'Succeed' after 'Harry Potter'" by Elysa Gardner, usatoday30.usatoday.com. March 14, 2011.

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• But I want to just caution, it is not incumbent on the United States to prove that Saddam Hussein is trying to acquire weapons of mass destruction. He's already demonstrated that he's trying to acquire weapons of mass destruction.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Mass Destruction, Trying, United States

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• When I started getting so many haters and closed doors, I decided to prove that it could be done. I was a divorced single mother of three at the time and a size 12 - not your typical model artist that labels feel work for the music industry.

  Jenni Rivera

  Mother, Artist, Doors

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• I love to be pushed so I can prove myself, because once again, I will.

  Kid Rock

  Prove Myself, I Can

  FaceBook post by Kid Rock from Apr 29, 2015

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• Most poets are elitist dregs more concerned with proving their skill with a dictionary than communicating ideas with impact.

  Henry Rollins

  Impact, Skills, Ideas

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• Just what future the Designer of the universe has provided for the souls of men I do not know, I cannot prove. But I find that the whole order of Nature confirms my confidence that, if it is not like our noblest hopes and dreams, it will transcend them.

  Henry Norris Russell

  Life, Dream, Men

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• If it does not serve the Iraqi people, there are only political means that must be followed to reform the government - a new government that we must give a chance to prove that it is there to serve the people.

  Muqtada al Sadr

  Mean, Government, People

  "In Iraq, a popular cleric cranks up anti-U.S. rhetoric" by Jomana Karadsheh and Joe Sterling, www.cnn.com. January 8, 2011.

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• You can't prove Rembrandt is better than Norman Rockwell - although if you actually do prefer Rockwell, I'd say you were shunning complexity, were secretly conservative, and hadn't really looked at either painter's work. Taste is a blood sport.

  Jerry Saltz

  Sports, Blood, Taste

  "Has Money Ruined Art?". nymag.com. October 7, 2007.

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• Those who love him love that he sells the most art; they take it as a point of faith that this proves Kinkade is the best. But his fans don't only rely on this supply-and-demand justification. They go back to values.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Fans, Demand

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• I've always been a fighter. If you tell me I can't, I'll die trying to prove you wrong.

  R. A. Salvatore

  Trying, Fighter, Dies

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• The movie business is not about the money. Of course, you need money to make the movie. If you have a small budget, adapt yourself. Having $200 million dollars doesn't ensure that you're definitely going to make a good movie. There's so many examples that prove that.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Good Movie, Example, Dollars

  Interview with Matt Singer, www.ifc.com. December 24, 2007.

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• My habit would have been to veer towards the dark - to prove I was something; edgy, or maybe to prove that I was cognisant of the dark side. Now, with age and confidence, I can say, yeah, that's true, but I am cognisant of the fact that people can do things well. And can be more loving than you expect.

  George Saunders

  Dark, People, Age

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• There's nothing you can't prove if your outlook is only sufficiently limited.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Outlook, Ifs

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Whose Body?”, p.46, Courier Corporation

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• It does not prove a thing to be right because the majority say it is so.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Majority, Doe, Literature

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• There are certain filmmakers I'd like to work with that I don't think would take a risk with me, because I could be distracting in their film. It'll take a couple films to prove to them that it's worth the risk.

  Sean William Scott

  Couple, Thinking, Risk

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• Praise us as we are tasted, allow us as we prove.

  William Shakespeare

  Praise

  William Shakespeare (2015). “Troilus and Cressida: Third Series, Revised Edition”, p.258, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• The Pentagon said that these prisoners were kept in accordance with the Geneva Convention, and of course I was not reassured by that, but I couldn't prove that that was wrong; so we're clearer about that.

  Peter Singer

  Conventions, Pentagon, Said

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• I am pushed by my critics. I don't want to say I want to prove them wrong, but it pushes me on the field to play with a chip on my shoulder, and I play best when I have a chip on my shoulder.

  Hope Solo

  Play, Want, Fields

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• Reaching a conclusion has to start with what the parties are arguing, but examining in all situations carefully the facts as they prove them or not prove them, the record as they create it, and then making a decision that is limited to what the law says on the facts before the judge.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Party, Law, Judging

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• All young men want to prove themselves.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Men, Want, Young

  Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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