Prove Quotes - Page 4

• I don't ever want to take a part in order to prove that I'm capable of doing something. It's all based in doing stuff that's interesting or working with people who would be fun to work with.

  Steve Carell

  Fun, Order, People

  "How Steve Carell Spent His Summer Vacation". Interview with Amanda Mae Meyncke, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 2, 2013.

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• It's really interesting because 50 years ago, if you didn't wear a hat everyone looked at you. It just proves that everything is fashion.

  Sebastian Horsley

  Fashion, Years, Interesting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I don't feel insecure about any of this work anymore. Maybe I don't have what I had when I was younger. I'm not really hungry to prove anything to anybody, really. But when I stand outside myself and observe what I think are my strengths and weaknesses going into directing, it's what you just said, an affliction to organize moments.

  Edward Norton

  Insecure, Thinking, Weakness

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Everything comes from a weird place that I don't understand. I make a piece of art just to prove that I exist in my own way. And I can't make something nice. I have to make something that makes me uncomfortable.

  Josh Smith

  Art, Nice, Pieces

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Bill [Gates] and I believe philanthropy can only be effective if it starts things and proves whether they actually work or not. That's the place that governments often don't want to, or can't, work.

  Melinda Gates

  Believe, Government, Want

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• My career has been: first you have to prove yourself, then there's the sophomore record, then there's this thing and that thing, and you always want to be understood.

  Fiona Apple

  Careers, Records, Want

  Interview with Carrie Battan, pitchfork.com. October 7, 2013.

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• Anyone can tell you that how you're raised as a child has a great deal to do with how you behave as an adult and whether you have complexes or whether you need to prove yourself or all that kind of stuff and yet the mother in a traditional family who has raised a child never makes it in the history books.

  Rita Dove

  Mother, Children, Book

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. November 19, 2009.

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• Music is the art of all the invisible things that are real. Art, emotion, spiritual essence, consciousness - these things are hard to prove. Music helps you to focus on your sound. We understand that for very young kids.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Spiritual, Art, Real

  Interview with Vickie Karp, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 18, 2009.

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• I think the election of [Barack] Obama was a great step to prove to the world that we believe that all men were created equal. I think it will show that we have humility.

  Kirk Douglas

  Believe, Humility, Men

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• And when you cannot prove that people are wrong, but only that they are absurd, the best course is to let them alone.

  Thomas Huxley

  People, Absurd, Courses

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1997). “The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.246, University of Georgia Press

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• Another thing I must point out is that you cannot prove a vague theory wrong.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Theory, Vague

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• The wise individual doesn't get too attached to any of life's pleasures, knowing that wonderful science is hard at work proving it's bad for him.

  Bill Vaughan

  Wise, Knowing, Wonderful

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• I am wholly in favour of 'dull stodges'. A surprising large proportion prove 'educable': for which a primary qualification is the willingness to do work.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Dull, Favour, Proportion

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• Infidelity is seated in the heart; its origin is not in the head. It is the wish that Christianity might not be true, that leads to an argument to prove it.

  Charles Simmons

  Heart, Infidelity, Wish

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• Science probes; it does not prove.

  Gregory Bateson

  Doe

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• To confound the tyranny of man there should exist for a century a third sex, both male and female, and stronger than men. This new sex would prove with the lash that men as well as women are made for its pleasure; and then you would hear men protesting against the tyranny of the hermaphrodite sex and admitting that strength should not be the sole rule of right. Just why do they refuse to grant the women the independence which they would demand from the third sex?

  Charles Fourier

  Sex, Men, Independence

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• Youth was so mercilessly hard in its decisions; it had its own unyielding standards and had not yet learned enough to know that time would prove them arbitrary.

  Winston Graham

  Decision, Arbitrary, Unyielding

  Winston Graham (1961). “Jeremy Poldark: a novel of Cornwall, 1790-1791”, Vintage

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• The United States has been utilizing what may prove to be the most historically inept strategy in the entire history of warfare, in which the enemy nations are occupied while allowing its own territory to be colonized.

  Theodore Beale

  Enemy, United States, Warfare

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• Everything I've stated may prove to be total poppycock.... Perhaps time will tell. Perhaps time will do nothing of the kind.

  Don DeLillo

  May, Kind, Time Will Tell

  Don DeLillo (2016). “Ratner's Star”, p.132, Pan Macmillan

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• You think you're an artist; prove it

  Laurence Olivier

  Artist, Thinking, Prove It

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• Science can prove nothing about God, because God lies outside its province.

  Huston Smith

  Lying, Provinces

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• But there are no institutions on earth which enable each separate person to have a hand in the exercise of Power, for Power is command, and everyone cannot command. Sovereignty of the people is, therefore, nothing but a fiction, and one which must in the long run prove destructive of individual liberties.

  Bertrand de Jouvenel

  Running, Exercise, Hands

  Bertrand de Jouvenel (1949). “On Power: Its Nature and the History of Its Growth”

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• If you let a child know that you think he is lazy, sloppy, untruthful, unpleasant, and thoughtless, he'll probably prove you are right. Obviously, it is much better to make him stretch to reach a positive image than stoop to match one at ground level.

  James Dobson

  Children, Thinking, Lazy

  Dr. James Dobson (2015). “Building Confidence in Your Child”, p.136, Revell

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• The result is - document destruction - we're really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we're going to come to. There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.

  Alan Kay

  Able, Destruction, Results

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• To discover to the world something which deeply concerns it, and of which it was previously ignorant; to prove to it that it had been mistaken on some vital point of temporal or spiritual interest, is as important a service as a human being can render to his fellow creatures.

  John Stuart Mill

  Spiritual, Ignorant, Important

  John Stuart Mill (1859). “On Liberty”, p.51

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