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• It was mainly to do with Helen Hunt, to be honest. That's what drew my attention to it. I was interested in the fact that she was going to be directing. I'd never met her but she projects a degree of intelligence and it was convincing t me that she'd be able to handle this sort of material very well.

  Colin Firth

  Degrees, Attention, Able

  "Then She Found Me - Colin Firth interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Meryl Streep, despite not being a Prime Minister, is reasonably convincing in 'The Iron Lady.'

  Sasha Frere-Jones

  Iron, Prime, Ministers

  "Screen Shot" by Sasha Frere-Jones, www.newyorker.com. February 6, 2012.

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• I have to have a little bit of time to myself right before whatever it is that I have to do because most of the time I'm sitting in my head convincing myself to calm down, all right, show down.

  Christina Milian

  Sitting, Littles, Calm

  "Christina Milian talks Be Cool!". Interview with Brian B., movieweb.com. February 24, 2005.

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• The word generalization in literature usually means covering too much territory too thinly to be persuasive, let alone convincing. In science, however, a generalization means a principle that has been found to hold true in every special case.... The principle of leverage is a scientific generalization.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Mean, Special, Literature

  R. Buckminster Fuller (1982). “Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking”, p.26, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• Theres a lot to be said for bands who fight to be relevant. But CONVINCING people you're relevant? Thats like telling people its not raining when they're soaking wet.

  Pete Wentz

  Rain, Fighting, People

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• Most people's major life changes don't come from reading an article in the newspaper; they come from reading longer-form essays or thoughtful books, which are much more convincing and detailed.

  Aaron Swartz

  Inspirational, Funny, Life Changing

  "I Hate the News" by Aaron Swartz, www.aaronsw.com. October 20, 2006.

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• With fear come the lies and the justifications that, no matter how convincing, lower our self-esteem.

  Azar Nafisi

  Self Esteem, Lying, Matter

  Azar Nafisi (2003). “Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books”, p.47, Random House

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• There are days when it seems to me that in literature the most convincing depiction of the world in which we live is to be found in the phantasmagorical kingdom through which Lewis Carroll took Alice on a tour.

  Dean Koontz

  Literature, World, Kingdoms

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Life Expectancy”, p.419, Bantam

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• I was very struck by the fact that Colin Powell said he would produce evidence of Osama bin Laden fault and then never produced it. Then Tony Blair produced a document of seventy paragraphs, but only the last nine referred to the World Trade Center, and they were not convincing. So we have a little problem here: If they're guilty, where is the evidence? And if we can't hear the evidence, why are we going to war?

  Robert Fisk

  War, World, Problem

  Source: progressive.org

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• One of their major initiatives was getting all officers on Facebook. So the question is, why are these people who are there to train the Afghans being pressured to be on Facebook? Again, it sounds benign until you realize that the military's concern isn't the Afghans, it's convincing the American people that we should be in Afghanistan.Soldiers can put up pictures and say "See how happy the Afghans are because of our presence here." It's a way to directly influence the American people using propaganda.

  Michael Hastings

  People, Soldier, Realizing

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Fantasy, if it's really convincing, can't become dated, for the simple reason that it represents a flight into a dimension that lies beyond the reach of time.

  Walt Disney

  Lying, Simple, Dimensions

  "The Rides of Passage". "Via" Magazine, July 2005.

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• Convincing isn't really possible in an age of customer control. Customers hold most of the cards today. They have good visibility into their choices, and they can easily share information with each other. Not only that, they don't like to be sold. But they do like to buy. Your job shouldn't be to convince customers to buy, but to help them buy what they want.

  Marty Neumeier

  Choices, Age, Today

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• my uncle ... had the misfortune to be ever touched in his brain, and, as a convincing proof, married his maid, at an age when he and she both had more occasion for a nurse than a parson.

  Charlotte Charke

  Marriage, Uncles, Nurse

  Mary Robinson, Charlotte Charke (1830). “Memoirs”

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• Science progresses not by convincing the adherents of old theories that they are wrong, but by allowing enough time to pass so that a new generation can arise unencumbered by the old errors.

  Max Planck

  Errors, Progress, Enough Time

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• I like to play characters that are convincing, that aren't just straightforward and nice.

  Clive Owen

  Nice, Character, Play

  "Any actor who thinks he's a sex symbol has got serious problems". Interview with Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. February 14, 2009.

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• When he at least reached the door the handle had cease to vibrate. Lowering himself suddenly to his knees he placed his head and the vagaries of his left eye (which was for ever trying to dash up and down the vertical surface of the door), he was able by dint of concentration to observe, within three inches of his keyholed eye, an eye which was not his, being not only of a different colour to his own iron marble, but being, which is more convincing, on the other side of the door.

  Mervyn Peake

  Eye, Doors, Iron

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• When you work with a good actor, there is this natural rapport and chemistry that develops over time. That chemistry helps your characters come alive and makes the story of the film that much more convincing.

  Aamir Khan

  Character, Stories, Actors

  Source: www.danielpillai.com

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• The system has a way of convincing people that because they live in the USA they are better off than all other people in the world. This gets them focused on the wrong things, of course, but it has been a tried and true way of deflecting class struggle, something I don't think Marx didn't fully anticipated. The education system, and the whole culture really, has a lot to do with how these feelings are transmitted to each new generation. When parents say their kids were heroes when they died for nothing in Iraq, you can see the power of this.

  Michael Yates

  Hero, Struggle, Kids

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I suppose [...] that the most convincing way to fool an enemy would be to fool a friend.

  Anne Bishop

  Enemy, Would Be, Way

  Anne Bishop (2007). “Heir to the Shadows: The Black Jewels Trilogy 2”, p.35, Penguin

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• It’s true that someone will always say that good and evil don’t exist: that is a person who has never had any dealings with real evil. Good is far less convincing than evil, but it’s because their chemical structures are different. Like gold, good is never found in a pure state in nature: it therefore doesn’t seem impressive. It has the unfortunate tendency not to act; it prefers, passively, to be seen.

  Amelie Nothomb

  Real, Evil, Gold

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• I want to give the evidence in a way that is convincing, but I don't want to cheat.

  John Edgar Wideman

  Giving, Want, Way

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The private citizen today has come to feel rather like a deaf spectator in the back row, who ought to keep his mind on the mystery off there, but cannot quite manage to keep awake. He knows he is somehow affected by what is going on. Rules and regulations continually, taxes annually and wars occasionally remind him that he is being swept along by great drifts of circumstance. Yet these public affairs are in no convincing way his affairs. They are for the most part invisible. They are managed, if they are managed at all, at distant centers, from behind the scenes, by unnamed powers.

  Walter Lippmann

  War, Mind, Behind The Scenes

  Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). “The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy”, p.35, Harvard University Press

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• Instead of convincing people who are opposed to your message, spend your time finding people who are already predisposed to it.

  Chris Guillebeau

  People, Messages, Findings

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• While testimonies can come as dramatic manifestations, they usually do not. Sometimes people think they need to have an experience like Joseph Smith's vision before they gain testimonies. If we have unrealistic expectations of how, when, or where answers come, we risk missing the answers which come as quiet, reassuring feelings and thoughts that most often come after our prayers, while we are doing something else. These answers can be equally convincing and powerful.

  Allan F. Packer

  Prayer, Powerful, Thinking

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• It's always my goal to be more mature-sounding, more convincing, but also more experimental, and more challenging for myself. If it's not a little bit harder every time I make a new track, then I'm being lazy.

  Lotic

  Goal, Track, Challenges

  Source: thequietus.com

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