Believer Quotes - Page 39

• But I'm a big, firm believer in speaking everything into existence.

  Ashthon Jones

  Bigs, Existence, Firm

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• I'm a big believer in living life as an extended working vacation.

  Victoria Moran

  Live Life, Vacation, Bigs

  "The Case for Turning ‘Spa’ into a Verb" by Victoria Moran, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 11, 2011.

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• I'm a believer in trusting the director.

  B. J. Novak

  Directors

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. August 19, 2009.

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• I'm a true believer that unless you're Prince or Stevie Wonder - and even Prince is showing that he needs help - not everybody can produce themselves. I'm definitely not that person.

  Meshell Ndegeocello

  Needs, Helping, Wonder

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• I'm a huge, huge believer in love. Huge!

  Chris O'Dowd

  Huge

  "Is this it?". Interview with Theguardian, www.theguardian.com. February 27, 2009.

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• The passion for art is, as for believers, very religious. It unites people, its message is of common humanity. Art has become my religion - others pray in church. It's a banality, but you don't possess art, it possesses you. It's like falling in love.

  Francois Pinault

  Religious, Falling In Love, Art

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• I'm very much a believer that it's action that matters much more so than, you know, the flurry of political promises and statements and slogans that are used during political campaigns.

  Christine Lagarde

  Political, Promise, Campaigns

  "Christine Lagarde: can the head of the IMF save the euro?". Interview With Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. May 25, 2012.

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• I take what I see work. I'm a strict believer in the scientific principle of believing nothing, only taking the best evidence available at the present time, interpreting it as best you can, and leaving your mind open to the fact that new evidence will appear tomorrow.

  Adam Osborne

  Believe, Leaving, Mind

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• Nothing is more gratifying as a Christian believer than being able to thread my faith and love for Jesus into my music.

  Chynna Phillips

  Christian, Jesus, And Love

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• Well, I'm a big believer in 'never say never.

  Jim Parsons

  Never Say Never, Bigs, Wells

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Having people wait outside of my house sort of gives me a panic attack. I'm a believer in the concept that people should not be followed and photographed everywhere.

  Nikki Reed

  People, Giving, House

  Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. October 12, 2009.

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• I'm just a believer in keeping all of the creative brain cells moving and working even when you're not working because the inevitable loneliness and boring drought in the actor's world, it can eat you alive.

  Nikki Reed

  Loneliness, Moving, Cells

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• I'm finding, as I get older, that I'm not much of a believer in redemption. I mean, I believe in redemption in real life - redemption does happen, and it's cool when it does - but I find myself getting leery of my desire for it in stories (especially my own).

  George Saunders

  Real, Believe, Mean

  "George Saunders's Wild Ride" by Deborah Treisman, www.newyorker.com. December 12, 2010.

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• I've known a lot of very religious people. My mother is very religious, but she was also very - is very private about it. She - when I was growing up, she never went to church. She just prayed and read her Bible and kept it to herself. So I'm not from a background of flamboyant believers. It's much more a personal issue.

  Michael Shannon

  Mother, Religious, Growing Up

  "Going Under The 'Boardwalk' With Michael Shannon". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 14, 2012.

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• For more than 200 years, materialists have promised that science will eventually explain everything in terms of physics and chemistry. Believers are sustained by the faith that scientific discoveries will justify their beliefs.

  Rupert Sheldrake

  Discovery, Years, Belief

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• I'm a great believer in gathering together all your obsessions and seeing if you can make a novel out of them.

  Scarlett Thomas

  Writing, Together, Gathering

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• See, I'm a believer that people are born with a sense of cooking. It's something within them that really gives them the ability to create and to understand flavors.

  Roy Yamaguchi

  People, Giving, Cooking

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• I am no disbeliever in spiritual purpose and no vague believer. I see from the standpoint of Christian orthodoxy. This means that for me the meaning of life is centered in our Redemption by Christ and what I see in the world I see in relation to that.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Christian, Spiritual, Mean

  Flannery O'Connor (1969). “Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose”, p.32, Macmillan

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• You see, I'm a believer in the rhapsodic. I like things that are happy. For no particular reason, I just like them. Most people don't seem to be like that in this particular place, in this world. You can tell by what they focus on. Read a newspaper, watch a TV show, go to a movie, look at a life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Tv Shows

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• If the devil cannot keep you from being saved, if next he fails to make you backslide, then he undertakes to keep you just an average Christian. Here he succeeds with most believers.

  Vance Havner

  Christian, Average, Devil

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• Before we can strengthen believers or win the lost, we must be converted from the self-life to the Christ-life. . . "Not I, but Christ."

  Vance Havner

  Christian, Winning, Self

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• For the believer, humility is honesty about one's greatest flaws to a degree in which he fearless about truly appearing less righteous than another.

  Criss Jami

  Honesty, Humility, Pride

  Criss Jami (2011). “Salomé: In Every Inch in Every Mile”, p.82, Criss Jami

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• Sunday morning church service is not an enormous priority; spending time with other believers is.

  Donald Miller

  Morning, Sunday, Church Service

  "Born-again rebel Don Miller reveals 'best sermon I ever heard'" by John Blake, www.cnn.com.

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• I'm a firm believer in people who love what they do.

  Anthony Mackie

  People, Firm

  "Anthony Mackie Interview THE HURT LOCKER". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 23, 2009.

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• But I'm a big believer that government does not have a monopoly on good ideas.

  Jack Markell

  Government, Ideas, Doe

  "POLITICO interview: Gov. Jack Markell". Interview with Michael Falcone, www.politico.com. October 29, 2009.

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