Convinced Quotes - Page 16

• Male conspiracy cannot explain all female failures. I am convinced that, even without restrictions, there still would have been no female Pascal, Milton, or Kant. Genius is not checked by social obstacles: it will overcome.

  Camille Paglia

  Overcoming, Males, Female

  "Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson". Book by Camille Paglia, 1990.

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• And I'm convinced, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that you can work with the unions because the unions want to survive. If they are confronted simply with the question: "Do you want this company to survive or do you want it to be broken up?" they will listen. It's their livelihood.

  Carl Icahn

  Broken, Doubt, Shadow

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• It's very difficult to lie to yourself about certain things. I'm not necessarily convinced about how information is gathered and I don't think the credence that's given to it is valid.

  Andrew Dominik

  Lying, Thinking, Information

  "Director Andrew Dominik Talks KILLING THEM SOFTLY, His Desire to Release a New Cut of JESSE JAMES, His Marilyn Monroe Biopic BLONDE, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 29, 2012.

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• I convinced Tim to add one song, and then we added five. We changed a lot of things while we were shooting, which you should never do in stop-motion animation. With this, it was a much smoother ship, so I wasn't getting sent the scratch reels of things.

  John August

  Song, Scratches, Add

  Source: collider.com

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• I am reminded that no matter how hard you try, you can never be more than twelve years old with your parents. Parents earnestly try not to inflame, but their comments contain no scale and a strange focus. Discussing your private life with parents is like misguidedly looking at a zit in a car's rearview mirror and being convinced, in the absence of contrast or context, that you have developed combined heat rash and skin cancer.

  Douglas Coupland

  Cancer, Years, Mirrors

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• I am not an irretrievable skeptic. I am not hopelessly prejudiced. I am perfectly willing to believe, and my mind is wide open; but I have, as yet, to be convinced. I am perfectly willing, but the evidence must be sane and conclusive.

  Harry Houdini

  Believe, Mind, Evidence

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• The longer I live and the more I study the question, the more I am convinced that it is not so much the problem of what you will do with Negro, as what the Negro will do with you and your 'civilization'.

  Booker T. Washington

  Civilization, Study, Problem

  Booker T. Washington, Victoria Earle Matthews (1898). “Black-belt Diamonds: Gems from the Speeches, Addresses, and Talks to Students of Booker T. Washington ...”

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• I am convinced that the air we normally breathe is a kind of water, and men and women are a species of fish.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Men, Air, Water

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.3924, Delphi Classics

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• Once a photographer is convinced that the camera can lie and that, strictly speaking, the vast majority of photographs are camera lies, inasmuch as they tell only part of a story or tell it in distorted form, half the battle is won. Once he has conceded that photography is not a naturalistic medium of rendition and that striving for naturalism in a photograph is futile, he can turn his attention to using a camera to make more effective pictures.

  Andreas Feininger

  Photography, Lying, Battle

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• You know, our fundamentalist friends dislike the teaching of evolution in schools because of the effect they feel it has on our view of our own special importance, while liberals insist that scientific and spiritual matters can be kept in separate compartments. On this point, I tend to agree with the fundamentalists, though I come to opposite conclusions about teaching evolution because I am convinced it's true.

  Steven Weinberg

  Spiritual, Teaching, School

  Steven Weinberg (2012). “Facing Up”, p.5, Harvard University Press

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• I have never been convinced throughout my life that one needs to be imitating others. I even tell my daughters not to look at me as a model.

  Shirin Ebadi

  Daughter, Looks, Imitating Others

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, progressive.org. September 1, 2004.

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• We are finally living in Plato's cave, if we consider how those who were imprisoned within the cave - who could do nothing but watch those shadows passing on the back wall - were convinced that those shadows were their one and only reality. I see a profound similarity to all this in the epoch we're now living in. We no longer live simply through images: we live through images that don't even exist, which are the result not of physical projection but of pure virtuality.

  Jose Saramago

  Wall, Plato, Reality

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• Every time passionate people fail, they are convinced that they are simply one step closer to fulfilling their dream.

  Zig Ziglar

  Dream, People, Passionate

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• I am not at all convinced that human emissions of CO2 are adding to global warming.... I remain to be convinced about the theory of anthropogenic global warming.

  Nick Minchin

  Global Warming, Theory, Humans

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• I am now convinced that we evangelicals have often seriously misrepresented the beliefs and practices of the Mormon community... Let me state it bluntly to the LDS folks here this evening: We have sinned against you.

  Richard J. Mouw

  Lds, Practice, Community

  "'We Have Sinned Against You'". www.beliefnet.com. November 2004.

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• Fifteen years ago, God unequivocally and undeniably gave me Isaiah 22:22 as a life-verse. "Then I will set the key of the house of David on his shoulder, when he opens no one will shut, when he shuts no one will open." After 40 plus confirmations over a two-week period - yes, more than 40 - I became thoroughly convinced this verse was both a promise and a weapon for me. I have since used the verse hundreds of times throughout America - in all 50 states and in Washington DC - to open and close spiritual doors for the Lord.

  Dutch Sheets

  Spiritual, Keys, Doors

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• I try to turn most things into an exercise. Sometimes, I can't get a workout in, so I will do things like park further away at the grocery store or take the stairs. It may not be much, but I've convinced myself it does something. Mind over matter. Ha! But my regular workouts consist of hiking, Cardio Barre, and light weight training.

  Regina King

  Workout, Exercise, Hiking

  "Actor Regina King: Divorce as a journey, staying a family and mind over matter". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Most of us spend our lives convinced that there's something missing: "If only I had a bigger barbecue, more money, a bigger car, a different wife, a different.... If only I could upgrade somehow, then I would be okay."

  Arjuna Ardagh

  Wife, Car, Missing

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• I am convinced that real community flows out of right relationship with God and not that right relationship with God flows out of right community.

  Wayne Jacobsen

  Real, Community, Flow

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• I have a really hard time watching gory stuff and horror movies. I have said no to some horror movie things. I wouldn't rule it out; I could probably be convinced to do one. But sometimes, I just get ill.

  Marin Ireland

  Hard Times, Stuff, Sometimes

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• If there were no nobodies, The somebodies would not have anybody, To convince that they were somebody, Except some other somebody, Who would not be convinced anyway.

  Lawrence Fagg

  Convince, Ifs

  Lawrence W. Fagg (2009). “Pauses: Reflections on Science, Spirituality, and the Fine Art of Living”, p.16, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• It was in the 1960s that the left convinced itself that there is something fascistic about patriotism and something perversely "patriotic" about running down America. Anti-Americanism - a stand-in for hatred of Western civilization - became the stuff of sophisticates and intellectuals as never before. Flag burners became the truest "patriots" because dissent - not just from partisan politics, but the American project itself - became the highest virtue.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Running, Patriotic, America

  Jonah Goldberg (2008). “Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning”, p.197, Crown Forum

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• A new scientific truth is usually not propagated in such a way that opponents become convinced and discard their previous views. No, the adversaries eventually die off, and the upcoming generation is familiarised anew with the truth.

  Max Planck

  Views, Opponents, Way

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• I'm utterly convinced that we are all here for one another and that every experience that everyone is having is relevant. It all counts. The Universe is so extraordinarily well designed that it needs all those experiences.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Needs, Relevant, Wells

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• You, too, be courageous! The world needs convinced and fearless witnesses. It is not enough to discuss, it is necessary to act!

  Pope John Paul II

  Fearless, Needs, World

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