Convinced Quotes - Page 17

• It was my life, playing Juliet. From that moment on I was convinced I was going to be an actress. That was all I really wanted to do.

  Mary Elizabeth Winstead

  Actresses, Juliet, Moments

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There was so much going on. I remember a very interesting dinner in the studio of [Robert] Rauschenberg. He had convinced Sidney Janis, Leo Castelli, and a third big gallery man to serve us, the artists, at the table. So they were dressed up as waiters, we were sitting at the table, and they were only allowed to sit down at the end of the table for the cognac. This is not possible now.

  Erro

  Men, Artist, Interesting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The myth of the dead Indian goes back to the Protestant settlement of the U.S. The Pilgrims wanted to start a new life in America. They wanted to believe that in some sense they had come to a new Eden and that they could leave history behind in Europe. So they convinced themselves that this land had no history, that this was "virgin" land. This made the Indians' presence inconvenient.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Believe, Europe, Land

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I'll miss it until the day I die, and I'm convinced to this day that I can get on a horse and jump a course of fences satisfactorily. It doesn't leave you.

  James Lipton

  Horse, Missing, Fence

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. February 9, 2010.

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• I used to oppose women's suffrage and I've come to support it because these women have convinced me that we need full gender equality for full democratic participation.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Support, Needs, Women's Suffrage

  Source: www.slate.com

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• I'm convinced that if the same opportunities were made available to everybody, people would want to better their lot in life.

  Robin Leach

  Opportunity, People, Want

  Source: www.cyinterview.com

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• A public school-educated stockbroker, who wants to shrink the state and let the markets rip, who reinvented himself as a man of the people and convinced millions of disillusioned working-class voters he was on a mission to smash the rich elite he belonged to.

  Brian Reade

  Rip, School, Men

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• I am not convinced that means [Donald] Trump is a lock to be the next president but it does suggest that what he has tapped into is both lasting and powerful.

  Christopher Michael Cillizza

  Powerful, Mean, President

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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• John XXI was a very great pope and he's the one who actually corrected the liturgy. He did so because of his friend Jules Isaac, a French Jewish historian who was a friend of John Paul, of John 23rd, and he convinced him and he changed the liturgy, no more Jew, the perfidious Jew and so forth and now, and don't speak any more of the Jews killing Christ. Things have changed.

  Elie Wiesel

  Speak, Christ, Killing

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• I'm convinced, that when you are a footballer you are a symbol. You have to be a superman in some ways, to send messages to people all the time, to the youth all the time.

  Emmanuel Petit

  People, Way, Messages

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

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• I am convinced Pope Francis' Exhortation can help. The effort must be made to read it because an exhortation can only help if you know it. It is valuable to know the work. It is so rich and I can only encourage our pastors and our communities to work on it, study it, read it, and taste the joy of this beautiful document.

  Christoph Schonborn

  Beautiful, Effort, Community

  "Cardinal Schonborn on 'Amoris Laetitia': Pope Francis Knows What He Is Talking About". Interview with Deborah Castellano Lubov, zenit.org. April 12, 2016.

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• I'm convinced that our duty to provide advice and consent for justices of the Supreme Court is our most important constitutional responsibility.

  Frank Lautenberg

  Responsibility, Justice, Advice

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• If you'd asked me some years ago, I would have said [Dalai Lama] is an extraordinarily compassionate, clear-sighted, calm human being. But now, I'm more convinced than ever that his political positions as well as his spiritual positions arise out of such precise and realistic thinking that they're extremely sound.

  Pico Iyer

  Spiritual, Thinking, Years

  "Interview: Pico Iyer". Interview with Felicia M. Tomasko, LA Yoga Magazine: May 2008: Volume 7/No. 5, layoga.com. April 26, 2008.

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• I have become convinced, through my studies, that the only way to achieve a safe, just and viable world is to live by the Golden Rule. This is what drives my writing. I want to point out this interconnectedness, point out the beauty of the faith in all traditions without exception, show the complexity of the atrocities that we have experienced, and our shared culpability as a species.

  Karen Armstrong

  Writing, World, Safe

  "A conversation with Karen Armstrong". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• If someone complains about Europe from Monday to Saturday then nobody is going to believe him on Sunday when he says he is a convinced European.

  Jean-Claude Juncker

  Monday, Believe, Sunday

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered.

  Archibald MacLeish

  Freedom, Silence, Liberty

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• From all that I can collect by your manner of talking, you must be two of the silliest girls in the country. I have suspected it some time, but I am now convinced.

  Jane Austen

  Girl, Country, Talking

  Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.104, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• That proves you are unusual,' returned the Scarecrow; 'and I am convinced that the only people worthy of consideration in this world are the unusual ones. For the common folks are like the leaves of a tree, and live and die unnoticed.

  L. Frank Baum

  Common Folk, People, Tree

  L. Frank Baum (2016). “30+ FANTASY ADVENTURES & FAIRY TALES – Ultimate Collection (Magical World Series): The Wizard of Oz Series, Dot and Tot of Merryland, Mother Goose in Prose, The Magical Monarch of Mo, American Fairy Tales, The Master Key, The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, The Sea Fairies…”, p.234, e-artnow

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• I'm convinced that you never have to give up liberties to be safe. I think you're less safe when you give up your liberties.

  Ron Paul

  Giving Up, Thinking, Liberty

  Interview with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. January 4, 2008.

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• Matisse makes a drawing, then he makes a copy of it. He copies it five times, ten times, always clarifying the line. He’s convinced that the last, the most stripped down, is the best, the purest, the definitive one; and in fact, most of the time, it was the first. In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt.

  Pablo Picasso

  Drawing, Lasts, Firsts

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• I would cling to unhappiness because it was a known, familiar state. When I was happier, it was because I knew I was on my way back to misery. I've never been convinced that happiness is the object of the game. I'm wary of happiness.

  Hugh Laurie

  Games, Way, Misery

  "A brighter life for Hugh Laurie". Interview with Amy Jory, www.standard.co.uk. June 13, 2002.

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• I'm depressed! I'm completely depressed! I am firmly convinced that there is no one in this world who really likes me!" "So what else is new?

  Charles M. Schulz

  World, Likes, This World

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• The groom always smiles proudly because he's convinced he's accomplished something quite wonderful. The bride smiles because she's been able to convince him of it.

  Judith McNaught

  Smile, Marriage, Wedding

  Judith McNaught (1991). “A Kingdom of Dreams”, p.2, Simon and Schuster

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• I've always been an ironic dreamer, unfaithful to my inner promises. Like a complete outsider, a casual observer of whom I thought I was, I've always enjoyed watching my daydreams go down in defeat. I was never convinced of what I believed in. I filled my hands with sand, called it gold, and opened them up to let it slide through. Words were my only truth. When the right words were said, all was done; the rest was the sand that had always been.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Hands, Dreamer, Ironic

  Fernando Pessoa (2002). “The Book of Disquiet”, p.201, Penguin UK

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• Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that there is in the world. I cannot conceive of any other explanation. I am convinced that there is no other, and that if the world has indeed, as I have said, been built of sorrow, it has been built by the hands of love, because in no other way could the soul of man, for whom the world was made, reach the full stature of its perfection. Pleasure for the beautiful body, but pain for the beautiful soul.

  Oscar Wilde

  Beautiful, Pain, Men

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.1079, Wordsworth Editions

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