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• If an artist wants to work with me because they feel I've made some credible albums and there've been things that are long-lasting, it's because those artists took the time and we built an idea.

  Phil Ramone

  Artist, Ideas, Long

  Billboard Interview, www.billboard.com. December 17, 2003.

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• I believe that the intention of Holy Writ was to persuade men of the truths necessary to salvation; such as neither science nor other means could render credible, but only the voice of the Holy Spirit.

  Galileo Galilei

  Believe, Mean, Men

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• For most of us even the imagined threat of criticism functions to control our behavior. We are haunted to some degree by questions about our self-worth. As a consequence, we continually attempt to prove to ourselves and others that we are okay people, credible, trustworthy, and competent.

  Robert D. Hare

  Self Worth, People, Criticism

  Robert D. Hare (2011). “Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us”, p.99, Guilford Press

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• National security rests on the credible threat of a form of warfare universally condemned since the Dark Ages, the wholesale slaughter of noncombatants.

  George Will

  Dark, Age, Warfare

  George F. Will (1978). “The pursuit of happiness, and other sobering thoughts”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• The possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied.

  Susan Sontag

  Photography, Inspire, Lust

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.156, Macmillan

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• I've run for office, and I've stood on street corners, while people walked by me and didn't want to talk to me, and did not think I was a credible candidate. And then four years later, I was nearly elected mayor of San Francisco, so I know what it takes.

  Matt Gonzalez

  Running, Thinking, San Francisco

  "All Hope is Local: Quit Whining and Run for Office" by Allison Kilkenny, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 2, 2008.

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• Power is getting things done without having to demonstrate that you can bulldoze it through. I'm most effective when I've studied an issue, when I can make a credible argument, and then bring people along.

  Donna Edwards

  Issues, People, Done

  "What I've Learned: Representative Donna Edwards (D, Md.)" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. October 15, 2010.

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• Opera is credible drama now, and it costs less than going to a football match. What have you got to lose?

  Lesley Garrett

  Football, Drama, Opera

  "Soprano soundtrack" by Will Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. December 19, 2003.

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• What's crucial is that the IRA produce a credible statement that paramilitary and criminality activity is a thing of the past. That they are committed to a future which is exclusively peaceful and democratic.

  Peter Hain

  Past, Peaceful, Ira

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• I offer something very different from the lifelong career politicians who have worked their way up to run for higher office or those who can parachute in with checks for $5 million or $10 million, and that seems to be the definition of credible or legitimate. I'm rejecting that premise.

  Elizabeth Emken

  Running, Careers, Office

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• Many Liberals are rightly dismayed that on this vital issue of climate change we are not simply without a policy, without any prospect of having a credible policy but we are now without integrity. We have given our opponents the irrefutable, undeniable evidence that we cannot be trusted.

  Malcolm Turnbull

  Integrity, Issues, Climate

  "Coalition's climate policy 'bullshit': Turnbull". www.abc.net.au. December 7, 2009.

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• Some of the screen's best moments were realized because a director went against all reason, all logic. No matter how incredible a story seems, it can be made credible. If you feel an insane idea strongly enough, you've usually got something.

  Rouben Mamoulian

  Ideas, Insane, Directors

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• PROOF, n. Evidence having a shade more of plausibility than of unlikelihood. The testimony of two credible witnesses as opposed to that of only one.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Science, Two, Shade

  Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.238, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Global warming is not a threat. It's not a real threat. It's not a credible threat. It's not an imminent threat. ISIS is.

  Eric Bolling

  Real, Isis, Global Warming

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• To make magic credible on screen is always very difficult. The story is the most important thing. That is what should win. If sacrifices or compromises are made, it's usually for story. Story in magic is very, very important to me. That's what I've really championed through my career.

  David Copperfield

  Sacrifice, Winning, Careers

  "David Copperfield Talks NOW YOU SEE ME on Blu-ray/DVD, His Collaboration on the Film, Drawing Inspiration from Cinema, and Being a Good Showman". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 8, 2013.

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• Karla Jay's intimate account of life in the early years of feminism and gay liberation is as irresistible as a novel, but as credible, humorous, and unexpected as real life.

  Gloria Steinem

  Real, Humorous, Gay

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• I believe that the people who survive a cataclysm, rather than those who stand by and analyze it, are nearly always the more credible witnesses to their own history.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Believe, People, Witness

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• One would hope that you would have a CBO director who does not let ideology get in the way of making good estimates. [Congress] values having a credible institution that they can rely on to give them the best estimates possible.

  Alice Rivlin

  Giving, Directors, Doe

  "With a new budget director, will the price be right for Republicans?" by Jeremy Diamond, www.cnn.com. December 23, 2014.

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• I can't begin to predict how news will be delivered to readers in, say, 100 years. But I do know one thing that hasn't changed: Whatever the delivery system, whether it's a magazine, book or blog, people like vivid writing, strong stories and credible people. So while the venue is changing rapidly, human nature isn't, which I find soothing.

  Anna Quindlen

  Strong, Book, Writing

  Source: www.writersdigest.com

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• Chávez inadvertently made the US drug war tactics look good. Quite a feat, given the disaster which is the drug war. After expelling the DEA (not necessarily a bad thing, given its record in Colombia and elsewhere), he failed to devise a credible strategy for Venezuela.

  Rory Carroll

  War, Drug, Looks

  "Covering Hugo ChГЎvez: 'If Only He Ruled As Well As He Campaigned'". Interview with Jeremy Lybarger, www.motherjones.com. March 8, 2013.

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• It's really great that people are seeing me as a credible person. That alone is great. And the fact that people make fan accounts for me and recognize me now sometimes is really strange and cool.

  Alessia Cara

  People, Fans, Facts

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Every credible scientist on earth says your products harm the environment. I recommend paying weasels to write articles casting doubt on the data. Then eat the wrong kind of foods and hope you die before the earth does.

  Scott Adams

  Writing, Science, Data

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• Those who arrived on America's tanks are not credible in Iraq.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Iraq, America, Tanks

  ""America Must Listen"". Interview with Martin Doerry, www.spiegel.de. September 24, 2006.

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• A writer is trying to create believable people in credible moving situations in the most moving way he can.

  William Faulkner

  Moving, People, Trying

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• I find it more credible, since it is anterior information, that one man should know heaven, as the Chinese say, than that so many men should know the world.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Heaven, Chinese

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.215

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