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• Even though I heard him say he doesn't believe, cuz' that's why from watching Ali gave me the great deal of confidence and deep-down inner belief to believe there's no man fighting that could beat me.

  Mike Tyson

  Believe, Fighting, Men

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• Doubt is nothing but a trivial agitation on the surface of the soul, while deep down there is a calm certainty.

  Francois Mauriac

  Soul, Doubt, Agitation

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• When we know deep down that we're acting with integrity despite impulses to do otherwise, we feel gates of higher energy and inspiration open inside of us.

  Dan Millman

  Integrity, Inspiration, Acting

  Dan Millman (1995). “The Life You Were Born to Live: A Guide to Finding Your Life Purpose”, p.378, H J Kramer

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• Not so deep down, we all know that safety is an illusion, that only character melds us together. That’s why most of us do everything we can (healthy and unhealthy) to ward off that real feeling of standing alone so close to the edge of the world.

  Kiese Laymon

  Real, Character, Safety

  Kiese Laymon (2016). “How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America”, p.72, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• If I can center down and strengthen the core of who I am, and the core of who I am is my relationship with God, then that helps me maintain peace deep down. If I can maintain a healthy spiritual core, I think that's enormous for helping the stress.

  Anne Graham Lotz

  Spiritual, Stress, Thinking

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• Deep down, I reckon the sweetest moment will come when it's finally all over. When, at last, I know that I can stop fighting. Of course it'll also be a little sad. The sweetest moments, y'know, always come with just a little sadness.

  Evander Holyfield

  Sadness, Fighting, Littles

  The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. September 28, 2003.

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• Stars talk about how they dislike fans fussing over them, begging for autographs and things like that, but deep down inside, they love every minute of it.

  Brenda Fassie

  Stars, Fans, Minutes

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• In singing, there's a vibration that comes from deep down inside, literally from your sex. When you put out that vibration, people can feel it. Billie Holiday does it. Peggy Lee does it. It's very hot.

  Elizabeth Berkley

  Sex, Holiday, People

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• I'm a writer of faith who worries about the intolerance of religion. I look at the past and fear we haven't learned from it. I believe that humanity is capable of evil as well as great acts of courage and goodness. I have hope. Deep down, I believe in the human spirit, although sometimes that belief is shaken.

  Julianna Baggott

  Believe, Past, Evil

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• There is a - deep down, underneath all the work I do, I think there's a laziness in me.

  Roger Ailes

  Thinking, Laziness

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  Ladies love outlaws, like babies love stray dogs. Ladies touch babies like a banker touches gold, outlaws touch ladies somewhere deep down in their soul.

  Waylon Jennings

  Dog, Baby, Soul

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• In truth, I became a conductor because deep down I wanted to conduct Brahmss four symphonies and Richard Strausss tone poems.

  Zubin Mehta

  Symphony, Four, Tone

  Zubin Mehta, Renate v Matuschka (2009). “Zubin Mehta: The Score of My Life”, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• Cause everbody care. Black, white, deep down we all do.

  Kathryn Stockett

  White, Black, Care

  Kathryn Stockett (2009). “The Help”, p.308, Penguin

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• A fish, which you can't see, deep down in the water, is a kind of symbol of peace on earth, good will to yourself. Fishing gives a man ... some time to collect his thoughts and reaarange them kind of neatly, in an orderly fashion. Once the bait is on the hook and the boat is anchored, there's nothing to interfere with thinking except an occasional bite

  Robert Ruark

  Fashion, Men, Thinking

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• I am a person who believes in the good of people and who may have had things influence them to a certain degree, but deep down I think most people are good and would like to be good.

  Nolan North

  Believe, Thinking, People

  "Uncharted 3 interview – Nolan North on chasing pictures". Interview with David Jenkins, metro.co.uk. November 1, 2011.

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• there does seem to me something sad in life. It is hard to say what it is. I don't mean the sorrow that we all know, like illness and poverty and death. No, it is something different. It is there, deep down, deep down, part of one, like one's breathing.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Sadness, Mean, Breathing

  Katherine Mansfield (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Katherine Mansfield (Illustrated)”, p.420, Delphi Classics

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• Facts are fine, fer as they go ... but they're like water bugs skittering atop the water. Legends, now - they go deep down and bring up the heart of a story.

  Marguerite Henry

  Heart, Water, Stories

  Marguerite Henry (2012). “Misty of Chincoteague”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

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• The line between seduction and prostitution is very blurred, and deep down, everyone knows it.

  Virginie Despentes

  Lines, Seduction, Prostitution

  Virginie Despentes (2010). “King Kong Theory”, p.59, Profile Books

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• Love . . . is like nature, but in reverse; first it fruits, then it flowers, then it seems to wither, then it goes deep, deep down into its burrow, where no one sees it, where it is lost from sight, and ultimately people die with that secret buried inside their souls.

  Edna O'Brien

  Beautiful, Flower, Love Is

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• Pretend all you want, pretty girl. You and I know that deep down you’re secretly glad to be pressed up to my body.

  Jessica Sorensen

  Girl, Body, Want

  Jessica Sorensen (2016). “The Secret of Ella and Micha/The Forever of Ella and Micha”, p.31, Hachette UK

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• What compels any of us to do the things we do when deep down a part of us just wants to break free from it all?

  J.A. Redmerski

  Want, Break

  J. A. Redmerski (2013). “The Edge of Never”, p.7, HarperCollins UK

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• Yesterday I thought about why I felt the need to get up at exactly the same time as the day before and do everything I did the day before. Why? What compels any of us to do the things we do when deep down a part of us just wants to break free from it all?

  J.A. Redmerski

  Yesterday, Needs, Want

  J. A. Redmerski (2013). “The Edge of Never”, p.7, HarperCollins UK

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• I think she is confused by the way I want her, which is like nobody else. I know this deep down. I want her in a new way, a way she's never been told about.

  Louise Erdrich

  Love, Confused, Thinking

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• Deep down, she's a good person, Diana is," Caine said, and sighed. "Deep down, I'm not. But she is.

  Michael Grant

  Good Person, Diana, Said

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• Occasionally I sense an insane wail deep down in the pit, the echo alone reaching me, striking without warning, a child weeping uninhibitedly, imprisoned forever.

  Ingmar Bergman

  Children, Echoes, Forever

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