Don't Believe Quotes - Page 21

• I like the influence of the macabre, but I don't believe in ghosts.

  Sophie Ellis Bextor

  Believe, Ghost, Influence

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• I don't believe I've ever cuddled my elses.

  Larry Wall

  Believe, Don't Believe

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• Only in a concert situation do I have access to people directly to preach to them, and I don't believe that the bigger your platform is, the more people will pay attention.

  Larry Norman

  Believe, People, Attention

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• I am not a commercial industry creator. I don't believe in making art to make money.

  Alejandro Jodorowsky

  Art, Believe, Making Money

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• I want to work with people that frighten me and excite me, and characters that I don't believe I'm the best person for the part but I'm still gonna try anyway. Those are my favorite roles.

  Anne Hathaway

  Believe, Character, People

  "Anne Hathaway learns from a legend in 'Prada'". www.today.com. June 21, 2006.

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• I don't believe in open relationships. If you want to be with someone else, you shouldn't be in a relationship in the first place.

  Pixie Lott

  Believe, Want, Firsts

  "Pixie Lott and her hot model boyfriend are having the best-ever holiday in Miami" by Issy Sampson, www.mirror.co.uk. June 10, 2013.

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• I don't believe in waiting for a horse to do the wrong thing and then punishing him after the fact. You can't just say no to a horse. You have to redirect a negative behavior with a positive one, something that works for both of you. It's as though you're saying - instead of doing that, we can do this together.

  Buck Brannaman

  Horse, Believe, Waiting

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• I don't believe in frontiers, and I don't believe in races or nationalities.

  Julio Iglesias

  Believe, Race, Frontiers

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

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• I don't believe I have a good enough friend to give a three-footer

  Curtis Strange

  Believe, Golf, Giving

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• I believe your home tells a story about who you are and who you aspire to be. We represent ourselves through the things we own. I don't believe in trends. I believe in collecting things that you connect with. We should surround ourselves with things we care about, that have meaning.

  Nate Berkus

  Believe, Home, Collecting Things

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• I don't believe in having spaces in the home that don't get used. We pay so much for square footage that to waste it is criminal.

  Nate Berkus

  Believe, Home, Squares

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• Justice is the tolerable accommodation of the conflicting interests of society, and I don't believe there is any royal road to attain such accommodation concretely.

  Learned Hand

  Believe, Law Courts, Justice

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• A lot of people don't believe in curses.
  A lot of people don't believe in yellow-spotted lizards either, but if one bites you, it doesn't make a difference whether you believe in it or not.

  Louis Sachar

  Believe, Yellow, Differences

  Louis Sachar (2011). “Holes”, p.41, Yearling

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• We're taught Lord Acton's axiom: all power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. I believed that when I started these books, but I don't believe it's always true any more. Power doesn't always corrupt. Power can cleanse. What I believe is always true about power is that power always reveals.

  Robert Caro

  Believe, Book, Taught

  "Robert Caro: a life with LBJ and the pursuit of power". Interview with Chris McGreal, www.theguardian.com. June 9, 2012.

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• I don't believe in writing anything that I don't know about or haven't researched about personally. I like to transport the reader to places, and in order to do that I have to do the research.

  Jackie Collins

  Believe, Writing, Order

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• I don't believe in depriving myself of any food or being imprisoned by a diet.

  Joely Fisher

  Believe, Don't Believe, Depriving

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

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• ...but highly placed sources within the Kennedy Administration disagreed: "[T]he assumption that the strategic nuclear balance mattered in any way was wrong... As far as I am concerned, it made no difference... If my memory serves me correctly, we had some five thousand strategic nuclear warheads as against t heir three hundred. Can anyone seriously tell me that their having three hundred and forty would have made any difference? The military balance wasn't changed. I didn't believe it then, and I don't believe it now..."

  Robert McNamara

  Memories, Military, Believe

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• Reason is non-negotiable. Try to argue against it, or to exclude it from some realm of knowledge, and you've already lost the argument, because you're using reason to make your case. ... We don't "believe" in reason.

  Steven Pinker

  Faith, Believe, People

  "Brilliant Father Teaches His Children to Argue With Him Using Ancient Greek Rhetoric". rebrn.com. May 29, 2009.

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• Marvellous, what ideas the young people have these days. But I don't believe a word of it.

  Albert Einstein

  Believe, Ideas, People

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• I think we're yearning for something beyond the every day. And I will tell you that I don't believe in the supernatural, I believe in the supernormal. To me there is nothing that goes against nature. If it seems incomprehensible, it's because we haven't been able to understand it yet.

  Richard Matheson

  Believe, Thinking, Able

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think people talk too much; that's the truth of the matter. I do. I don't believe in words. People use too many words and usually wrongly. I am sure that in the distant future people will talk much less and in a more essential way. If people talk a lot less, they will be happier. Don't ask me why.

  Michelangelo Antonioni

  Believe, Thinking, People

  "Interview in Rome". Encountering Directors, (pp. 15-32), 1972.

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• No one gets to the top, if they sit on the sidelines, or if they don't believe in themselves.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Believe, Sidelines, Don't Believe

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• I don't believe in blaming inanimate objects for anything.

  Peter Benchley

  Believe, Inanimate Objects, Blame

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• I don't have any relationship with God and I've never wanted it. I don't believe in fate or in any superior entity; if a plane crashes and people die, it's not because Heaven said so.

  Fernando Alonso

  Believe, Fate, People

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• I don't believe in reincarnation. That's a cop-out. . . . I anticipate death will be a totally unconscious void in which you float through eternity with no particular consciousness of anything.

  Rod Serling

  Believe, Void, Consciousness

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