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• We put our fingers in the eyes of those who doubt that Libya is ruled by anyone other than its people.

  Muammar al-Gaddafi

  Eye, People, Libya

  "Muammar Gaddafi offers rebels an amnesty" by Peter Beaumont, www.theguardian.com. March 2, 2011.

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• At twenty-eight I'd had a handful of beaux, but had only been in love once, and that had been awful enough to make me doubt men and myself for a good long while.

  Paula McLain

  Men, Eight, Long

  Paula McLain (2011). “The Paris Wife: A Novel”, p.27, Ballantine Books

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• You can have a perfectly horrible day where you doubt your talent... Or that you're boring and they're going to find out that you don't know what you're doing.

  Meryl Streep

  Talent, Boring, Horrible

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• Every job I take, within minutes Im thinking, I cant do this. I think its what makes me work. People think I just swagger in and do it. But I doubt myself all the time. Its what pushes me, what makes me work harder. The older I get, the less I take for granted.

  Ray Winstone

  Jobs, Hard Work, Thinking

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• A deity who remains silent and invisible should not get angry or surprised at doubt of his reality.

  Graham Kendall

  Reality, Deities, Invisible

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• It's very difficult to judge yourself. Extreme self-doubt is only attractive when it's fictionalized. Which is why people love the movies. They are so reassuring.

  Claire Danes

  Self, People, Judging

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

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• I havent really thought about where to scatter my ashes when the time comes, but I doubt that it would be in space.

  Scott Bakula

  Space, Would Be, Ashes

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• Im going to always rise above the doubt that may exist about me.

  T.I.

  May, Rise Above

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• ... as usual I am suffering much from doubt as to the worth of what I am doing and fear lest I may not be able to complete it so as to make it a contribution to literature and not a mere addition to the heap of books.

  George Eliot

  Book, Suffering, Literature

  George Eliot, Margaret Harris, Judith Johnston (2000). “The Journals of George Eliot”, p.145, Cambridge University Press

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• Philosophers have widely differed as to the seat of the soul, and St. Paul has told us that out of the heart proceed murmurings; but there can be no doubt that the seat of perfect contentment is in the head, for every individual is thoroughly satisfied with his own proportion of brains.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Heart, Perfect, Soul

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”, p.91

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• At length weariness succeeds to labor, and the mind lies at ease in the contemplation of her own attainments without any desire of new conquests or excursions. This is the age of recollection and narrative; the opinions are settled, and the avenues of apprehension shut against any new intelligence; the days that are to follow must pass in the inculcation of precepts already collected, and assertion of tenets already received; nothing is henceforward so odious as opposition, so insolent as doubt, or so dangerous as novelty.

  Samuel Johnson

  Lying, Mind, Age

  Samuel Johnson (2003). “Selected Essays”, p.380, Penguin UK

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• I doubt if there ever was a man who was not gratified by being told that he was liked by the women.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Vanity, Ifs

  Samuel Johnson (1836). “Johnsoniana; or supplement to Boswell; being Anecdotes and sayings of Dr. Johnson, etc”, p.361

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• When you audition for shows in Hollywood, you go in, you do your scene, maybe you get an adjustment. It's sort of easy, and a lot of times it just feels sort of rote and simple. Whereas when you go to New York and you audition for plays, you walk out sweaty and intimidated and nervous and doubting yourself as an actor.

  Ben Feldman

  New York, Simple, Play

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• If you face just one opponent, and you doubt yourself, you're out-numbered

  Dan Millman

  Opponents, Faces, Just One

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• I've realised I need a gnawing, nagging, anxious doubt when I wake at 4 A.M.

  Catherine Tate

  Needs, Nagging, Anxious

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• Cosmopolis is the movie of my life. I didn't consider myself an actor before, even if I had 10 years of acting behind me. I always felt like a fraud, and inappropriate. I doubt a lot. David Cronenberg gave me confidence in myself. He changed my way of acting and thinking in this industry.

  Robert Pattinson

  Thinking, Years, Acting

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• Lordy, lordy, lordy do I love money. It is a character flaw, no doubt, one that springs from a panicked childhood in which I always felt as if our family was only a couple missed child support payments from being tossed onto the pitiless streets of our suburban New Jersey town.

  Michael Ian Black

  Couple, Children, Spring

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The only people who have doubts about the sincerity of my music are people who come to it relatively late, off the back of having seen me in a film. Acting is about being other people, and music is about being myself.

  Riz Ahmed

  People, Acting, Film

  "Q&A: Riz Ahmed". Interview with Tom Lamont, www.theguardian.com. June 6, 2010.

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• I am incredibly self-deprecating. It stems from self-doubt.

  Charlie Cox

  Self, Stem, Self Deprecating

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If I had known how much I hate auditioning, I doubt I would have become an actress.

  Jaime Murray

  Hate, Actresses, Known

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Indeed I cannot doubt that there has been really one grand empire, or one Universal, one Pandæan, or one Catholic religion, with one language, which has extended over the whole of the world; uniting or governing at the same time.

  Godfrey Higgins

  Catholic Religion, World, Uniting

  Godfrey Higgins (2014). “Anacalypsis”, p.246, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Everything we did was done in form and with propriety, and the result of our proceedings is the document [the Quebec Resolutions] that has been submitted to the imperial government as well as to this house and which we speak of here as a treaty. And that there may be no doubt about our position in regard to that document we say, question it you may, reject it you may, or accept it you may, but alter it you may not.

  Thomas D'Arcy McGee

  Government, House, Done

  Legislative Assembly, February 9, 1865.

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• There can be no doubt that if we had been victorious on the Vistula, the revolutionary fires would have reached the entire continent.

  Mikhail Tukhachevsky

  Fire, Revolutionary, Continents

  "A century's journey: how the great powers shape the world". Book by Robert A. Pastor, Stanley Hoffmann, p. 175, 1999.

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• It is not pleasant to have a stranger doubt your respectability.

  Maud Younger

  Stranger, Pleasant, Respectability

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• You will find that free advice about your money is always available. It's usually those who lean back and give you the most 'positive' advice whose finances are bordering on catastrophe. They are often wrong, but never in doubt.

  Venita VanCaspel

  Money, Giving, Advice

  Venita VanCaspel (1983). “The power of money dynamics”, Simon & Schuster

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