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An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it.
DON MARQUIS An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it.
DON MARQUIS The idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it.
UNKNOWN I don't believe in an afterlife. I don't believe in a single or multiple godhead. I respect ...
TONY JUDT I don't believe in nepotism. I don't much like the idea of parents who interfere.
ANTHONY HOPKINS My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE True leadership isn't about having an idea. It's about having an idea and recruiting other p...
LEILA JANAH If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it a...
NOAM CHOMSKY I don't believe in angels and I have trouble with the whole God thing. I don't want to say I...
BILLY CONNOLLY What do you mean you don't believe in homosexuality? It's not like the Easter Bunny, your be...
LEA DELARIA The camera or the microphone in the booth is merciless. If you don't believe what you're say...
RIZ AHMED I really don't like going out. I don't like restaurants because I don't like the idea of...
AMY SEDARIS I believe in things that move people, if the audience isn't deeply caught up and moved to either...
ESTELLE PARSONS I don't believe in trickle-down economics. I don't think that people who have the most are i...
DAVE MATTHEWS Common Core isn't a test, but for some people it is, because they don't like the testing pie...
CAMPBELL BROWN I don't believe in an eye for an eye. I believe in two eyes for an eye.
BAS RUTTEN It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe ...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Maybe studios don't want to see women acting in a way that isn't womanly. Maybe people don...
KRISTEN WIIG Nanotechnology is an idea that most people simply didn't believe.
RALPH MERKLE I don't have an interest in any car that isn't good for the environment, other than maybe an...
EMILE HIRSCH I don't think the mainstream media understands people of color are multidimensional. For some re...
ISSA RAE This marketplace where people can buy insurance who don't have it today - a competitive marketpl...
DAVID AXELROD I am an actor who doesn't believe in carrying an 'image' in the industry. I don't wa...
VIJAY SETHUPATHI For some people, marriage may be very groovy. For me, it really isn't. I don't think it real...
MARIANNE FAITHFULL The culture is about moving to a place where tobacco and smoking isn't part of normal life: peop...
ANDREW LANSLEY I don't believe in villains - just people who channel their energy in the wrong way.
ELIZABETH MCGOVERN In ways I don't entirely have the words for, an experience, thought or a lesson isn't real f...
ALEXANDRA FULLER It's absolutely of no importance who or what V was under the mask. He isn't a who or a what,...
DAVID LLOYD I mean, the idea of losing a parent is really inconceivable. I think there's just an undertone o...
LAURA LINNEY Don't depend on other people to be responsible for you. Don't make yourself stressed out ove...
EARTHA KITT It's difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn't ...
RONALD REAGAN We don't want the government to have anything we don't have, because government isn't ...
CAROLYN CHUTE Let's use some codes every word which isn't there or sound some kind non-sense, let's put it a code ...
DEYTH BANGER I don't feel responsible for things I didn't vote for.
BYRON DORGAN It's all make believe, isn't it?
MARILYN MONROE I don't like gurus. I don't like people who ask you to follow or believe. I like people who ...
A. S. BYATT Meditation isn't snake oil. For some people, meditation might be the most efficient way to reduc...
ADAM GRANT I don't see any kind of mirror of power, male power, that is, as a form of liberation. I don'...
SANDRA CISNEROS I don't believe that you have a work life and a home life. I believe that you have one life, and...
SRIKUMAR RAO I've reached the age of self-knowledge, so I don't know anything. People who claim that they...
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA Anyone in the humor business isn't thinking clearly if he doesn't surround himself with idea...
HANK KETCHAM I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't...
BORIS PASTERNAK This idea that being youthful is the only thing that's beautiful or attractive simply isn't ...
SHARON STONE If I don't have a model in front of me, I don't have an idea.
AZZEDINE ALAIA Fashion isn't something you can buy; you need to have the sense of it, and most people don't...
CARINE ROITFELD Sadly, I don't really believe in the idea of timeless fashion. It's an oxymoron. If 'cla...
RUSSELL SMITH I don't believe in killing people. I believe in locking you up for the rest of your life.
YAHYA JAMMEH For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible.
STUART CHASE The thing most people don't understand is that pitching isn't the same every time out.
TOM SEAVER Death is an awful thing. I don't believe in it myself.
EUGENE ORMANDY Isn't it ironic that a nightmare can masquerade as a dream?
KEN POIROT It isn't that I was born thinking I had to be president. I'm getting a lot of encouragement ...
MICHELE BACHMANN I don't believe in strong-arming people.
ZACHARY LEVI People don't believe in positive changes anymore.
ALEXEI NAVALNY Bring down Mike Mann and we can bring down the IPCC, they reckoned. It is a classic technique for th...
MICHAEL E. MANN Commitment in relationship, has today resurrected into an experienced Goliath, in a land where David...
FRANCIS OTIENO Founding a company is hard. Most of it isn't smooth. You'll have to make very hard decisions...
MARK ZUCKERBERG One of the interesting things about the Ozarks is you just about don't have street crime. It'...
DANIEL WOODRELL When people don't believe in you, you have to believe in yourself.
PIERCE BROSNAN I don't believe in cutting out people from the past. It doesn't give strength; it just gives...
CARLA BRUNI Surround yourself with smart, dedicated people - to build something isn't a one-man show. It'...
NIKLAS ZENNSTROM For me, pointing and clicking my phone is absolutely fine. People say that isn't the art of phot...
ANNIE LENNOX I love the idea of numerology, but I don't really believe in it. But I like thinking about what ...
AIMEE BENDER It's naive to think there is a woman in the world who isn't brought up to believe that they ...
JANET MCTEER We ought to follow through on an idea that was first proposed by President Clinton to allow people o...
JOHN EDWARDS Off, end this lies it's not awesome. Please take this crap, second very clever and smart, but I want...
DEYTH BANGER I look at him and realize, maybe I overreacted. Maybe more than once.
LISA SCHROEDER I really don't think plastic surgery is a good idea. People who've had it done don't loo...
ELIZA DOOLITTLE I absolutely believe in assimilation. I don't believe I'm any different from straight people...
CHAZ BONO If at first you don't succeed, then skydiving definitely isn't for you.
STEVEN WRIGHT The American people don't believe politicians. They don't believe business leaders or Hollyw...
JOHN YARMUTH I don't like psychiatry. I don't believe it works. I believe psychiatrists are neurotic or p...
KIRSTIE ALLEY I already know what things look like - I don't want description. People believe in appearances, ...
DUANE MICHALS This isn't a Republican issue. This isn't a Democrat issue. This is something that both part...
CORY GARDNER It's way easier to write for other people. Yourself isn't in it. When you write for yourself...
SAM DEW And those of us who have business opportunities and the capital to do it are going to sit in fear of...
STEVE WYNN I don't believe in politics; I don't understand any of it.
MAIRA KALMAN There isn't a day that goes by that I don't think about the paratroopers I served with who m...
CHRIS GIBSON I don't like people lying to me. I don't like people who don't return my calls. I don...
DAN AYKROYD I can't think of anyone I admire who isn't fuelled by self-doubt. It's an essential ingr...
RICHARD EYRE I don't believe in gutter politics. I don't believe in gutter journalism.
MARIA SHRIVER We give you this story. It is for the audience to be moved and gut wrenched, not us. It isn't as...
LINDA LAVIN The idea of lasting consequences isn't your usual 'Archie' trope.
MARK WAID If the news isn't there, don't create it. If I look at local news, I don't know what'...
WILLIE HERENTON Normal people... believe that if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Engineers believe that if it ...
SCOTT ADAMS Oh yeah, I believe in God. I think there's much more evidence that there is a God than that ther...
DAVID ZUCKER The system isn't stupid, but the people in it are.
THOMAS SZASZ The people who cast the votes don't decide an election, the people who count the votes do.
JOSEPH STALIN I don't have an office. I sit in a cubicle with everybody else. That's partly so no one can ...
KEVIN P. RYAN I realize that humor isn't for everyone. It's only for people who want to have fun, enjoy li...
ANNE WILSON SCHAEF Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a falsehood, isn't it?
ANTHONY HOPE The problem isn't that people don't understand how good things are. It's that they know,...
PAUL KRUGMAN There are three kinds of people in this world: 1) People who make lists, 2) People who don't mak...
MARY ROACH Filmmaking is a business and at the bottom line people who don't make fiscally responsible decis...
GALE ANNE HURD I told you I'm not going to criticize my successor. I'll just tell you that there are people...
GEORGE W. BUSH The writing process isn't something I'm in love with. I'm an illustrator who writes.
CHRIS RIDDELL People don't understand what happiness is, so they have an idea of what will make them happy, bu...
RICHARD GERE This idea that you can't be an honest man and a Washington politician is a myth, a crock made up...
MATT TAIBBI I believe in the brotherhood of man, all men, but I don't believe in brotherhood with anybody wh...
MALCOLM X People who don't know the true character of God - who don't believe He is merciful, gracious...
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MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES If people did not compliment one another there would be little society.
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MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES All grand thoughts come from the heart.
MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.
MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES Great thoughts always come from the heart.
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MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES Give help rather than advice.
MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES Strength lies not in defence but in attack.
MARQUIS DE ACERBA Everyone is born sincere and die deceivers.
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MARQUIS DE CONDORCET The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.
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MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.
MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES The idle always have a mind to do something.
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MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES Hope is the most sensitive part of a poor wretch's soul; whoever raises it only to torment him is be...
MARQUIS DE SADE Evil is a moral entity and not a created one, an eternal and not a perishable entity: it existed bef...
MARQUIS DE SADE Behold, my love, behold all that I simultaneously do: scandal, seduction, bad example, incest, adult...
MARQUIS DE SADE Emotions have taught mankind to reason.
MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES The mechanism that directs government cannot be virtuous, because it is impossible to thwart every c...
MARQUIS DE SADE Get it into your head once and for all, my simple and very fainthearted fellow, that what fools call...
MARQUIS DE SADE Never may an act of possession be exercised upon a free being; the exclusive possession of a woman i...
MARQUIS DE SADE Every principle is a judgment, every judgment the outcome of experience, and experience is only acqu...
MARQUIS DE SADE Miserable creatures, thrown for a moment on the surface of this little pile of mud, is it decreed th...
MARQUIS DE SADE I've already told you: the only way to a woman's heart is along the path of torment. I know none oth...
MARQUIS DE SADE So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to...
MARQUIS DE SADE Humane sentiments are baseless, mad, and improper; they are incredibly feeble; never do they withsta...
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