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believe. What we believe is b... ZUKAV What is protecting me is that it is not a finality being an actress. I really think we tend to ideal... CHARLOTTE LE BON JOYCE MEYER NICK CAVE SHARON SALZBERG With my boyfriend, we can make sexist jokes to each other because we know it's absolutely not tr... EMILY BROWNING ALAN BALL TED TURNER When We have Patience in our minds and Love in our hearts, Nothing appears to be impossible or unrea... PHILIP T.M ARNOLD BENNETT We act on that which we believe to be true. Yet if our truths are false, then we only act on our imp... CHRIS L. ANDREADIS DALLAS WILLARD HUGH JACKMAN UNKNOWN I've said this before - and I mean it strongly - an abstract concept or a moral issue has to be ... ANNE MICHAELS I have a philosophy that white people would be interested in Native Americans because, first of all,... SOLEDAD O'BRIEN ALBERT CAMUS LADY GREGORY ALAIN DE BOTTON There is only one thing keeping us from having heaven on earth: we can't believe it! Why? Becaus... PATRICIA SUN GAIL DEVERS I firmly believe in what Stephen Hawking says - that if we don't get off this planet, we're ... JOLENE BLALOCK FREDERICK BUECHNER I am always saying, 'I don't believe in God; I believe in Al Pacino.' And that's tru... JAVIER BARDEM I don't necessarily want to know what people are saying when I'm not around, especially if i... LAURA VANDERVOORT STEVE WINWOOD There is a no-man's land in our politics: on the one hand, bounded by what we know to be true, a... DICK MORRIS Sometimes neither what we say nor what we do absolutely describes the true we are; it is what we "be... HAZEM R AHMED NATE BERKUS EDWARD SNOWDEN ANNA DEAVERE SMITH TERRY PRATCHETT GERMANY KENT They may well say not only is this not true, but I will put in an injunction to prevent publication.... IAN HISLOP ANN COULTER I think what's important in a good manager and a good agent is that they know your vision and th... MAIARA WALSH 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give... JAMES C. DOBSON JODI PICOULT Sometimes I Google myself just to see what people are saying. But we all do that. If someone tells y... HAILEY BALDWIN DOUGLAS COUPLAND There's no artist in this world that doesn't enjoy the dream that if they have bad reviews n... JANE CAMPION NANCY GIBBS BARACK OBAMA DANIEL ESPINOSA STEVEN STRAIT CARLOS FUENTES H. A. IRONSIDE Prestige only cares about what we are doing and what people are saying about it. Fulfillment is foun... JOHNNY WALKER But if we can manage it so people don't have things forced on them that they don't want, I t... K. ERIC DREXLER NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON What our closest friends do for us is to teach us true selflessness. We learn that while it might be... MARK MOSSA SLOANE CROSLEY It comes down to what your priorities are, and if public education is about kids, then every decisio... CAMPBELL BROWN I really believe it's not bad to look back within music. I don't mean retro, but using your ... AGNES OBEL Most of us are not real eager to grow, myself included. We try to be happy by staying in the status ... OLYMPIA DUKAKIS BRAD GORESKI SAINT AUGUSTINE Your moral stance depends on what you think is being aborted. If you don't believe it to be a pe... LOUISE MENSCH FRANCIS SPUFFORD Another version of the “Prosperity Gospel” or “Name It and Claim It” teaching has to do with... ERIC METAXAS Another version of the “Prosperity Gospel” or “Name It and Claim It” teaching has to do with... ERIC METAXAS We have a responsibility to give people opportunities to do what they can do. It's a fundamental... MITCH KAPOR DUANE MICHALS LAILA ALI GARY BAUER The minute I put my leg on a horse and say, 'Come on, let's go,' I absolutely believe th... IAN MILLAR WILLIAM HENRY HUDSON JOYCE MEYER It's possible that we could change a human gene and double our life span. I don't know if th... CYNTHIA KENYON IYANLA VANZANT KEKE PALMER MICHAEL POLANYI What I enjoy doing is challenging stereotypes of what people believe a Tory must be. You don't h... LOUISE MENSCH
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