"There is something terribly radical about believing that one's own experience and images are important enough to speak about, much less to write about and to perform"
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"I believe a man is better anchored who has a belief in the Supreme Being."
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"What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts."
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"I believe my first duty is to survive. And I'm not just talking about criminals coming into my home. I once seriously considered getting a gun to protect myself from the police. If I need a weapon to continue living, I'll get one. And I'll use it."
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"If enough of us believe, a new thing can be made to exist. Belief structure creates a filter through which chaos is sifted into order."
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"If you believe certain words, you believe their hidden arguments. When you believe something is right or wrong, true or false, you believe the assumptions in the words which express the arguments. Such assumptions are often full of holes, but remain most precious to the convinced."
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"I do not believe in adding enrichment merely for the sake of enrichment. Unless it adds clearness to the enunciation of the theme, it is undesirable, for it is very little understood."
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"I believe totally in a Capitalist System, I only wish that someone would try it."
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"I believe that everybody has the right to believe what they want to believe and to knock somebody's faith and religion is foolish, whatever it may be - Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism."
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"We do not believe in the educative power of words and commands alone, but seek cautiously, and almost without the child's knowing it, to guide his natural activity."
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"I believe war is the inevitable fruit of our economic system."
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"A large part of crime is economics - if people are working and and have a home and family to support, then I believe you can reduce the crime rate."
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"By believing passionately in that which doesn't exist, you create it and that which has not been sufficiently desired is what we call the non existent."
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"I really believe that we all have the ability to come out of our story. But you have to tell your story first in order to come out of it."
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"It's not that I don't believe in miracles, but I never quite trust that they're real."
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"I believe that everybody comes from pain and a certain amount of dysfunction."
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"In old interviews I was still worried about being judged. I think my life was about how can I keep myself in control. How can I just get through this and be okay? And, you know, you turn the corner. You realize that you're not imprisoned by your life or your circumstances or your genetics or anything. I really believe that we all have the ability to come out of our story. But you have to tell your story first in order to come out of it."
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"Please don't make me a joke. End the interview with what I believe. I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one... I want to be an artist, an actress with integrity..."
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"I believe that the reason of life is for each of us simply to grow in love."
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"One may say with one's lips: “I believe that the world was created six thousand years ago;” or, “I believe that Jesus flew away into the skies and is sitting on the right hand of the Father;” or, “God is One, and also Three;” — but no one can believe it, because the words have no sense."
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