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Cheryl Strayed Author, Memoirist
Believe

"We love and care for oodles of people, but only a few of them, if they died, would make us believe we could not continue to live. Imagine if there were a boat upon which you could put only four people, and everyone else known and beloved to you would then cease to exist. Who would you put on that boat? It would be painful, but how quickly you would decide: You and you and you and you, get in. The rest of you, goodbye."

People Believe Goodbye
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Cheryl Strayed Author, Memoirist
Believe

"…the death of my mother was the thing that made me believe the most deeply in my safety: nothing bad could happen to me, I thought. The worst thing already had."

Believe Mother Safety
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Cheryl Strayed Author, Memoirist
Believe

"If you want to read anything nasty about me, just go to the backpacker websites. There's this kind of elitist branch where they really believe that I had no business going backpacking."

Believe Want Branches
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Chester Brown Cartoonist, Author
Believe

"It's because I do see sex as sacred and potentially spiritual that I believe in commercializing it and making this potentially holy experience more easily available to all."

Believe Spiritual Sex
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Chinua Achebe Novelist, Poet
Believe

"Those who are talking sharia in Nigeria are really just politicians exploiting what they think is available. But if it should turn out that there are in fact whole sections of the country which believe that it is legitimate to chop off peoples hands because they stole a hen - if that should really turn out to be the genuine belief of responsible, educated people in the North than I would say there is no chance. But I do not believe that is the case. The sharia was always there but it was never force onto non-Muslims and it was not ever applied in the area of criminal law."

Thinking Believe Country
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Chris Gardner Entrepreneur
Believe

"I just wanted to make a million dollars. But I couldn't sing and I couldn't play ball, so I said to my mother, 'How am I going to make a million dollars?' And she said to me, 'Son, if you believe you can do it, you will.'"

Believe Mother Son
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Chris Martin Musician
Believe

"I don't think you have to struggle to make good art. I think you have to be passionate to make good art. You have to believe in what you're doing. It just comes from when you lie awake at night."

Believe Art Lying
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Chris Murray Musician
Believe

"This next nugget of salesmanship cannot be perfected in a single afternoon. However, once you have it mastered, your competition will continuously believe you possess some mystical customer attracting formula"

Believe Competition Nuggets
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Chris Murray Musician
Believe

"You look green, immature. A young boy playing at business, dressing up in the manner in which he believes an actual grown-up would. Your viewpoint of business attire is one of wide-eyed wonder from the nursery door."

Believe Boys Doors
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Chris Rock Comedian, Actor, Writer
Believe

"And even if you get shot by a stray bullet, you don't gotta go to no doctor to get it taken out, whoever shot you will take they bullet back! "I believe you have my property!""

Believe Funny Taken
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Chris Rock Comedian, Actor, Writer
Believe

"You just got to be really logical when you're a comedian - to a fault. Like a lawyer's got to believe in the law."

Believe Law Comedian
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Christopher Hitchens Author, Critic, Journalist
Believe

"So there's nothing more vulgar than the sound of someone saying, God Bless America, someone who doesn't really believe it, but he thinks it will make him look good to other people. I think it's the most nauseating spectacle."

Thinking Believe America
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Christopher Hitchens Author, Critic, Journalist
Believe

"The rich world likes and wishes to believe that someone, somewhere, is doing something for the Third World. For this reason, it does not inquire too closely into the motives or practices of anyone who fulfills, however vicariously, this mandate."

Believe Wish Practice
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Christopher Hitchens Author, Critic, Journalist
Believe

"If I was to interrupt this article every few sentences, asking you whether or not I was making a good impression on you, I hope and believe that you would think I was a servile jerk. Yet this is what our politicians are doing in every speech."

Thinking Believe Political
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Clancy Martin Philosopher
Believe

"That is the person you want publishing your book. To be in it, you really have to believe in books and love whatever it is you're publishing. Both on the book side and especially on the magazine side, I've had editors that I did not get the same feeling from. That feeling of, "This is something I believe in, I don't care how long, I'm going to publish it" - that kind of passion and commitment means a lot to you."

Believe Mean Book
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