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"I believe life experiences are what an actor needs to relate to the character roles they take on, and to say the least, I've had many experiences leading up to this moment. Not only have my experiences become a tremendous asset in my acting, but also they helped me discover who I am and who I want to be."
"The man who lives in contact with what he believes to be a living Church is a man always expecting to meet Plato and Shakespeare tomorrow at breakfast. He is always expecting to see some truth that he has never seen before."
"I do not believe that any human being is fundamentally happier for being finally lost in a crowd, even if it is called a crowd of comrades."
"I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I believed in liberals."
"There is only one reason an intelligent person doesn't believe in miracles. He or she believes in materialism."
"Truth is sacred; and if you tell the truth too often nobody will believe it."
"When a man ceases to believe in god, he does not believe in nothing. He believes in everything."
"The modern world is filled with men who hold dogmas so strongly that they do not even know they are dogmas."
"When men cease to believe in God, they will believe in anything"
"Every one on the earth should believe that he has something to give to the world which cannot otherwise be given."
"Though I believe in liberalism, I find it difficult to believe in liberals."
"The modern materialists are not permitted to doubt; they are forbidden to believe."
"I said to him, "Shall I tell you where the men are who believe most in themselves? For I can tell you. I know of men who believe in themselves more colossally than Napoleon or Caesar. I know where flames the fixed star of certainty and success. I can guide you to the thrones of the Super-men. The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums."
"An event is not any more intrinsically intelligible or unintelligible because of the pace at which it moves. For a man who does not believe in a miracle, a slow miracle would be just as incredible as a swift one. The Greek witch may have turned sailors to swine with a stroke of the wand. But to see a naval gentleman of our acquaintance looking a little more like a pig every day, till he ended with four trotters and a curly tail, would not be any more soothing. It might be rather more creepy and uncanny."
"I believe that the Government's first duty is to defend its citizens, to defend them against the harms that come out of hate."
"I believe it's my pastoral duty to convert friends to atheism."
"One of the most fascinating aspects of politician-watching is trying to determine to what extent any politician believes what he says."
"I believe there's something very salutary in, say, beating up a gay-bashing policeman. Preferably one fights through the courts, through the laws, through education, but if at a neighborhood level violence is necessary, I'm all for violence. It's the only thing Americans understand."
"Many people in the United States happen to believe that United States policy is wrong in Vietnam and the Vietcong are correct in wanting to organize their country in their own way politically. This happens to be pretty much the opinion of western Europe and the other parts of the world."
"I was brought up to believe that what is out-of-doors should stay there and not be encouraged in any way."
