"I believe people can change, but only for the worse"
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"I believe in God. I don't fear man, I fear God."
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"She was an absolute genius as a comedic actress, with an extraordinary sense for comedic dialogue. It was a God-given gift. Believe me, in the last fifteen years there were ten projects that came to me, and I'd start working on them and I'd think, 'It's not going to work, it needs Marilyn Monroe.' Nobody else is in that orbit; everyone else is earthbound by comparison."
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"You have to believe that you can act and that you're the right person for the job but I think it's good to not always know how you're going to do it. The fun part is trying to figure it out."
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"He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual; he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the world's believing him. This falsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions."
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"I'm an optimist in the sense that I believe humans are noble and honorable, and some of them are really smart. I have a very optimistic view of individuals."
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"I believe that Icarus was not failing as he fell, but just coming to the end of his triumph."
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"...memory is fragile and the space of a single life is brief, passing so quickly that we never get a chance to see the relationship between events; we cannot gauge the consequences of our acts, and we believe in the fiction of past, present, and future, but it may also be true that everything happens simultaneously."
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"There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them."
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"Three rules: I do not eat too much; I do not worry too much; and, if I do my best, I believe that what happens, happens for the best."
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"I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night."
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"We only see what we want to see; we only hear what we want to hear. Our belief system is just like a mirror that only shows us what we believe."
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"It's the lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believe in myself. He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life. I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest."
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"Some of the things you believe were never true. They were someone else's fears. Give yourself a chance to examine your thoughts. Change those that are negative. You are deserving."
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"To believe in God is to see that life has a meaning."
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"I am a feminist because I feel endangered, psychically and physically, by this society and because I believe that the women's movement is saying that we have come to an edge of history when men - insofar as they are embodiments of the patriarchal idea - have become dangerous to children and other living things, themselves included"
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"The future was uncertain, absolutely, and there were many hurdles, twists, and turns to come, but as long as I kept moving forward, one foot in front of the other, the voices of fear and shame, the messages from those who wanted me to believe that I wasn't good enough, would be stilled."
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"To see is to be decieved. To hear is to be lied to. To FEEL is to believe."
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"Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart."
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"Confidence is believing in yourself. Arrogance is telling others youre better than they are. Confidence inspires. Arrogance destroys."
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