"A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows."
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"Our culture seems to believe that it's entertaining to teach women to be frightened."
"We could change the world tomorrow if all the millions of people around the world acted the way they believe."
"We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work."
"It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him."
"I believe that every person is born with talent."
"I believe in a world of opposites and that’s why I avoid people with rigid and inflexible personalities."
"I'll never be happy. I believe I'll die alone. I would want it that way. I've been a loner all my life with my secrets and my pain. I'm really lost, but I'm trying to find myself. I'm really a sad, pathetic case. My whole life has been a waste. I've been a failure. I just want to escape."
"I believe in person to person; every person is Christ for me, and since there is only one Jesus, that person is only one person in the world for me at that moment."
"But avoidance allows you to believe that you're making all kinds of strides when you're not."
"I believe that if we want our children to understand the world beyond their classroom, we must bring the world into their classroom."
"That fact is that we live in an extremely violent culture, and we all justify violence if it's for what we believe in ."
"Know ye what it is to be a child? It is to have a spirit yet streaming from the waters of baptism; it is to believe in love, to believe in loveliness, to believe in belief."
"Believe me, I know what it's like to feel all alone...the worst kind of loneliness in the world is isolation that comes from being misunderstood, it can make people lose their grasp on reality. - Sienna Brooks"
"Something that you should take particular notice of is the fact that the best scripts have very few explanatory passages. Adding explanation to the descriptive passages of a screenplay is the most dangerous trap you can fall into. It’s easy to explain the psychological state of a character at a particular moment, but it’s very difficult to describe it through the delicate nuances of action and dialogue. Yet it is not impossible."
"Believe in the power of your own voice. The more noise you make, the more accountability you demand from your leaders, the more our world will change for the better."
"There may not be a hell, but those who judge may create one. I think people are over-taught. They are over-taught everything. You have to find out by what happens to you, how you will react. I'll have to use a strange term here... "good." I don't know where it comes from, but I feel that there's an ultimate strain of goodness born in each of us. I don't believe in God, but I believe in this "goodness" like a tube running through our bodies. It can be nurtured. It's always magic, when on a freeway packed with traffic, a stranger makes room for you to change lanes... it gives you hope."
"You have to say I am forgiven again and again until it becomes the story you believe about yourself."
"But I think it would be irresponsible for me not to say what I really believe in my heart to be true - that there are some serious inequities that we face as women and that we can work to address these inequities"
"Margarine? That's not food. I Can't Believe It's Not Butter? I can. If you're planning on using margarine in anything, you can stop reading now, because I won't be able to help you."