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"Sometimes, when I get a good picture, it feels like I have taken another nervous step into increasingly rarified air. Each good-news picture, no matter how hard-earned, allows me only a crumbling foothold on this steepening climb—an ascent whose milestones are fear and doubt."
"I’ve questioned everything about myself, every step of the way. You have to have the same amount of fear and self-doubt as you do hope and blind optimism."
"There is no doubt that being human is incredibly difficult and cannot be mastered in one lifetime."
"We are going to a new world... and no doubt it is there that everything is for the best; for it must be admitted that one might lament a little over the physical and moral happenings of our own world."
"Without doubt cats are intellectuals who have been, by some mysterious decree of Providence, deprived of the comfort of the word."
"We have found it of paramount importance that in order to progress, we must recognize our ignorance and leave room for doubt."
"Just becauseWe cannot see,We are not entitled to doubt."
"Make YOUR can larger than YOUR can't, and YOUR DREAMS bigger than YOUR doubts"
"Life isn't much more than a big dig through layers of doubt and fear into new levels of power and potential."
"Whatever else history may say about me when I'm gone, I hope it will record that I appealed to your best hopes, not your worst fears; to your confidence rather than your doubts. My dream is that you will travel the road ahead with liberty's lamp guiding your steps and opportunity's arm steadying your way."
"The past was great no doubt, but I sincerely believe that the future will be more glorious still."
"They had applied their doubts to the very head that had introduced doubt as a tool for advancing knowledge. And in the end they gave the head a nod."
"God, how I ricochet between certainties and doubts."
"If I knew in 1986 how much it was going to cost to keep Pixar going, I doubt if I would have bought the company."
"You could be great, you know, it’s all here in your head, and Slytherin will help you on the way to greatness, no doubt about that."
"In doubt a man of worth will trust to his own wisdom."
"You can either waltz boldly onto the stage of life and live the way you know your spirit is nudging you to, or you can sit quietly by the wall, receding into the shadows of fear and self doubt."
"Doubt means don't. Don't move. Don't answer. Don't rush forward."
"Readers have no doubt noticed how seldom builders live in houses of their own construction. You will find a town or village expanding in all directions with their masterpieces of modernity in the way of houses and bungalows; but the builder himself you will usually find living nearer the heart of things, snugly and comfortably housed in some more substantial, if less convenient, building of less recent date."
"Not only must Americans admire Israel, there can be no doubt that we have an interest in, and special responsibility for, that valiant nation."
