- Sing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Believe Quotes
On conviction, faith and holding a belief through doubt.
The quotes gathered here move between technical foresight, early confidence in where computing was headed, and deeply personal conviction about politics, work and society's assumptions. For more on faith, see our Faith quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Prove
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- Nov 07, 2020
We do not believe in immortality because we can prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it.
- Nov 07, 2020
I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a professional geologist, an explorationist for oil. That's what I've done in my career, one that's culminated in - at least to this point - playing a part in finding the largest field in the last 40 years anywhere in the world. That's the Bakken field, which I believe will yield 24 billion barrels of oil in the decades to come, maybe more.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you don't believe in God, all you have to believe in is decency. Decency is very good. Better decent than indecent. But I don't think it's enough.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am absolutely not saying that Milosevic might not be responsible for all sorts of atrocities, but I believe that what's been left out of public debate and the press is that there was a civil war going on there.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The idea that I have to be on the same side of the fence as Dan Quayle is cruelly depressing to me, but the truth is, I believe in family values.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
As much as we'd like to believe that our work is great and that we're infallible, we're not. Hollywood movies are made for the audience. These are not small European art films we're making.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to be married to a woman who pursued every spiritual trend with tremendous passion and dragged me along. I don't believe in anything. I'd seen mediums and readers.
- Literature
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have never believed that the critic is the rival of the poet, but I do believe that criticism is a genre of literature or it does not exist.
- Progress
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't believe in myths of decline or myths of progress, even as regards the literary scene.
- Legal
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have never wanted a family. I don't believe in marriage, though I obviously believe it should be legal for everyone who wants to do it. But it is not something I believe in, nor do the characters in my book, nor do any of my friends.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020