- Life
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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
- Prayer
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- Nov 07, 2020
Reading is a form of prayer, a guided meditation that briefly makes us believe we're someone else, disrupting the delusion that we're permanent and at the center of the universe. Suddenly (we're saved!) other people are real again, and we're fond of them.
- Intelligence
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.
- I Believe That
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe that I'm entitled to regard my pre-political life as off-limits in terms of what can be looked at and judged.
- I Believe In
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe in public services.
- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama believe that the problems that exist in our country can be solved by Washington, D.C. My dad believes that the problems in the country are Washington, D.C.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been asked whether knowing Spanish and being Hispanic myself is a positive in getting Hispanic voters, and I don't believe it is. I think Hispanics look for a friend; they look for someone who understands, whose willing to relate, to hear their issues and welcome them to the party and to their campaigns.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have tremendous admiration for everyone who enters the political arena so long as their goal is to do what they believe is right for the people of New York.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I find religion and spirituality fascinating. I would like to believe this isn't the end and there's something more, but I can't convince the rational part of me that that makes any sense whatsoever.
- Quality
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe resilience is the most useful human quality, and I've sought to cultivate it, but in 2019 I felt my resolve begin to weaken at times as it has never done before.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
We urgently need more trees, but we appear to believe that the only means of restoring them is planting. We have a national obsession with tree planting, which is in danger of becoming as tokenistic as bamboo toothbrushes and cotton tote bags.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
With Superman, super powers are just ancillary. It's that character, with all those principles and understanding... that's who he is right there. I think I tried to portray a sense of trust and power and charisma for Superman. That's what we believe Superman is.
- Habit
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- Nov 07, 2020
The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything. And I really believe that. And what I try to teach young people, or anybody in any creative field, is that every idea should seemingly be outrageous.
- Certain Things
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- Nov 07, 2020