- Great
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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
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020
On 'Overpowered,' there was a nostalgia for disco and early house music. But I'm a modernist and futurist as well. I do believe - and this is going to sound really pretentious, I know - that humanity will figure it out, so I'm optimistic about the future.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
To preach the Gospel requires that the preacher should believe that he is sent to those whom he is addressing at the moment, because God has among them those whom He is at the moment calling; it requires that the speaker should expect a response.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a profound belief in the power of the Sacraments. I believe that in a Divine way the use of them teaches the teachable their inward meaning and therefore I think we need be in no hurry to attempt to teach new converts all that we think we know about them.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
The God I do believe in is the God who doesn't care: James Joyce's God who stands back, paring his fingernails.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't believe that I'm sitting in meetings with Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks, and Annette Bening. I want to take on that responsibility to represent all the Rogers out there who don't have a seat at the table. People of colour were not at the table, and now I am there, I want to change things.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most journalists now believe that a person's privacy zone gets smaller and smaller as the person becomes more and more powerful.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe there is something going on in a conscious being, which includes many animals, as well as ourselves, that is not a computational activity. And to be conscious at all is not a quality that a computer as such will ever possess - no matter how complicated, no matter how well it plays chess or any of these things.
- Nonsense
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't really believe in the mystery of cinematography - what happens in the camera is what the cinematographers create and all that nonsense - I want the director to see what I'm trying to do.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe that young people wearing hoods, unless they are very young, can be frightening. What are they hiding? Why don't they want to come out into the light with the rest of us? They may be perfectly nice, but the hoods send an uncertain statement.
- Depriving
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- Nov 07, 2020
I personally believe, as church law sets out, that sanctions are an absolute last resort, particularly penal sanctions of depriving people of the sacraments.
- Illusion
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't have any illusions anymore. The illusion that rock 'n' roll could change anything - I don't believe that. I've changed.
- Carry
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- Nov 07, 2020
We believe that the Federal Reserve has to carry on with a progressive increase in interest rates as a consequence of the American economy.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020