Quotes with convince

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  • Ang Lee On a Chinese film you just give orders, no one questions you. Here, you have to convince people, you have to tell them why you want to do it a certain way, and they argue with you. Democracy.
    Ang Lee
    Taiwanese film director, producer, and screenwriter (1954 - )
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  • Carrie Fisher One of the great things to pretend is that you're not only alright, you're in great shape. Now to have that come true - I've actually gone on stage depressed and that's worked its magic on me, 'cause if I can convince you that I'm alright, then maybe I can convince me.
    Carrie Fisher
    American actress, writer and comedienne (1956 - 2016)
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  • Jonathan Swift Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Blaise Pascal Put the world's greatest philosopher on a plank that is wider than need be; if there is a precipice below, although his reason may convince him that he is safe, his imagination will prevail.
    Pensees (1669)
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Casey Stengel The best ballplayer's the one who doesn't think he made good. He keeps trying to convince you.
    Casey Stengel
    American basketbal player and manager (1890 - 1975)
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  • Brendan I. Koerner The goal of mass transit is to convince people to abandon their cars, which feature such enticing accessories as CD players and elbow room.
    Brendan I. Koerner
    American author (1974 - )
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  • Nick Lappos The size of your problem is defined by your efforts to convince yourself that it's not a problem.
    Nick Lappos
    American helicopter technician
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  • Barbara Boxer The White House has embarked on a mission to convince the people of our country that Social Security is in dire need of drastic change in order to save it for all workers.
    Barbara Boxer
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Junius There is a holy, mistaken zeal in politics, as well as in religion. By persuading others, we convince ourselves.
    Junius
    pseudonym of a writer of letters to the Public Advertiser
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  • Alexander Herzen There is nothing in the world more stubborn than a corpse: you can hit it, you can knock it to pieces, but you cannot convince it.
    Alexander Herzen
    Russian journalist and political thinker (1812 - 1870)
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  • Paul Goodman There is such a thing as food and such a thing as poison. But the damage done by those who pass off poison as food is far less than that done by those who generation after generation convince people that food is poison.
    Paul Goodman
    American writer, poet, criticus (1911 - 1972)
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  • Walt Whitman We convince by our presence.
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Brigitte Bardot We have to convince the people of Bucharest, who are dog lovers, to treat dogs like they treat their children and not just let them roam the streets.
    Brigitte Bardot
    French fashion model, singer and actress (1934 - )
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  • Art Spiegelman Well, I am not 100 percent sure of the definition of polemic, but it wasn't meant to convince anybody of anything.
    Art Spiegelman
    American cartoonist and editor (1948 - )
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  • Irving Layton When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
    Irving Layton
    Canadian poet (1912 - 2006)
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  • Carl Sagan You can't convince a believer of anything; for their belief is not based on evidence, it's based on a deep seated need to believe.
    Cosmos
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Carlos Ghosn You'll never convince me there is a hopeless situation or there is any finality in any success or any failure.
    Carlos Ghosn
    Brazilian-born businessman (1954 - )
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  • Pablo Picasso We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.
    Pablo Picasso
    Spanish painter, draftsman and sculptor (1881 - 1973)
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