John Banville Quotes

I don't know anything about myself. Put it this way, there is no self. I believe that we're a compendium of personalities. We're whoever we meet. We go through the day being who we think we should be and who we think we'd like to be.

John Banville

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• We believe the use of force against Iraq, especially with reference to previous resolutions of the UN Security Council, has no grounds, including legal grounds.

  

  Igor Ivanov
  • Believe
  • Security
  • Legal

• I'm truly blessed with great genes. I've never done anything drastic in my life, and I can proudly say I haven't tried any of those crazy fad diets, either. I believe in eating right and living healthy. Plus, I love going to the gym, and I enjoy yoga because it streamlines your body.

  

  Malaika Arora Khan
  • Life
  • Enjoy
  • Blessed

• I believe everyone should have healthcare. In all my correspondence - I've been saying for years - it's a right, not a privilege.

  

  Bart Stupak
  • Believe
  • Saying
  • Health care

• Believe with all your heart that you will do what you were made to do. Never for an instant harbor a doubt of it.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
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  • Doubt

• I firmly believe, only because I've been doing this for so long, every show takes three years. 90% of them don't get three years. It just does. It takes a long time to build a community, build a friendship with your characters. It's hard for people to grasp on and make them care about you.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • People
  • Time
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• Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Believe
  • Education
  • Kind

• Black people were very angry with me for writing the book. A lot of people didn't believe me, or didn't want to believe me, and that used to really bother me. It was a very painful and difficult time.

  

  LaToya Jackson
  • People
  • Time
  • Believe

• If you believe that markets operate in Alan Greenspan fashion, then you don't inquire into the details.

  

  Oliver E. Williamson
  • Believe
  • Fashion
  • Details

• Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.

  

  G. Gordon Liddy
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Important

• Some scientists believe climate change is the cause of unprecedented melting of the North Pole, and that effects these very uncertain weather patterns. I think we should listen to those scientists and experts.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Believe
  • Change
  • Weather

• You can't believe everything you read. I am only six foot three, by the way.

  

  L'Wren Scott
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  • Read

• I don't believe you should make fun of anyone but yourself.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Believe
  • Fun
  • Yourself

• I believe that we are going to have a much deeper appreciation of what kinds of abnormalities in cancer cells and in the surrounding cells that feed and respond to cancers are vulnerabilities that will allow us to make better predictions of which kinds of drugs will work to treat these cancers.

  

  Harold E. Varmus
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Cancer

• Am I a trance medium? No. Have I got a gift psychically? Absolutely not. But I believe in the survival of consciousness after death.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Believe
  • Death
  • Survival

• I'm working class. Not because my family have always been skint or because I'm from the grim north, but because I am from a class of people who believe in work. In paying their way.

  

  Ian Watson
  • People
  • Work
  • Believe

• Both my grandmothers had upright pianos, and I just knew how to play since I was a child. Nobody taught me. I sounded like a grown-up, and then I learned how to read music. I played so well by ear I could fool the teacher to believe I could play the notes. She'd make the mistake of playing the song once, and I could play it.

  

  Valerie Simpson
  • Up
  • Music
  • Believe

• I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Believe
  • Color
  • Human

• No matter what love throws at you, you have to believe in it.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Believe
  • Love
  • For Her

• When we traded the results of our fantasies, it seemed to us-and rightly-that we had proceeded by unwarranted associations, by shortcuts so extraordinary that, if anyone had accused us of really believing them, we would have been ashamed.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Believe
  • Thinking
  • Association

• There is so much one would rather not believe until one has seen for oneself whether it is true.

  

  Selma Lagerlof
  • Believe
  • Oneself

• Over the last 15 months, we've traveled to every corner of the United States. I've now been in 57 states? I think one left to go.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Think
  • Now
  • Last

• Embrace the color of your skin and your own beauty.

  

  Yuna
  • Color
  • Beauty
  • Skin

• I grew up watching 'Rambo' and 'Rocky' and all of those movies, so you have a surreal moment, even as an actor, when you're in front of these guys, whether it's DeNiro or Stallone. You have a moment like, 'Geez, that's Sylvester Stallone,' and then you have to snap out of it and get back in the pocket of the character.

  

  Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
  • Up
  • Character
  • Rocky

• I don't know anything about myself. Put it this way, there is no self. I believe that we're a compendium of personalities. We're whoever we meet. We go through the day being who we think we should be and who we think we'd like to be.

  

  John Banville
  • Believe