Colin McGinn Quotes
Faith is believing things by definition, which are not justified by reason. If it were justified by reason, it wouldn't be faith. It would just be ordinary belief. It's something you can't prove. That's what faith is, believing something you can't prove.
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People tell you you're having chemotherapy, but there are different types of chemotherapy, and you don't know which one you're going to get and how it's going to affect you. The people in the hospitals don't always have time to help you understand it.
Sam Taylor-Johnson
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It was always my dream to write for a living.
Karin Slaughter
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Hawaii has always been a very pivotal role in the Pacific. It is in the Pacific. It is a part of the United States that is an island that is right here.
Dan Quayle
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Aside from my work, in my everyday private life, I'm not a very adventureous person. I don't look for change.
Namie Amuro
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I think I was the only kid on the block who knew about furniture scale by the time I was 8.
Nate Berkus
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The people that I admire have a wonderful balance of self-belief and humility.
Mahershala Ali
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When I was in university, my dream was to be a coach, like a high school track coach. Not to teach.
Victoria Pratt
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Tennis is mostly mental. Of course, you must have a lot of physical skill, but you can't play tennis well and not be a good thinker. You win or lose the match before you even go out there.
Venus Williams
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During my career several people have tried to push me out the door... Nobody has succeeded yet.
Ferdinand Piech
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Probably what my comment meant was that I don't care about the circumstances if I can tell the truth.
Sally Kirkland
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There's so much fakeness in the fashion world, but Mum and Dad have always given us a good work ethic and were quite worried at first about whether I could make a living from acting. They've been together for 29 years and share the same values. I really do want to have that kind of marriage myself.
Oliver Jackson-Cohen
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Without a filter, a man is just chaos walking.
Patrick Ness
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I turned down a lot of films before I made my first one. I knew that it was time for me to get into movies.
Al Pacino
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I have a lot of repression. So repression is what I make movies about.
Ang Lee
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I've always known what I'm meant to do. The path of my life has been about discovering what I need to do to support myself as a writer.
Ottessa Moshfegh
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Linguistic danger to spiritual freedom.- Every word is a prejudice.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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On general principles, it is best that I should not leave the country. Scotland Yard feels lonely without me, and it causes an unhealthy excitement among the criminal classes.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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The smallest act of charity shall stand us in great stead.
Francis Atterbury