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.
Quotes to Explore
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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.
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It was always my dream to write for a living.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The people that I admire have a wonderful balance of self-belief and humility.
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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.
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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.
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During my career several people have tried to push me out the door... Nobody has succeeded yet.
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Probably what my comment meant was that I don't care about the circumstances if I can tell the truth.
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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.
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Without a filter, a man is just chaos walking.
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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.
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I have a lot of repression. So repression is what I make movies about.
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The sin of respectable people reveals itself in flight from responsibility.
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I've put in 63 years now in the big leagues as a player, coach, manager. And now just being around these young guys, it keeps you going pretty good.
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Forgive me for being so ordinary while claiming to know so extraordinary a God.
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One of the adversary's sharpest tools is to convince us that we are no longer worthy to pray. No matter who you are or what you may have done, you can always pray.
