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.
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It was always my dream to write for a living.
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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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A single agency responsible for systemic risk would be accountable in a way that no regulator was in the run-up to the 2008 crisis. With access to all necessary information to monitor the markets, this regulator would have a better chance of identifying and limiting the impact of future speculative bubbles.
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Man has no permanent and unchangeable I. Every thought, every mood, every desire, every sensation says "I." And in each case it seems to be taken for granted that this I belongs to the Whole, to the whole man, and that a thought, a desire, or an aversion is expressed by this Whole.
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And if that child should ever get the chance to travel the world and someone should ask her where is she from, we believe that she should always be able to hold her head high with pride in her voice when she answers, "I am an American." That is the course we seek. That is the change we are calling for.
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Wherever you find real love, you will also find humility. Remember something: humility is not a weak and timid quality. Too often we feel that humility is a sign of weakness. This is not so. It is the sign of strength and security.
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A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb.
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Instead we need schools and colleges that are sensitive to the needs of young people and not the priorities of politicians and educationalists.
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In estimating the adversities of life, we would seldom have much reason to complain of the evils we suffer, did we understand the dangers we daily escape.
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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.
