Emile Gaboriau Quotes
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I am a professional actor, and I don't go about moralizing about what the character does. Otherwise, seriously, why be an actor? You're not making some kind of social statement. That's not what actors do.
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My fashion statement depends on my mood. I am more of a tomboy when dressing up, and I have never worn pink in my entire life.
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'The Wire' really drew on a lot of real-life situations and real-life organizations - it created fiction to make a social statement about reality.
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Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.
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I've never felt the breath of God – you can take that statement literally or metaphorically – more than when I was yearning for a personal, intimate connection to something bigger than me.
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"Say whatever you choose about the object, and whatever you might say is not it." Or, in other wordsː "Whatever you might say the object "is", well it is not." This negative statement is final, because it is negative.
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It is a wonderful statement about who we are as Americans.
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Gravity is more suggestive than convincing.
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Jesus was himself the one convincing and permanent miracle.
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I warmly welcome the statement ... that the Kosovo Liberation Army has complied with its commitment to demilitarize.
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The recent statement of your executive committee are the sentiments of my own heart and I found myself in full accord when I read its opening lines: "A time comes when silence is betrayal." That time has come for us in relation to Vietnam. Some of us who have already begun to break the silence of the night have found that the calling to speak is often a vocation of agony, but we must speak. We must speak with all the humility that is appropriate to our limited vision, but we must speak.
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When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.
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My diminished girth, in tailor phraseology, was hardly conceivable even by my own friends, or my respected medical adviser, until I put on my former clothing, over what I now wear, which is a thoroughly convincing proof of the remarkable change.
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It certainly left the door open for additional hikes. The statement was a little more hawkish than people anticipated.
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If you were a kid and you wanted to come out and make a statement now, you'd have to really dig deep to find something that no one has exposed already.
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It doesn't take much convincing to make someone believe they're better than everyone else.
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Our success as consultants will depend upon the essential rightness of the advice we give and our capacity for convincing those in authority that it is good.
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Which is now a more hopeful statement than Swift intended it to be.
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In later years I never put aside this kind of inquiry, that is, into the modes of thinking and representation embedded in a text, but I asked new questions about ways of writing and the forms and rituals of discourse. I began to look not only at what was stated or declared in a text, but also at what was suggested through expression, through performance.
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A truly happy person is someone who is joyfully independent of outer conditions.
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...a statement from you is more convincing than all the proofs in the world.
