I Believe Quotes
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I believe that in the history of art and of thought there has always been at every living moment of culture a will to renewal. This is not the prerogative of the last decade only. All history is nothing but a succession of crises - of rupture, repudiation and resistance. When there is no crisis, there is stagnation, petrifaction and death. All thought, all art is aggressive.
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Great ideas, it has been said, come into the world as gently as doves. Perhaps then, if we listen attentively, we shall hear amid the uproar of empires and nations, a faint flutter of wings, the gentle stirring of life and hope. Some will say that this hope lies in a nation; others in a man. I believe rather that it is awakened, revived, nourished, by millions of solitary individuals whose and works every day negate frontiers and the crudest implications of history.
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One of the striking things about doing research on Malcolm X, and I believe that most Malcolm X researchers could tell you their own stories, is that there's this paradox of the absence of critical information.
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I believe that you should move and eat right.
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I believe the Obama administration, from the president on down, has taken a very weak position regarding granting Palestine statehood at the United Nations.
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I don't know how much I believe in redemptive stories, even though people want them and strive for them.
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I believe women still face a glass ceiling that must be shattered.
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I believe that historians and analysts of historical events need the authority of facts supplied by living witnesses to the events, which they make their subject.
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I believe in my music.
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I believe that given the audience attention level, we could do an even more compelling 90 minutes.
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I believed and still believe that success is only part of the story. It makes you want to get better and better so as not to let yourself down and not to let the people down who like what you do and you don't waste your success.
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I believe all universities should at least offer courses in politics and policy implementation.
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Everybody has to be responsible for their own actions - and if they do something wrong, I believe in paying for it.
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I believe in the jury system.
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I believe in creative visualization.
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I believe in God.
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Beauty, I believe, comes from God; therefore, there can be no beauty without goodness.
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I believe that it's better to be looked over than it is to be overlooked.
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That goes against what I believe morally. That's adultery, and if I'm accused of that, no, that's not right. I have two kids who see that and remember that and judge me. It didn't happen, and it's not to be reported that way.
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I believe Saudi Arabia is the only Muslim country in which churches are prohibited.
