#convince

Why, when I was a child, I didn't say, as most children do, that I was going to become an actress. I felt that I was an actress and no one could have convinced me that I wasn't! ↗

— Antoinette Perry

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I'm not convinced about marriage. Divorce is so easy, and that fact that gay people are not allowed to marry takes much of the meaning out of it. Committing yourself to one person is sacred. ↗

— Natalie Portman

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Asimov was the reason why we changed some rules in the SFWA, and I'm not convinced we changed it for the best. ↗

— Jerry Pournelle

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I am convinced that when the history of international law comes to be written centuries hence, it will be divided into two periods: the first being from the earliest times to the end of the nineteenth century, and the second beginning with the Hague Conference. ↗

— Ludwig Quidde

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We convinced him quickly that the possibility of war was absolutely nil and continued our festivity. On the next day we were ordered to take the field. ↗

— Manfred von Richthofen

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I am convinced that people with such wounds will be quite ready to co-operate in a safe and painless experiment in the interests of humanity as a whole. ↗

— Robert Barany

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I can't convince you to put the drink down if you're an alcoholic, you have to want to do that. I can't convince you to stop eating the cookies when you're a diabetic. You have to do that. And that takes responsibility. ↗

— Don Young

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As long as you as an individual... can convince yourself that in order to move forward as best you can you have to be optimistic, you can be described as 'one of the faithful,' one of those people who can say, 'Well, look, something's going to happen! Let's just keep trying. Let's not give up. ↗

— Tom Hanks

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I am convinced that we as a body must conduct a formal and legitimate debate about election irregularities. ↗

— Stephanie Tubbs Jones

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There's always moments where you creep yourself out, and you think you heard something and you convince yourself that some spirit is in the room with you, but truly, I don't believe in any of that kind of thing. A lot of my friends really do. ↗

— Anna Kendrick

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