#vince

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

#become #child #children #convinced #could

The Germans have done wonderful work. Not long ago, a German battle group battalion conducted a very impressive counterinsurgency operation in a portion of Baghlan province. I think these are the first counterinsurgency operations conducted by any German element after World War II. And they did a very impressive job. ↗

— David Petraeus

#ago #any #battalion #battle #conducted

I'm absolutely convinced of that. Israel is the representative of the United States in that part of the world. Its policies are so integrated with American policies that they use the same language. ↗

— John Pilger

#american #convinced #i #integrated #israel

I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer. ↗

— Peter Ustinov

#convinced #diplomats #foreign #future #i

The past is what you remember, imagine you remember, convince yourself you remember, or pretend you remember. ↗

— Harold Pinter

#imagine #past #pretend #remember #you

A growing and increasingly influential movement of philosophers, ethicists, law professors and activists are convinced that the great moral struggle of our time will be for the rights of animals. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#convinced #great #growing #increasingly #influential

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

#allowed #committing #convinced #divorce #easy

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

#best #changed #convinced #i #reason

I have written every one of my novels to convince somebody of something. ↗

— Manuel Puig

#every #i #novels #somebody #something

According to them, the poet is confined to the provinces with his mouth broken on his own syllabic trapeze. ↗

— Salvatore Quasimodo

#broken #confined #his #mouth #own