I left because I could no longer make records that sounded less and less like me. I tried to please people instead of believing in my own strength, until the only thing I could do was walk away.
Melissa Manchester
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It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.
John Henry Newman
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After immersing myself in the mysteries of the Electoral College for a novel I wrote in the '90s, I came away believing that the case for scrapping it is less obvious than I originally thought.
Jeff Greenfield
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My mother was an awful cook, an exceptionally awful kosher cook, but I stayed kosher until I got to college, even though I'd long stopped believing in God.
Simon Schama
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The data, however, do indicate that Christians who see Jews through a 17th-century lens, believing that most are thoroughly religious, are thoroughly wrong.
Marvin Olasky
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Wrong believing puts people in a prison. Even though there are no physical shackles, wrong believing causes its inmates to behave as though they were incarcerated in a maximum-security penitentiary.
Joseph Prince
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The greatest tragedy for any human being is going through their entire lives believing the only perspective that matters is their own.
Doug Baldwin
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Unfortunately, in the entertainment field, sometimes you start believing your celebrity. You have a strong tendency to drift from the Lord, which I did. I did drift for a number of years.
Chuck Norris
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That's what writing is all about, after all, making others see what you have put down on the page and believing that it does, or could, exist and you want to go there.
Anne McCaffrey
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What is faith? If you believe something because you have evidence for it, or rational argument, that is not faith. So faith seems to be believing something despite the absence of evidence or rational argument for it.
Peter Singer
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You just have to keep believing in yourself.
Shannen Doherty
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It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.
Thomas Paine
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I'm absolutely not looking for someone who agrees with me about everything or someone who wants to please me by believing what I believe.
Marilyn Manson
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God does not give us salvation because we believe. Our believing is only the normal way of receiving the salvation he freely gives.
Lewis B. Smedes
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As Democrats, we will never be fooled into believing that if we are patient enough, that Donald Trump could be a good president.
Kevin de Leon
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Believing that no one is better than the other. You know I grew up in the South. My senior year there was a very big racial tension.
Herschel Walker
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Believing that a crisis is a useful thing to create, the Obama administration - which understands that, for liberalism, worse is better - has deliberately aggravated the fiscal shambles that the Great Recession accelerated.
George Will
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Believing in God is a very intense inner struggle of mine. It's something I worry about a lot, but which I don't have the answer to.
Emily Watson
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You can't be a playwright without believing there's an audience for adventurous work.
David Henry Hwang
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I have altogether failed to comprehend as to how undue pride or vain-gloriousness could ever stand in the way of a man believing in God.
Bhagat Singh
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Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.
Voltaire
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I began to write, believing that all I had to do to change things would be to write the other side, to tell the stories that I heard from my grandmother.
Sayed Kashua
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The thing that struck me most after first viewing 'The Sessions' was the charm of Mark O'Brien and the intimacy that the director, Ben Lewin, manages to capture perfectly on screen. I did not feel forced or cajoled in any way into believing the story.
Marco Beltrami
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The chief difficulty which prevents men of science from believing in divine as well as in nature Spirits is their materialism.
Helena Blavatsky
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