Quotes About Belief

We only exist in terms of how we think we exist. Meaning every cultural development is fabricated and can be fabricated.

I use Facebook all the time. I'm not a believer that they're going to do everything on the Internet better than anyone else.

'A.D.' will focus on life after the crucifixion and the dangers that the disciples faced in the aftermath of Jesus' resurrection.

I believe there are lizards living amongst us. Do these humans who appear to be humans and look like us and act like us, go into the tunnels where their human faces, their human bodies - do they retract back into being lizards when they go into the tunnels?

Climate change - we can debate that until the cows come home, for lack of a better way of stating that. The bottom line is, I do not believe that man is contributing to that factor.

With 'The X Factor' I think the audiences have lost faith and trust in it so that's its problem. You want to be watching something real and dynamic and something you can trust and believe in.

I know a lot of people don't count me in as a factor in the welterweight division, but they have the right to think that way. I only want my chance to prove what I can do in the ring.

There are two factors in American politics that may seem strange to Europeans: race and religion.

One of the factors that has helped me to reach 100 games was not to lose hope.

There are some people in politics and in the press who can't be confused by the facts. They just will not live in an evidence-based world. And that's regrettable.

If you can make people believe lies are the facts, then you can control them.

Allegations become facts, and facts become truth in the eyes of the public, whether they are true or not.

The secret to discovery is to never believe existing facts.

For me, the facts in anything are always secondary. You don't lie convincingly with the truth. You lie convincingly with being a good liar.

I hate to think life is just facts and laws.

The more facts one introduces, the more truth one shows, the more determined the bigot is to cling to his belief.

We knew we could fail; we just didn't think we would.

My father thought, and now I think too, that the system of democracy is entirely based upon the system of justice. If we do not have a system of justice that people believe in, the system of democracy will fail.

I didn't know it was possible to be successful as a writer, so I wasn't afraid to fail.

I never felt Lee Strasberg could act, and I fail to see how someone who can't act can teach acting.

The only person that is going to tell you that you can't do things in life are people who have failed.

Obviously, I believe that Rahm Emanuel's leadership has failed. Obviously, I believe we need change.

I don't believe in failing. I have dignity.

I still feel that a movie has to attempt to say something - even if it fails miserably. But I've sort of given up on believing that I'm going to change the world with every film I choose to act in.