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To hold an idea and convince ourselves we arrived at it rationally, we go in search of evidence to support our view.
Argentina has never been able to convince itself that it can win in Brazil. For some reason we have always struggled.
I'm not a rubber stamp, and people know that. If you can convince me of the merits, you will have my vote every time.
You can't convince anyone of anything. You can only give them the right information, so that they convince themselves.
It took me years to live down Dracula and convince the film producers that I would play almost any other type of role.
Usually, on Broadway or in Hollywood, you come up with a project, and you have to convince the producers that it's safe.
I juggle so many hats that it takes something really special to convince me to get back to acting in films or TV serials.
Don't try to convince your partner you are right. Instead of trying to win arguments, try to have a winning relationship!
Before I saw 'Tootsie' with an audience, I thought, 'No one is going to believe this could convince anyone he's a woman.'
Before you try to convince anyone else, be sure you are convinced, and if you cannot convince yourself, drop the subject.
If Trump's own words didn't convince you what a loathsome person he is, certainly nothing that I say or do will sway you.
You could probably convince me that North Jersey and South Jersey should be two separate states. They're just so different.
I cannot tell her I have been moping over a broken heart when I have worked so hard to convince her I have no heart at all.
The aim of a foreign intelligence service is to find and convince individuals to help them achieve intelligence objectives.
We tried to just convince big publishers like EA or other people to make games like 'Cloud'... It's just almost impossible.
At one point, I asked myself whether I was having fun with the national team, or whether I was just out to convince critics.
I've managed to convince my wife that somewhere in the Bible it says, 'Man cannot have too many shotguns and fishing poles.'
On network TV, I'm still Phoebe to people, and it would be hard to convince them otherwise in the bright lights of a sitcom.
But I'm not trying to convince anybody how to vote or how to live. Nobody's ever successfully accused me of being realistic.
Evil exists. Evil is real. One of the hallmarks of evil is that it seeks to convince its victims that it exists 'out there.'
When you can't change what's bothering you, one typical response is to convince yourself that it doesn't actually bother you.
I am a proud Montrealer. Jobs will take me where they take me, but nothing will ever be able to convince me to leave my home.
preach the word, be urgent in season and out of season, convince, rebuke, and exhort, be unfailing in patience and in teaching.
All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies.
God lies ahead. I convince myself and constantly repeat to myself that: He depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
For most companies, the hard thing is making the product work well enough to convince a single person at a time to switch to it.
Using the power of protein engineering and evolution, we can convince enzymes to take what they do poorly and do it really well.
For Donald, lying was primarily a mode of self-aggrandizement meant to convince other people he was better than he actually was.
I'm a novelist. I'm not a crusader, and I'm not an editorial writer. And I'm not writing fiction to convince anybody of anything.
My concern was whether I could do the job of a justice well enough to convince the nation that my appointment was the right move.
I'm on a show called Wizards of Wavery Place, and I like it, but I'm unable to convince my Tivo that I wouldn't also like iCarly.
I lost some weight, grew my hair and now every woman in America over 40 wants to date me. It's their daughters I want to convince.
Terrorists convince thousands of people to kill themselves in the name of God. I can't convince two of my friends to help me move.
There is nothing in the world more stubborn than a corpse: you can hit it, you can knock it to pieces, but you cannot convince it.
If you want to buy something; it’s obviously in your best interest to convince the seller that what he’s got isn’t worth very much.
I've learned that if I can convince myself to just keep putting one foot in front of the other, then I can run as far as I want to.
Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what you've made is worth the misery of having to review it.
I think that inside every adult is the heart of a child. We just gradually convince ourselves that we have to act more like adults.
One of the reasons I like working with schools is to try to convince women that they can be scientists and that science can be fun.
My parents tried to convince me that school won't always be there, but auditions will. I said, 'Really? Are they tearing down NYU?'
Trying to convince Warner Bros. to make a $30 million 'Veronica Mars' movie just wasn't going to happen, for understandable reasons.
Everybody saying you can't do this, you can't do that. I don't know why. Guess if you listen to it, you can convince yourself of it.
All that Tim Kaine has is to try to convince people that conservatives are racist - and you know what, people are smarter than that.
When I started this business, my job was to sell people on my brand and convince them to embrace it in a way that made sense to them.
It's hard to convince your agents and managers to do theater, because it's not as financially rewarding and it takes up a lot of time.
How do you convince someone to change, to stop being afraid of himself? How do you convince yourself not to be so scared all the time?
I think it took me a while to convince Nashville that what I do is genuine and my heart's in the right place, and I love country music.
It is hard to convince a high-school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult than those of algebra and geometry.
The Iranian government intends to use the nuclear program for peaceful purposes, but must convince international public opinion of that.
As a viewer, I decide when I see the promo of a film whether I want to watch it or not. No amount of marketing can convince me otherwise.