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Don't confuse facts with reality.


Robert Ballard
On a Chinese film you just give orders, no one questions you. Here, you have to convince people, you have to tell them why you want to do it a certain way, and they argue with you. Democracy.
Ang Lee
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We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.


Yves Saint Laurent
Teaching and writing, to me, is really just seduction; you go to where people are and you find something that they're interested in and you try and use that to convince them that they should be interested in what you have to say.
Lawrence M. Krauss
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Virtual reality is a tough sell for a software developer. They have to convince investors that not only are they going to build a good game, which is what they normally have to do, they have to convince them that it's going to be a good game and that virtual reality will be successful.
Palmer Luckey
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People confuse ego, lust, insecurity with true love.


Simon Cowell
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People confuse being world No. 1 with winning a Major championship.


Lee Westwood
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If you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself.


Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
People confuse fame with validation or love. But fame is not the reward. The reward is getting fulfillment out of doing the thing you love.
Claire Danes
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Frank and explicit - that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.
Benjamin Disraeli
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I try hard to convince them it's important - but there's a history of discomfort with minorities voting in some parts of this country, so most especially the older people have to get accustomed to it.
Eddie Bernice Johnson
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We convince by our presence.


Walt Whitman
I was trying to convince all these men to try to make a product that they didn't even wear! Or if they did wear them, they were not admitting it! There was the problem right there. No wonder their hosiery was so uncomfortable.
Sara Blakely
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A lot of words in English confuse the idea of life and electricity, like the word livewire.


Laurie Anderson
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I would lie in bed at night composing letters to Kennedy and Khrushchev, trying to convince them that they really didn't want to blow up the world. It seemed so simple to me that we just shouldn't hurt each other.
Deborah Wiles
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If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.


Henry David Thoreau
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Properly defined, a startup is the largest group of people you can convince of a plan to build a different future.
Peter Thiel
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Writers have to be careful not to confuse personal attention with the attention that's going towards the book.
Andre Dubus III
There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.
John Ashbery
Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what you've made is worth the misery of having to review it.
Federico Fellini
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