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Having a mother who had been an aeronautical engineer convinced me that more things should be open to women.

I am convinced that Nigeria would have been a more highly developed country without the oil. I wished we'd never smelled the fumes of petroleum.

I was convinced you were not able to tell a consumer you can have a healthy fried chip or a good-tasting baked chip.

Therefore, I feel convinced that any political picture can be changed to suit the needs of the powers that be.

Yet, I am convinced that there is a need for high quality software, and the time will come when it will be recognized that it is worth investing effort in its development and in using a careful, structured approach based on safe, structured languages.

A surprising number of American skyjackers were not yet old enough to drink or sometimes even drive. These adolescents were generally inept at planning their crimes, and few of their capers met with any success; most seemed to end within moments of starting, usually after a fatherly pilot convinced the nervous teen to hand over his gun.

I got to learn from the American audience. Hearing what it is they're not getting. These are audiences, 35 to 40, an older demographic that controls seven to 10 trillion dollars. And the producers and distributors have convinced themselves this group doesn't go to the movies.

I've been kinda fascinated by misfits, outcasts, and downtrodden people. I've identified with them. 'Blade Runner' probably got me more work than any. It convinced some producers that I could play something other than a rural crazy, I guess.

We do not exist for ourselves alone, and it is only when we are fully convinced of this fact that we begin to love ourselves properly and thus also love others.

Most mental health professionals, including clinicians and researchers, endorse the deficit theory. They're convinced that we wage war simply because we don't know how to make love. We desperately want loving, satisfying relationships but lack the skills we need to develop them.

Mainstream media has convinced people that black people aren't relatable. So when a Jewish person comes up to me and is all, 'Oh man, I love that one scene from Episode 3, I watch it over and over again,' I'm so happy. Because that's what I want.

I'm not afraid and these 15 days convinced me there is nothing to fear. Let them be afraid instead.

I don't think that people in power can be convinced by words or articles. They will never give it up by choice.

I am convinced that if you serve great value, people will come to you.

Entrepreneurship is all about an idea that creates differentiated business value to one's customers. You must be able to convince your customers about the benefits that association with you or your products will give them. People are ready to pay if they are convinced about your services or products.

I'm not convinced that Nixon would have survived in office if he'd burned the tapes, but I do believe he would have served out his presidency if he'd never made them in the first place.

I started putting a wire up in secret and performing without permission. Notre Dame, the Sydney Harbor Bridge, the World Trade Center. And I developed a certitude, a faith that convinced me that I will get safely to the other side. If not, I will never do that first step.

I became convinced that there was greater satisfaction from giving my money away and seeing something come out of the ground, like a hospital or a university.

I was convinced I was worth less than my straight peers. I was at best inauthentic, and the longer I went without amending that dishonesty, the more ashamed I felt.

A true intellectual is a man who, after reading a book and being convinced by its arguments, will shoot someone or, more likely, order someone shot.

My focus had always been the on-side. My coach wanted me to work on the offside strokes since he was convinced of my ability and timing on the leg side. I worked hard and firmed up my defensive technique. I am happy getting runs all around the wicket now, and getting a lot of boundaries. No one calls me a 'leggie batsman' anymore.

I knew the ribosome was going to be the focus of Nobel prizes. It stands at the crossroads of biology, between the gene and what comes out of the gene. But I had convinced myself I was not going to be a winner.

As someone from, and directly involved with, this part of the world, I am convinced Arabs are qualified to regain their glorious past.

Early experiences convinced me that animals can and do have quite distinct personalities.

I was really amazed when I started hearing 'Songbird' on the radio. I couldn't believe that the record company promotion department had actually convinced radio music directors to play it -because there wasn't anything like it on the radio at the time.

Right away when I got to college, I realized that being a politician sucks. It's really hard! It wasn't for me. B.J. Novak is convinced that I will run for mayor of Chicago at some point. He begs me to do it. It'd be a tough gig, but I was always very attracted to the idea of helping people and trying to make the city a better place.

I'm a Communist, fully convinced and dedicated to my cause.

A new principle cannot be put into effect without bringing with it new mistakes. But we may, however, be convinced that the laws of life - to which belongs the law that suffering follows the misuse of freedom - will finally be able to bring everything within its right limits.

Even schools for Negroes, then, are places where they must be convinced of their inferiority.

Here's the perversity of Wall Street's psychology: The more Wall Street is convinced that Washington will act rationally and raise the debt ceiling, most likely at the 11th hour, the less pressure there will be on lawmakers to reach an agreement. That will make it more likely a deal isn't reached.

I am convinced that music, like philanthropy, bridges hope.

The Japanese people are usually very prudent, even when they are convinced change is necessary.

An intense temperament has convinced me to teach not only from books but from what I have learned from experience. So I try to impress upon young doctors and graduate students that tumultuousness, if coupled to discipline and a cool mind, is not such a bad sort of thing.

I am not convinced that there is such a thing as a soul

Religion has convinced us that there's something else entirely other than concerns about suffering. There's concerns about what God wants, there's concerns about what's going to happen in the afterlife.

I'm convinced there are a lot of couples who have got together while listening to my music. My songs are not exactly unsexy.

I remain convinced that I can be a true universalist only when I am a better Jew.

For whatever reason somebody can be convinced to buy a PC, it opens up a whole new market for all of us in the software business.

Back in my days as a chemistry student, I used to be quite a technocrat. I was firmly convinced that scientists would have cornered God and photographed Him in color by 1951.

No person is more convinced than I am of the necessity of giving great splendour and energy to the great hereditary magistracy exercised by the king; but in a free country, there can only be citizens and public officers.

The reason that last-ditch political maneuvering has become business as usual in Washington is that the actors involved are drunk on blame and are convinced that the voting public is, too. They count on outrage, thereby spreading numbness. They cherish the prospect of partisan fury, thereby inspiring nonpartisan disgust.

While I do occasionally order items on the Internet, it's hard to teach an old shopper new tricks. I'm convinced that the catalogue will eventually disappear, but not until the last baby boomers have kicked off their smelly Nikes and been buried in mulch.

I started out in graduate school to be a fiction writer. I thought I wanted to write short stories. I started writing poems at that point only because a friend of mine dared me to write a poem. And I took the dare because I was convinced that I couldn't write a good poem... And then it actually wasn't so bad.

I am convinced that the norm in Russia should become a family with three children.

I repeat that the distance between the earth and her satellite is a mere trifle, and undeserving of serious consideration. I am convinced that before twenty years are over, one-half of our earth will have paid a visit to the moon.

I am more and more convinced that literature is made up of works, genres, schools, discussions, problems, collective work in order to solve certain problems.

Since being in India, I am more convinced than ever before that the method of nonviolent resistance is the most potent weapon available to oppressed people in their struggle for justice and human dignity.

A broad trend I'm completely obsessed with is mobile commerce. Like completely. I'm completely convinced that everybody's going to be buying from their mobile devices. Whoever can claim that space or be in that space, I'm very interested in.

I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.

As a writer, I'm not convinced that we are the best equipped to understand how we go about the business of literary production.

People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.

The longer I live the more convinced I become that one of the greatest honors we can confer on other people is to see them as they are, to recognize not only that they exist, but that they exist in specific ways and have specific realities.

If you would attract good fortune, you must get rid of doubt. As long as that stands between you and your ambition, it will be a bar that will cut you off. You must have faith. No man can make a fortune while he is convinced that he can't.

Us reaching the moon convinced Gorbachev and other leaders that the Soviet Union couldn't compete with the U.S., so they revised their agenda. But people have short memories.

So while I will never minimize the costs involved in military action, I am convinced that a failure to act in Libya would have carried a far greater price for America.

I was so sure I could do it that I had already ordered the champagne yesterday. I was really convinced I could do it today.

I worked under conditions of the highest security and under great pressure, first in Moscow and subsequently in a special secret research centre. At the time we were all convinced that this work was of vital significance for the balance of power in the world and we were fascinated by the grandeur of the task.

No. 1, we're increasingly convinced that Qualcomm will be able to get a substantial royalty in all third-generation equipment, which will be based on its CDMA technology. No. 2, we're getting a growing amount of evidence that China intends to deploy CDMA nationwide. That was a big concern earlier in the year among some investors.

One thing about liberals: It doesn't even occur to them that there is another side to an argument. They are so convinced of the righteousness of their own position that it doesn't dawn on them that a reasonable person might have a different viewpoint.

My high school coach convinced me to go. He said it's basically like a paid vacation and I was like 'OK.' I came out here and knew it was the right place.

Somebody convinced Greg early he was going to be a high pick. It's unfortunate, because you only get a chance to be drafted once.

Of course terror has a role in the disengagement. It convinced us that Gaza was not worth holding onto and awakened us to the demographic danger. It took two intifadas for a majority of Israelis to decide that Gaza is not worth it.

One minute I think, 'We're just looking for his body.' The next minute I've convinced myself well he's taken off somewhere.

No one is panicking and that is the good news. There's no leadership out there and there are a lot of question marks. Investors have convinced themselves of a better second half, but it's not assured.

No one wants conflict or misunderstandings, ... If it appears, I'm convinced it must be met with honesty and courage, and given an absolutely balanced and calm answer.

Plus, he is convinced he did not commit this crime and he wants to stay around to prove that.

No doubt the numbers look pretty good up and down the line. However, I'm not convinced yet that the holidays are home free.

Now that the team is 1-0, they're convinced they are going to the postseason.

My first year was not a good year. I probably won like four matches. I was thinking it wasn't for me. But my brother convinced me to go out for one more year. I noticed my record was about .500. I was obviously improving, so hey, maybe it was for me.

My little monkey's doing great. We're convinced with all the information we have that this is the big guy, and he's going to be around for a long time.

I have considered whether sound science supports the determination that the Yucca Mountain site is scientifically and technically suitable for the development of a repository, ... I am convinced that it does.

I did say that I would not go but after being convinced by the chairman that my participation is necessary for the better image of the country, I have decided to tour Australia,

I'd like to believe so. No one can ever say with certainty who's going to go to a World Series. But you have to come to the ballpark every day convinced you are going to win.

If things don't go our way we should be in the playoffs but I'm convinced we've still got a chance of finishing in first place.

If we're not convinced that we can play with people, then we'll never be convinced. I think most of our guys are convinced that we can just line up with anybody out there.

If we're so convinced times will get tougher, why is mall traffic up? Why are car sales still strong? Why are home sales still chugging along?

Last year, the velocity was down and I'm not convinced he was 100 percent healthy. He looks a lot better this year. He's thrown the ball well and it's nice to see him at the point he's at right now.

We're not convinced about the Rentokil story. Even if he comes in, I don't think there's much upside so there's risk to the downside. There's not going to be a full bid for cash at 180p-plus so there's not much upside to it." ()

We're not convinced that all the victims have been found, ... We're still reaching out for additional victims to see if there are any out there.

We're not convinced that the major manufacturers will succeed in getting the $1 billion ...but this battle could lead to another settlement (and) an ironclad partnership between the states and tobacco manufacturers.

We're not convinced with the way we've played, our one-day performance needs consistency.

We need to be convinced that a dereliction of character has now been repaired and this type of deceit won't happen again,

We need to play at least as well as we did in the first leg. But I am convinced we are capable of scoring at least one goal.

Lots and lots of things are happening that indicate a worldwide interest, and most of the knowledgeable people are convinced that the next-generation replacement for the internal combustion engine is going to be a fuel cell.

Since then I was convinced that the VHA operations could not achieve a sufficient critical mass now, or in the medium term, to meet my professional goals as an agent of change nor my projections of future compensation.

My job was to manage that network of people and -- if people couldn't be convinced to support us -- to take them out, as people who could stop us from selling our project.

Most people are convinced that bottled water, juice and things like Gatorade are the healthier way to go. Pepsi Bottling has done a dynamite job of getting that message out and distributing their products.

Most people who call and report stuff are older, ... Even when younger people turn themselves in, it's an older person who convinced them to do so. There's so much violence in youth culture, so much fear ? 'What if I get shot, if they find out?' Revenge is rare, but you see it more with the new breed of young thug-life characters. There's a whole genre of rap that promotes it. I'm not blaming the recording and entertainment industry, but it's that culture ? I'm hard, callous, I don't care .

Most people have made up their minds about him one way or the other, but there's still a persuadable group in the middle who can be convinced that he's doing a good job, who are not at this point convinced.

She had the foresight just as her grandfather had the foresight about supermarkets. She convinced the board of directors that this was a great future, and it is a direction the food industry is going to go and that we needed to get in on the ground floor.

She helped me believe in myself. She convinced the team that it?s all out, all the time. Coach pushes us hard because she has a tremendous love for the game. She?s great at bringing out the best in us.

She helped us cut through all the red tape and convinced the syndicate that this was a good thing,

She's convinced it's him and the FBI is running like it's him.

She will see the kids only when she is convinced that its in their best psychological interest for her to see them.

We were convinced (Ashley) was dead. We came up here to regroup and go through this together. I'm probably the only mother ever to be proud her son was in jail.

We were convinced he was guilty then, ... We just couldn't prove it.

We were convinced that renewable energy cannot provide enough (power) and that oil is not infinite -- so you must find something else. Everybody makes his choice.

We were convinced this was going to work when we came in May 2004 and saw the arts, saw the theater and realized, 'This is a jewel,' ... Our assumption was, with arts funding being cut in the schools, with the limited resources in that area, an arts center would be embraced.

We were convinced we were going to win. We believed it. We threw everything at them, but we couldn't break them.

We met with family members of the suspect and convinced the family members, when they heard from their son to have him turn himself in.