Believe Quotes

When the TSA was established, it was never envisioned that it would become a huge, unwieldy bureaucracy which was soon to grow to 67,000 employees. As TSA has grown larger, more impersonal, and administratively top-heavy, I believe it is important that airports across the country consider utilizing the opt-out provision provided by law.

But on a utilitarian level, I realize that to try to accomplish the greatest good for the greatest number of people, sometimes we have to become salesmen for what we believe, and part of being a salesman is being effective.

Usually I'm frustrated when I look at my films and I don't believe that I've made a real transformation beyond my usual sets of gestures and expressions. I still have this nagging feeling that it's me, that I didn't create a unique character.

Usually I am not a conspiracy theorist. I don't believe in the Bilderbergers as a conspiracy or the Trilateralists. But I am certain that the Communists killed JFK. There is a super great book called 'Legend' by Edward Jay Epstein that makes it all perfectly clear.

We're conditioned in this country to believe that if there's a problem, the black man is usually the culprit.

It makes me believe in fate. In most cases, the readings where I've been really bad have usually been the ones where I got the part.

What we believe to be the motives of our conduct are usually but the pretexts for it.

But instead I usually say that, though it may surprise them, I too believe in the necessity of organization.

Usually I'm the one who does the covers. And I just said, man, it would be nice to see what somebody else could do, outside of this thing. A fresher look. And I never, in a million years, would have come up with this. Believe me!

Usually, it is not my habit to address religious issues on the floor. I strongly believe in a person's right to religious freedom, as well as the separation of church and state.

I believe it is still true that conflicts among major powers usually stem from geopolitical rivalries but rarely from economic competition.

It is up to you to decide who to believe: the same people as usual or those who endanger their lives to save the country.

I don't believe in dressing up reality. I don't believe in using makeup to make things look smoother.

I always believe in doing new things and using new materials that I have never used or that I didn't like for a long time.

Japanese chefs believe our soul goes into our knives once we start using them. You wouldn't put your soul in a dishwasher!

I believe in using the entire piano as a single instrument capable of expressing every possible musical idea.

Experiments were not attempted at that time, we did not believe in the usefulness of the concept anyway, and I finished my thesis in 1962 with a feeling like an artist balancing on a high rope without any interested spectators.

The press briefing today I believe has lost much of its usefulness.

But I still do believe that there are useful things to say about Elvis Presley, including what his own ordinariness as a poor Southerner says about 20th-century hero-making.

In art, theories are as useful as a doctor's prescription; one must be sick to believe them.

I used to be a jazz snob, believe it or not. I sort of turned my nose up at anything more commercial.

Of course we have compassion. We just don't believe the safety net should be used as a hammock.

I used to believe, like many people who come from poor backgrounds, that it gave me an edge, but I think that's just something we have to tell ourselves to get by sometimes. I don't believe that anymore. Children of privilege can be just as talented and clever as anybody else.

I believe our foreign assistance should be scrutinized, should be debated, and that we should strike the right balance, but in all cases the foreign assistance that we provide around the world should be used to further our national security interests.

Conservatives used to believe in confronting hard truths, not succumbing to comforting fairy tales. Some still do.

I used to believe I was going to live forever. And then you suddenly become aware that you're not.

I used to believe in one true soul mate, but not anymore. I believe you can have a few.

There used to be a candy called 'Bonkers,' which I believe to be the greatest candy of all time.

I believe people are afraid to be still because we're used to being stimulated.

I like to use 'I Can't Believe it's Not Butter' on my toast in the morning, because sometimes when I eat breakfast, I like to be incredulous. How was breakfast? Unbelievable.