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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.

~Adam Ferrara

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The way I write my songs is that I have to believe what I'm writing about, and that's why they always end up being so personal - because the kind of artists I like, they convince me, they totally win me over straight away in that thing. Like, 'Oh my God, this song is totally about me.'

~Adele

Topics: About Always Artists Away Because Being Believe Convince End God Kind Like Me Oh Oh My God Over Personal Song Songs Straight Thing Totally Up Way Why Win Write Writing I Write

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Shortly after Sisi was elected, his administration announced cuts of 'subsidies' on natural gas and energy consumption and lowered those for bread and other goods. Such action was taboo during the Mubarak and Sadat presidencies for over half a century, but Sisi was able to convince Egyptians he was taking necessary action.

~Ahmed Zewail

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The signs that the world is spinning out of kilter are increasingly difficult to misinterpret. The question is how to convince enough people to join a critical mass of urgent opinion, in the U.S. and the rest of the world.

~Al Gore

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Testimonials are enough to convince people for now.

~Alex Chiu

Topics: Convince Enough Now People Testimonial

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We didn't do anything wrong, but among the lessons learned, given the magnitude of the problems we now face in Afghanistan, a major U.S. force on the ground would convince the world we were in for the long-haul recovery of a country devastated by 21 years of warfare.

~Alexander Haig

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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.

~Alexander Herzen

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When you're trying to sustain a high level of intensity and panic, sometimes it actually helps to have something happen that makes you really afraid because even if in real life it wouldn't make you that scared, to take that little bit of fear and be melodramatic about it, I guess, and convince yourself that it's worse, can be effective.

~Alexandra Daddario

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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.

~Alice Mcdermott

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When I am preparing my 'lookalike' photographs, I think about the character of the real people, because, if the photographs are going to be plausible, you have to convince the viewer that they could have happened.

~Alison Jackson

Topics: About Am Because Character Convince Could Going Happened People Photographs Plausible Preparing Real Real People Think Viewer You I Think I Am

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