The drums of Africa still beat in my heart. They will not let me rest while there is a single Negro boy or girl without a chance to prove his worth.
People in Midland are real nice folks: I can’t prove that with statistics, but I know West Texas, and it’s just a fact.
Old #64 chose… a gentle jog, fast enough to prove I was alive, slow enough to savor the cheers. They washed over me. They warmed me. I knew I could live without them but I loved them.
When Ben and I first got married and we first had kids, I felt I needed to prove we could still do it and I could still work separately from Ben and I could still work with him. I just let go of all of that now. I said to him, ‘For me, a little bit goes a long way.’
I was sort of on a mission with ‘American Splendor.’ I wanted to try to prove that comics could do things. I wanted to expand them beyond superheroes and talking animals. And I knew that was going to take a long time. But I just started writing an autobiography about my quotidian life.
We are here to add to the sum of human goodness. To prove the thing exists.
But I want to just caution, it is not incumbent on the United States to prove that Saddam Hussein is trying to acquire weapons of mass destruction. He’s already demonstrated that he’s trying to acquire weapons of mass destruction.
All young men want to prove themselves.
‘Cause I felt I didn’t have anything else to prove as a musician… and boy was I wrong about that one.
My first impression when I made it through was ‘Good, because I’m going to prove to you that I deserve to be here’, because they told me that sometimes I lack confidence in my performance and sometimes I’m not as consistent as they’d like me to be.
It’s definitely a struggle to prove yourself just as a good human being. I’m so proud of who I am and what I’ve become, the morals I have, and the people that I’m surrounded by.
I know Pandit Ravi Shankar was very upset with me, as I did not use his compositions in ‘Gandhi.’ I thought that the London Philharmonic Orchestra would prove more effective than his music. It was one of my biggest miscalculations.
I adore the theater and I am a painter. I think the two are made for a marriage of love. I will give all my soul to prove this once more.
Something I’ve learned is that when people tell me I can’t do something, I immediately wonder why and then think it through. It only makes me more motivated to prove them wrong.
Don’t let negativity affect your vision. A lot of people have said harsh things, but I don’t let it affect me. If anything it gives me more enthusiasm and pushes me to do better in my career so I can prove them wrong.
I’m not trying to prove anything.
The re-use of a Dragon capsule is yet another example of how SpaceX uses cargo flights to prove out new technologies that can be later used on crewed flights, and is a key step toward a commercial return to the Moon.
Utah is America’s best place for business because Utahns make it their business to succeed – and we have the track record to prove it.
Women have not yet realized the cowardice that resides, for if they should decide to do so, they would be able to fight you until death; and to prove that I speak the truth, amongst so many women, I will be the first to act, setting an example for them to follow.
I got to prove myself every single day. I’m not going to get comfortable where I’m at.
My whole life I’ve been trying to prove I’m not just yesterday.
I want to prove you don’t need to have academic syntax to be intelligent.
If we did not have a sense of who we were, how we got here, why we want to achieve something – which, on the face of it, on the logic of it, is probably not worth trying – and prove that logic wrong, then you wouldn’t succeed; then you would just evaporate.
Women are one of the Almighty’s enigmas to prove to men that He knows more than they do.
Photographers and people do try to take advantage of you. You just have to stand your ground and prove you’re not an easy target.
In the beginning, though, I have to admit that I did have a chip on my shoulder. I did want to prove everyone wrong. But after I went through the process and came out the other side, it wasn’t about anyone else.
Criminal cases require strategy, and prosecutors should attempt to prove only what can be proved.
Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business. Large stores, gilt signs, flaming advertisements, will all prove unavailing if you or your employees treat your patrons abruptly. The truth is, the more kind and liberal a man is, the more generous will be the patronage bestowed upon him.
I don’t feel like I have to prove anybody right or wrong.
I will prove that a great conducting career is expecting me.
All parents believe their children can do the impossible. They thought it the minute we were born, and no matter how hard we’ve tried to prove them wrong, they all think it about us now. And the really annoying thing is, they’re probably right.
Winning in Oakland in ’89 was distinguished because that was truly a great team on a mission to prove that ’88 was not what we represented. I look at that team in awe. It was a push-button team.
It’s hard to prove yourself when the substance isn’t there in certain roles.
There was endless controversy as to whether the acts of the New Deal did actually move recovery or retard it, and nothing final could ever come of that bitter debate because it is forever impossible to prove what might have happened in place of what did.
Insider trading is hard to prove. To be convicted, a person must have bought or sold a stock based on material information that is both unknown to the general public and likely to have had an important effect on a company’s stock price.
I went out with seven actors in a row. There are problems with that. I’ve had the really good-looking dramatic actor, and that has its problems. And then I’ll go out with the funny guy. It’s almost like the funny guy has more to prove.
I don’t have to prove anything to anyone.
Nobody cares what anyone did last year, whether you were good, whether you were bad, everybody has ambitions and aspirations for this year. But it really doesn’t matter until you go out there and prove it and you go out there and do it.
There is just one exception to the FCC’s no-throttling rule – if a company can prove that throttling is ‘reasonable network management.’
I always look for opportunities where I can prove my mettle as a versatile artist.
It is a grave matter to enter a war, without adequate military preparation; it may prove fatal to come into peace, without moral and religious preparation.
You have to prove that the Freberg way will sell their product better than if they just did straight advertising. Whenever I give a lecture or seminar, that’s what I try to get across to people. I hear very few radio commercials that sound like I could have written them or that they got the idea.
Some people conclude that the injustices existing in the world prove there is no God. On the contrary, I conclude that God, being both just and merciful, will and can rectify all inequities in a life after death.
That has always seemed to me one of the stranger aspects of literary fame: you prove your competence as a writer and an inventor of stories, and then people clamour for you to make speeches and tell them what you think about the world.
You cannot prove this in real time, but when economists 20 years from now write a book on the recovery, it may well be entitled, ‘It could have been much better.’
I view Al Jazeera as a very serious journalistic outfit. They have proven to observers around the world that they are serious and objective. They will have to, at a P.R. level, prove to the American public that that is the case. And I think that over time they will succeed at doing that.
If the United States is treating Afghanistan as a sovereign country it has to prove it.
Metal has always been somewhat marginalized, and I love to prove the perception and stereotypes that go with it wrong.
I have a singular focus, I’m a perfectionist, and I always want to prove I am the best and the best version of myself.
Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that it is worth the trouble of saying it.
A lot of people ask: ‘Will you play a psycho to really change your image and prove you can act?’ But that’s not what I’m about.
In reality shows, you have to perform once and prove yourself, and after that, it is a process to prove yourself every day.
The wine world is so big. Yes, there are styles of wines I don’t like. Orange wine, natural wines and low-alcohol wines. Truth is on my side, and history will prove I am right.
I’ve earned my stripes; I don’t need to prove myself to anyone.
I want to prove to people that I’m an actor and not just a character.
I’m not trying to prove myself, and I’m not trying to shock anyone.
I’m constantly seen as a ‘foreigner,’ and I need my passport to prove my identity, to keep moving and to carry on my work.
I believe the Thai people are patient, and the people at least give me a chance to prove my ability to help them.
After all those years of doing a live, hour-and-a-half show every week, I’ve got nothing more I need to prove.
