I don’t have anything to prove to anybody else other than myself and my supporters and my loved ones, so if my health is good, I’m going to go out there and kill it.
I come from a pop background, but I’m also a Puerto Rican and I do feel this music. My approach to salsa is a humble one, and I defy anybody to prove that I’m faking it.
That’s what great players do: continue to prove themselves.
As a reporter, going around, you hear stories you can’t prove, which means you can’t put them in the newspaper. But they’re good stories, and I would jot them down thinking maybe one day I could write that as a short story.
You are what you can prove you’ve done. That’s how people judge you.
Service is a deceptively profound way to prove not only what you can do for the world, but what you can tell the world to expect from you and your ambitions.
You can’t prove Rembrandt is better than Norman Rockwell – although if you actually do prefer Rockwell, I’d say you were shunning complexity, were secretly conservative, and hadn’t really looked at either painter’s work. Taste is a blood sport.
I don’t know what 15-year-old doesn’t have a desire to separate themselves from their parents and prove their independence.
I think from here on it’s up to me to prove that I’m growing up and that I have other things to say, but in terms of the show it definitely gave me all of the opportunities I’ve had so far.
A scientist who cannot prove what he has accomplished, has accomplished nothing.
In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.
I’ll do whatever I can do to remain employed. I’m just not precious about doing comedy or doing drama. I never want to do something in order to prove to other people what I can do.
I had no idea what I was doing when I wrote ‘Search.’ There was no carefully designed work plan. There was no theory that I was out to prove.
I knew from the time I was a young girl that I was destined to be a writer. I’m incredibly stubborn. The more someone tells me I can’t do something, the harder I work to prove them wrong. My father’s nickname for me when I was growing up was ‘Hardhead.’
Once the return tide starts, it will be impossible to stem it, and it will prove our undoing.
I think you don’t have to be size zero to prove yourself… to connect with the audience.
There is no right religion, and no one can prove that there is.
In this industry, all the heads of labels are men, but every artist has to prove themselves, regardless of their sex. I have always been very vocal about the women sticking together.
From my mom telling me ‘no’ to now telling everyone I’m the champion, and she’s so proud of me, and to prove to a lot of people – who didn’t believe in me, who didn’t think I was going to be here – that I’m here, and I did it. It’s been a roller coaster of emotions; it’s amazing.
I wanted to prove that I could do something, so I made a short film. That was in fact my main concern, to be able to show that I could do one.
Everybody has something to prove each year. Everybody has a responsibility in this game. Even the batboy.
Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.
I’ve learned to be more accepting of myself. I’m 37, not 18, and I’ve got the lines to prove it. I try to remind myself that a girl can have it all, just not all at once.
A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol.
Nothing like falling in love with a dead actress to prove your sanity.
I want to prove that I’m the best and that I deserve the spotlight so I can shine.
I’m not 21 and trying to prove something with my words.
What I had to prove was that I had a dedication and a desire and a passion to do the work and everything else would fall in place because I have a vision that I want to portray and it did and I do it. I don’t sell anything.
I want to prove to people that every single business can be reinvented and fixed. And I want to prove to myself that I’m good at it.
I know I’m big. I’ve been big my whole life. I’ve never had to prove how tough I am.
We have the incredible privilege of serving in the highest offices in the state. We must prove ourselves worthy of our fellow citizens’ faith. We must be trusted to always place the public’s good above our own and to always choose fairness over favoritism.
I didn’t feel a specific pressure to prove myself because I had an actor in the family. I didn’t feel that pressure to fill some big shoes or anything.
In order to arrive at knowledge of the motions of birds in the air, it is first necessary to acquire knowledge of the winds, which we will prove by the motions of water in itself, and this knowledge will be a step enabling us to arrive at the knowledge of beings that fly between the air and the wind.
I struggled in London for a very long time. ‘Be prepared to struggle a lot’ – it’s a European mentality. The American mentality is positive and ‘You can do it’ and ‘Everything’s possible.’ In Europe it’s an older, more realistic way of thinking. You feel like you’re having to prove that you can do it.
I think if you are young and you have children, you still have so much to prove. When you have children later in life, you lose a bit of that urge for working.
This does not mean that every copyright must prove its value initially. That would be a far too cumbersome system of control. But it does mean that every system or category of copyright or patent should prove its worth.
Birds are a miracle because they prove to us there is a finer, simpler state of being which we may strive to attain.
When I had money, I felt pressure, whether it was to invest it or do good with it, and I couldn’t let it fizzle out. It was like I needed to prove to myself that I could look after it, only I did the opposite, but you have to take a chance in life.
It may take time to prove you’re right, but you have to stick to it.
The last hundred years have been retinal; even the cubists were. The surrealists tried to free themselves, and earlier so had the dadaists, but unfortunately, these latter were nihilists and didn’t produce enough to prove their point, which, by the way, they didn’t have to prove – according to their theory.
England is nothing but the last ward of the European madhouse, and quite possibly it will prove to be the ward for particularly violent cases.
I don’t feel that I have to prove anything to anyone as far as what I’ve done in fighting.
I was very upset because I did not have a fair trial to prove my loyalty to this country.
This proving of such and such I found to be almost like cheating. You start somewhere, and then you go into a dark tunnel, and then you come out at another place. You find that you have proved what you wanted to prove, but in the tunnel, you don’t see anything.
One of the earliest resurrection scenes in the Bible is that of Thomas demanding evidence – he wanted to see, to touch, to prove. Those who question and probe and debate are heirs of the apostles just as much as the most fervent of believers.
The conservative version of American exceptionalism has become a password of sorts for candidates who want to prove their credentials to a right-wing America.
I have to prove myself in a lot of ways – as an actor, as a person, as someone who can handle pressure.
I think I owe it to myself to put my best effort forward and prove how good I can be.
History has shown that a government’s redistribution of shrinking wealth, in preference to a private sector’s creation of new sources of it, can prove more destructive than even the most deadly enemy.
I feel like I have something to prove. I’m just not this cool fashion kid that be around ASAP Rocky.
So many of us had hoped that the civil system might be an alternative for some women, where the burdens were a little bit less, and cases might be easier to prove.
I have to prove myself to everybody.
The Supreme Being I would sign up for would not prove his omnipotence by saving one life while ending dozens, or hundreds, or thousands. Nor would he summon an angel to heaven by ending a first grader’s life at the hands of a gunman or sadist.
I’ve always loved to prove people wrong. I want to be able to cross color lines, because in music, there really is no barrier.
Those who claim we buy oil from Daesh are obliged to prove it. If not, you are slanderer.
A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.
Praise us as we are tasted, allow us as we prove.
I just feel if you are an artist, you always have something to prove, if you are in music or in films, you have to prove that you can still do your best.
I love to prove people wrong. They expect I’ll sound a certain way when they see me, then they hear me and they can’t believe it. I love that.
A guy that’s undersized has to prove himself right away.
In the United States I have always believed that there was a big difference between Conservative and stupid. Boy is it getting harder to prove that one by the minute.
Being the youngest of five boys with a younger sister, being the only one who didn’t go to university, I had to prove it was the right decision to go into advertising.
