Convince Quote by Billy Wilder

“The ultimate trick is to convince, persuade. Every single person out there is an idiot, but collectively they're a genius.”

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If there's anything I hate more than not being taken seriously, it's being taken too seriously.

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I just always think, 'Do I like it?' And if I like it, maybe other people will come and like it too.

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Helen: You've got talent and ambition. Don: Talent? Ambition? That's dead long ago. That's drowned. That's drifting around with a bloated belly on a…

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An actor entering through the door, you've got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you've got a situation.

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I hate that word. It's return--a return to the millions of people who've never forgiven me for deserting the screen.

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The more subtle and elegant you are in hiding your plot points, the better you are as a writer.

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When Chaplin found a voice to say what was on his mind, he was like a child of eight writing lyrics for Beethoven's Ninth.

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I, you know, am all over the place — every category of pictures I have made, good, bad or indifferent. I could not make,…

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Love is the hardest thing in the world to write about. So simple. You've got to catch it through details, like the early morning sunlight hitting the gray tin of the rain spout in front of her house. The ringing of a telephone that sounds like Beethoven's "Pastoral." A letter scribbled on her office stationery that you carry around in…

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If you don't like what you're doing, it's unlikely anyone else will either, so be sure you are happy with your own work first.

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I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut.

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I just made pictures I would've liked to see.

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The privilege of prayer to me is one of the most cherished possessions, because faith and experience alike convince me that God himself sees…

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Jesus never met a disease he could not cure, a birth defect he could not reverse, a demon he could not exorcise. But he…

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The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings.

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Once you convince people that they're victims, you really own them because you've just told them that whatever problems they have in life, it's not their fault. And then you're telling them they can't fix them by themselves. Look at your life. Your life sucks. You're a victim of these people here, you can't fix it. You need us looking…

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The people on the QVC shopping channel convince me that life is worth living. They see the good in everything. People who go to counselling should actually go to a room with a QVC seller for half an hour and let them find the qualities within them. For example, they'd look at me and say, 'To anybody else this looks…

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Human beings have the incredible capacity for denial. I think they do. And although it's really hard to believe, I have my doubts. But my feeling is that first they have to convince themselves. First they have to justify this stuff to themselves and if they can do that, even for just the moment that it's coming out their mouth,…

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It's hard to convince your agents and managers to do theater, because it's not as financially rewarding and it takes up a lot of…

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I guess that is the strange part of the human brain that people have studied for eons - is hatred and self-hatred. You can…

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The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep…

Mark Twain

Convince people and you win their minds. Inspire people and you win their hearts.

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I realize that my opinion is my opinion, not everybody has to believe it and I never tried to shove anything down anyone's throat, but I was willing to take that to the trenches if you know what I mean. I took that opinion to the wall, often in public, often had to... I often had to fight in public…

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How the American right managed to convince itself that the programs to alleviate poverty are responsible for the consequences of poverty will someday be…

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