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I support the view that free trade in goods and services is a win-win situation. I'm not so convinced that free flows of capital without restriction is a win-win situation.

I am convinced that Nigeria would have been a more highly developed country without the oil. I wished we'd never smelled the fumes of petroleum.

I was convinced you were not able to tell a consumer you can have a healthy fried chip or a good-tasting baked chip.

Therefore, I feel convinced that any political picture can be changed to suit the needs of the powers that be.

Yet, I am convinced that there is a need for high quality software, and the time will come when it will be recognized that it is worth investing effort in its development and in using a careful, structured approach based on safe, structured languages.

A surprising number of American skyjackers were not yet old enough to drink or sometimes even drive. These adolescents were generally inept at planning their crimes, and few of their capers met with any success; most seemed to end within moments of starting, usually after a fatherly pilot convinced the nervous teen to hand over his gun.

I got to learn from the American audience. Hearing what it is they're not getting. These are audiences, 35 to 40, an older demographic that controls seven to 10 trillion dollars. And the producers and distributors have convinced themselves this group doesn't go to the movies.

I've been kinda fascinated by misfits, outcasts, and downtrodden people. I've identified with them. 'Blade Runner' probably got me more work than any. It convinced some producers that I could play something other than a rural crazy, I guess.

We do not exist for ourselves alone, and it is only when we are fully convinced of this fact that we begin to love ourselves properly and thus also love others.

I'm not afraid and these 15 days convinced me there is nothing to fear. Let them be afraid instead.

Most mental health professionals, including clinicians and researchers, endorse the deficit theory. They're convinced that we wage war simply because we don't know how to make love. We desperately want loving, satisfying relationships but lack the skills we need to develop them.

Mainstream media has convinced people that black people aren't relatable. So when a Jewish person comes up to me and is all, 'Oh man, I love that one scene from Episode 3, I watch it over and over again,' I'm so happy. Because that's what I want.

I don't think that people in power can be convinced by words or articles. They will never give it up by choice.

I am convinced that if you serve great value, people will come to you.

I'm not convinced that Nixon would have survived in office if he'd burned the tapes, but I do believe he would have served out his presidency if he'd never made them in the first place.

Entrepreneurship is all about an idea that creates differentiated business value to one's customers. You must be able to convince your customers about the benefits that association with you or your products will give them. People are ready to pay if they are convinced about your services or products.

I started putting a wire up in secret and performing without permission. Notre Dame, the Sydney Harbor Bridge, the World Trade Center. And I developed a certitude, a faith that convinced me that I will get safely to the other side. If not, I will never do that first step.

I became convinced that there was greater satisfaction from giving my money away and seeing something come out of the ground, like a hospital or a university.

I was convinced I was worth less than my straight peers. I was at best inauthentic, and the longer I went without amending that dishonesty, the more ashamed I felt.

A true intellectual is a man who, after reading a book and being convinced by its arguments, will shoot someone or, more likely, order someone shot.

My focus had always been the on-side. My coach wanted me to work on the offside strokes since he was convinced of my ability and timing on the leg side. I worked hard and firmed up my defensive technique. I am happy getting runs all around the wicket now, and getting a lot of boundaries. No one calls me a 'leggie batsman' anymore.

I knew the ribosome was going to be the focus of Nobel prizes. It stands at the crossroads of biology, between the gene and what comes out of the gene. But I had convinced myself I was not going to be a winner.

As someone from, and directly involved with, this part of the world, I am convinced Arabs are qualified to regain their glorious past.

Early experiences convinced me that animals can and do have quite distinct personalities.

I was really amazed when I started hearing 'Songbird' on the radio. I couldn't believe that the record company promotion department had actually convinced radio music directors to play it -because there wasn't anything like it on the radio at the time.

Right away when I got to college, I realized that being a politician sucks. It's really hard! It wasn't for me. B.J. Novak is convinced that I will run for mayor of Chicago at some point. He begs me to do it. It'd be a tough gig, but I was always very attracted to the idea of helping people and trying to make the city a better place.

I'm a Communist, fully convinced and dedicated to my cause.

Even schools for Negroes, then, are places where they must be convinced of their inferiority.

A new principle cannot be put into effect without bringing with it new mistakes. But we may, however, be convinced that the laws of life - to which belongs the law that suffering follows the misuse of freedom - will finally be able to bring everything within its right limits.

Here's the perversity of Wall Street's psychology: The more Wall Street is convinced that Washington will act rationally and raise the debt ceiling, most likely at the 11th hour, the less pressure there will be on lawmakers to reach an agreement. That will make it more likely a deal isn't reached.

I am convinced that music, like philanthropy, bridges hope.

An intense temperament has convinced me to teach not only from books but from what I have learned from experience. So I try to impress upon young doctors and graduate students that tumultuousness, if coupled to discipline and a cool mind, is not such a bad sort of thing.

The Japanese people are usually very prudent, even when they are convinced change is necessary.

I am not convinced that there is such a thing as a soul

Religion has convinced us that there's something else entirely other than concerns about suffering. There's concerns about what God wants, there's concerns about what's going to happen in the afterlife.

I'm convinced there are a lot of couples who have got together while listening to my music. My songs are not exactly unsexy.

I remain convinced that I can be a true universalist only when I am a better Jew.

For whatever reason somebody can be convinced to buy a PC, it opens up a whole new market for all of us in the software business.

Back in my days as a chemistry student, I used to be quite a technocrat. I was firmly convinced that scientists would have cornered God and photographed Him in color by 1951.

No person is more convinced than I am of the necessity of giving great splendour and energy to the great hereditary magistracy exercised by the king; but in a free country, there can only be citizens and public officers.

The reason that last-ditch political maneuvering has become business as usual in Washington is that the actors involved are drunk on blame and are convinced that the voting public is, too. They count on outrage, thereby spreading numbness. They cherish the prospect of partisan fury, thereby inspiring nonpartisan disgust.

While I do occasionally order items on the Internet, it's hard to teach an old shopper new tricks. I'm convinced that the catalogue will eventually disappear, but not until the last baby boomers have kicked off their smelly Nikes and been buried in mulch.

I started out in graduate school to be a fiction writer. I thought I wanted to write short stories. I started writing poems at that point only because a friend of mine dared me to write a poem. And I took the dare because I was convinced that I couldn't write a good poem... And then it actually wasn't so bad.

I am convinced that the norm in Russia should become a family with three children.

I repeat that the distance between the earth and her satellite is a mere trifle, and undeserving of serious consideration. I am convinced that before twenty years are over, one-half of our earth will have paid a visit to the moon.

I am more and more convinced that literature is made up of works, genres, schools, discussions, problems, collective work in order to solve certain problems.

Since being in India, I am more convinced than ever before that the method of nonviolent resistance is the most potent weapon available to oppressed people in their struggle for justice and human dignity.

A broad trend I'm completely obsessed with is mobile commerce. Like completely. I'm completely convinced that everybody's going to be buying from their mobile devices. Whoever can claim that space or be in that space, I'm very interested in.

I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.

As a writer, I'm not convinced that we are the best equipped to understand how we go about the business of literary production.

People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.

The longer I live the more convinced I become that one of the greatest honors we can confer on other people is to see them as they are, to recognize not only that they exist, but that they exist in specific ways and have specific realities.

If you would attract good fortune, you must get rid of doubt. As long as that stands between you and your ambition, it will be a bar that will cut you off. You must have faith. No man can make a fortune while he is convinced that he can't.

Us reaching the moon convinced Gorbachev and other leaders that the Soviet Union couldn't compete with the U.S., so they revised their agenda. But people have short memories.

So while I will never minimize the costs involved in military action, I am convinced that a failure to act in Libya would have carried a far greater price for America.

When I was a journalist at Wired, I convinced a doctor to implant an RFID tracking device in my arm.

We remain convinced that the NBA does not have the right to unilaterally create new ways to punish teams that want to improve by spending on player salaries. The effect of this decision is to continue to undermine player confidence in the NBA's administration of our collective bargaining agreement.

We remain convinced that our home-improvement markets are fundamentally attractive and that the actions we are taking will position Kingfisher well for the future.

Working with Christopher, he convinced me he could fly, and he's convinced me he's going to walk again.

We're quite convinced the elections will be held on schedule and will unfold, we hope, with no incidents so that everyone can make their choice democratically and freely.

With this acquisition, we are convinced that we are securing our goaltending position for many years.

Worries about an interest rate rise have virtually disappeared, the consensus is now that the Fed won't raise rates, ... Volume is a bit better than yesterday but most of the buying is in half a dozen stocks. Unless we start seeing a broader rally on more volume we can't be convinced that we're out of the woods yet.

We're still not convinced we've heard from people we want to talk to, ... We still want to hear from people.

We're still not convinced there is a good reason for the government to withhold what is typically a public document. However, this new order is the correct legal way for the government to try to prevent the release of the report, as opposed to the unconstitutional effort to control the flow of information in a free society.

Sorcerers are convinced that all of us are a bunch of nincompoops. We can never relinquish our crummy control voluntarily, thus we have to be tricked

When the heart is won, the understanding is easily convinced.

I do not know why God does some things, but I am convinced that nothing is accidental in his universe.

Einstein explained his theory to me every day, and on my arrival I was fully convinced that he understood it.

Courage comes from a heart that is CONVINCED it is loved.

Wayne was the kind of guy who would get in your face until he convinced you ... or he just wore you out.

of course the pace of change never slows, even when we've convinced ourselves it will.

I am convinced that we become what we do.

We are going to have to see what happens throughout the year. We are already convinced that Brian is a very good football player and a very valuable member of our team. Hopefully at some point, we can translate that into a contract that we both feel comfortable with.

We're a 100 percent convinced by his work. There's no need to wait until the end of the season.

We were disappointed that they decided to go ahead with the filing of the lawsuit. It has utterly no merit whatsoever, and we're convinced that we will prevail in court.

The fact that oil is remaining above $40 leaves me all the more convinced that core CPI will continue to climb higher, that we're on the verge of having the annual rate break above 2 percent.

The fact he has announced his retirement now will allow him to prepare well for the World Cup and be able to play in peace. I know that he really wants to succeed in Germany and I'm convinced that he still has the most beautiful page of his sporting history to write: winning a second World Cup with the Blues.

When I was 15 years old, my cousin and I formed a singing group called The Altaires. And, because we became the most popular singing group in the Tri-State area, the rest of the group convinced me I should play the guitar - even though I didn't own one! So what happened was, my stepfather actually made my first electric guitar for me for $23!

What we decided was in response to a shortage caused by Hurricane Katrina, in a situation where there was lack of spare capacity, which is much more difficult to offset without the reserve release. The prices are a signal, but not the basis for us to decide. We are convinced that they have hurt the economy since last year.

I convinced myself I hadn't seen anything, ... I had done this many times before ... I was adept at erasing reality.

We have a pretty good reading of both Judge Jackson's decision and the law and a pretty good sense of the course that an appeal will take from our company over the conclusions of law, ... We remain entirely convinced that our behavior has been lawful, and we will appeal to establish that.

Why, when I was a child, I didn't say, as most children do, that I was going to become an actress. I felt that I was an actress and no one could have convinced me that I wasn't!

We might have a scratchy throat, we might have something wrong with us. But if you can play, by gosh, we're going to play. Carnell Williams is that type of kid. ... If there's any way he can play, I'm convinced he would go.

We met with family members of the suspect and convinced the family members, when they heard from their son to have him turn himself in.

It is undeniable that we all create scenarios and then become convinced by them, down to our very cells.

We were convinced we were going to win. We believed it. We threw everything at them, but we couldn't break them.

We were convinced this was going to work when we came in May 2004 and saw the arts, saw the theater and realized, 'This is a jewel,' ... Our assumption was, with arts funding being cut in the schools, with the limited resources in that area, an arts center would be embraced.

We were convinced that renewable energy cannot provide enough (power) and that oil is not infinite -- so you must find something else. Everybody makes his choice.

We were convinced he was guilty then, ... We just couldn't prove it.

We were convinced (Ashley) was dead. We came up here to regroup and go through this together. I'm probably the only mother ever to be proud her son was in jail.

We need to play at least as well as we did in the first leg. But I am convinced we are capable of scoring at least one goal.

We need to be convinced that a dereliction of character has now been repaired and this type of deceit won't happen again,

When these players lose it, they can't control it. It's a physical thing, not a mental thing. He's got the eye of the tiger. When I met with (Sosa), that's the one thing I was convinced of. His brain would do everything it could to succeed because he'd like to prove to people that he can still play.

We're not convinced with the way we've played, our one-day performance needs consistency.

We're not convinced that the major manufacturers will succeed in getting the $1 billion ...but this battle could lead to another settlement (and) an ironclad partnership between the states and tobacco manufacturers.

We're not convinced that all the victims have been found, ... We're still reaching out for additional victims to see if there are any out there.

We're not convinced about the Rentokil story. Even if he comes in, I don't think there's much upside so there's risk to the downside. There's not going to be a full bid for cash at 180p-plus so there's not much upside to it." ()

Lots and lots of things are happening that indicate a worldwide interest, and most of the knowledgeable people are convinced that the next-generation replacement for the internal combustion engine is going to be a fuel cell.

Last year, the velocity was down and I'm not convinced he was 100 percent healthy. He looks a lot better this year. He's thrown the ball well and it's nice to see him at the point he's at right now.

She will see the kids only when she is convinced that its in their best psychological interest for her to see them.