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Proving people wrong is probably my favorite thing to do. -- Zooey Deschanel
Proving yourself in a field where the casualty rate is so notoriously high is an ongoing challenge. -- Richard E. Grant
Proving one's freedom will often mean insisting on the most arbitrary, odd, unrepeatable aspects of one's behavior. -- Ermanno Bencivenga
Proving I'm a good mother is the one achievement I'm most proud of. It's brought out the best in me. -- Sheena Easton
And I have written three books on the soul, Proving absurd all written hitherto, And putting us to ignorance again. -- Robert Browning
Proving that profit is economically and morally justifiable, rather then the result of exploitation, has been a central preoccupation of neoclassical economists. -- Jim Stanford
...Most attackers aren't going to be dissuaded by a witty remark.""That's profiling," said Mattheus. "Maybe they're Oscar Wilde fans.""He did have great clothes.""Proving that stereotypes can span centuries. -- Amy Fecteau
I tend to enjoy proving people wrong. -- Hayley Williams
I look forward to proving something to myself and others. -- Eric Lindros
At this point in my life I'm not bent on proving anything, really. -- Edward Norton
To me, being the best means proving it in different countries and championships. -- Cristiano Ronaldo
The Great War proved how confused the world is. Depression is proving it again. -- Anne Sullivan Macy
The new dynamics between brands and consumers, driven by social media, are proving to be a powerful impetus for change. -- Simon Mainwaring
It's impossible to be perfect, and you won't do a good job if you're too focused on proving yourself to others. -- Jessica Williams
In the choice between changing ones mind and proving there's no need to do so, most people get busy on the proof. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
Teachers today are breaking down obstacles, finding innovative ways to instill old lessons, proving that greatness can be found in everyday places. -- Taylor Mali
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
It's funny. You succeed, but now where are you gonna go from there? I've got to keep proving that I can laugh or cry more real each time. -- Jeff Bridges
I have to work extra hard because I am dyslexic. People said that I couldn't be an actress, but I'm proving them wrong. Acting has helped me overcome the challenge. -- Bella Thorne
I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority. -- E. B. White
I think that Minnesota is different because we are proving that tri-partisan government could work, that you do not need to necessarily be a Democrat or a Republican to be successful at governing. -- Jesse Ventura
I love competing. I love a challenge. I love going in and showing people what I can do, proving to them that I can get this part, that I can give you what you want. -- Keke Palmer
I'm not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning. -- Adlai E. Stevenson
False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness. -- Charles Darwin
What I work hard at doing is staying on a path of being kind and showing and proving that I'm a good person to society. That's hard. The talent, that's a gift. I just came here like that. -- Erykah Badu
In teaching man, experimental science results in lessening his pride more and more by proving to him every day that primary causes, like the objective reality of things, will be hidden from him forever and that he can only know relations. -- Claude Bernard
It's mainly about working hard and proving to people you're serious about it, and stretching yourself and learning. The mistake a lot of actors make, particularly young ones, is allowing themselves to feel that they're the finished articles, the bee's knees, and it's not true. -- Daniel Radcliffe
My dad, Frank Addison Albini, was a terrific shot with a rifle and had generally excellent hunting skills. While my dad loved hunting and fishing, he didn't romanticize them. He was filling the freezer, not intellectualizing some caveman impulse or proving his worth as a real man. -- Steve Albini
If this work can contribute in any way toward proving this, and at the same time arouse the conscience of the American people to a demand for justice to every citizen, and punishment by law for the lawless, I shall feel I have done my race a service. -- Ida B. Wells
By establishing a social policy that keeps physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia illegal but recognizes exceptions, we would adopt the correct moral view: the onus of proving that everything had been tried and that the motivation and rationale were convincing would rest on those who wanted to end a life. -- Ezekiel Emanuel
The nuclear approach I'm involved in is called a traveling-wave reactor, which uses waste uranium for fuel. There's a lot of things that have to go right for that dream to come true - many decades of building demo plants, proving the economics are right. But if it does, you could have cheaper energy with no CO2 emissions. -- Bill Gates
I love proving people wrong. -- Ed Belfour
Relationships are a proving ground for love. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Illness is the proving ground of friendship. -- Letty Cottin Pogrebin
By proving contraries, truth is made manifest. -- Joseph Smith, Jr.
All my life has been about proving myself. -- Edgerrin James
No executive devotes effort to proving himself wrong. -- Robert Heller
Make your race a playground, not a proving ground. -- Lauren Fleshman
Metaphysics is the science of proving what we don't understand. -- Josh Billings
You don't have to run around world proving you're lovable. -- Henri Nouwen
Sharing is a much better way to communicate than proving. -- Yo-Yo Ma
Kevin Reeves...proving an ill wind blows nobody no good. -- David Coleman
I still need to go through the process of proving myself. -- Lindsay Lohan
I believe that proving is not a natural activity for mathematicians. -- Rene Thom
This is not very important what I'm doing. I'm just proving something. -- Richard P. Feynman
Negroes don't even like snails! What they're doing is proving they're integrated. -- Malcolm X
Mathematics consists in proving the most obvious thing in the least obvious way. -- George Polya
Whether it's in the playoffs or not, you have to keep proving yourself. -- Marc Bulger
I don't believe in proving a point to anybody. Nobody is that important. -- Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
I don't care about proving things to people. I'm proving things to myself. -- Jon Fitch
Without computers we will be stuck only proving theorems that have short proofs. -- Kenneth Appel
Fashions are the only induced epidemics, proving that epidemics can be induced by tradesmen. -- George Bernard Shaw
Never tell her that something is impossible, because she'll kill herself proving you wrong. -- Kate Lattey
I'm going to keep proving people wrong, whether it's my record label, other artists. -- Donnis
The Great War proved how confused the world is. Depression is proving it again. -- Anne Sullivan Macy
In life we're most hell-bent on proving things that we're not really sure are true. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
Why do I have to keep proving to people that I am not a liar?! -- Hillary Clinton
I'm a pro-life candidate because I believe that science is proving us right every day. -- Carly Fiorina
One is more admired for claiming to do good than for proving to be right. -- Emmett Tyrrell
There is no means of proving it is preferable to be than not to be. -- Emile M. Cioran
The argument from improbability, properly deployed, comes close to proving that God does not exist. -- Richard Dawkins
If there is to be any proving of our humanity it must be by revolutionary means -- Walter Rodney
I've always come back from adversity, and I've always had the mentality of proving people wrong. -- David Beckham
Physics advances by accepting absurdities. Its history is one of unbelievable ideas proving to be true. -- Rivka Galchen
I have not failed 10,000 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 10,000 ways will not work, -- Thomas A. Edison
What is the best thing about people doubting your potential? The pleasure of proving them wrong. -- Ameya Agrawal
We humans have many vestigial features proving that we evolved. The most famous is the appendix. -- Jerry A. Coyne
I was now successful in proving that a direction of movement is localized in the cerebellum. -- Robert Barany
If you could really accept that you weren't ok, you could stop proving you were ok. -- Werner Erhard
I had never even thought about doing something that I'd never done before or proving anything. -- Harrison Ford
I'm just going to keep doing what I'm doing. Keep proving people wrong and proving myself right. -- Conor McGregor
[One's] inability to invalidate your hypothesis is not at all the same thing as proving it true. -- Carl Sagan
Scientists animated by the purpose of proving that they are purposeless constitute an interesting subject for study. -- Alfred North Whitehead
Why waste time proving over and over how great you are, when you could be getting better? -- Carol S. Dweck
Guessing before proving! Need I remind you that it is so that all important discoveries have been made? -- Henri Poincare
Many people have told me that I should quit, but I have not yet finished proving them wrong. -- Wes Fesler
Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none -- Jules Renard
Most poets are elitist dregs more concerned with proving their skill with a dictionary than communicating ideas with impact. -- Henry Rollins
We often hear that mathematics consists mainly of "proving theorems." Is a writer's job mainly that of "writing sentences?" -- Gian-Carlo Rota
There's really no honor in proving that you can carry the entire load on your own shoulders. Andit's lonely. -- Amanda Palmer
The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning. -- Adlai E. Stevenson
I'm not wild about holidays. They always seem a ludicrously expensive way of proving there's no place like home. -- Jilly Cooper
What before seemed a...frustrating wall, the comic deftly and fearlessly steps through, proving the absurdity of it all. -- Bill Hicks
...There are too many idiots in this world. And having said it, I have the burden of proving it. -- Frantz Fanon
Dartmouth Winter Carnival opens, proving once again that bitter cold is no obstacle to going completely out of control. -- Lisa Birnbach
The only difference between elements and compounds consists in the supposed impossibility of proving the so-called elements to be compounds. -- Wolfgang Ostwald
We often hear that mathematics consists mainly of 'proving theorems.' Is a writer's job mainly that of 'writing sentences? -- Gian-Carlo Rota
Everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving ground for new writers and new ideas. -- Orson Scott Card
Television is so cool. Television is proving that we can be sophisticated and that people will watch, if it's good. -- Jose Padilha
Hair brings one's self-image into focus; it is vanity's proving ground. Hair is terribly personal, a tangle of mysterious prejudices -- Shana Alexander
My countrymen, I am wholeheartedly thankful to you today for proving that change isn't coming but it has ALREADY COME! -- Imran Khan
Wait a minute. I don't need to keep proving myself. I don't need to keep showing up at every party. -- Christine Baranski
Conversation isn't about proving a point; true conversation is about going on a journey with the people you are speaking with. -- Ricky Maye
At the end of the day government is about teamwork and partnership and we will be proving that by working together. -- Julia Gillard
There will be haters, there will be doubters, there will be non-believers, and then there will be you proving them wrong. -- Unknown 21
The United States will have the honour of proving experimentally, that true policy goes hand in hand with moderation and humanity. -- Jean-Baptiste Say
Man wasn't made to inherit Paradise without effort. Rather, he was made to conquer Paradise, after proving his worthiness of it. -- Mustafa Mahmud
Any woman who still thinks marriage is a fifty-fifty proposition is only proving that she doesn't understand either men or percentages. -- Florynce Kennedy
There's more women stars in Nashville all the time. They're proving they can do the job the same as a man. -- Loretta Lynn
I think that mathematics can benefit by acknowledging that the creation of good models is just as important as proving deep theorems. -- David Mumford
I like the Growth and Opportunity Project. These are good conservative values, proving the core of the GOP is just that: conservative. -- L. Brent Bozell, Jr.
Smart people don't learn... because they have too much invested in proving what they know and avoiding being seen as not knowing. -- Chris Argyris
People who look for easy money invariable pay for the privilege of proving conclusively that it cannot be found on this earth. -- Jesse Lauriston Livermore
Abstract truth has no value unless it incarnates in human beings who represent it, by proving their readiness to die for it. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Photography is a way of shouting, of freeing oneself, not of proving or asserting one's own originality. It's a way of life. -- Henri Cartier-Bresson
Kenny G, I have to be grateful to him for proving that the instrument can be played all different kinds of ways. -- Steve Lacy
Obviously, people are going to think what they think, and I've never had any problems proving people wrong. I do what I do. -- Chris Jericho
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I realized that everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving ground for new writers and new ideas. -- Orson Scott Card
Something like 'Much Ado' happens, and even 'Avengers' happens because of the years of building connections and doing the work and proving yourself. -- Joss Whedon
You do not reduce or eliminate your concerns by crying, shouting or proving you are the victim of whatever happened in your life. -- Archibald Marwizi
When you continue to give without receiving, the only thing you are proving is that you know how to be taken advantage of. -- Iyanla Vanzant
I'm still finding my legs, performance-wise, being up there by myself. I think I have a bit of proving myself ahead of me. -- Natalie Maines
I think I'm one of few American designers doing a house in Europe, and I think I've been proving myself there very well. -- Jeremy Scott
The thinking man always finds himself in a gigantic orphanage in which people are continually proving to him that he has no parents. -- Thomas Bernhard
As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self-destroying. -- Arthur C. Clarke
I'm finding myself very comfortable talking to medical audiences, and proving to them that underlying the material fields of the universe are force fields. -- Deepak Chopra
First of all, convince yourself that you are the best because the rest of your life is going to go proving this to others. -- Wasim Akram
Management is proving beyond a shadow of a doubt they don't have enough to do," she murmured back"So they've invented a new acronym. -- Connie Willis
Did you hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete proving nature's laws wrong it learned 2 walk without having feet -- Tupac Shakur

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