When I started out in the profession, it was definitely about proving that I was worthy, but after achieving a certain amount of success, I realized I didn't have to prove anything to anybody.
People have been skeptical of the Women's March on Washington. Our legitimacy only came from us proving to the rest of the world that we're capable.
We tell children their wellbeing is paramount, but we are also guilty of mollycoddling them. There's a constant emphasis on their vulnerability, which is proving toxic.
If the experiments which I urge be defective, it cannot be difficult to show the defects; but if valid, then by proving the theory, they must render all objections invalid.
There are exceptional schools in many of our most disadvantaged neighborhoods throughout the Commonwealth. Proving they can get it done for kids, no matter what their circumstances.
Alabama has made great progress in proving that BP, Halliburton, and Transocean are liable for the devastating effects of the oil spill.
Teachers today are breaking down obstacles, finding innovative ways to instill old lessons, proving that greatness can be found in everyday places.
When you reflect on your life, you realize how arguments, pride, and the worry of proving yourself never changed or fixed anything.
One can prove or refute anything at all with words. Soon people will perfect language technology to such an extent that they'll be proving with mathematical precision that twice two is seven.
People said I had no heart, I was lackadaisical, the whole nine yards. But success is the best revenge, and I'm proving all of them wrong, even Evander Holyfield.
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.
I try my best to squeeze in a simple exercise routine whenever I can - even though this is proving to be more challenging than I expect.
Most people figured I'd be in jail. I've been proving people wrong my whole life.
I had never even thought about doing something that I'd never done before or proving anything.
While some artists hunt for more groundbreaking ideas, A Hawk and a Hacksaw finds novelty in tradition, proving that what's new depends only on who's listening.
I want to be the best receiver to ever play the game. I feel like I can do it. I know I have the ability to do it. But it's all about going out there and proving it.
Photography is a way of shouting, of freeing oneself, not of proving or asserting one's own originality. It's a way of life.
On the strength of Vonnegut's reputation, 'Breakfast of Champions' spent a year on the best-seller lists, proving that he could indeed publish anything and make money.
There's always going to be obstacles and people that doubt you. So it's about proving people wrong and bettering yourself and trying to be the best you.
Dartmouth Winter Carnival opens, proving once again that bitter cold is no obstacle to going completely out of control.
Cricketers and Bollywood stars are attracted to each other because they are both well-known in their fields, and the constant pressure of proving oneself doesn't exist.
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.
Proving that profit is economically and morally justifiable, rather than the result of exploitation, has been a central preoccupation of neoclassical economists.
Money, ego, revenge and the seduction of being a media darling is pretty powerful stuff, and, John Bolton is proving he's not immune.
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.
The thinking man always finds himself in a gigantic orphanage in which people are continually proving to him that he has no parents.
Math does come easily to me, but I was always much more interested in what theorems imply about the world than in proving them.
It's heartening to see talented girls like Prachi Desai and Yami Gautam making it big in films and proving themselves.
The way I feel is I have to keep going out there and proving people. I don't want to be just a guy who has a couple of good years and then that's it.
I've always enjoyed the fact that a lot of people didn't have that much confidence in what I could do because I enjoy proving people wrong.
They say that extroverts are unhappier than introverts and have to compensate for this by constantly proving to themselves how happy and contented and at ease with life they are.
For the second time in history the Conservatives will have a female prime minster, proving that we are not just the greatest but the most progressive party in Britain.
Why waste time proving over and over how great you are, when you could be getting better?
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
The military is sort of the ultimate test of proving that you're a man, and certainly that whole idea was very much uppermost in my mind when I joined the Army.
And I have written three books on the soul, Proving absurd all written hitherto, And putting us to ignorance again.
I've only written stand-up and sketch before, so writing something long-form on my own is proving quite difficult. But I'm enjoying it as well.
Mathematics consists in proving the most obvious thing in the least obvious way.
There has always been an inner self-motivation for me. Mine goes back to my United days of us against the world and proving everyone wrong.
Television is so cool. Television is proving that we can be sophisticated and that people will watch, if it's good.
Now he was proving it again. Each time was a new time and he never thought about the past when he was doing it.
After all, I do not have so many ways of proving that I am free. We is always free at the expense of someone else. It is a bother,but it is normal.
We often hear that mathematics consists mainly of "proving theorems." Is a writer's job mainly that of "writing sentences?"
Smart people don't learn... because they have too much invested in proving what they know and avoiding being seen as not knowing.
I work hard at what I do, and it does take time and a lot of commitment, so for me, it is proving to other people that I'm not just another dummy.
It was there that, through a mutual friend, I met John Waters - proving what I've always said: you meet the best people on field trips.
I haven’t always been thrilled with my work. But the fear of not proving the people wrong who think you can’t emerge from a franchise and do well, that’s a very strong driving force.
It is scientific only to say what is more likely and what less likely, and not to be proving all the time the possible and impossible.
When Americans invade Iraq, Bush says, we will be greeted as liberators by the Iraqi people, proving that taking out Saddam Hussein was the right thing to do.
Mothers have a habit of proving right except you don't find that out until you're the age your mother was when she gave you the advice.
I like the Growth and Opportunity Project. These are good conservative values, proving the core of the GOP is just that: conservative.
I've always come back from adversity, and I've always had the mentality of proving people wrong.
The wise individual doesn't get too attached to any of life's pleasures, knowing that wonderful science is hard at work proving it's bad for him.
I haven't always been thrilled with my work. But the fear of not proving the people wrong who think you can't emerge from a franchise and do well, that's a very strong driving force.
It's time Hawaii answer doubters and produce documents proving that it is a state. What are they hiding? And why haven't we seen these documents?
The nice thing about Viagra is that they are proving men can go blind on it, so you can gain weight and have a great sex life.
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.
You can do anything you want to. Follow your dreams; because if you say you can't do it, you'll spend the rest of your life proving it.
But that is a valid, continuing service that that music - which is, in some cases, 80 or 90 years old - is rendering. And proving its own timelessness.
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.
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