quotes about Truthful
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I found that the more truthful and vulnerable I was, the more empowering it was for me.
-- Alanis Morissette -
It almost seems to me that man was not born to be a carnivore.
-- Albert Einstein -
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TRUTHFUL, adj. Dumb and illiterate.
-- Ambrose BierceSource : Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.372, ReadHowYouWant.com
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Knowledge is truthful only if it’s based in morality.
-- Andrei Tarkovsky -
Earth was created for all of us, not some of us.
-- Anthony D. Williams -
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I'll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.
-- Bela LugosiSource : "Interview With Rising Star Matthew Hussey, Bestselling Author of Get The Guy and International Love Guru". Interview with Nicole Bryl, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 24, 2013.
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Be scrupulously truthful, even if the truth is inconvenient, for it is more inconvenient when you try to conceal it.
-- Bertrand Russell -
Nobody is more truthful when he's acting than De Niro.
-- Billy Crystal -
When you have something truthful to say, it will design itself.
-- Bob Gill -
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Your motto: Be Bold, Be Free, Be Truthful.
-- Brenda UelandSource : Brenda Ueland (1987). “If You Want to Write”
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A good actor is somebody who can be truthful and fascinating and interesting and enlightening.
-- Bruce Davison -
and a charge of lying against someone whom you have always found truthful is a very serious thing; a very serious thing indeed.
-- C. S. Lewis -
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Watercolour is not especially difficult, but I must warn you to steer clear of those pretty English watercolourists, so skilful and alas so weak, and so often too truthful.
-- Camille Pissarro -
The pure, frank sentiments we hold in our hearts are the only truthful sources of art.
-- Caspar David FriedrichSource : "Culture: Caspar D. Friedrich and the Wasteland" by Gjermund E. Jansen in Bits of News, March 3, 2005.
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It's so great as an actor to get the opportunity to do something that's incredibly truthful.
-- Charlize Theron -
After all, mirrors are only as truthful as the eyes that are looking into them.
-- Cherie Currie -
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My life, the most truthful one, is unrecognizable, extremely interior, and there is no single word that gives it meaning.
-- Clarice LispectorSource : "The Hour of the Star". Book by Clarice Lispector, 1977.
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Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.
-- Confucius -
The important thing, Jesus is saying (in Matthew 5:33-37), is to tell the truth and keep one's pledges without insisting that a certain form of words must be used if it is to be binding. No oath is necessary for the truthful person... Their word is so reliable that nothing more than a statement is needed from them.
-- D. A. Carson -
If you are honest, truthful, and transparent, people trust you. If people trust you, you have no grounds for fear, suspicion or jealousy.
-- Dalai Lama -
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It is the province of poetry to be more realistic and present than the artificial narratives of an outer discourse, and not afraid of the truthful difficulty of the average human life.
-- David Whyte -
Photography is the truth if it’s being handled by a truthful person.
-- Don McCullin -
Do not be proud of your inconsistency. It is a pity, it is a pity that we should be equipped like this. It is a pity that Man cannot be at the same time impressive and truthful.
-- E. M. Forster -
To be credible we must be truthful.
-- Edward R. MurrowSource : Testimony before a Congressional Committee, pdaa.publicdiplomacy.org. May 1963.
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If your words aren't truthful, the finest optically letter-spaced typography won't help,
-- Edward Tufte -
I will say, with memoir, you must be honest. You must be truthful.
-- Elie Wiesel -
To be honest and truthful in all endeavours is an experience, not a regret
-- Fela Kuti -
Veganism is not a "sacrifice." It is a joy.
-- Gary L. Francione -
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It struck me that working digitally with a small crew, I could lay out a general plan for Famous and hope for mistakes which would create something more than satire and something less than truthful reality.
-- Griffin Dunne -
Conscious communication is called Turiya-when you are totally effective, totally understood and totally truthful.
-- Harbhajan Singh Yogi -
I love big, bold, truthful theater - the tradition of Victorian theater.
-- Harold Prince -
Credulity is perhaps a weakness almost inseparable from eminently truthful characters.
-- Henry Theodore Tuckerman -
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You can't build anything with a flimsy foundation. Friendship is the foundation.
-- Hill Harper -
I responded in what I thought was the most truthful, or least untruthful manner.
-- James R. ClapperSource : "James Clapper Hails Checks And Balances While Treating Oversight “Too Cute By Half”, www.emptywheel.net. June 10, 2013.
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What I've found - and the older I get, the more I understand this and stand behind it - is, my whole life has been an exploration of telling the truth. It's scary to be truthful, and it's scary to reveal yourself, and I'm very attracted to doing things that scare me.
-- Jane WiedlinSource : Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. July 27, 2011.
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Try to be transparent, clear and truthful. Even when it is difficult, and above all when it is difficult.
-- Jean-Cyril Spinetta -
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I'm convinced from what I know of Vernon Bundy that his testimony was truthful.
-- Jim Garrison -
Cruelty might be very human, and it might be cultural, but it's not acceptable.
-- Jodie FosterSource : Jodie Foster's Academy Awards Acceptance Speech, aaspeechesdb.oscars.org. March 29, 1989.
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I like to complain and do nothing to make things better.
-- Kurt Cobain -
I like to have strong opinions with nothing to back them up with besides my primal sincerity. I like sincerity. I lack sincerity.
-- Kurt Cobain -
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I just hope I don't become so blissful I become boring. I think I'll always be neurotic enough to do something weird.
-- Kurt Cobain -
The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful.
-- Kurt Vonnegut -
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I think I avoid stepping into sentimentality by trying to be as truthful as possible with performances.
-- Lasse Hallstrom -
Be truthful, say what you mean and mean what you say, don't ignore the given circumstances.
-- Lauren GrahamSource : Lauren Graham (2013). “Someday, Someday, Maybe: A Novel”, p.164, Ballantine Books
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I'm a vegan. It makes me feel really good and bright.
-- Lea Michele -
Play as well as you can all the time, and if you're truthful to your thing, you'll succeed.
-- Lester Bowie -
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It's really important that my lyrics are truthful.
-- Lianne La HavasSource : "One to watch: Lianne La Havas" by Tim Lewis, www.theguardian.com. October 29, 2011.
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I'm willing to go wherever with this because music is everything to me. This is my world and how I see it. My music speaks for me in a way that's relatable and truthful.
-- Luke James -
I believe politicians should aim to be accurate and truthful in what they say at all times. You can be truthful and inaccurate but what you shouldn't be doing at any time is saying things that are untrue or making commitments that you have no intention of honouring.
-- Malcolm Turnbull -
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In order to be truthful we must do more than speak the truth. We must also hear truth, receive truth, search for truth.
-- Michael LeunigSource : Michael Leunig (2006). “When I Talk to You: A Cartoonist Talks to God”, p.55, Andrews McMeel Publishing
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In order to be truthful We must do more than speak the truth. We must also hear truth. We must also receive truth. We must also act upon truth. We must also search for truth. The difficult truth Within us and around us. We must devote ourselves to truth. Otherwise we are dishonest And our lives are mistaken. God grant us the strength and the courage To be truthful. Amen
-- Michael LeunigSource : Michael Leunig (2006). “When I Talk to You: A Cartoonist Talks to God”, p.55, Andrews McMeel Publishing
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The way to my heart is by being truthful and spontaneous.
-- Michelle Trachtenberg -
Fleetwood Mac has been pretty truthful. Open about what we do. We've always done it from the inside out. Versus being pressured from the outside and changing the inside. And that's our story.
-- Mick FleetwoodSource : "Bartender Wisdom: Mick Fleetwood Edition" by Mark Mikin, www.esquire.com. October 11, 2011.
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In this way, Allah will love the pious person because He, the Most Exalted, loves those who are pious, truthful, charitable, devout, and are sincere to Him and to His Prophet.
-- Mohammad Hussein FadlallahSource : "The mutual love between Allah and His servants". english.bayynat.org.lb.
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The Prophet also said: "A truthful and trustworthy merchant is associated with the prophets."
-- Muhammad ibn Isa at-Tirmidhi -
Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
-- Nadine Gordimer -
I think any actor should be aware of where they're starting to stretch into what's not truthful.
-- Naveen Andrews -
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As actors, if we are truthful to ourselves and we know what we can do and what we cannot do and just go after it, there are possibilities out there. If you don't try, you won't find out if you get them or not.
-- Navid Negahban -
I look forward to the end of all this money-making part of the career, to be truthful,
-- Paul Guilfoyle -
There is no work of art that has ever been made that is absolutely truthful about life.
-- Richard Foreman -
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I write to be truthful in my songs, which is why I wrote what's painfully truthful about my life in my autobiography.
-- Rick Springfield -
Tagore once said, art has to be beautiful. But before that, it has to be truthful.
-- Ritwik Ghatak -
Fake confidence on the outside often trumps truthful turmoil on the inside.
-- Rob LoweSource : Rob Lowe (2011). “Stories I Only Tell My Friends: An Autobiography”, p.58, Macmillan
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There's no right or wrong just truthful or untruthful.
-- Robert Duvall -
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He [William Merritt Chase] is, I suspect, getting a very truthful likeness. I would like it better if [it] was not so gray, so cramped about the eyes, and not quite so corpulent. But is this not quarreling with nature?
-- Rutherford B. Hayes -
A lot of things in 'Parents' I find very truthful.
-- Sally Phillips -
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat raggedly on into the future....
-- Simon Schama -
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With a heart that is truthful, keeping you youthful.
-- Smokey Robinson -
If someone asks me a question, there might be a truthful answer and a correct answer.
-- Tim Henman -
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I only believe in telling the truth and being truthful.
-- Vinnie Tortorich -
Sometimes, I have to really monitor myself, but the only monitoring job I really do on myself on stage is, Is this truthful? Is this truthful? Is this truthful? Ideally, I send it in a flow of truth.
-- Alex EbertSource : "Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
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If you lack vulnerability then you are not being truthful to yourself.
-- Benjamin StoneSource : Interview with Ocean Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. December 31, 2013.
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I think the success of my work stems from being truthful.
-- Catherine O'HaraSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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My photographs tried to find the politicians at their most wary, most vulnerable, and perhaps most truthful moments. I wanted the photographs to reveal the person through stance and stare, when he or she was most reflective or off guard, in order to measure the person and event unfolding.
-- Jerome LieblingSource : Jerome Liebling, Alan Trachtenberg (1997). “Jerome Liebling: The Minnesota Photographs, 1949-1969”, p.110, Minnesota Historical Society Press
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History - the non-fiction version - must inform the fiction to make it truthful; too much of it and your genres are colliding.
-- Jon WeismanSource : Source: www.guernicamag.com
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A good horror film is something that taps into something absolutely truthful about us - about what we want, about what we're terrified of - and brings that to life on screen in such a way that we can get close enough to that character to let our defenses down and want them to be safe.
-- Kimberly PeirceSource : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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We, hijras, are not hypocrites. We live our sexuality openly, being truthful to our souls and our bodies. Science and doctors assigned something else to us when we were born - which they didn't have the authority to - but we choose what we are and we are very truthful about it.
-- Laxmi Narayan TripathiSource : Source: www.guernicamag.com
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I'm doing a lot of research right now on what's happening in Arizona. That's where I'm at with more conventional documentary filmmaking. I think it is an urgent cause. I think I need to make something. I'm a part of it. Everybody's a part of it, and this country needs to know what's happening there in a very truthful way.
-- Lourdes Portillo -
It takes work to plot a course that is both thrilling and truthful, but it's worth it.
-- Matt Charman -
I don't think social commentary should be planned, you just have to be truthful.
-- Nick Damici -
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Humor is, by its nature, more truthful than factual.
-- P. J. O'Rourke -
You had to make everything much more truthful for the camera. With the stage it's a given that it's going to be theatrical.
-- Samuel Barnett -
I think the biggest thing is just making sure that you do the work that you connect with, personally, and that you do work where you can really bring something to the table. It's just about being truthful to yourself.
-- Susanna White -
The importance is getting to something truthful and in that moment can only be in that moment. I don't like to use the word "improvise," but it's a continual writing of the film.
-- Abdellatif KechicheSource : Source: collider.com
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I like my lyrics to feel conversational and truthful, as if we're having real talk. I don't really like generic lyrics.
-- Meredith Brooks -
There are ugly aspects to every single person's character. In being truthful, actors do have to show the ugly side of someone's character. We all behave like dicks sometimes.
-- Claire FoySource : Source: www.avclub.com
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Piano is very elegant. I also think it's a very truthful instrument.
-- Howard ShoreSource : Source: collider.com
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I always feel that as the author, once I know what a character is ashamed of, then I can go about making her truthful on the page.
-- Joshua Mohr -