Being Honest Quotes - Page 17

• Yeah, on the records, the guitars are made melodic, and I try to make it memorable. There's not much just wanking, to be honest - it's mostly melodic parts. I try not to play too many notes. It's just more instrumental music. It's a totally valid criticism if you don't like that kind of thing. It also is maybe a little anachronistic or unnecessary in a certain way.

  Stephen Malkmus

  Memorable, Guitar, Play

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I have people that are affected by what I do, what I say, and that would be the one place where it gets complicated. But being honest and truthful - I just believe that's the best way to be.

  Gwen Stefani

  Believe, People, Would Be

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• Well, at home, I’m in sweatpants, I’m not wearing any makeup, and I’m not standing with my hand on my hip while smiling. I try to be honest in interviews, but obviously you have to be careful about everything you say and do when you’re being recorded. I’m much more comfortable and quieter at home.

  Zoe Kravitz

  Home, Makeup, Hands

  Interview with Kam Williams, www.kamwilliams.com. May 12, 2015.

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• To be honest, just trying to get everybody together in one room to get our picture taken for the back of the album, it took so long just to organize that.

  David Pajo

  Taken, Long, Trying

  "Dead Child". Interview with Stephen M. Deusner, pitchfork.com. April 22, 2008.

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• I am just a simple guy and I like when people enjoy themselves. I always say: you can laugh, you can cry, you can express yourself but please don't hurt each other. I really don't know, to be honest with you. I'm very impressed with everything that has happened.

  Tommy Wiseau

  Hurt, Simple, Laughing

  "The Room. Worst movie ever made?". Tribute Interview, www.tribute.ca. April 18, 2011.

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• People bring flowers and that's pretty memorable. I actually got a rose from one girl. She was so beautiful! I love all the screenings to be honest with you. I don't think I have gone to one single bad screening! Even if negative things happen, I turn it into positive reaction.

  Tommy Wiseau

  Beautiful, Girl, Flower

  "The Room. Worst movie ever made?". Tribute Interview, www.tribute.ca. April 18, 2011.

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• When you do your comedy and your drama, your acting style doesn't change. If it's a comedy, the situations and the characters might be a little funnier, but you're just trying to be honest.

  Jonah Hill

  Drama, Character, Style

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. September 21, 2011.

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• People would lambaste me or attack me, and I'd be like, "I'm being honest! I'm the one person that's being honest and sincere about what I'm doing." The rest of the world doesn't want to admit the fakery of entertainment on TV, but I love the fake. I think fake is beautiful.

  Casey Spooner

  Beautiful, Thinking, People

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I think this [Gnomeo & Juliet] is the closest I ought to get to Shakespeare to be honest.

  Matt Lucas

  Thinking, Honest, Juliet

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• It's important to be honest with and respectful of each other and deal with issues as they arrive, as opposed to letting them simmer.

  Ivanka Trump

  Issues, Important, Honest

  "Ivanka Trump describes her life as the daughter of a potential US president, running the Trump empire, and building her own brand". Interview with Rachel Gillett, www.businessinsider.com. March 17, 2016.

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• "Keep it 100" means keeping it 100 percent real. It comes from the expression ... "keeping it real," which means you are being completely honest and 100 percent real means you are really being honest, which is kind of a contradiction of sorts. You're either being honest or you're not.

  Larry Wilmore

  Real, Mean, Expression

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• And believe it or not, a new record from Philly's greatest, the Roots. It's kind of bitter sweet, to be honest. Well, maybe not so bitter. It's called "Rising Down."

  Mike Pesca

  Sweet, Believe, Roots

  "Madonna, Santogold Make Dance Records". Interview with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. April 29, 2008.

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• If you're fortunate to get a first album that sells 10 million you have nowhere to go but down. I'm just going to be honest and your measuring stick is so high that haters are licking their chops because you can't do nothing but fail.

  Nelly

  Albums, Licking, Nowhere To Go

  "Catching Up – Our Nelly Interview". Parlé Magazine Interview, www.parlemag.com. June 22, 2010.

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• To be honest, I would like to have worked with Peter Sellers, because when people talk about classic British actors, you talk about Lawrence Olivier, and Peter Sellers was just in the most amazing films.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  People, Actors, Honest

  "Interview: Dan Radcliffe, Emma Watson & Rupert Grint (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire)". Interview with Dan Whitehead, trouble.city. October 26, 2005.

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• I was taught to work hard and to be honest, and that's what I try to do, so that's it.

  Joe Arpaio

  Hard Work, Trying, Taught

  "Off Message" with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. June 20, 2016.

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• I think it's difficult to be honest about certain aspects of my work without acknowledging that I have experienced or felt or questioned certain of the themes in the books.

  J. K. Rowling

  Book, Thinking, Honest

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• To be honest, I didn't really get into making music to be an album artist.

  DJ Shadow

  Artist, Albums, Honest

  Source: www.highsnobiety.com

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• I just wanted to be a guy on the radio and I wanted to succeed, and I wanted a situation where I could be honest.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Guy, Radio, Succeed

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Our leaders today cannot be honest about Islam with us. They will not even use the term "Islamic terrorism," "radical Islam."

  Rush Limbaugh

  Islamic, Leader, Today

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I had to be honest with myself and that I felt hatred then, but as children say "I hate you", it's not really hate, you know, it's anger.

  Elie Wiesel

  Children, Hate, Hatred

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• There are songs and artists now who are trying to do the same thing: be honest to their experiences.

  Erik Parker

  Song, Artist, Trying

  Source: screenanarchy.com

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• To be honest, all I wanted to do, all I ever, ever wanted to do - I just wanted to perform.

  James Corden

  Honest, Wanted

  "James Corden Conquers YouTube With 'Carpool Karaoke'". "All Things Considered" with Ari Shapiro, www.npr.org. March 8, 2016.

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• It's a lot easier when you can share the workload to be honest. Especially if you really, really, trust in each other.

  Georgia Nott

  Honest, Share, Easier

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• Let's be honest, the fact that Michael [Gove] announced very late in the process this morning that he was going to put his name forward, showed how much he had wrestled with this.

  Nicky Morgan

  Morning, Names, Facts

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• The world is looking, not for Christians who are perfect, but for Christians who are honest and who are willing to be honest with some of our contradictions and hypocrisy.

  Shane Claiborne

  Christian, Perfect, Hypocrisy

  "Interview with Shane Claiborne: Embracing the Margins". Interview with Matt Dabbs, wineskins.org. November 17, 2015.

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