Being Honest Quotes - Page 28

• From my dad I learned to be good to people, to always be honest and straightforward. I learned hard work and perseverance.

  Luke Bryan

  Perseverance, Dad, Hard Work

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• I detest politics, to be honest with you. It's a cesspool. And I don't think I would fare well in that cesspool because I don't believe in political correctness and I certainly don't believe in dishonesty.

  Benjamin Carson

  Believe, Thinking, Political

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• Financial institutions like to call what they do trading. Let's be honest. It's not trading; it's betting.

  Graydon Carter

  Honest, Financial, Institutions

  "Paper Chase" by Graydon Carter, www.vanityfair.com. July 2012.

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• I've never had white teeth. To be honest, I've never been told to do any of those horrible things - get your teeth whitened or your nose straightened.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  White, Teeth, Noses

  "Helena Bonham Carter: 'We're the bonkers couple'". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. February 5, 2010.

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• To be honest, I know that a lot of Asian parents are secretly shocked and horrified by many aspects of Western parenting.

  Amy Chua

  Parent, Asian, Honest

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• Well I think in a marriage you have to be honest and ask yourself, you know, what is my role? What is my responsibility?

  Hillary Clinton

  Responsibility, Thinking, Roles

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• Now '90210' is returning with an all-new cast of slightly more plausible teens. I'll be honest: I wish the old cast was back. Ideally, this spin-off would be an Ice Storm-esque exploration of the West Beverly gang's bleak adult lives.

  Diablo Cody

  Ice, Wish, Storm

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• I think if you're an unhappy person, you're always going to be an unhappy person. You're probably going to be less unhappy if your business is doing well, if I'm being honest.

  Simon Cowell

  Thinking, Unhappy Person, Honest

  Interview with Dimitri Ehrlich, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 20, 2011.

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• I've got to take a break, to be honest. I'm not even going to lie.

  Puff Daddy

  Lying, Honest, Break

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• I had everything I'd hoped for, but I wasn't being myself. So I decided to be honest about who I was. It was strange: The people who loved me for being funny suddenly didn't like me for being... me.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Funny, People, Strange

  "Ellen DeGeneres Shows Us How To Live Our Own Truth" by Siobhan Kukolic, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 28, 2016.

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• I don't think many actors are that good, to be honest. I certainly don't think I am.

  Rupert Everett

  Thinking, Actors, Honest

  "Rupert Everett: 'If I'd been straight? I'd be doing what Hugh Grant and Colin Firth do, I suppose'". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. July 20, 2009.

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• I don't accept my business the way it is, to be honest. I don't like what it's become. I don't blame anyone for it becoming the way it has. It's got its own hideous natural progression, just like world events.

  Rupert Everett

  Events, World, Way

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• Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Zero, Humanity, Admitting

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “Collected Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.161, e-artnow

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• I cannot imagine any other country in the world where the opposition would seek, and the chief executive would allow, the dissemination of his most private and personal conversations with his staff, which, to be honest, do not exactly confer sainthood on anyone concerned.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Country, Sainthood, World

  Gerald R. Ford's speech to the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor as quoted in "The New York Times", May 4, 1974.

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• I asked my daughter when she was 16, What's the buzz on the street with the kids? She's going, to be honest, Dad, most of my friends aren't into Kiss. But they've all been told that it's the greatest show on Earth.

  Ace Frehley

  Music, Daughter, Mother

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• Sometimes what someone else does is really not what you expected them to do, which to be honest, sometimes doesn't work.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Doe, Honest, Sometimes

  "Actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt". "The Tavis Smiley show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. September 28, 2011.

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• I'll be honest, there's a part of me that does think I'm held to a different standard than my contemporaries and peers, and it's a little frustrating.

  Kathy Griffin

  Thinking, Doe, Different

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• Be honest with yourself and lie to everyone else.

  Josh Hartnett

  Lying, Honest, Be Honest With Yourself

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There are some things that, if you say them out loud, will hurt the other person's feelings. I tend to say them anyway. It's better to be honest.

  Katherine Heigl

  Hurt, Feelings, Honest

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• To be honest, I didn't really understand how involved putting a fragrance together could be - or would be. Once I made the choice to actually do it, I just went for it. I just dove in and have really learned a lot about putting a scent together. It's kind of exciting.

  Faith Hill

  Choices, Together, Would Be

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• But I think it's more that when you're young, you're invincible, you're immortal - or at least you think you are. The possibilities are limitless, you're inventing the future. Then you get older and suddenly you have a history. It's fixed. You can't change anything. I find that a bit disturbing, to be honest.

  Damien Hirst

  Thinking, Honest, Limitless

  "Damien Hirst: 'I still believe art is more powerful than money'". Interview with Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2012.

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• Both my parents are English and came out to Australia in 1967. I was born the following year. My parents, and immigrants like them, were known as '£10 poms.' Back then, the Australian government was trying to get educated British people and Canadians - to be honest, educated white people - to come and live in Australia.

  Hugh Jackman

  Government, Years, White

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• The makers of entertainment must try, in our field, to be honest and grown-up.

  Elia Kazan

  Trying, Fields, Entertainment

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• I drank more wine when I wasn't working as much, to be honest.

  Thomas Keller

  Wine, Honest, Drank

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• Let's be honest about this; the liberal agenda with failed stimulus plans and government entitlement programs is crippling our economy and our quality of life.

  Alveda King

  Government, Quality, Agendas

  "Here's Hoping Herman Cain Will Stay In the Race" by Alveda King, www.foxnews.com. December 02, 2011.

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