Being True Quotes - Page 11

• When something looks too good to be true, it usually is.

  Emmy Rossum

  Looks, Too Good To Be True

  "'Shameless' star Emmy Rossum discusses Fiona's downward spiral". Interview with Daniel Fienberg, uproxx.com. March 8, 2014.

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• There are a lot days where I don't know if God exists. There are a lot of days where I think the leadership of the Church is wacky, a lot of days where I really doubt why I am a part of this thing. But, down deep, I know it to be true. Down deep, I know how much I love it and that's what sort of gets me through. The churches are the pope, and its priests and its mystery and everything. I just sort of like the whole thing.

  Lino Rulli

  Thinking, Doubt, Church

  "A talk with Lino Rulli, 'Catholic Guy' & 'Sinner'". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.

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• There were so many stories around, it was almost inevitable some of them would turn out to be true.

  Nigel Evans

  Stories, Inevitable, Turns

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• When it comes down to it you have to be true to yourself and the rest falls into place.

  Austin Dillon

  Fall, Be True To Yourself, True To Yourself

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• If you would govern a state of a thousand chariots (a small-to-middle-size state), you must pay strict attention to business, be true to your word, be economical in expenditure and love the people.

  Confucius

  People, And Love, Attention

  "The Analects". Book by Confucius,

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• There's a rule for what makes good fantasy work, and it's as strange as any riddle ever posed in a fairy tale: In fantasy, you can do anything; and therefore, the one thing you must not do is 'just anything.' Why? Because in a story where anything can happen and anything can be true, nothing matters. You have no reason to care what happens. It's all arbitrary, and arbitrary isn't interesting.

  Teresa Nielsen Hayden

  Interesting, Arbitrary, Stories

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• A myth doesn't have to be real to be true.

  Joseph Campbell

  Real, Being Real, Myth

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• [In many circumstances,] the most important thing about a proposition is not that it be true, but that it be interesting.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Interesting, Important, Circumstances

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• If you don't know how it works, find out. If you're not sure if it will work, try it. If it doesn't make sense, play with it until it does. If it's not broken, break it. If it might not be true, find out.

  Seth Godin

  Play, Broken, Trying

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• I want to know if you can disappoint another to be true to yourself. If you can bear the accusation of betrayal and not betray your own soul. .I want to know if you can live with failure, yours and mine, . and still stand at the edge of the lake and shout . . . "Yes." .I want to know if you can get up . weary and bruised to the bone and do what needs to be done. .I want to know what sustains you . when all else falls away.

  Oriah Dreamer

  Betrayal, Fall, Lakes

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• Be true to yourself. Be true to those you lead.

  John Wooden

  Be True To Yourself, True To Yourself

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• It is not right, my fellow-countrymen, you who know very well all the crimes committed in our name. It's not at all right that you do not breathe a word about them to anyone, not even to your own soul, for fear of having to stand in judgment of yourself. I am willing to believe that at the beginning you did not realize what was happening; later, you doubted whether such things could be true; but now you know, and still you hold your tongues.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Believe, Names, Soul

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• It has been thought that the people are not competent electors of judges learned in the law. But I do not know this to be true, and, if doubtful, we should follow principle.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Law, People, Judging

  Thomas Jefferson, Jean M. Yarbrough (1963). “The Essential Jefferson”, p.241, Hackett Publishing

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• If Christianity should happen to be true - that is to say, if its God is the real God of the universe - then defending it may mean talking about anything and everything.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Real, Mean, Talking

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• Either in or out of time, the decision of a personal agency to commit an action happens antecedent to the action itself. Even if the deciding and the acting happened simultaneously, it would still not be true that the acting was antecedent to the deciding. Imagine God saying, "Oh, look! I just created a universe. Now I'd better decide to do it.

  Dan Barker

  Agency, Decision, Acting

  Dan Barker (2009). “Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists”, p.137, Ulysses Press

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• To be true to the mythical conception of a God is to be false to the interests of mankind.

  E. Haldeman-Julius

  Mankind, Interest, Conception

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• Figuring out who you are and being true to yourself is not just important, but it is critical to being authentic.

  Kim Garst

  Important, Be True To Yourself, Being Authentic

  Kim Garst (2015). “Will the Real You Please Stand Up: Show Up, Be Authentic, and Prosper in Social Media”, p.3, Morgan James Publishing

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• I'm not creating the universe. I'm creating a model of the universe, which may or may not be true.

  Lisa Randall

  Creating, May, Models

  "Not My Job: Physics Professor Lisa Randall Gets Quizzed On Phys Ed". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. November 21, 2015.

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• It's important to be true to the events, but the most important thing is to get to the essence of the experience. Not to be bogged down in an academic way by a notion of the truth. First of all, the truth is an illusive and spurious concept.

  Mike Leigh

  Essence, Important, Events

  "Mike Leigh, Unscripted". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 21, 2014.

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• The day you shoot something, everything changes. You still have the same overall vision and approach. You create a world that you're going to be true to or the film tells you what you're going to do. And so, it's like you've got a philosophy of what you're doing. You try and have that changing texturally over the movie.

  Fred Schepisi

  Philosophy, Vision, Trying

  Source: collider.com

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• However happy the director is, I have to be okay with it. I'm pretty strict with myself, about throwing things out or trying to be true to whatever the situation dictates.

  Martin Freeman

  Trying, Directors, Throwing

  "Martin Freeman Talks FARGO, Finding the Character, Lester’s Breaking Point, SHERLOCK, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 27, 2014.

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• When you're believing in the person that you're playing, you feel protected. It's about being true to that person you're playing.

  Felicity Jones

  Believe, Feels, Persons

  Source: collider.com

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• It's an ongoing process, in the script, on the set and in the editing room, to make sure you are being true to the emotion of the film without turning it into a melodrama, and making sure you're getting all the laughs you can without it turning into just some stupid comedy.

  Jon Turteltaub

  Stupid, Editing, Laughing

  Source: collider.com

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• There are two things that have been true throughout history in big hunks. You can find differences in ten years, but in 50 year hunks, 100 years hunks, you'll find two things to be true. One, the world is always getting better. Two, people always think it's getting worse.

  Penn Jillette

  Thinking, Years, Two

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• Generally speaking, experience counts for something. So you'd expect entrepreneurs who've been through the ups and downs of a tech startup to have an advantage over the newcomers. Or at least have an equal chance at success. But in fact the opposite may be true. A number of venture capitalists I've spoken with have said that too many "old guard" entrepreneurs are not being bold enough in their business decisions, and it's hurting their startups.

  Michael Arrington

  Hurt, Opposites, Numbers

  "The Twice Shy Entrepreneur". techcrunch.com. December 9, 2007.

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