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• This whole thing that's happened to me, you see, this whole success thing..it hasn't yet really compromised the position that I took a long time ago in Texas, that was to be true to myself, to be the person that I...that was on inside of me and not play games.

  Janis Joplin

  Texas, Games, Play

  Song: Albert Hall Interview

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• In regard to propaganda the early advocates of universal literacy and a free press envisaged only two possibilities: the propaganda might be true, or the propaganda might be false. They did not foresee what in fact has happened, above all in our Western capitalist democracies - the development of a vast mass communications industry, concerned in the main neither with the true nor the false, but with the unreal, the more or less totally irrelevant. In a word, they failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions.

  Aldous Huxley

  Communication, Men, Two

  Aldous Huxley (2008). “Brave New World Revisited”, p.47, Random House

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• I always try to be true to who I am and just be myself.

  Sam Claflin

  Who I Am, Trying

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My goal as an artist is to always be true to who I am and give my fans music they will enjoy for a lifetime

  Faith Hill

  Artist, Who I Am, Goal

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• One way to avoid what has already been done is to be true to yourself.

  Ramsey Campbell

  Done, Way, Be True To Yourself

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• Today's decision affirms what we all know to be true — the U.S. Constitution guarantees the basic civil rights of all Americans, not just some. Utah's ban on marriage equality does nothing to strengthen or protect any marriage. Instead, it singles out thousands of loving Utah families for unfair treatment simply because of who they are. Our Constitution does not allow for such blatant discrimination.

  Chad Griffin

  Utah, Rights, Decision

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• A photographer is a witness. He has a moral duty. Every picture must be true and honest. I believe a photographer's strength is his ability to accurately record reality. There are photographers who think they are lucky if they find unusual or special subject. But it is never the subject that is so marvelous. It is how alive and real the photographer can make it.

  Edouard Boubat

  Real, Believe, Thinking

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• Generally, if I can't be true to the creator's intention and spirit, I will probably shy away from working on a character.

  Darwyn Cooke

  Character, Shy, Spirit

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• Physics advances by accepting absurdities. Its history is one of unbelievable ideas proving to be true.

  Rivka Galchen

  Ideas, Physics, Accepting

  "Dream Machine" by Rivka Galchen, www.newyorker.com. May 2, 2011.

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• Faith is not the supposition that something might be true, but the assurance that someone is there.

  Kallistos Ware

  Might, Assurance, Supposition

  Kallistos Ware, Kallistos (Bishop of Diokleia) (1995). “The Orthodox Way”, p.16, St Vladimir's Seminary Press

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• Be true in your relationship with the Sovereign Creator, for He is the greatest one with whom you could relate in all your affairs and states.
  Know that He cares for those who turn to Him; relieves difficulties for them; is there for them in every circumstance, condition and change; and He shelters them in His Mercy, Grace, Pardon and Forgiveness.

  Habib Umar bin Hafiz

  Grace, Care, Shelter

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• Despite what you hear and say there will always be that one voice that will always be true to you.

  Tony DiTerlizzi

  Voice, Despite

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• I know already that I can survive it. That's the sorrow of it all. That whatever comes I'll survive it. I mean, even if the worst were to be true, would it really be the worst?

  Scott Hutchins

  Mean, Sorrow, Worst

  Scott Hutchins (2012). “A Working Theory of Love: A Novel”, p.173, Penguin

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• Be true to what you said on paper.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Paper, Said

  I've Been to the Mountaintop, delivered 3 April 1968, Mason Temple (Church of God in Christ Headquarters), Memphis, Tennessee

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• A modern building should derive its architectural significance solely from the vigour and consequence of its own organic proportions. It must be true to itself, logically transparent, and virginal of lies or trivialities.

  Walter Gropius

  Lying, Design, Building

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• I can remember when a good politician had to be 75 percent ability and
  25 percent actor, but I can well see the day when the reverse could be
  true.

  Harry S. Truman

  Actors, Remember, Politician

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• I have found it to be true that the older I've become the better my life has become.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Life, Age, Aging

  "Old Age Is Always 15 Years Older Than I Am". Book by Randy Voorhees, August 21, 2001.

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• Though it is very important for man as an individual that his religion should be true, that is not the case for society. Society has nothing to fear or hope from another life; what is most important for it is not that all citizens profess the true religion but that they should profess religion.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Men, Multicultural Society, Religion

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1990). “Democracy in America”

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• It is finally when you let go of what people expect you to be and people's perceptions of you that you're able to be the version of yourself that you're supposed to be - like in God's eyes. It doesn't matter if you're half crazy, or eccentric, or whatever it is - that you have to be true to who you were born to be.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Letting Go, Crazy, Eye

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• Why not simply honor your parents, love your children, help your brothers and sisters, be faithful to your friends, care for your mate with devotion, complete your work cooperatively and joyfully, assume responsibility for problems, practice virtue without first demanding it of others, understand the highest truths yet retain an ordinary manner? That would be true clarity, true simplicity, true mastery.

  Laozi

  Sister, Faith, Brother

  Laozi, Brian Browne Walker (1992). “Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu”

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• It may be true that there are no atheists in foxholes. But you don't find many Christians there, either. Or, about as many of one as the other.

  Edward Abbey

  Christian, Atheist, Foxholes

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.10, RosettaBooks

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• Christian theology: nothing so grotesque could possibly be true.

  Edward Abbey

  Christian, Grotesque, Theology

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.10, RosettaBooks

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• It may be true that my desk here is really 'nothing but' a transient eddy of electrons in the flux of universal process. Nevertheless, I find that it continues to support my feet, my revolver, and my cigars all day long. What happens when my back is turned I don't know. Or much care. That's no concern of mine.

  Edward Abbey

  Feet, Long, Support

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.13, RosettaBooks

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• I, too, believe in fidelity. But how can I be true to one woman without being false to all the others?

  Edward Abbey

  Believe, Fidelity, One Woman

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.43, RosettaBooks

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• Above all things, lose no occasion of exercising your dispositions to be grateful, to be generous, to be charitable, to be humane, to be true, just, firm, orderly, courageous, etc. Consider every act of this kind as an exercise which will strengthen your moral faculties and increase your worth.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Grateful, Exercise, Religion

  Thomas Jefferson (1963). “The Thomas Jefferson Papers”, Dodd

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