Being True Quotes - Page 9

• I think being a woman alone enhanced the impulse in others to be generous. What we're told is that to be a woman alone is to be in a dangerous situation. The message is that people are gong to prey on you and do bad things to you. That may be true in some cases, but what I experienced was the other case.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Thinking, Dangerous Situations, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Just to be true to myself, which is why I did this movie. I figured everyone was going to freak out and say, 'Why would you do that after Dorothy Dandridge?' My answer is 'Because I can.' And that feels really good to be comfortable saying that.

  Halle Berry

  Movie, Actors, Answers

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• I think about the sincerity of my writing. I try to be true, to pose questions. Shake people up a bit and make them look in a direction they wouldn't normally.

  Philippe Claudel

  Writing, Thinking, People

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Honestly, you can't manage expectations. It has nothing to do with you. It has everything to do with everyone else. And everyone else is going to have expectations, and all you can do is do your job and do your best and be true to yourself.

  Erin Davie

  Jobs, Expectations, Be True To Yourself

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• You have to be true, you have to be honest.. Don't do anything, just figure out what it is that is true to you, what makes you happiest to do and be out there. And if it doesn't work, then you just have to call it a day and go find something else. But don't make it up. Don't go out there and pretend to be something you aren't.

  Pat Benatar

  Honest, Figures, True You

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I have never thought that I have sacrificed anything being a writer. That might not be true, maybe I have sacrificed something. Maybe I've given something up, but I can't think of it.

  Walter Mosley

  Thinking, Might, Given

  Big Think Interview with Andrew Dermont, bigthink.com. November 10, 2010.

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• The Chinese are quite entrepreneurial. Remember when Lenovo bought IBM's PC division. It was said that China didn't need a brand name, China didn't need to buy Lenovo to get into the PC business, I remember reading a one-liner somewhere which struck me as quite possibly true, it said the one thing that the Chinese had not been able to copy or figure out was the way, in terms of systems, that Americans - it probably would be true for Europeans as well - that Americans install and live by their management systems, while China is still quite half-assed. Perhaps that is a true statement.

  Tom Peters

  Reading, Names, Chinese

  Source: iveybusinessjournal.com

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• The Big Bang, the formation of sars and planets, the origin and evolution of life on this planet, the advent of human consciousness and the resultant evolution of cultures - this is the story, the one story, that has the potential to unite us, because it happens to be true.

  Ursula Goodenough

  Culture, Stories, Bangs

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• Infidelity is seated in the heart; its origin is not in the head. It is the wish that Christianity might not be true, that leads to an argument to prove it.

  Charles Simmons

  Heart, Infidelity, Wish

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• In regard to the philosophers, if they be true philosophers, i.e., lovers of truth, they should not be irritated that the earth moves. Rather, if they realize that they have held a false belief, they should thank those have shown them the truth; and if their opinion stands firm that the earth doesn't move, they will have reason to boast than be angered.

  Galileo Galilei

  Moving, Earth, Belief

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• Our love should not be just words and talk; it must be true love, which shows itself in action.

  John the Apostle

  Our Love, Action, Purpose Driven Life

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• Whenever a new finding is reported to the world people say - It is probably not true. Later on, when the reliability of a new finding has been fully confirmed, people say - OK, it may be true but it has no real significance. At last, when even the significance of the finding is obvious to everybody, people say - Well, it might have some significance, but the idea is not new.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Real, Ideas, People

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• It might not be true, but that doesn't mean it's nonsense.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Mean, Might, Nonsense

  Patrick Rothfuss (2011). “The Wise Man's Fear”, p.322, Penguin

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• Progress, then, is a property of the evolution of life as a whole by almost any conceivable intuitive standard.... let us not pretend to deny in our philosophy what we know in our hearts to be true.

  E. O. Wilson

  Philosophy, Heart, Progress

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• There is so much about the process of writing that is mysterious to me, but this one thing I've found to be true: writing begets writing.

  Dorianne Laux

  Writing, Mysterious, Process

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• When you first hear about this guy (Stan Musial), you say, 'it can't be true.' When you first meet him you say, 'It must be an act.' But as you watch him and watch him and see how he performs and how he comports himself you say, 'He's truly one of a kind.' There will never be another like him.

  Jack Buck

  Guy, Watches, Firsts

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• I am more than a black guy. I am a person, I'm storyteller, I'm a son, I'm a friend, so I am all those things so it is frustrating to a degree to be limited by other people's perceptions of me but at the same time, it is true that I am a black guy and it's like I'm rooted in, but not bound by. That sort of mentality, that's the one that I hold to be true.

  Justin Simien

  Son, People, Guy

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Music is made by individuals. Some artists will be very politically overt in their songs, some will be more subtle. You have to be true to yourself, true to your nature.

  Win Butler

  Song, Artist, Be True To Yourself

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• We're convinced we need money to have friends and partners, but actually I've found the opposite to be true.

  Mark Boyle

  Opposites, Needs, Found

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The most fundamental attack on freedom is the attack on critical thinking skills. Comments display our universal failure to teach and value critical thinking, leaving the possibility open that both everything and nothing could be true.

  Travis Nichols

  Thinking, Skills, Leaving

  "Scratches in the Temple Wall". Interview with Paul Killebrew, logger.believermag.com. July 29, 2013.

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• A couple can be quite intimate without sharing bodies - though you will likely not believe that, my Cam. But it can be true. What I feel for you is highly intense, whether you are standing next to me or living a hundred miles away. I do not have to be touching you at all to experience what I feel.

  Jennifer Ashley

  Couple, Believe, Touching You

  Jennifer Ashley (2011). “The Many Sins of Lord Cameron”, p.220, Penguin

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• In a speech in Texas, Donald Trump called Hillary Clinton 'easily the worst Secretary of State in the history of our country.' When asked what he based that on, Trump said, 'I heard ME say it just now. So it's gotta be true.'

  Jimmy Fallon

  Country, Texas, Speech

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• When we trust someone, we believe what they tell us is true. We experience it as being true. It's not the experience itself that empowers us to believe it. It is the trust.

  Susan Meissner

  Believe, Empowering

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• It is not coincidence that makes a designer but his continuity. And continuity means working and searching, working and fighting, working and finding, finding and seeing, seeing and communicating, and again working and searching. Designers must challenge the past, must challenge the present, must challenge the future; but first of all, designers must be true to themselves. Design is attitude.

  Helmut Schmid

  Attitude, Mean, Fighting

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• Soometimes when you have something that seems too good to be true, you start waiting for it to crumble to pieces around you.

  Aurora Rose Reynolds

  Waiting, Pieces, Too Good To Be True

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