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• Honesty is an active verb, not a passive noun. Go out of your way to be truthful, beginning with the things that you say to yourself.

  Joe Tye

  Honesty, Verbs, Nouns

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• One must be truthful and honest in his approach; a constant independent inquiry and not blindly following a certain blue print laid down by others

  Bruce Lee

  Independent, Blue, Inquiry

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.202, Tuttle Publishing

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• I want to play roles that I'm proud of, that I feel a certain integrity about, and I want to continue to be truthful in the work that I do.

  Laz Alonso

  Integrity, Play, Roles

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity. Yet these elegies are to this generation in no sense conciliatory. They may be to the next. All a poet can do today is warn. That is why the true Poets must be truthful.

  Wilfred Owen

  War, This Generation, Generations

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• While I am happy to make the occasional foray into educational philosophy - writing, for example, of the difficulty in the contemporary context for a teacher to be 'truthful' - it is more the personal conduct of a life than social institutions that I am concerned to examine.

  David E. Cooper

  Teacher, Educational, Philosophy

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Be truthful. Nature only sides with truth.

  Adolf Loos

  Two Sides, Sides, Truthful

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• What I've found - and the older I get, the more I understand this and stand behind it - is, my whole life has been an exploration of telling the truth. It's scary to be truthful, and it's scary to reveal yourself, and I'm very attracted to doing things that scare me.

  Jane Wiedlin

  Scary, Scare, Truthful

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. July 27, 2011.

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• A good actor is somebody who can be truthful and fascinating and interesting and enlightening.

  Bruce Davison

  Interesting, Actors, Truthful

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• Integrity is fundamental to being men. Integrity means being truthful, but it also means accepting responsibility and honoring commitments and covenants.

  D. Todd Christofferson

  Integrity, Mean, Commitment

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• Be truthful... and pay attention. I would also recommend the avoidance of credit cards.

  Mary McCarthy

  Advice, Cards, Attention

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• I look forward to the end of all this money-making part of the career, to be truthful.

  Paul Guilfoyle

  Careers, Looks, Truthful

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• That man's best works should be such bungling imitations of Nature's infinite perfection, matters not much; but that he should make himself an imitation, this is the fact which Nature moans over, and deprecates beseechingly. Be spontaneous, be truthful, be free, and thus be individuals! is the song she sings through warbling birds, and whispering pines, and roaring waves, and screeching winds.

  Lydia M. Child

  Song, Nature, Men

  "Letters from New York". Book by Lydia Maria Child, Letter No. 38, 1843.

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• I think what saved me is me being honest. I think I somewhow had the courage to do something and say something that I knew would possibly end my career. Instead of making business more important I made my soul and my life more important. And I think by being truthful, and being honest, that saved me.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Thinking, Careers, Soul

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• I think the novel is essentially a comic form (tragedy is for the theatre), not meaning by that full of jokes, but that it is about the absurd detail of human life, the way in which one cannot fully understand what is happening. Life is muddle and jumble and ends inconclusively, and when this is presented with great comic art the sorrows of human life can be truthfully conveyed; one is moved by the spectacle, and feels that something truthful has been told in a magic way.

  Iris Murdoch

  Art, Thinking, Magic

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• Your motto: Be Bold, Be Free, Be Truthful.

  Brenda Ueland

  Truthful, Motto

  Brenda Ueland (1987). “If You Want to Write”

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• I only believe in telling the truth and being truthful.

  Vinnie Tortorich

  Believe, Truthful, Telling The Truth

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• I write to be truthful in my songs, which is why I wrote what's painfully truthful about my life in my autobiography.

  Rick Springfield

  Song, Writing, Truthful

  "Rick Springfield on His Sex Addiction, Depression and Attempted Suicide". Interview with Jeanne Wolf, parade.com. October 15, 2010.

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• We all compromise ourselves, from time to time, because maybe it will lead to more opportunity...A ll of that’s cool, but we forget and we get caught up. If you want that nurturing, caring, empathetic, compassionate heart to keep on ticking and be around, and you want it to be strong, then don’t neglect #1. One way to feed it is just being truthful and listening to your heart.

  Paul Walker

  Strong, Heart, Caring

  FaceBook post by Paul Walker from Dec 13, 2013

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• We live in a relativistic culture, where people are more con- cerned with being liked than being truthful. In A Sweet and Bitter Providence, John Piper does an outstanding job of bibli- cally defending key truths that the church often ignores. He gives us an example of how to take a bold and educated stand on issues of race, purity, and God's sovereignty.

  Francis Chan

  Sweet, Jobs, Keys

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• I think you have a pact with an audience in every picture, and I think the pact is to try and be truthful and to be real.

  James L. Brooks

  Real, Thinking, Trying

  "Director James L. Brooks talks Spanglish". Interview with Brian B., movieweb.com. December 16, 2004.

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• Jazz is so difficult. A lot of people think once they've learned these licks they can get up and play them for the rest of their life. But that's not being truthful to the music 'cause it's not developing. Cats you hear that don't make no mistakes? They ain't trying to do nothing. everything they hear is on the mark, but they've played it so many times... I've built a whole career out of making mistakes!

  Lester Bowie

  Mistake, Cat, Thinking

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• What motivates me in art is the ugly and beautiful nature of the truth. It has to be truthful and honest, even if it is ugly and grotesque.

  Corin Nemec

  Beautiful, Art, Ugly

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

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• We must be truthful and fair in the ordinary affairs of life before we can be truthful and fair in patriotism and religion.

  E. W. Howe

  Life, Truth, Religion

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• Singing and being truthful to a song... I've developed that skill, and I know how to do that real instinctively, that's all I've been doing for the last 25 years.

  Taylor Dane

  Song, Real, Years

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• Google's a strange place. When I met Eric Schmidt, he said, "If you are kind to everybody, then you will make good decisions because people will give you good information, and if you are truthful to everybody, they will be truthful to you." That's what's different about Google. They screw up and make mistakes, but they genuinely mean the good stuff about "don't be evil."

  Larry Brilliant

  Integrity, Mistake, Mean

  "Feeling Lucky". Interview with Evan Ratliff, www.wired.com. July 1, 2006.

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