Honest Quotes - Page 26

• A new poll shows that Americans now believe that Bill Clinton is more honest than President Bush. At least when Clinton screwed the nation, he did it one person at a time.

  Jay Leno

  Funny, Believe, President

  "Scarborough Country" with Joe Scarborough, www.nbcnews.com. May 19, 2006.

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• Music has always gotten me through life, particularly honest, real music.

  Lisa Marie Presley

  Real, Music Is, Real Life

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• To be perfectly honest, I think that as I'm growing older, I'm just growing more impatient. I'll be very happy if at some point people say, 'Michael's grown wiser and softer in his old age.' But we'll have to wait and see what my next project is.

  Michael Haneke

  Thinking, People, Waiting

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• The crucial task of old age is balance: keeping just well enough, just brave enough, just gay and interested and starkly honest enough to remain a sentient human being.

  Florida Scott-Maxwell

  Gay, Bravery, Balance

  Florida Scott-Maxwell (2013). “Measure of My Days”, p.23, Knopf

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• There will be that zip-a-dee-doo-dah after the nominee is chosen. I guarantee there will be that enthusiasm. But to be brutally honest, with all due respect to governor Romney, who is obviously the frontrunner... hes not garnering a lot of that enthusiasm right now.

  Sarah Palin

  Enthusiasm, Zips, Guarantees

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• National leaders who find themselves wilting under the withering criticisms by members of the media, would do well not to take such criticism personally but to regard the media as their allies in keeping the government clean and honest, its services

  Corazon Aquino

  Government, Media, Leader

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

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• Teaching children the joy of honest labor is one of the greatest of all gifts you can bestow upon them. Let us also teach our children to see that the work assigned is carried to its completion and to take pride in what they accomplish.

  L. Tom Perry

  Children, Teaching, Pride

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• Friends have asked how I came to engender this American antagonism. My prodigious sin was, and still is, being a non-conformist. Although I am not a Communist I refused to fall in line by hating them. Secondly, I was opposed to the Committee on Un-American Activities - a dishonest phrase to begin with, elastic enough to wrap around the throat and strangle the voice of any American citizen whose honest opinion is a minority of one.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Hate, Fall, Voice

  "My Autobiography". Book by Charlie Chaplin, September 1964.

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• Freedom! you askin me about freedom. I'll be honest with you. I know a whole more about what freedom isn't than about what it is, 'cause I've never been free. I can only share my vision with you of the future, about what freedom is.

  Assata Shakur

  Vision, Causes, Share

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• I tell you before God, and as an honest man, your son (W A Mozart)is the greatest composer known to me by person and repute, he has taste and what is more the greatest skill in composition.

  Joseph Haydn

  Son, Men, Skills

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• My voice is unadorned. I don't try for perfection. I try to be honest and truthful and soulful with the voice I have. If I make mistakes in notes, or there are cracks in notes, I don't fix them. That's the way it is.

  Neil Diamond

  Mistake, Voice, Perfection

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I might have been through some changes, but changing the way I look wasn't one of the major ones. To be honest. I'm sick of the whole subject of my hair. I mean, are you just sitting there looking at my hair, or are you looking at me?

  Jon Bon Jovi

  Mean, Hair, Sick

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• Barbra Streisand is without a doubt one of the most honest people I have ever known. There is no doubt in my mind that she will not be doing any more concerts. Of course, she still will be making records and starring and directing in movies

  Marvin Hamlisch

  People, Doubt, Mind

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• Libertarianism is what you probably already believe: Libertarian values are American values. Libertarianism is America's heritage of liberty, patriotism and honest work to build a future for your family. It's the idea that being free and independent is a great way to live. That each of us is a unique individual, with great potential. That you own yourself, and that you have the right to decide what's best for you. Americans of all races and creeds built a great and prosperous country with these libertarian ideals. Let's use them to build America's future.

  David Bergland

  Country, Believe, Independent

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• There was no working title for the album. The record-jacket designer said `When I think of the group, I always think of power and force. There's a definite presence there.' That was it. He wanted to call it `Obelisk'. To me, it was more important what was behind the obelisk. The cover is very tongue-in-cheek, to be quite honest. Sort of a joke on 2001. I think it's quite amusing.

  Jimmy Page

  Thinking, Important, Groups

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• A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is privately concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men who, even if their action be honest and intended for the public interest, are necessarily concentrated upon the great undertakings in which their own money is involved and who necessarily, by very reason of their own limitations, chill and check and destroy genuine economic freedom.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Men, Hands, Growth

  Woodrow Wilson (2016). “The New Freedom: [Illustrated & Biography Added]”, p.117, eKitap Projesi via PublishDrive

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• There is a noticeable general difference between the sciences and mathematics on the one hand, and the humanities and social sciences on the other. It's a first approximation, but one that is real. In the former, the factors of integrity tend to dominate more over the factors of ideology. It's not that scientists are more honest people. It's just that nature is a harsh taskmaster. You can lie or distort the story of the French Revolution as long as you like, and nothing will happen. Propose a false theory in chemistry, and it'll be refuted tomorrow.

  Noam Chomsky

  Integrity, Real, Lying

  "Noam Chomsky: A Life of Dissent". Book by Robert F. Barsky, 1997.

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• The people of this country desperately need to engage in an open and honest debate about mental health.

  David Satcher

  Country, People, Needs

  "U.S. surgeon-general focuses on suicide, mental health". www.cnn.com. April 17, 1998.

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• Being a woman in the pop world, sexuality is half poison and half liberation. What's the line? I don't have a line. I am the most sexually free woman on the planet, and I genuinely am empowered from a very honest place by my sexuality. What's more primal than sex? I mean, it's so honest. If I didn't think I had the talent to back that up, I wouldn't have done it.

  Lady Gaga

  Sex, Mean, Thinking

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• To be honest about it, sex was not worth the wait.

  Kevin Jonas

  Sex, Waiting, Worth The Wait

  "Married Jonas Brother Says Sex Not Worth the Wait" by Andy Borowitz, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 8, 2010.

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• I haven't had sex in eight months. To be honest, I now prefer to go bowling.

  Lil' Kim

  Sex, Gambling, Eight

  "Interview: the wrath of Lil Kim". Interview with Michael Cragg, www.theguardian.com. July 19, 2013.

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• To be honest, I really don't like being the sex object.

  Izabella Scorupco

  Sex, Being Honest, Objects

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• Innumerable times a whole Christian community has broken down because it had sprung from a wish dream… Every human wish dream that is injected into the Christian community is a hindrance to genuine community and must be banished if genuine community is to survive. He who loves his dream of a community more than the Christian community itself becomes a destroyer of the latter, even though his personal intentions may be ever so honest and earnest and sacrificial.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Christian, Dream, Broken

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• In our culture privacy is often confused with secrecy. Open, honest, truth-telling individuals value privacy. We all need spaces where we can be alone with thoughts and feelings - where we can experience healthy psychological autonomy and can choose to share when we want to. Keeping secrets is usually about power, about hiding and concealing information.

  Bell Hooks

  Confused, Keeping Secrets, Space

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• We begin with the hypothesis that any subject can be taught effectively in some intellectually honest form to any child at any stage of development.

  Jerome Bruner

  Education, Children, Science

  Jerome S. BRUNER (2009). “The Process of Education, Revised Edition”, p.33, Harvard University Press

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