Honest Quotes - Page 32

• Whether you're a cameraman or a director, you should ask yourself every now and then, 'What am I trying to do?' Be honest and keep things very simple.

  James Wong Howe

  Simple, Trying, Directors

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• If you sing honestly and sincerely to kids, they will respond with all their hearts.

  Susannah McCorkle

  Heart, Kids, Sincerely

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• A man goes to the movies. The critic must be honest enough to admit that he is that man.

  Robert Warshow

  Men, Enough, Critics

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• I am, to be quite honest, sick of hero stories.

  Julie Taymor

  Hero, Sick, Stories

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• The world is full of beautiful girls. But they're not Angelina Jolie. She's fun, honest, intelligent, gorgeous and divinely talented. She brings a hell of a lot to the party.

  John Frankenheimer

  Beautiful, Girl, Fun

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• To be honest, I look at my Pinball program and feel that it is old stuff. I could do much better.

  Bill Budge

  Looks, Stuff, Program

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• When the honest, sincere Christian is faced with the decision regarding whether a thing is right or wrong, he should ask, does it agree with all that the Scripture has to say on the subject?

  Curtis Hutson

  Christian, Decision, Doe

  Curtis Hutson (2000). “Bread for Believers”, p.278, Sword of the Lord Publishers

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• Vice may triumph for a time, crime may flaunt its victories in the face of honest toilers, but in the end the law will follow the wrong-doer to a bitter fate, and dishonor and punishment will be the portion of those who sin.

  Allan Pinkerton

  Fate, Law, Punishment

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• Let me be very honest and just say that if any airline would let me take the violin and the laptop on board I would fly that airline all the time.

  Lara St. John

  Boards, Violin, Laptops

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• I had to learn to be honest with myself. I had to recognize my pain threshold. When I hit the floor, I have to realize it's not as if I broke a bone. Pushing yourself over the barrier is a habit. I know I can do it and try something else crazy. If you want to win the war, you've got to pay the price.

  Flo Hyman

  Sports, Pain, War

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• Prose pretends to be straightforward in its application to the truth, but truth itself is a dissembler. Poetry, much more honest, knows the deception can't be overcome.

  Laurence Overmire

  Deception, Overcoming, Straightforward

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• If an honest man is the noblest work of God, then Mr. Lincoln's title to high nobility is clear and unquestioned.

  Matthew Simpson

  Men, Titles, Clear

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• Janet Mock's honest and sometimes searing journey is a rare and important look into la vida liminal, one that she manages to negotiate remarkably well, with grace, humor, and fierce grit. Mock doesn't only redefine what realness means to her, but challenges us to rethink our own perceptions of gender and sexuality, feminism and sisterhood, making this book a transcendent piece of American literature.

  Raquel Cepeda

  Book, Mean, Journey

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• Our life is frittered away by detail. An honest man has hardly need to count more than his ten fingers, or in extreme cases he may add his ten toes, and lump the rest. Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Men, Simplicity

  Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.74, Heron Dance Press

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• The real acid test of courage is to be just your honest self when everybody is trying to be like somebody else.

  Andrew Jenson

  Courage, Real, Self

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• Many an honest man practices upon himself an amount of deceit sufficient, if practised upon another, and in a little different way, to send him to the state prison.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Men, Practice, Different

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• The most important to me is, Theo is a good person first and foremost. And I think that has a lot to do with it. He's not deceitful. He's an honest guy, a good guy. There's a lot more to this thing than it being a job for him, being born and raised here, the Red Sox being as important as they are to him. Above all else, Theo understands he's a compromiser. Theo understands that the clubhouse is our home. He doesn't invade that privacy often. When he does, he doesn't make you uncomfortable and that says as much about him as anything.

  Curt Schilling

  Jobs, Lying, Home

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• The singing of the songs of Zion, though imperfectly, with the inspiration of God, will touch the hearts of the honest more effectively than if sung well without the Spirit of God.

  Heber J. Grant

  Music, Song, Inspiration

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• Music and songs are written at different periods of time, at different times in your life. They reflect the feelings you have and to be honest, I quite like having positive emotions.

  Scott Ian

  Song, Feelings, Different

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• How do you know what is the right path to choose to get the result that you desire? The honest answer is this: You won't. And accepting that greatly eases the anxiety of your life experience.

  Jon Stewart

  Inspirational, Moving On, Graduation

  Commencement Address at The College of William & Mary, delivered 21 May 2004

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• But honestly, if you do a rigorous survey of my work, I'll bet you'll find that biology is a theme far more often than physical science.

  David Brin

  Biology, Theme, Surveys

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• Honest differences of opinion should never be permitted to destroy a friendship.

  Chaim Potok

  Differences, Lost Friendship, Opinion

  Chaim Potok (2016). “The Chosen”, p.236, Simon and Schuster

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• I believe in courtesy, in kindness, in generosity, in good cheer, in friendship and in honest competition. I believe there is something doing somewhere, for every man ready to do it. I believe I'm ready, RIGHT NOW.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Kindness, Cheer, Believe

  Elbert Hubbard (1933). “Elbert Hubbard Speaks: Being a Selection of Inspirational Essays, Each Written in the White Heat of Inspired Heart Impulses”

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• How to feel your way toward something honest, hidden under the trapdoor on the top of your skull.

  Ray Bradbury

  Writing, Skulls, Way

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• My belief of book writing is much the same as my belief as to shoemaking. The man who will work the hardest at it, and will work with the most honest purpose, will work the best.

  Anthony Trollope

  Book, Writing, Men

  Anthony Trollope, David Skilton (1996). “An autobiography”, Penguin Group USA

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