Straightforward Quotes

• I don't like to act in my personal life. I like to be straightforward.

  Josh Hartnett

  Being Real, Truthful, Personal Life

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• I believe in treating other people with respect. My style is to speak to people, be available to them and willing to answer their questions. This also means being straightforward and honest with them.

  Sanford I. Weill

  Respect, Believe, Mean

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• Truth is always straightforward.

  Sophocles

  Truth, Truth Is

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• Some girls like to say one thing and mean another. And me being who I am, I'm very straightforward. Everything is very black and white for me. I don't really like playing mind games.

  Zayn Malik

  Girl, Mean, Black And White

  "One Direction Exclusive Interview". www.seventeen.com. October 10, 2012.

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• Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straight forward and simple integrity in another.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Truth, Honesty, Integrity

  "Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think".

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• That's always been my philosophy: I try to just be as straightforward as possible, and then I don't really have to question what I said or regret anything.

  Amy Adams

  Regret, Philosophy, Trying

  Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 6, 2013.

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• I'm a straightforward person. I like to be direct with people.

  Henry Paulson

  People, Persons, Direct

  "EXCERPT: Henry M. Paulson Jr.'s: 'On the Brink'". abcnews.go.com. February 1, 2010.

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• I've discovered as I've grown up that life is far more complicated than you think it is when you're a kid. It isn't just a straightforward fairytale.

  Rachel McAdams

  Kids, Thinking, Fairytale

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• I don't really get a lot of clarity in my everyday life and my interactions with people. Most things that happen to me aren't very straightforward. They're either vastly confusing, or I realize that I'm inventing whatever meaning I'm deriving from whatever happens and it's filtering through my own indulgent perspective.

  Paul Banks

  Perspective, People, Confusing

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Speech devoted to truth should be straightforward and plain

  Seneca the Younger

  Words Of Wisdom, Speech, Should

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• If you know someone who’s depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn’t a straightforward response to a bad situation; depression just is, like the weather. Try to understand the blackness, lethargy, hopelessness, and loneliness they’re going through. Be there for them when they come through the other side. It’s hard to be a friend to someone who’s depressed, but it is one of the kindest, noblest, and best things you will ever do.

  Stephen Fry

  Inspirational, Friendship, Sympathy

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• True communication depends upon our being straightforward with one another... But the best way to communicate may be just to sit without saying anything.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Communication, May, Way

  Shunryu Suzuki (2010). “Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind”, p.78, Shambhala Publications

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• Some people say I'm too blunt and I'm too direct, too straightforward. I think we could use some of that in Washington, D.C.

  Lindsey Graham

  Thinking, People, Use

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• From my dad I learned to be good to people, to always be honest and straightforward. I learned hard work and perseverance.

  Luke Bryan

  Perseverance, Dad, Hard Work

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• Men are gentle, honest and straightforward. Women are convoluted, deceptive and dangerous.

  Erin Pizzey

  Men, Honest, Dangerous

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• There is nothing mysterious about the principles of the gospel. We have studied them in the scriptures, we have discussed them in Sunday School, and we have heard them from the pulpit many times. These divine principles and values are straightforward and clear; they are beautiful, profound, and powerful; and they can definitely help us to avoid future regrets.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Beautiful, Powerful, Regret

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• Life isn't a straightforward climb up the ladder. It can take a few slips to really gain perspective.

  Kate Jacobs

  Perspective, Gains, Ladders

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• Even when I'm trying to be straightforward and honest and my comments are innocent, inevitably they get turned into something sort of salacious.

  Megan Fox

  Trying, Honest, Innocent

  "Megan Fox and Will Arnett Talk TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES, Childhood Ninja Turtle Memories, Going from Digital Transformers to Turtles and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 6, 2014.

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• Life is a straight drink - straight pleasure, straight pain, straightforward, one hundred percent.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Pain, Life Is, Drink

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• In real life, strategy is actually very straightforward. You pick a general direction and implement like hell.

  Jack Welch

  Real, Hell, Strategy

  Jack Welch, Janet Lowe (2007). “Jack Welch Speaks: Wit and Wisdom from the World's Greatest Business Leader”, John Wiley & Sons

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• The first point was we wanted power to determine our own destiny in our own black community. And what we had done is, we wanted to write a program that was straightforward to the people. We didn't want to give a long dissertation.

  Bobby Seale

  Writing, Destiny, Long

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• I find it extraordinary that a straightforward if inelegant device for ensuring the survival of the species should involve human beings in such emotional turmoil. Does sex have to be taken so seriously?

  P. D. James

  Sex, Taken, Emotional

  P. D. James (2011). “Devices and Desires”, p.158, Vintage

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• It is straightforward for me to be ethical, responsible, and kind-hearted because I have the resources to support that.

  Edward Tufte

  Support, Kind, Ethical

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• The more stupid one is, the closer one is to reality. The more stupid one is, the clearer one is. Stupidity is brief and artless, while intelligence squirms and hides itself. Intelligence is unprincipled, but stupidity is honest and straightforward.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Stupid, Reality, Honest

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• How I Shed My Skin is, simply put, a brilliant book. While I was reading, I kept thinking two things. One, this is totally shocking. Two, it's not at all shocking, but a familiar part of my life and memory. Grimsley's narrative is straightforward and plain-spoken while at the same time achingly moving and intimately honest, and it does more to explain the South than anything I've read in a long, long time.

  Josephine Humphreys

  Memories, Moving, Book

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