Telling The Truth Quotes - Page 21

• I'm just writing about people. People are dark and complicated. I'm trying to tell the truth; that's all that I do.

  David Lindsay-Abaire

  Writing, Dark, People

  "From Pulitzers to Tonys, David Lindsay-Abaire Turns Blue Collar Roots Into Art". Interview with Brad Balfour, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 12, 2011.

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• When you have the courage to tell the truth about what you're really afraid of, fear doesn't have control over your life.

  Ali Vincent

  Over You

  Ali VIncent (2010). “Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life”, p.144, Rodale

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• Contrary to all those times you've heard a writer confess at a reading that he writes fiction because he is a pathological liar, fiction writing is all about telling the truth.

  Paul Harding

  Liars, Reading, Writing

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• One of life's regrets is that you didn't always tell the truth, and now it's too late, because the truth has changed.

  Robert Breault

  Truth, Regret, Too Late

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• Tell the truth... maybe just to see clearly, as clearly as possible.

  Lucille Clifton

  Healing

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• When I began to talk publicly about the hatred that was in the Talmud, I was branded a hater, a bigot, and an anti-Semite by the media and by groups like the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith. The ADL is a multimillion-dollar, worldwide organization whose whole purpose is to defame and discredit those who simply tell the truth about Jewish supremacism and hatred against Gentiles.

  David Duke

  Media, Organization, Ku Klux Klan

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• The first thing I do in the morning when I awaken is say, 'Thank you, Lord!' I'm grateful to be alive, and I'm going to try to tell the truth as well as I know and tell it as eloquently as I can so that people can hear it.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspiring, Morning, Grateful

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• I think that all the silence is worse than all the violence, Fear is such a weak emotion that's why I despise it, We scared of almost everything, afraid to even tell the truth, So scared of what you think of me, I'm scared of even telling you...

  Lupe Fiasco

  Thinking, Silence, Violence

  "Song: Words I Never Said (Lasers)". February 8, 2011.

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• On the one hand, we may tell the truth, regardless of consequences, and on the other hand we may mellow it and sophisticate it to make it humane and tolerable.

  H. L. Mencken

  Hands, May, Truthfulness

  H. L. Mencken (1924). “Prejudices Fourth Series”

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• I am never frightened when I tell the truth.

  Malalai Joya

  Frightened

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• There is a perennial and unobtrusive view that morality consists in such things as telling the truth, paying one's debts, respecting one's parents and doing no voluntary harm to anyone. Those are all things easy to say and hard to do; they do not attract much attention, and win little honor in the world.

  Allan Bloom

  Winning, Views, Parent

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• Gentlemen are not supposed to tell the truth about their sex lives, nor are ladies, for that matter. Of course Clinton lied - as would anybody in his position.

  Gore Vidal

  Sex, Gentleman, Matter

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• Art is lies that tell the truth.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Lying, Art Is

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• I would do nearly anything for a laugh, to tell the truth. And I'm a particular favourite with young men with earrings.

  Celia Imrie

  Men, Laughing, Favourite

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• When it comes to memoir, we want to catch the author in a lie. When we read fiction, we want to catch the author telling the truth.

  Tayari Jones

  Lying, Fiction, Want

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• If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.

  Rachel Johnson

  Dull, Trouble, Politician

  "Rachel Johnson: 'I have a duty not to be boring'". Interview with Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. April 26, 2010.

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• To tell the truth, I'd scare me too.

  Jethro Tull

  Honesty, Scare

  Song: I'm Your Gun

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• I believe in telling the truth.

  Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

  Believe, I Believe, I Believe In

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• I don't value authority. I don't value the systems. I don't value patriarchal religion. I don't value the things that diminish you when you do tell the truth. So I'm not scared of the end result, and that is the biggest asset I have.

  Susan Powter

  Scared, Authority, Ends

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• If you want to play the game of truth, I'll tell the truth, and the truth will burn.

  Scott Ritter

  Games, Play, Want

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• It's a lot easier to tell the truth usually.

  Elliott Smith

  Easier

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• He glosses over and doesn't even tell the truth....Here is a guy who is the ultimate flip-flopper running for president, and he's attacking me for not being principled? That doesn't wash.

  Rick Santorum

  Running, Guy, President

  "Santorum's decision came down to odds and his daughter". www.cnn.com. April 11, 2012.

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• When you get people standing up saying, 'I'm going to just tell the truth; what do we have to fear?,' it encourages others, and it creates a counterresponse.

  Ron Suskind

  People, Standing

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• The only people that ever stand up and tell the truth are who? Intelligence officers. Because our culture is, never break faith with the truth. We'll tell you, you don't have to drag it out of us.

  George Tenet

  People, Culture, Break

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• If McNamee is lying, then he has acted inexcusably, and he has made Clemens an innocent victim. If Clemens isn't telling the truth, then he has acted shamefully and has smeared McNamee. I don't think there's anything in between.

  Jim Lehrer

  Lying, Thinking, Innocent

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