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• I don't know if people realize how hard I work, because sometimes people ask me for my secret. The truth is that I don't have any secrets apart from the fact that I've been directing theater and film for twenty years and trying at every stage to make my work better.

  Lucy Walker

  Years, People, Secret

  "The Crash Reel Director Lucy Walker on Snowboarding and Simone de Beauvoir". Interview with Melissa Silverstein, www.indiewire.com. December 12, 2013.

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• Where do thoroughbreds go after they lose one too many races, throw one too many riders, or develop a limp? Many thousands of thoroughbreds end up being slaughtered for horse meat. The unpleasant truth is horse meat is eaten in Europe and Asia.

  Jane Velez-Mitchell

  Horse, Race, Europe

  "End horror of horses led to slaughter" by Jane Velez-Mitchell, www.cnn.com. April 30, 2010.

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• Fact is fact. Truth is Truth. It does not matter how you feel. We do not listen to our feelings. We believe the truth of God's word.

  Eric Ludy

  Believe, Feelings, Doe

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• Truth is beautiful within and without, forevermore.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beautiful, Truth

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.76, Library of America

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• Truth is the summit of being.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Truth, Summit

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.330, Modern Library

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• The truth is, sometimes you have to get left before you can get right. Sometimes God will take you left on your journey to get you right, to do a work in you that will prepare you for what He has for you.

  Jentezen Franklin

  Journey, Sometimes, Gods Will

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• I have a drivers licence, but the truth is that I hardly ever drive. I prefer to get around by taxi.

  Ferran Adria

  Taxi, Drivers

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• It isn't that the lies are too beautiful to resist. It's that the truth is too hideous to face.

  Rick Yancey

  Beautiful, Lying, Faces

  Rick Yancey (2014). “The Infinite Sea: The Second Book of the 5th Wave”, p.158, Penguin

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• Stand up for what you believe. Follow your gut, which most of the time is your heart talking. This has been my hardest lesson. I have given this advice and not always followed it myself. The truth is, there is no other way.

  Faith Hill

  Believe, Heart, Talking

  FaceBook post by Faith Hill from Jan 29, 2013

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• This commitment to truth is something one senses more and more Americans yearning for, just as they are becoming more and more sophisticated at knowing when the truth is being obscured - an irony that seems to elude most of todays elected officials.

  Michael Musto

  Commitment, Knowing, Elude You

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• People assume that I came back to Washington because of the Post, but the truth is less romantic. I came back for a job.

  Katharine Weymouth

  Jobs, People, Assuming

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• Truth is undoubtedly the sort of error that cannot be refuted because it was hardened into an unalterable form in the long baking process of history

  Michel Foucault

  Errors, Long, Baking

  Michel Foucault (1980). “Language, Counter-memory, Practice: Selected Essays and Interviews”, p.144, Cornell University Press

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• Truth is that the best ideas are often psychotic, obscene and unoriginal.

  Keith Johnstone

  Ideas, Psychotic, Obscene

  Keith Johnstone (1981). “Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre”, p.83, Routledge

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• The truth is, natural organisms have managed to do everything we want to do without guzzling fossil fuels, polluting the planet or mortgaging the future.

  Janine Benyus

  Burning Fossil Fuels, Want, Fossils

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• Custom without truth is error grown old.

  Tertullian

  Errors, Customs

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• Maintaining silence about a dirty truth is another way of lying, a common practice in high places.

  Michael Parenti

  Lying, Dirty, Practice

  Michael Parenti (1996). “Dirty Truths”, p.132, City Lights Books

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• We tend to think of great thinkers and innovators as soloists, but the truth is that the greatest innovative thinking doesn't occur in a vacuum.

  John C. Maxwell

  Thinking, Vacuums, Innovative

  "How Successful People Think: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life". Book by John C. Maxwell, June 2009.

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• Whenever the truth is uncovered, the artist will always cling with rapt gaze to what still remains covering even after such uncovering; but the theoretical man enjoys and finds satisfaction in the discarded covering and finds the highest object of his pleasure in the process of an ever happy uncovering that succeeds through his own efforts.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Artist, Men, Effort

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.94, Modern Library

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• Maybe you know exactly what it is you dream of being, or maybe you're paralyzed because you have no idea what your passion is. The truth is, it doesn't matter. You don't have to know. You just have to keep moving forward. You just have to keep doing something, seizing the next opportunity, staying open to trying something new.

  Shonda Rhimes

  Dream, Moving, Passion

  Shonda Rhimes (2015). “Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person”, p.79, Simon and Schuster

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• The truth is, the more kind and liberal a man is, the more generous will be the patronage bestowed upon him.

  P. T. Barnum

  Men, Kind, Civility

  P. T. Barnum (2007). “The Art of Money Getting: Golden Rules for Making Money”, p.42, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• The truth is that love and power go together.

  Susan Jeffers

  Together

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• Self-importance is a trap, because the moment we start to think that we actually matter is the moment when things start to go wrong. The truth is that you are supremely unimportant and nothing matters. All of man's striving is for nothing; all effort is wasted. To realize that everything is meaningless is tremendously liberating, since it then leaves us completely free to create our own lives and ignore the plans that others have for us.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Men, Thinking, Self

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• Tranquility is the Truth, Truth is beauty beauty is happiness and bliss is divine

  Chinmayananda Saraswati

  Bliss, Tranquility, Divine

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• The way of truth is like a great highway. It is not hard to find.

  Mencius

  Way, Highways, Hard

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• God is Truth,
  Truth is God.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God

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