Truthful Quotes - Page 18

• There is nothing new and nothing truthful in the false accusations against public officials make by the Schaghticoke Tribal Nation today, ... The simple reality is that the Schaghticoke fail to meet the criteria for federal recognition.

  Richard Blumenthal

  Simple, Reality, Today

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• It struck me that working digitally with a small crew, I could lay out a general plan for Famous and hope for mistakes which would create something more than satire and something less than truthful reality.

  Griffin Dunne

  Mistake, Reality, Satire

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• Singing and being truthful to a song... I've developed that skill, and I know how to do that real instinctively, that's all I've been doing for the last 25 years.

  Taylor Dane

  Song, Real, Years

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• Vegan food is soul food in its truest form. Soul food means to feed the soul. And, to me, your soul is your intent. If your intent is pure, you are pure.

  Erykah Badu

  Mean, Soul, Vegan Food

  Interview with Lisa Mickleborough, vegnews.com. October 06, 2008.

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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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• If I could change the attitude of young men toward literature, I would want them to read not just for escape, but because literature can be more truthful about things like sex, commitment, and aging. It can be more truthful about the stuff that our parents lied to us (and themselves) about, and the stuff that everyone has to lie about. It can all be dealt with truthfully in fiction and poetry.

  Lorin Stein

  Sex, Attitude, Lying

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• No animal needs to die in order for me to live. And that makes me feel good.

  Howard Lyman

  Life, Animal, Order

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• My greatest aim has been to advance the art of photography and to make it what I think I have, a great and truthful medium of history.

  Mathew Brady

  Photography, Art, Thinking

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• To be honest and truthful in all endeavours is an experience, not a regret

  Fela Kuti

  Regret, Honest, Endeavour

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• The great systems that inform the world about the truth and life invariably claim to be absolutely truthful and well-balanced. In reality they are quaking bridges built out of yearning.

  Peter Høeg

  Reality, Bridges, Balance

  Peter Høeg (2013). “Tales of the Night”, p.309, Macmillan

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• We must be truthful and fair in the ordinary affairs of life before we can be truthful and fair in patriotism and religion.

  E. W. Howe

  Life, Truth, Religion

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• Divine is all Love in its essential nature, and Love is all Divine in its truthful expression.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Love Is, Expression, And Love

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• Such are the Splendors and Miseries of memory: it is proud of its ability to keep truthful track of the logical sequence of past events; but when it comes to how we experienced them at the time, memory feels no obligation to truth.

  Milan Kundera

  Memories, Past, Track

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• Do not be proud of your inconsistency. It is a pity, it is a pity that we should be equipped like this. It is a pity that Man cannot be at the same time impressive and truthful.

  E. M. Forster

  Men, Proud, Pity

  E. M. Forster (2010). “Aspects of the Novel”, p.212, RosettaBooks

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• The important thing, Jesus is saying (in Matthew 5:33-37), is to tell the truth and keep one's pledges without insisting that a certain form of words must be used if it is to be binding. No oath is necessary for the truthful person... Their word is so reliable that nothing more than a statement is needed from them.

  D. A. Carson

  Jesus, Important, Telling The Truth

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• It is the artist who is truthful and it is photography which lies, for in reality time does not stop

  Auguste Rodin

  Photography, Lying, Artist

  Auguste Rodin, Paul Gsell (1983). “Rodin on Art and Artists: Conversations with Paul Gsell”, p.34, Courier Corporation

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• There is only truth to be found - no lies, no shams, no illusions, no hypocrisy. Just a truthful place, where all beings are governed by a set of perfect laws that have never changed and never will.

  Eustace Conway

  Lying, Law, Perfect

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• The LORD detests lying lips, but he delights in men who are truthful. PROVERBS 12:22

  Deborah Smith

  Lying, Men, Delight

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• A good actor is somebody who can be truthful and fascinating and interesting and enlightening.

  Bruce Davison

  Interesting, Actors, Enlightening

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• What I've found - and the older I get, the more I understand this and stand behind it - is, my whole life has been an exploration of telling the truth. It's scary to be truthful, and it's scary to reveal yourself, and I'm very attracted to doing things that scare me.

  Jane Wiedlin

  Scary, Scare, Telling The Truth

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. July 27, 2011.

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• A work of art does not need an explanation. The work has to speak for itself. The work may be subject to many interpretations, but only one was in the mind of the artist. Some artists say to make the work readable for the public is an artist’s responsibility, but I don’t agree with that. The only responsibility to be absolutely truthful to the self. My work disturbs people and nobody wants to be disturbed They are not fully aware of the effect my work has on them, but they know it is disturbing.

  Louise Bourgeois

  Art, Responsibility, Self

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• Truthful movements spontaneously attract to themselves all manner of pure and disinterested help.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Truth, Movement, Awakening

  Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.87, Vintage

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• Their pain [the injurer's pain at having injured you] and your pain create the point and counterpoint for the rhythm of reconciliation. When the beat of their pain is a response to the beat of yours, they have become truthful in their feelings...they have moved a step closer to a truthful reunion.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Forgiveness, Pain, Feelings

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• In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible... Thus, political language has to consist largely of euphemism, question-begging, and sheer cloudy vagueness... Political language [is] designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable.

  George Orwell

  Lying, Writing, Political Language

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• An honorable man or woman is one who is truthful; free from deceit; above cheating, lying, stealing, or any form of deception. An honorable man or woman is one who learns early that one cannot do wrong and feel right. A man's character is judged on how he keeps his word and his agreements.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Cheating, Lying, Character

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