Truthful Quotes - Page 20

• I am grateful to realize that my desires do not entitle me to add to another's suffering.

  Zoe Weil

  Grateful, Suffering, Desire

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• It is the province of poetry to be more realistic and present than the artificial narratives of an outer discourse, and not afraid of the truthful difficulty of the average human life.

  David Whyte

  Average, Narrative, Realistic

  "The Poetic Narrative Of Our Times" by David Whyte, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• Part of the reason that these attempts at explanation fail, I think, is that photographers, like all artists, choose their medium because it allows them the most fully truthful expression of their vision... as Robert Frost told a person who asked him what one of his poems meant, 'You want me to say it worse?'

  Robert Adams

  Photography, Thinking, Artist

  Robert Adams (1994). “Why People Photograph: Selected Essays and Reviews”

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• I don't see why someone should lose their life just so you can have a snack.

  Russell Brand

  Snacks, Vegetarian, Should

  PETA‏ @peta, twitter.com. June 20, 2013.

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• Our relationship with each other is the criterion the world uses to judge whether our message is truthful - Christian community is the final apologetic.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Christian, Judging, Community

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• If you're really truthful with yourself, it's a wonderful guidance.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Wonderful, Guidance, Ifs

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• I'm a vegan. I respect the environment, and I do my best to spread the importance of such an issue.

  Jared Leto

  Issues, Vegan, Environment

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• It takes nothing away from a human to be kind to an animal.

  Joaquin Phoenix

  Animal, Be Kind, Vegan

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• On the whole, age comes more gently to those who have some doorway into an abstract world-art, or philosophy, or learning-regions where the years are scarcely noticed and the young and old can meet in a pale truthful light.

  Freya Stark

  Art, Philosophy, Light

  Freya Stark (1964). “The Journey's Echo: Selections”

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• Now I'm a free agent, literally and figuratively. I've reached that enviable state in life in which I can do pretty much what I want. And what I want is to continue to play basketball. I still love the game, and I still have something to offer. My coaches and teammates recognize that. At the same time, I want to be genuine and authentic and truthful.

  Jason Collins

  Basketball, Games, Play

  "Why NBA center Jason Collins is coming out now" by Jason Collins, www.si.com. April 29, 2013.

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• We all compromise ourselves, from time to time, because maybe it will lead to more opportunity...A ll of that’s cool, but we forget and we get caught up. If you want that nurturing, caring, empathetic, compassionate heart to keep on ticking and be around, and you want it to be strong, then don’t neglect #1. One way to feed it is just being truthful and listening to your heart.

  Paul Walker

  Strong, Heart, Caring

  FaceBook post by Paul Walker from Dec 13, 2013

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• Ideas do have consequences in history, yet not because those ideas are inherently truthful or obviously correct but rather because of the way they are embedded in very powerful institutions, networks, interests, and symbols.

  James Davison Hunter

  Powerful, Ideas, Way

  James Davison Hunter (2010). “To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World”, p.44, Oxford University Press

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• Honesty is an active verb, not a passive noun. Go out of your way to be truthful, beginning with the things that you say to yourself.

  Joe Tye

  Honesty, Verbs, Nouns

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• I'm a huge fan of Jack Lemmon, he was someone who managed to tread that line between comedy and tragedy and sometimes give very big performances, but they were never over-demonstrative and they were never not based on a kind of real truthful human being.

  Steve Coogan

  Real, Giving, Tragedy

  "Exclusive Interview: Steve Coogan". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. February 19, 2009.

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• I'm willing to go wherever with this because music is everything to me. This is my world and how I see it. My music speaks for me in a way that's relatable and truthful.

  Luke James

  World, Way, Speak

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• We live in a relativistic culture, where people are more con- cerned with being liked than being truthful. In A Sweet and Bitter Providence, John Piper does an outstanding job of bibli- cally defending key truths that the church often ignores. He gives us an example of how to take a bold and educated stand on issues of race, purity, and God's sovereignty.

  Francis Chan

  Sweet, Jobs, Keys

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• It is much easier to show compassion to animals. They are never wicked.

  Haile Selassie

  Animal, Compassion, Pet

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• And as a director, you constantly try to solve problems, so you have to focus on that. You take away all the other parts. Of course, when the shot finishes, you remember that you have Robert De Niro in front of you. But when you're shooting, you just see a character in front of you, and an actor, and you try to search for very truthful moments. That's what obsesses you.

  Rodrigo Cortes

  Character, Focus, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Acting is trying to be absolutely truthful; to get audiences to believe that you are a dean, when, actually, not only are you not the dean, but if you walked into the building they'd probably throw you out. That's very hard.

  Wallace Shawn

  Believe, Trying, Acting

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Its funny because when I did feel like I came out and I just felt like I was being truthful to myself, (it was at) that point I became very successful. So you know, it took a true kind of facing that truth of myself and being honest, that was when the real kind of fame or whatever that kind of stuff happened for me.

  Margaret Cho

  Real, Successful, Stuff

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• I think we get on with living our lives like everybody else does. Where we're at in music is trying to explain what's going around us either directly or by analogy and trying to create a parallel, an analog, sometimes musical, sometimes dramatic, that might be truthful.

  Andy Gill

  Thinking, Musical, Trying

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Well, the problem is the freedom that the sport gives you without getting to politics. Unfortunately, you cannot now separate it because people cannot be truthful; they have to be politically correct. There's no more sincerity. What we had before was freedom of speech and freedom of expression without judgement. That's why I don't get into politics.

  Hakeem Olajuwon

  Sports, People, Giving

  Interview with Amina Chaudary, www.theislamicmonthly.com. August 23, 2014.

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• Error never shows itself in its naked reality, in order not to be discovered. On the contrary, it dresses elegantly, so that the unwary may be led to believe that it is more truthful than truth itself.

  Irenaeus of Lyons

  Believe, Reality, Order

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• If you read Donald Trump's book "The Art of the Deal," you know that he likes to create leverage, he likes to have psychological advantage, he likes to be on the offense. He believes in what he calls truthful hyperbole.

  Wendy Sherman

  Art, Believe, Book

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• One must be truthful and honest in his approach; a constant independent inquiry and not blindly following a certain blue print laid down by others

  Bruce Lee

  Independent, Blue, Inquiry

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.202, Tuttle Publishing

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