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• Loyalty consists of many things, including being truthful with our friends. When you really disagree, you have to say so.

  Peggy Noonan

  Loyalty, Including, Disagree

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• We all teach from that same frame of reference. We're like neighborhood - the people who have had the opportunity through this music to gain a platform and spread the message of this music, which is basically love in a form of communication that's honest and truthful.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Communication, Opportunity, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• If you are truthful you will survive. If you lie you shall perish.

  Khalid ibn al-Walid

  Lying, Ifs

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• There are many Welsh who are taciturn, truthful, well formed, open minded, handsome and peaceful, even if no particular individual immediately springs to mind.

  Auberon Waugh

  Spring, Peaceful, Mind

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• Everything is out of your control, and you can only be truthful about how you feel.

  Shailene Woodley

  How You Feel, Being Truthful, Feels

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• I have this natural thing in my head that when I sit down to write something serious, I tend to make jokes. I can't help it. I can't help but desire for the narrative to be as complicated and as truthful as possible. That's just the way my head works.

  Justin Simien

  Writing, Desire, Narrative

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• Plato said that poets should be excluded from the ideal republic because they are such liars. I am a poet, and I affirm that this is true. About no subject are poets tempted to lie so much as about their own lives; I know one of them who has floated at least five versions of his autobiography, none of them true. I of course - being also a novelist - am a much more truthful person than that. But since poets lie, how can you believe me?

  Margaret Atwood

  Plato, Liars, Lying

  "Margaret Atwood : Writing Philosophy". Waterstone's Poetry Lecture, Delivered At Hay On Wye, canpoetry.library.utoronto.ca. June 1995.

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• Man pays deference to woman instinctively, involuntarily, not because she is beautiful or truthful or wise or foolish or proper, but because she is a woman, and he cannot help it. If she descends, he will lower to her level; if she rises, he will rise to her height.

  Mary Abigail Dodge

  Beautiful, Wise, Women

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• I know, that trends and all of those things and formulae that calculate what audiences want to see and what audiences don't want to see and various other demographic demarcations are the eccentric and ludicrous prerogative of Hollywood studios. But out there in the real world - by which I mean the rest of the world where we make truthful organic films, independent films unimpeded by interference - it's not about all those sort of calculating what is commercial. It's about wanting to say things and saying them in a way that will get through to people.

  Mike Leigh

  Real, Mean, Independent

  "Big Think Interview With Mike Leigh". Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 7, 2010.

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• Perhaps no one as yet has been truthful enough about what "truthfulness" is.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Enough, Truthfulness, Has Beens

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• A person with no children says, "Well I just love children," and you say "Why?" and they say, "Because a child is so truthful, that's what I love about 'em - they tell the truth." That's a lie, I've got five of 'em. The only time they tell the truth is if they're having pain.

  Bill Cosby

  Funny, Pain, Children

  "Bill Cosby: Himself". www.imdb.com. 1983.

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• I am honest; I try to be truthful. I like people and wish us well. We are not always deserving of our own best wishes.

  Nikki Giovanni

  People, Best Wishes, Trying

  "It's No Secret - An interview with poet Nikki Giovanni". Interview with John Kryder, artvoice.com. April 3, 2008.

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• We [photographers] have the tools and the power to create images - we should try to make them as truthful as possible.

  Petra Collins

  Trying, Tools, Photographer

  Source: www.refinery29.com

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• I think people are people and, if their feelings are truthful, they can connect. It doesn't matter if you're an aging, 50-something wrestler at the end of his career, or an ambitious, 20-something ballet dancer.

  Darren Aronofsky

  Thinking, Careers, People

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 28, 2010.

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• One cannot reach Truth by untruthfulness. Truthful conduct alone can reach truth.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Truth, Untruthfulness

  Mahatma Gandhi, Dennis Dalton (1996). “Gandhi: Selected Political Writings”, p.140, Hackett Publishing

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• If it's illegal to rock and roll, throw my ass in jail!

  Kurt Cobain

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, Jail

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• Watercolour is not especially difficult, but I must warn you to steer clear of those pretty English watercolourists, so skilful and alas so weak, and so often too truthful.

  Camille Pissarro

  Weak, Difficult, Clear

  1883 Letter to his son Lucien, Jul.

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• We have to be honest, we have to be truthful and speak to the one dirty secret in American life, and that is racism.

  Henry Cisneros

  Dirty, Racism, Secret

  1993 In US News and World Report, 19 Apr.

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• I was kind of amazed because I first found out about blue boxes in an article in Esquire magazine labeled fiction. That article was the most truthful article I've ever read in my life... That article was so truthful, and it told about a mistake in the phone company that let you dial phone calls anywhere in the world. What an amazing thing to discover.

  Steve Wozniak

  Mistake, Phones, Blue

  "A Chat with Computing Pioneer Steve Wozniak". "Talk of the Nation" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. September 29, 2006.

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• The tears that fall from the eyes of a truthful Believer, out of the fear of the Lord, and, then, roll down his face, however little they are, even of the size of a fly [i.e. just one drop], shall prevent the Fire of Hell from touching his face.

  Ibn Majah

  Fall, Eye, Fire

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• One of the things I tell my students is that if you want to understand what's been going on and also what needs to be done, you've got to get out of the blame game. Some people on the left want to blame the rich and corporations. Some people on the right want to blame the poor and government. Either of those frames of reference gets you nowhere and they aren't even truthful. You've got to understand the dynamic itself.

  Robert Reich

  Government, Games, People

  Source: collider.com

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• The marrying of an actor and his whimsical and theatrical vision is very enjoyable, because he wants it to be filled with something honest, truthful, human, soulful, substantial.

  Jeff Goldblum

  Vision, Actors, Want

  "Jeff Goldblum Talks THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL, Being Part of Wes Anderson’s Universe, Preparing for His Role and Its Challenges, MORTDECAI, and More". Interview, collider.com. March 20, 2014.

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• I'm a man of honour, a truthful person, a gentleman of absolute morality .

  Silvio Berlusconi

  Men, Gentleman, Morality

  "Sleazy and Sinister Berlusconi Would Flick Through Pictures of Girls for Hire Then Say: I Want That One, Says the Writer He Tried to Destroy" by Tobias Jones, www.dailymail.co.uk. November 10, 2011.

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• The sublime delight of truthful speech to one who has the great gift of uttering it, will make itself felt even through the pangs of sorrow.

  George Eliot

  Sorrow, Sublime, Speech

  George Eliot (1866). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.171

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• What I mean by the Muse is that unimpeded clearness of the intuitive powers, which a perfectly truthful adherence to every admonition of the higher instincts would bring to a finely organized human being. It may appear as prophesy or as poesy...should these faculties have free play, I believe they will open up new, deeper and purer sources of joyous inspiration than have as yet refreshed the earth.

  Margaret Fuller

  Believe, Inspiration, Creativity

  "Woman in the Nineteenth Century". Book by Margaret Fuller, 1845.

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