Telling It Like It Is Quotes

• You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

  Aldous Huxley

  Funny, Bible, Jesus

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• Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth to see it like it is, and tell it like it is, to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Truth, Lying, Honor

  Nomination acceptance speech, Miami, 8 Aug. 1968, in New York Times 9 Aug. 1968, p. 20

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• Telling it like it is means telling it like it was and how it is now that it isn't what it was to the is now people.

  Jill Johnston

  Mean, People

  Jill Johnston (1971). “Marmalade Me”

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• I really think that there was a great advantage in many ways to being a woman. I think we are a lot better at personal relationships, and then have the capability obviously of telling it like it is when it's necessary.

  Madeleine Albright

  Thinking, Way, Being A Woman

  "Madeleine Albright: On being a woman and a diplomat". Interview with Pat Mitchell, en.tiny.ted.com. December 2010.

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• THIRTY–ZERO! TAKE THAT, YOU DIRTY, CHEATING —” “Jordan, if you can’t commentate in an unbiased way — !” “I’m telling it like it is, Professor!

  J. K. Rowling

  Cheating, Zero, Dirty

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• It's a lot of anti-gay, racist humor—which people like in America—all couched in 'I'm telling it like it is.' He's in the right place at the right time for that gee-shucks, proud-to-be-a-redneck, I'm-just-a-straight-shooter-multimillionaire-in-cutoff-flannel-selling-ring-tones act. That's where we are as a nation now. We're in a state of vague American values and anti-intellectual pride.

  David Cross

  Pride, Gay, Redneck

  "David Cross returns to stand-up to make America great again". Interview with Dustin Waters, www.charlestoncitypaper.com. February 24, 2016.

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• Stop telling it like it is and start telling it like you WANT it to be!

  Esther Hicks

  Adversity, Overcoming, Want

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• Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane. H. P. LOVECRAFT, attributed, Telling It Like It Is Dancing is very important nowadays. No girl will look at you if you can't dance.

  Chinua Achebe

  Dance, Girl, Dancing

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