Authenticity Quotes - Page 9

• In Philadelphia, you are welcome, and that's The City of Brotherly Love. I think that makes us culturally thick and sound, so you can experience all kinds of cultural authenticity.

  Jill Scott

  Thinking, Welcome, Brotherly Love

  Source: aalbc.com

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• While playing complex characters you're staying in the same place but you're departing with your mind and soul and educating yourself until you can really understand such huge worlds. Those are the roles that keep loyal to the authenticity of what people are, and not caricatures. It's something that requires me to prepare for three, four months. I love the process of it, rather than, "Okay, I'm ready, I'm set with the wardrobe that somebody else chose for me."

  Moran Atias

  Character, People, Soul

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I want the people making this music to stick to what they know in terms of ensuring that they remain true to that and the authenticity. Don't be afraid to be original and explore of course, but don't necessarily abandon certain standards in order to try to appeal to other people.

  Jlin

  Order, People, Trying

  Source: thequietus.com

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• A snake will always be a snake, even if you put a chain around its neck and try to make it walk upright.

  Lisa Alther

  Essence, Snakes, Trying

  Lisa Alther (2010). “Kinflicks”, p.412, Open Road Media

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• I think perhaps I've learned to be myself. I have a theory that all artists who would be important - painters and writers - must learn to be themselves. It takes a very long time.

  Margot Fonteyn

  Thinking, Artist, Long

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• Everybody's looking for some kind of authenticity in music. Or some kind of truism, you know, "This is true!" And the thing about gospel music is, these people are singing about their faith. So it always comes across with, as authentic, you know? Gospel choirs put across this amazing sound but they're singing from the heart because they truly believe it. And I kind of have that faith, but I just have that faith in music.

  Jason Pierce

  Believe, Heart, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• No man can prophesy with another's parable.

  Anna Julia Cooper

  Men, Parables

  Anna Julia Cooper, Charles C. Lemert, Esme Bhan (1998). “The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper: Including A Voice from the South and Other Important Essays, Papers, and Letters”, p.135, Rowman & Littlefield

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• We rigidify our self-image to portray a certain identity to the world, which is one of the key impediments to authenticity.

  Chip Conley

  Keys, Self, Identity

  Chip Conley (2012). “Emotional Equations: Simple Truths for Creating Happiness + Success”, p.140, Simon and Schuster

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• It is not possible to be honest in the here and now when you continue to discount and minimize your childhood experiences.

  Claudia Black

  Childhood, Honest, Your Children

  Claudia Black (2009). “Changing Course: Healing from Loss, Abandonment, and Fear”, p.47, Hazelden Publishing

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• Only those who are being burned know what fire is like.

  Ethel Waters

  Fire, Burned, Knows

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• The younger generation can smell fakes - Authenticity trumps cool.

  Craig Groeschel

  Smell, Fake, Generations

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• I am disappointed by this controversy surrounding A Million Little Pieces because I rely on the publishers to define the category that a book falls within and also the authenticity of the work.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Book, Fall, Littles

  "CNN Larry King Live". Interview With James Frey, transcripts.cnn.com. January 11, 2006.

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• Rather, the collapsing between act and condition, "I am" with "I do," feels like authenticity, an authenticity of being. The muse rewarded me for a few months, after April of 2012, by giving me poems, almost a poem each day, that I can claim as coming from my writer's status.

  Shirley Geok-lin Lim

  Giving, Each Day, Months

  "Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 July 2014, Pages 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.

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• [People] feel Washington doesn't understand their lives anymore, and they feel that even though Donald Trump might make a mistake with what he says from time to time, they see that as authenticity and maybe somebody who will truly pay attention to them, because they feel ignored.

  John Brabender

  Mistake, People, Attention

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Craigslist is about authenticity. Craig has paid his dues, and people respect him.

  Howard Rheingold

  People, Craigslist, Dues

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• I came to let you know, God is not going to his authenticity be destroyed.

  Paula White

  Knowing God, Knows, Destroyed

  Source: culteducation.com

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• I think, consciously or not, what we readers do each time we open a book is to set off a search for authenticity. We want to get closer to the heart of things, and sometimes even a few good sentences contained in an otherwise unexceptional book can crystallize vague feelings, fleeting physical sensations, or, sometimes, profound epiphanies." pg. xvi

  Maureen Corrigan

  Book, Heart, Thinking

  Maureen Corrigan (2007). “Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books”, p.13, Vintage

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• Expecting a novel to bear the weight of our whole disturbed society—to help solve our contemporary problems—seems to me a peculiarly American delusion. To write sentences of such authenticity that refuge can be taken in them: isn't this enough? Isn't it a lot?

  Jonathan Franzen

  Taken, Writing, Weight

  Jonathan Franzen (2007). “How to Be Alone: Essays”, p.84, Macmillan

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• When well-being comes from engaging our strengths and virtues, our lives are imbued with authenticity.

  Martin Seligman

  Psychology, Virtue, Well Being

  Martin Seligman (2011). “Authentic Happiness”, p.17, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

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• So rich people could go slumming? Come on, give me a break [it’s a] masturbatory fantasy for Anna Wintour and Vogue. They always go and try to co-opt what they can’t own. They try to co-opt authenticity and turn it into something boring.

  Legs McNeil

  People, Giving, Trying

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• MY INSPIRATION FOR THIS LIMITED EDITION DESIGN WAS BASED ON THE LEGACY OF HENNESSY AS A BRAND. TO ME, HENNESSY HAS ALWAYS BEEN ABOUT QUALITY, AUTHENTICITY, TRADITION, AND ELEGANCE.

  Shepard Fairey

  Inspiration, Design, Quality

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• A Christian's authenticity is show in difficult hours it is in difficult hours that the church grows in authenticity. Blest be God for this difficult hour in our archdiocese. Let us be worthy of it.

  Oscar Romero

  Christian, Church, Hours

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• Sincerity is a Christian virtue, as is honesty about our struggles. But my generation needs to realize that Christianity is more than chic fragility, endless self-revelation, and the coolness that comes with authenticity.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Christian, Honesty, Struggle

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• Busyness is the unrivaled archenemy of spiritual authenticity.

  Bill Hybels

  Spiritual

  "Too Busy Not to Pray". Book by Bill Hybels, 2008.

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• I think the one thing for me that's been working is just authenticity.

  Eric Benet

  Thinking, One Thing

  "Eric Benet Interview: New Album, Staying Authentic, Passion for R&B, Potential Project with Tamia". Youknowigotsoul.com Interview, youknowigotsoul.com. October 5, 2016.

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