Being Honest Quotes - Page 10

• To be honest, one must be inconsistent.

  H. G. Wells

  Honesty, Honest, Inconsistent

  H. G. Wells (2016). “A Year of Prophesying”, p.60, Read Books Ltd

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• Fiscal discipline begins by leveling with people, by being honest, by paying for all of your proposals.

  Jason Furman

  Discipline, People, Honest

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• The reality is you've got to be yourself. You've got to be who you are. You've got to be honest with people. If your views change on something, you've got to be willing to express it.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Being Yourself, Reality, Views

  "He's Ready! Rudy Giuliani Talks with Sean Hannity". "Hannity & Colmes" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. February 5, 2007.

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• To be honest, when you're young and you watch The Deer Hunter for the first time, that's when you're like, "That's what I want to do."

  Donal Logue

  Watches, Want, Deer

  "Donal Logue and Michael Raymond-James Interview Terriers". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 7, 2010.

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• Fans are all I care about - to be honest. If they stop coming to the shows, then I will get worried.

  Yelawolf

  Fans, Care, Honest

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• The art of governing consists simply of being honest, exercising common sense, following principle, and doing what is right and just.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Art, Exercise, Common Sense

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• Few books are more thrilling than certain confessions, but they must be honest, and the author must have something to confess.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Book, Honest, Confession

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• I don't like it, to be honest, when politicians make a big thing of their religious beliefs, so I don't make a big thing of it.

  Tony Blair

  Religious, Religion, Belief

  "Transcript of the third night's interview with Tony Blair". Interview with Jeremy Paxman, www.theguardian.com. May 16, 2002.

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• Live a sincere life; be natural, and be honest with yourself.

  Meher Baba

  Honest, Life Is, Sincerity

  Meher Baba (1977). “Meher Baba on Inner Life: The Mystical Side of Self-realization”

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• I don''t like this reality television, I have to be honest;I think real people should not be on television; It''s for special people like us, people who have trained and studied to appear to be real

  Garry Shandling

  Real, Thinking, Special People

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• At its heartmeat core, writing is about exploring the questions of your heart on the assumption that what intrigues you, what inflames or amuses or ennobles you, will have the same effect on someone else. It's about taking chances, and taking risks, and pushing yourself to be honest in the issues that present themselves.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Heart, Writing, Issues

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• To be honest, I'm not much of a drinker. It makes me sick, and I hate that.

  Suzanne Collins

  Hate, Sick, Honest

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• To be honest, I still don't feel like I'm a representative or an ambassador for the sport.

  Tony Stewart

  Sports, Ambassadors, Honest

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• To be honest, it's a bit of a relief not having to be the party animal for a change.

  Sara Cox

  Party, Animal, Relief

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• If I have one wish which is greater than another, it is, if I had the power, to make men do right; to make them stop their swearing, their lying, their deceiving, to stop trying to injure the innocent, and begin to be honest and upright in all their dealings with one another and honor the name of the Deity.

  Brigham Young

  Lying, Men, Names

  Brigham Young (1867). “Journal of Discourses”, p.275

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• England is surrounded by enemies - by real enemies who hate her. Why? Because she tries to be honest; and she tries to be free.

  George Augustus Henry Sala

  Hate, Real, Enemy

  "Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z". Book by Thomas B. Reed, 1903.

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• I think a lot of directors, they come out of film school, they don't know anything about acting. Or they're writers that don't know anything about the process. And I think they're afraid sometimes to talk to actors and be honest with actors.

  Matt Dillon

  School, Thinking, Acting

  "Redefining Himself, On and Off-Camera". The Knoxville News-Sentinel, June 01, 1997.

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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'm trying to get away from trashing women, to be honest. I think I've done enough of that in my career.

  Bill Burr

  Thinking, Careers, Trying

  "The Mouth That Roared: Q&A With Comedian Bill Burr, The Man Who Told Philadelphia To Go F*ck Itself, Hard, And Lived To Tell". www.huffingtonpost.com. November 11, 2013.

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• You only live once, why be miserable? Fat people are miserable -- you are carrying 50 lbs on your shoulders all day, you get a disease called "pooped-out itis". Don't tell me that they are happy with the way they look and feel. I have to be honest, that is all I have.

  Jack LaLanne

  People, Way, Looks

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• I went to an all-girls Catholic school. And all the nuns just breathed down our necks "abstinence." And that's not the right thing to do. It does not work. Kids will not listen to that. They're going to experiment no matter what, so you have to be honest. You have to say, "You know what, if you're gonna do it, at least think about the consequences and get protection.

  Jenny McCarthy

  Girl, School, Kids

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• And let's all be honest here; more of us believe in the American hero Sheriff Joe Arpaio's thorough investigation into your phony birth certificate and phony history than the phony media's smoke and mirrors.

  Ted Nugent

  Believe, Hero, Mirrors

  "The Greastest Phony America's Ever Known" by Ted Nugent, www.wnd.com. July 31, 2013.

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• People who try to be nice are false. They're liars. You should never force your behavior to be a certain way. You should just be. Maybe it's not going to be nice, but at least it'll be honest.

  Veronica Rossi

  Liars, Nice, People

  Veronica Rossi (2013). “Brooke”, p.5, Harper Collins

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• I feel I'm in 2006 form to be honest. I hear a lot of comparisons to 2004, but I never changed. Last year was a struggle but I've worked hard. . . I'm not going back, I'm going forward.

  Alecko Eskandarian

  Struggle, Years, Lasts

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• I see the booing as a nice bit of banter and at least it means the fans aren't bored. It's quality. I enjoy it to be honest and I'm getting it even more than Robbie Savage, which is really saying something.

  David Bentley

  Nice, Mean, Bored

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