Being Honest Quotes - Page 40

• I always enjoyed sport. I was a bit of a wild child, to be honest, and just loved running around.

  Kiki Dee

  Sports, Running, Children

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• We're into tech stuff, gadgets, phones, video games. We'll treat a video game premiere like a movie premiere. I'm just going to be honest with what I like and what I do. What I enjoy. We're not going to hide the fact that people are on the Internet all day. I think a lot of shows don't really mention that.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Thinking, Phones, Games

  "Jimmy Fallon Dishes on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon". Interview with B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com. February 20, 2009.

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• Throughout much of history, women writers have capitulated to male standards, and have paid too much heed to what Virginia Woolf calls "the angel in the house." She is that little ghost who sits on one's shoulder while one writes and whispers, "Be nice, don't say anything that will embarrass the family, don't say anything your man will disapprove of ..." [ellipsis in original] The "angel in the house" castrates one's creativity because it deprives one of essential honesty, and many women writers have yet to win the freedom to be honest with themselves.

  Erica Jong

  Honesty, Nice, Writing

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• Maturity involves being honest and true to oneself, making decisions based on a conscious internal process, assuming responsibility for one's decisions, having healthy relationships with others and developing one's own true gifts. It involves thinking about one's environment and deciding what one will and won't accept.

  Mary Pipher

  Responsibility, Thinking, Maturity

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• Were a man, whom I know to be honest and opulent, and with whom I live in intimate friendship, to come into my house, where I am surrounded with my servants, I rest assured, that he is not to stab me before he leaves it, in order to rob me of my silver standish; and I no more suspect this event, than the falling of the house itself which is new, and solidly built and founded.--But he may have been seized with a sudden and unknown frenzy.--So may a sudden earthquake arise, and shake and tumble my house about my ears.

  David Hume

  Honesty, Fall, Men

  David Hume, Tom L. Beauchamp (2000). “An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding: A Critical Edition”, p.69, Oxford University Press

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• Golf is fundamentally about being honest. I see people hit eight shots and tell me they shot five. I never say a word. It is a reminder to me of what is at stake.

  Martin Sheen

  Golf, Eight, People

  Interview with David Kupfer, progressive.org. July 1, 2003.

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• I'm just going to be honest with you. It's hard to go out there and fight for 60 minutes when you're fighting throughout the week to make it through one practice. I'm not the only one. I'm just the only one that's man enough to stand up here and talk to y'all. It's obviously, in my opinion, an issue in our starts.

  Cary Williams

  Funny, Fighting, Men

  "Chip Kelly: Cary Williams 'frustrated'" by Phil Sheridan, abcnews.go.com. September 22, 2014.

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• It is one of the paradoxes of parenting, and often a painful paradox, that even as our children need us for love and trust, they also need us for honest differing. It's not only over limits and rules...[but also] about what we represent in the way of culture, traditions, and values. We owe it to our children to let them know what we believe, and if they differ with us, we owe it to them to be honest adversaries, for it is through this honest confrontation that children can grow into adults who have a firm sense of their place in the sequence of the generations.

  Fred Rogers

  Children, Believe, Generations

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• [Being judge] is about being honest and giving everybody a fair shot and telling them what you think. Sometimes it's good and sometimes it isn't. It's more important to be honest than say things to make people feel better. I don't think you have to be rude, but I think you have to be honest. But I think it's really important to be specific: Here's what you did that was great and why. And here's what you did that wasn't great and why.

  Harry Connick, Jr.

  Feel Better, Thinking, Giving

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• The only boring part of it is finding the fact that got you from point A to point B. Most actors, if they're being honest, are not going to say that that's the most stimulating acting work they've ever done. But the dynamics of staring into the face of evil and it looking back at you, and seeing yourself in that or not, is interesting.

  Benjamin McKenzie

  Evil, Interesting, Acting

  Source: collider.com

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• One thing that I'm really interested in is the kind of esoteric detail that surrounds these great figures. And Wikipedia is full of that kind of stuff, whether it's true or untrue. It staggers me: why, in the short space assigned to a person or an event, that kind of random information is there. To be honest, that's wonderful fuel for songwriting.

  Nick Cave

  Space, Wikipedia, Events

  "Nick Cave on the Evolution of His Music". Interview with Simon Abrams, www.esquire.com. January 28, 2014.

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• I feel like, if I'm being honest with myself, my biggest skill set is as a writer 'cause I can do that quickly and I'm really grounded in story structure. Part of my success as an actor, is that I know story well. Part of my success as a director, is how well I know story. Same thing, as a producer. It all begins and ends with me as a story creator. But, I love doing it all.

  Mark Duplass

  Skills, Causes, Directors

  Source: collider.com

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• To be honest with you, I dont male-bash. I dont believe in male-bashing. I write about things that are natural, that happen in life.

  Cherrelle

  Believe, Writing, Males

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• People want to say there isn't racial profiling at the airport, but let's be honest. If you first name is Mohammed, and your last name isn't Ali, leave a little extra time.

  Jay Leno

  Names, Extra Time, Airports

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• I'll be honest, I like everything about my body.

  Amanda Bingson

  Body, Honest

  "This Incredible Nude Hammer Thrower Has the Most Uplifting Things to Say About Her Body" by Megan Friedman, www.cosmopolitan.com. July 6, 2015.

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• Therefore, be honest with yourself as to why you are choosing to do a particular thing. Then, do it gladly, knowing that you are always getting to do what you want. The statement "I have no choice" is a lie. You can choose. You simply do not prefer the alternatives available to you, for whatever reason. So you select the outcome that you most prefer.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Lying, Knowing, Choices

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• There is a great deal we never think of calling religion that is still fruit unto God, and garnered by Him in the harvest. The fruits of the Spirit are love, joy, peace, long suffering, gentleness, patience, goodness. I affirm that if these fruits are found in any form, whether you show your patience as a woman nursing a fretful child, or as a man attending to the vexing detail of a business, or as a physician following the dark mazes of sickness, or as a mechanic fitting the joints and valves of a locomotive; being honest true besides, you bring forth truth unto God.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Children, Dark, Nursing

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• Men must be honest with themselves before they can be honest with others. A man who is not honest with himself presents a hopeless case.

  William J. H. Boetcker

  Honesty, Men, Hopeless

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• Be honest with yourself and the way you act when you hear music. That way, when people watch, they'll see something from your heart and soul, and as a result will communicate your feeling and thought much better.

  Billy Sheehan

  Heart, People, Soul

  USA Today online chat, www.billysheehan.com. August 21, 2001.

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• The best advice I can give to any young man or young woman upon graduation from school can be summed up in exactly eight words, and they are-be honest with yourself and tell the truth.

  James Farley

  School, Men, Eight

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• Look, first of all, the climate is changing. I don't think the science is clear what percentage is man-made and what percentage is natural. It's convoluted. And for the people to say the science is decided on, this is just really arrogant, to be honest with you, it's this intellectual arrogance that now you can't even have a conversation about it. The climate is changing, and we need to adapt to that reality.

  Barack Obama

  Science, Reality, Men

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• I don't think the science is clear of what percentage is man-made and what percentage is natural. It's convoluted, for the people to say the science is decided on this is really arrogant, to be honest with you.

  Jeb Bush

  Science, Men, Thinking

  "Jeb Bush rails against 'intellectual arrogance' in climate change debate" by Ashley Killough, edition.cnn.com. May 21, 2015.

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• We all want to be honest and draw lessons from the past, the WHO is the only international organization that has universal political legitimacy on global health issues. This is why it's so important to render its structures more efficient.

  Angela Merkel

  Health, Past, Organization

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• Before games, people ask whether I get nervous. To be honest, I don't get nervous, I just enjoy it. I am living the dream. When I was a kid I always wanted to play for my country and now I am here, I will enjoy it.

  Jermain Defoe

  Dream, Country, Kids

  "'There's more to life than football': Jermain Defoe bares his soul on matters of life, death and the beautiful game" by Martin Lipton, www.mirror.co.uk. September 4, 2012.

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• I had more friends on my hockey team than I did on my soccer team. I might have been better at soccer, to be honest. But I think it was more the friendship, and my family was more of a hockey family than a soccer family, so when I had to make a decision, I tried hockey, and it turned out to be a good decision.

  Carl Hagelin

  Soccer, Team, Hockey

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