Being True Quotes - Page 9

• What we remember, and how we order and interpret what we believe to be true, are what shapes who we are.

  Stephen Elliott

  Believe, Order, Shapes

  Stephen Elliott (2010). “The Adderall Diaries: A Memoir of Moods, Masochism, and Murder (Large Print 16pt)”, p.245, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Be true to your own highest convictions.

  William Ellery Channing

  Conviction, Highest

  William Ellery CHANNING (1839). “Self-Culture. An address introductory to the Franklin lectures, delivered at Boston. 1838”, p.18

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• I am always true to myself, that is the problem. Who else could I be true to?

  Adam Phillips

  Assessment, Problem, True To Myself

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• The only thing you can do through all the scrutiny and just in life in general is be true to yourself.

  Vanessa Hudgens

  Be True To Yourself, Scrutiny, Can Do

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• There is a certain way of being human that is my way. I am called upon to live my life in this way, and not in imitation of anyone else's life. But this notion gives a new importance to being true to myself. If I am not, I miss the point of my life; I miss what being human is for me.

  Charles Taylor

  Giving, Missing, Way

  Charles Taylor (1994). “Multiculturalism”, p.30, Princeton University Press

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• To be true to its constitutional role, the Supreme Court should refuse to be drawn into making public policy, and it should strike down legislation only when a clear constitutional violation exists. When judicial activists resort to various inventions and theories to impose their personal views on privacy and liberty, they jeopardize the legitimacy of the judiciary as an institution and undermine the role of the other branches of government.

  Mark Levin

  Government, Views, Liberty

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• Truth Will Set U Free is about honesty. My philosophic belief that ultimately being true to yourself is liberating, with every individual's inalienable right to be who they are without fear or recrimination.

  Corey Hart

  Honesty, Be True To Yourself, Belief

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• A fast to be true must be accompanied by a readiness to receive pure thoughts and determination to resist all Satan's temptations.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Determination, Temptation, Satan

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Fasting in Satyagraha: Its Use and Abuse”

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• When things are not working for us, instead of fighting and struggling, we need to say, "What's happening here? How am I not being true to who I am? What is pulling me away from my purpose?"

  June Singer

  Struggle, Healing, Fighting

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• Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said.

  Voltaire

  Should, Said

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• Everyone suffers; life is pain; and death is the final punctuation at the end of that sentence, so deal with it. I really think you can manage pain and suffering by living in fullness and being true to yourself and all those seemingly vapid platitudes.

  Sufjan Stevens

  Pain, Thinking, Suffering

  "True Myth: A Conversation With Sufjan Stevens". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. February 16, 2015.

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• I love directing Shakespeare on film. It's fantastic that the actors would do exactly the same thing and be true to their part.

  Julie Taymor

  Actors, Film, Fantastic

  Source: collider.com

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• It's always been hard to call myself a writer. I think a part of me still thinks it's too good to be true.

  Sarah Dessen

  Thinking, Too Good To Be True, Stills

  "Author Interview: Sarah Dessen on Just Listen". Interview with Cynthia Leitich Smith, cynthialeitichsmith.blogspot.com. December 12, 2006.

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• The use of force is always an answer to problems. Whether or not it's a satisfactory answer depends on a number of things, not least the personality of the person making the determination. Force isn't an attractive answer, though. I would not be true to myself or to the people I served with in 1970 if I did not make that realization clear.

  David Drake

  Determination, Numbers, People

  David Drake (2012). “Voyage Across the Stars”, p.624, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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• It is sufficient to say, what everybody knows to be true, that the Irish population is Catholic, and that the Protestants, whether of the Episcopalian or Presbyterian Church, or of both united, are a small minority of the Irish people.

  John Bright

  People, Catholic, Church

  John Bright (1869). “Speeches on Questions of Public Policy: By John Bright. Edited by James E. Thorold Rogers. In 2 Volumes”, p.534

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• Knowledge and devotion, to be true, have to stand the test of renunciation of the fruits of action.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Knowledge, Tests, Fruit

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.37, Courier Corporation

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• If you're going to say you're Catholic, you inform your conscience so that you're activities will conform to what God is telling us through the Church. If God is telling you something outside of that, well, the Church will look at that and say: we think it is true or we don't think it is true. The Church might say: that might be true for you but it has no public normative value.

  Francis George

  Thinking, Catholic, Church

  Source: www.realclearreligion.org

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• What is not in nature can never be true.

  Voltaire

  Nature, Truth

  Voltaire (2007). “The Complete Romances of Voltaire”, p.384, Wildside Press LLC

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• When you try to be true to the script, changes occur. A script is there to show us a certain direction. But when you actually have the actors in and you start shooting the movie, you have the actor say a line and it doesn't sound right so you change it and make it different. It's the script that gives birth to these changes and the more you try to stay true to the script, the more that happens.

  Takashi Miike

  Giving, Trying, Sound

  Source: collider.com

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• The music becomes more pure and soulful when it's true, and it has to be true these days with the way the internet works, and the way the game works, everyone wants authentic raps.

  J. Cole

  Rap, Games, Want

  "J. Cole Talks Roc Nation, Meeting Jay-Z & 'The Warm Up' Mixtape". Interview with Damien Scott, www.complex.com. May 2, 2009.

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• I just try to be true to myself and write about things I'm passionate about. I think what most people don't like about movies is they can tell that most movies are a product, and they don't mean that much to the people who make them.

  Judd Apatow

  Writing, Mean, Thinking

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. July 30, 2009.

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• The job of the novel is to be true to the confusion, but not so confusing that you turn the reader off.

  Nicholson Baker

  Jobs, Confusion, Confusing

  "Nicholson Baker Navigates The Buffet". Interview with Jared Levy, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 16, 2013.

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• I think being a woman alone enhanced the impulse in others to be generous. What we're told is that to be a woman alone is to be in a dangerous situation. The message is that people are gong to prey on you and do bad things to you. That may be true in some cases, but what I experienced was the other case.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Thinking, Dangerous Situations, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I have never thought that I have sacrificed anything being a writer. That might not be true, maybe I have sacrificed something. Maybe I've given something up, but I can't think of it.

  Walter Mosley

  Thinking, Might, Given

  Big Think Interview with Andrew Dermont, bigthink.com. November 10, 2010.

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• The Chinese are quite entrepreneurial. Remember when Lenovo bought IBM's PC division. It was said that China didn't need a brand name, China didn't need to buy Lenovo to get into the PC business, I remember reading a one-liner somewhere which struck me as quite possibly true, it said the one thing that the Chinese had not been able to copy or figure out was the way, in terms of systems, that Americans - it probably would be true for Europeans as well - that Americans install and live by their management systems, while China is still quite half-assed. Perhaps that is a true statement.

  Tom Peters

  Reading, Names, Chinese

  Source: iveybusinessjournal.com

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