Honesty Quotes - Page 30

• Comedy is a wonderful device for distance that allows us to look at what we're talking about with some degree of distance and hopefully with a bit more perspective and honesty. With many exceptions, a movie with no jokes is far less appealing to me.

  Alexander Payne

  Distance, Talking, Perspective

  "Q&A: Alexander Payne on his life at the movies". Interview with Jake Coyle, yhoo.it. November 15, 2013.

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• What I've learned is that the most precious commodity you can have in a relationship is honesty, good or bad.

  Michael Ealy

  I've Learned, Commodity

  Source: collider.com

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• I really believe there's more honesty in one live show than there may be in my whole output.

  Andrew Bird

  Believe, May, Output

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. May 22, 2007.

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• I write incessantly, I'm very productive, I write for a dozen publications and blogs and websites. A lot of very hardcore political stuff. I write a weekly feature. I express myself. But when time comes to make music [with the] same absolutely unleashing of total honesty zero inhibitions, it just flows like a stream of conscientiousness because I will not be silenced no matter what my point might be.

  Ted Nugent

  Zero, Writing, Political

  "Ted Nugent Exclusive All Access Interview Motor City Madman Shutup & Jam P2". Interview with Mark Capuano, music.allaccess.com. July 22, 2014.

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• He who prorogues the honesty of today till to-morrow will probably prorogue his to-morrows to eternity.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Delay, Today, Eternity

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• Christianity excludes malignity, subdues selfishness, regulates the passions, subordinates the appetites, quickens the intellect, exalts the affections. It promotes industry, honesty, truth, purity, kindness. It humbles the proud, exalts the lowly, upholds law, favors liberty, is essential to it, and would unite men in one great brotherhood. It is the breath of life to social and civil well-being here, and spreads the azure of that heaven into whose unfathomed depths the eye if faith loves to look.

  Mark Hopkins

  Kindness, Eye, Passion

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• Sincerity and honesty carry one through many difficulties which all the arts he can invent would never help him through.

  Benjamin Stillingfleet

  Art, Helping, Sincerity

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• To dance at all is to confront oneself. It is the art of honesty.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Dance, Art, Oneself

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• Despair makes a despicable figure, and descends from a mean original. 'Tis the offspring of fear, of laziness and impatience; it argues a defect of spirit and resolution, and oftentimes of honesty, too. I would not despair unless I saw misfortune recorded in the book of fate, and signed and sealed by necessity.

  Jeremy Collier

  Book, Mean, Fate

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• The modern Gamaliel should teach ethics. Ethics is the science of human duty. Arithmetic tells man how to count his money; ethics how he should acquire it, whether by honesty or fraud. Geography is a map of the world; ethics is a beautiful map of duty. This ethics is not Christianity, it is not even religion; but it is the sister of religion, because the path of duty is in full harmony, as to quality and direction, with the path of God.

  David Swing

  Beautiful, Men, Quality

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• Raw and honest is what I go for [in my style of shooting]. I am looking for your inner beauty. The outside tells a story... But together is raw honesty.

  Nikki Sixx

  Inner Beauty, Style, Together

  Source: lavidaleica.com

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• I feel you see every crack and bruise with black and white [pictiures] and color distracts usually from the honesty.

  Nikki Sixx

  Black And White, Color, Cracks

  Source: lavidaleica.com

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• Nice is a pallid virtue. Not like honesty or courage or perseverance. On the other hand, in a nation notably lacking in civility, there is much to be said for nice.

  Molly Ivins

  Perseverance, Nice, Hands

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• I want to be real. I want to be a real person. That's what an artist is. An artist has to be honest. Without honesty, there's nothing.

  Miley Cyrus

  Real, Artist, Want

  "I've never been that person to fake it," says Miley Cyrus". Interview with Denise Quan, edition.cnn.com. September 15, 2009.

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• When I was younger, I was just always looking for - you're always looking for this hot, so hot, like super-hot girl. And then, as I've gotten older, different things are really important to me, like just honesty. Being able to sit down and have a conversation.

  Blake Griffin

  Girl, Important, Hot

  Source: www.gq.com

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• I think country music is about honesty. Any art has to have honesty to start with, as the core of it. I mean, they're just going to manipulate you in one way or the other, but there has to honesty at the core of it.

  Tim McGraw

  Country, Art, Mean

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• Our success is directly related to our clarity and honesty about who we are, who we're not, where we want to go, and how we're going to get there.

  Howard Behar

  Want, Who We Are, Clarity

  Howard Behar, Janet Goldstein (2007). “It's Not About the Coffee: Lessons on Putting People First from a Life at Starbucks”, p.19, Penguin

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• In all honesty, if somebody asked me the secret of auditioning for Americans, I don't know. Often, I do what's called self-taping for America. I go over there quite a lot to sit in a room and do stuff in front of people. You feel like a performing monkey. It's bizarre.

  David Wenham

  Self, America, People

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When a man speaks the truth in the spirit of truth, his eye is as clear as the heavens. When he has base ends, and speaks falsely, the eye is muddy, and sometimes asquint.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Eye, Men, Heaven

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.51, Penguin

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• When I go home, I try to raise my children with honesty and integrity and teach them to take care of the world and of each other.

  Kevin Bacon

  Children, Integrity, Home

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• Strict honesty was the policy of most of them; although there were a few who were said to 'find anything before 'tis lost' and to whom findings were keepings.

  Flora Thompson

  Lost, Said, Strict

  Flora Thompson, H. J. Massingham (2009). “Lark Rise to Candleford”, p.215, David R. Godine Publisher

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• My father was a businessman. We had discussions about honesty and dishonesty.

  John Cullum

  Father, Businessman, Discussion

  "Q&A – John Cullum (Lee Garner Sr. of Lucky Strike)". Interview with Ashley Shaw, www.amc.com. November 2011.

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• The thing that I think a lot of guys need to know how to do is not take your mother's advice about honesty being the best policy. Listen to your cool, drunk uncle who tells you to lie. Those are the relationships that last.

  Adam DeVine

  Mother, Uncles, Lying

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• To be honest with my music... for me to expect anyone to connect it has to come from a place of honesty.

  Keri Hilson

  Honest, Being Honest

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• The weight of great power crushes the goodness of the man who rules and the honesty of those who are ruled.

  Roman Baldorioty de Castro

  Crush, Men, Power

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