Telling The Truth Quotes - Page 16

• Women especially are trained to protect other people's feelings, and a lot of that involves not telling the truth even about the fundamental details of your own experiences and your own life.

  Emily Gould

  People, Feelings, Details

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Black-and-white photos tell the truth. That's why insurance companies use them.

  Allan Sekula

  Black And White, Use, Insurance Companies

  Allan Sekula, Benjamin H. D. Buchloh (2002). “Fish story”

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• I love telling truthful honest stories. I suppose I'd love the opportunity to be a superhero within a realistic dramatic piece. It would have opportunity for humor too of course. And ideally I would be the writer/director? (Though I suppose if I was, it is POSSIBLE I would give myself a meaty but smaller part so I could focus on the latter of my duties... Maybe).

  E.J. Bonilla

  Opportunity, Giving, Focus

  "LatinoBuzz Interview: E.J. Bonilla on His Hot-Blooded Performance in ‘The House That Jack Built’" by Juan Caceres, www.indiewire.com. November 21, 2015.

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• Truth-telling by a leader can legitimate truth-telling at every level.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Leader, Levels

  Parker J. Palmer (2009). “A Hidden Wholeness: The Journey Toward an Undivided Life”, p.173, John Wiley & Sons

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• Good writing is about telling the truth.

  Anne Lamott

  Writing, Good Writing, Needs And Wants

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.3, Anchor

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• People come telling the truth. When I ask how thing are in the States, they don't give me the okeydoke. They say, "Honey, things are hard." It reminds me I have to keep struggling.

  Assata Shakur

  Struggle, Giving, People

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• All I did was tell the truth. That's is what the whole show is about! And if Politically Incorrect has to go down for it, so be it!

  Bill Maher

  Truth, Shows, Whole

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• WikiLeaks serves as a back-up for those who want to tell the truth about the inner workings of government when the mainstream media is not willing or taking too long to publish.

  Daniel Ellsberg

  Government, Media, Long

  "The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers". PBS Live Chat, www.pbs.org. October 5, 2010.

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• We want a sense that an important character, like a narrator, is reliable. We want to believe that a character is not playing ages or being coy or being manipulative, but is telling the truth to the best of his or her ability...We do not wish to be crudely manipulated...We want to be massaged by a masseur, not whapped by a carpet beater.

  Anne Lamott

  Believe, Character, Wish

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• When I forget the power of the word, I read Frederick Buechner. When I forget the deep relief of telling the truth, I read Frederick Buechner. When I forget to look for the holiness all around me, I read Frederick Buechner. When I forget why the gospel matters, I read Frederick Buechner.

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  Relief, Looks, Holiness

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• The mouth may lie, alright, but the face it makes nonetheless tells the truth.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Truth, Lying, Mouths

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• Tell the truth as soon as you know it.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Truth, Knows

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• How much more money do we have to waste, how many more families have to be destroyed, how many more people have to be killed before you summon the courage to tell the truth to the American people?

  Don Winslow

  People, Waste, More Money

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• For most people, love is a response to need fulfillment. Everyone has needs. You need this, another needs that. You both see in each other a chance for need fulfillment. So you agree-tacitly-to a trade. I'll trade you what I've got if you'll give me what you've got. It's a transaction. But you don't tell the truth about it. You don't say, "I trade you very much." You say, "I love you very much," and then the disappointment begins.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Inspirational, Religious, Disappointment

  Neale Donald Walsch (1996). “Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.111, Penguin

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• There's nothing more oily and cynical in politics than telling the truth.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Cynical, Politics

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government”, p.217, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• It is, perhaps, a debatable question, whether a person who has always been notoriously in the habit of lying, has a right to tell the truth; it is, of course, the only device by which he can deceive people.

  George D. Prentice

  Lying, People, Deceiving

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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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• How our story has been divided up among the truth-telling professions! Religion, philosophy, history, poetry, compete with each other for our ears; and science competes with all together. And for each we have a different set of ears. But, though we hear much, what we are told is as nothing: none of it gives us ourselves, rather each story-kind steals us to make its reality of us.

  Laura Riding

  Philosophy, Reality, Giving

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• My function as a writer is not story-telling but truth-telling: to make things plain.

  Laura Riding

  Stories, Function

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• Tell the truth. Say what is happening. Allow what is, and allow it to be known. Bring your children up in a home that is clean and clear and honest. There is no greater legacy you can give them.

  Vimala McClure

  Children, Truth, Home

  Vimala McClure, Sue Patton Thoele (2011). “The Tao of Motherhood”, p.143, New World Library

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• On Capitol Hill, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales raised his right hand, swore to tell the truth, and then everybody had a good laugh and went back to what they were doing.

  Jay Leno

  Hands, Laughing, Hills

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• My three favorite travel writers of all time are Robert Louis Stevenson, Graham Greene, and Chuck Thompson. Smile When You're Lying not only tells the truth about the travel-writing racket, it gets to the heart of some of the travel industry's best-kept secrets.

  Kinky Friedman

  Lying, Writing, Heart

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• You must have plenty of sea-room to tell the truth in.

  Herman Melville

  Sea, Rooms, Plenty

  Herman Melville, Harrison Hayford, G. Thomas Tanselle (1987). “Piazza Tales and Other Prose Pieces, 1839-1860: Volume Nine, Scholarly Edition”, p.459, Northwestern University Press

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• I am one who tells the truth and exposes evil and seeks with Beauty for Beauty to set the world right.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Evil, World

  "The Wisdom of W.E.B. Du Bois". Book edited by Aberjhani, 2003.

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• Acting is many things. Acting is playing lines, of course, but it's much more profound than that. Acting is truth-telling, and trying to find the truth in a human situation, which will be sketched out by a screenwriter with all the skill that a screenwriter can do; but in the end, that's just the map of the journey. The actor's job is to divine and embody the truth, and find it.

  Paul Greengrass

  Jobs, Journey, Skills

  "NYFF: Tom Hanks and Paul Greengrass Talk Captain Phillips". Interview, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. September 29, 2013.

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