Telling The Truth Quotes - Page 18

• Lawyers sometimes tell the truth. They'll do anything to win a case.

  Jeremy Bentham

  Winning, Lawyer, Sometimes

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• Citizens have to fight suppression of information on matters of vital public importance. To tell the truth is not a crime.

  Edward Snowden

  Fighting, Matter, Citizens

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• Trust grows when people see leaders translate their personal integrity into organizational fidelity. At the heart of fidelity lies truth-telling and promise-keeping.

  Max De Pree

  Lying, Integrity, Heart

  Max De Pree (1997). “Leading Without Power: Finding Hope in Serving Community”, Jossey-Bass

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• You can say or write anything about me you like. Just don't, for any reason, ever tell the truth.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Writing, Reason

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• I stayed in Hamburg a few more days, and during that time I received a visit from Rolf Aldag, the sporting director at T-Mobile. He advised me to tell the truth.

  Patrik Sinkewitz

  Directors, Mobile

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Many of us have caught a glimpse of our life's greatness - a grander vision that calls us to release our false 'security' and re-engage life. We begin to see life as a heart-beating, truth-telling, sweat-pouring, straight-from-the-gut adventure that makes us, and everyone around us, feel fully alive.

  Jim Warner

  Heart, Adventure, Greatness

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• Don't spoil a good story by telling the truth.

  Isabella Stewart Gardner

  Stories, Spoil, Good Story

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• When you're playing country music, you have to tell the truth.

  Christian Kane

  Country

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• I am trying to work out what my taste is, comedy-wise. I look up to stand up comedians who appear to be telling the truth, but I don't mind if they are lying.

  Jessie Cave

  Wise, Lying, Work Out

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• He who tells the truth says almost nothing.

  Antonio Porchia

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• Make sure of two things. Be careful - microphones are always hot, and understand that in Washington, D.C., a gaffe is when you tell the truth. So, be careful.

  Joe Biden

  Two, Hot, Washington Dc

  "Biden: 'A gaffe is when you tell the truth'" by Talia Buford, www.politico.com. June 20, 2012.

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  I don't think telling the truth ever gets anyone in trouble in the long run. Maybe the day after, but not in the long run.

  Steve Spurrier

  Running, Thinking, Long

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• It is my experience that most claims of national security are part of a campaign to avoid telling the truth.

  Ben Bradlee

  Campaigns, Claims, National Security

  "Deep Throat Revealed: Ben Bradlee". Live Q&A, www.washingtonpost.com. June 2, 2005.

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• I don't tell the truth, I tell what ought to be the truth.

  Cate Blanchett

  Ought

  Interview with Greg McCartney, humag.co. June, 2016.

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• I try to take everyone's head off, to tell the truth.

  A. J. Hawk

  Trying

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• People who are most interested in telling the truth about others are generally the least interested in having the truth told about themselves.

  Mardy Grothe

  People

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• It is worse for a liar to tell the truth than for a lover of truth to lie.... There is a truth which is of Satan. Its essence is that under the semblance of truth it denies everything that is real. It lives upon hatred of the real world which is created and loved by God.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Real, Liars, Lying

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• Artists invent things as a way of telling the truth.

  Yann Martel

  Artist, Way

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• My way of joking is to tell the truth

  George Bernard Shaw

  Truth, Boxing, Joking Around

  1904 Peter Keegan to Nora Reilly. John Bull's Other Island, act 2.

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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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• 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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• 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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• The national parks belong to everyone. To the people. To all of us. The government keeps saying so and maybe, in this one case at least, the government is telling the truth. Hard to believe, but possible.

  Edward Abbey

  Believe, Government, People

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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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• My ultimare goal is, without illusion and without sentimentality, merely by telling the truth as I see it, to break your heart. If I can break your heart and cause your awareness to expand to include another person's experience, even a fictional person's experience, and to inhabit for a moment their sorrow and suffering, then I think it expands us as people.

  Nic Pizzolatto

  Heart, Thinking, People

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