Telling The Truth Quotes - Page 19

• 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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• It's hard not to tell the truth with a camera. Artists are particularly good at that.

  Edward Weston

  Artist, Cameras, Hard

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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 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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• Well, you know what they say. A bullet always tells the truth.

  Christopher Walken

  Bullets, Wells, Knows

  "Fictional character: Rayburn". "Man on Fire", www.imdb.com. 2004.

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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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• My responsibility to myself, my neighbors, my family and the human family is to try to tell the truth.

  Toni Cade Bambara

  Responsibility, Trying, My Family

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• No one individual can tell the truth.

  William Faulkner

  Individual

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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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• No man who values originality will ever be original. But try to tell the truth as you see it, try to do any bit of work as well as it can be done for the work's sake, and what men call originality will come unsought.

  C. S. Lewis

  Men, Trying, Done

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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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• I tell the truth, and it has gotten me into a lot of trouble. My dad used to say to me, 'If you tell the truth all day long, you will end up in jail.'

  Elaine Stritch

  Dad, Jail, Long

  "The Way We Live Now: 2-24-02: Questions For Elaine Stritch; Of A Certain Age". Interview with Liz Welch, www.nytimes.com. February 24, 2002.

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• I'm not ashamed to tell the truth about what happened in my family. I think that's what makes my comedy different.

  Bernie Mac

  Thinking, Different, Comedy

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• Nothing is more abhorrent to me than sugary-sweet photography full of pretense, poses, and gimmickry. For this reason, I have allowed myself to tell the truth about our times and people in a sincere manner.

  August Sander

  Photography, Sweet, 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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• I'm not very eloquent about things like this, but I think that writing and photography go together. I don't mean that they are related arts, because they're not. But the person doing it, I think, learns from both things about accuracy of the eye, about observation, and about sympathy toward what is in front of you... It's about honesty, or truth telling, and a way to find it in yourself, how to need it and learn from it.

  Eudora Welty

  Photography, Art, Honesty

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• I say, when you tell the truth, you never offend nobody, particularly if you do it with dignity.

  Pat Cooper

  Truth, Dignity, Ifs

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

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• If you tell a lie that's big enough, and you tell it often enough, people will believe you're telling the truth, even if what you're saying is total crap.

  Richard Belzer

  Lying, Believe, People

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

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• There is not one single police officer in America that I am not afraid of and not one that I would trust to tell the truth or obey the laws they are sworn to uphold. I do not believe they protect me in any way.

  Henry Rollins

  Believe, America, Law

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• 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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• 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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