Telling The Truth Quotes - Page 8

• A lot of people are afraid to tell the truth, to say no. That's where toughness comes into play. Toughness is not being a bully. It's having backbone.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Bullying, Fear, Play

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• There's a nastiness out there that wants to harm me with words. These are my enemies - the ideologues, the populists, the columnists who don't like the fact that I take them on toe-to-toe. What I try to do is tell the truth. It's not the coin of the realm in politics.

  Ed Koch

  Enemy, Trying, Want

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• Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end.

  Kris Kristofferson

  Love, Happiness, Laughter

  "Kris Kristofferson: What I've Learned". Interview with Scott Carrier, www.esquire.com. May 1999.

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• If you have value as an artist it's probably going to be in your capacity to let things inside you get past things that are placed there to keep you from telling the truth. The more you see things as clearly and coldly as you can, the more value you're going to have.

  Tony Kushner

  Artist, Past, Capacity

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• Telling the truth, and confronting the challenge, is what politics is about.

  Johann Lamont

  Challenges, Confronting

  "Johann Lamont: Facing up to Scotland's 'stark choice'". Interview with Peter Hetherington, www.theguardian.com. November 6, 2012.

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• The women's movement burst forth when I was fifteen. That was when I began to believe that life might semi-work out after all. The cavalry had arrived. Women were starting to say that you got to tell the truth now, that you had to tell the truth if you were going to heal and have an authentic life.

  Anne Lamott

  Believe, Work Out, Movement

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• I've been and am absurdly over-estimated. There are no supermen and I'm quite ordinary, and will say so whatever the artistic results. In that point I'm one of the few people who tell the truth about myself.

  T. E. Lawrence

  People, Ordinary, Artistic

  "T.E. Lawrence: The Selected Letters", book edited By Malcolm Brown. "Books: The Hero Our Century Deserved" by Paul Gray, content.time.com. May 15, 1989.

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• Let me get you to understand I don't bully anybody. I stand up for what I believe in and I'm very honest and I always tell the truth. I'm not a liar, I'm not manipulative and I don't stab you in your back because I will stab you in your chest.

  NeNe Leakes

  Liars, Believe, Bully

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• Now, today is the day we honor, of course, the Presidents, ranging from George Washington, who couldn't tell a lie, to George Bush, who couldn't tell the truth, to Bill Clinton, who couldn't tell the difference.

  Jay Leno

  Lying, Today Is The Day, Differences

  "The Tonight Show" with Jay Leno, February 19, 2007.

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• I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.

  Doris Lessing

  Giving Up, Hard Work, Writing

  "Mrs. Lessing Addresses Some of Life's Puzzles". Interview with Herbert Mitgang, archive.nytimes.com. April 22, 1984.

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• The end of confession is to tell the truth to and for oneself.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Confession, Ends, Oneself

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• We need more people speaking out. This country is not overrun with rebels and free thinkers. It's overrun with sheep and conformists.

  Bill Maher

  Country, Sheep, People

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• Always tell the truth - it's the easiest thing to remember.

  David Mamet

  Truth, Fortune Cookie, Remember

  David Mamet (2016). “Mamet Plays: 3: Glengarry Glen Ross; Prairie du Chien; The Shawl; Speed-the-Plow”, p.36, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Cynical, Criticism, Doe

  W. Somerset Maugham (1930). “Cakes and Ale”

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• I tell the truth, and I expose myself as a weak, misguided, misdirected, dysfunctional human being I used to be.

  Russell Means

  Weak, Used, Misguided

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• So you know what I'm gonna do? I'm gonna do something really outrageous, I'm gonna tell the truth.

  John Travolta

  Truth, Reality, Outrageous

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• I could never be a career politician, because I believe in telling the truth.

  Jesse Ventura

  Believe, Careers, Politician

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• I believe that mothers should tell the truth, even - no, especially - when the truth is difficult. It's always easier, and in the short term can even feel right, to pretend everything is okay, and to encourage your children to do the same. But concealment leads to shame, and of all hurts shame is the most painful.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Hurt

  Ayelet Waldman (2009). “Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities, and Occasional Moments of Grace”, p.3, Anchor

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• My dad spent his whole life getting into fights for telling what he believed to be the truth. Basically it comes from my dad-and he's screaming right-wing, so there you are.

  Thom Yorke

  Life, Dad, Fighting

  "Thom Yorke’s View from the Stage". Interview with Judy Bond, www.lionsroar.com. November 1, 1998.

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• You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest.

  Randy Pausch

  Karma, Believe, People

  YouTube Channel "Carnegie Mellon University"/"Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams", www.youtube.com. December 20, 2007.

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• If you're not gonna tell the truth, then why start talking?

  Gene Wilder

  Talking, Ifs

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• The poet's job is to put into words those feelings we all have that are so deep, so important, and yet so difficult to name, to tell the truth in such a beautiful way, that people cannot live without it.

  Jane Kenyon

  Beautiful, Jobs, Truth

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• To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Truth, Honesty, People

  Leo Tolstoy (graf) (194?). “War and peace: a novel”, New York

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• I think I'd rather tell the truth and say what I believe in and make people unhappy than sort of pretend to think something else to accommodate them and try to be liked. That's just the way it goes and I don't think I'm any great champion of anything, but if they're going to put me on a show, I'm going to say what I think.

  Ben Affleck

  Believe, Thinking, People

  Ben Affleck speech before the 2nd Annual Save the Children Illumination Gala, www.dailymail.co.uk. November, 2014.

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• Movements are not radical. Movements are the American way. A small group of abolitionists writing and speaking eventually led to the end of slavery. A few stirred-up women brought about women's voting. The Populist movement, the Progressive movement, the anti-Vietnam War movement, the women's movement - the examples go on and on of 'little people' getting together and telling the truth about their lives. They made our government act.

  Unita Blackwell

  War, Writing, Government

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