Truth Is Quotes - Page 38

• A novel which persuades us of its truth is true however full of lies it may be

  Mario Vargas Llosa

  Lying, May, Novel

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• Truth is more of a stranger than fiction. When in doubt, tell the truth. If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything. Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are economical in its use.

  Mark Twain

  Doubt, Fiction, Use

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• Telling a lie is called wrong. Telling the truth is called right. Except when telling the truth is called bad manners and telling a lie is called polite.

  Judith Viorst

  Lying, Telling The Truth, Manners

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• I would love to have a number one hit. The truth is if I don't get one, I'll be fine, but at the same time, the truth is that I'm dying for one, as well.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Numbers, Dying, Fine

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• Lies hold civilization together. If people ever seriously begin telling each other what they really think, there'd be no peace. Good-bye to tact. Good-bye to being polite. Good-bye to showing tolerance for other people's buffooneries. The fact that we claim to admire Truth is probably the biggest lie of all. But that's part of the charade, part of what makes us human, and we do not even think about it. In effect, we lie to ourselves. Lies are only despicable when they betray a trust.

  Jack McDevitt

  Lying, Thinking, Civilization

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• ... the truth is that when your people don't tell you what you need to know, it's a failure of leadership.

  Jack McDevitt

  People, Needs, Failure Of Leadership

  Jack McDevitt (2007). “Cauldron”, p.70, Penguin

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• The simple truth is that everyone has an opinion, everyone has the right to voice it, and they should if they want to.

  George Clooney

  Simple, Voice, Want

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• The plain, unvarnished truth is that public education is a shoddy, fraudulent piece of goods sold t to the public at an astronomical price. It's time the American consumer knew the extent of the fraud which is victimizing millions of children each year.

  Samuel Blumenfeld

  Children, Years, Pieces

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• I found that most people don't really want to know the truth. There are plenty of people who want to know the truth on their terms or require that the truth be contained within certain boundaries of comfort. But truth can never be known this way. You have to seek truth from a place of not knowing, and that can be a very threatening place because we think we already know the truth or we are afraid of what the truth might be.

  Jim Palmer

  Thinking, Knowing, People

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• The truth is that a lost empire, lost power and lost wealth provide perfect circumstances for living happily and contentedly in our enchanted island.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Islands, Perfect, Empires

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• The most challenging part of being a dad is trying to postpone the moment when they realize you don't know anything. I love any sentence that begins with Daddy...? because it's implied they're looking up to you - that you'll have the answer. The truth is, I don't have any answers.

  Paul Reiser

  Dad, Challenges, Trying

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• The truth is, the family is much more creatively nourishing because you're playing on a full keyboard. Whereas when you're single, you're just playing the upbeat jazzy tunes.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Tunes, Keyboards, Upbeat

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You shouldn't get too close to the truth, because then maybe you stop being funny.

  Bob Newhart

  Truth, Being Funny

  "Bob Newhart: What I've Learned" by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. December 18, 2008.

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• He who is called Krishna is also Siva and the Primal Sakti...He again, who is called Jesus and Allah. Truth is one.

  Ramakrishna

  Jesus, Krishna, Primal

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• The truth is the real Christian experience is truly about repenting every day because there is no Christian that doesn't sin.

  Stephen Baldwin

  Christian, Real, Sin

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• In all honesty, I think I just played what I felt was right for me. And I think I would have done the same thing, even if I'd been born later, when Charlie Parker was influencing everybody. The truth is, I never gave it much thought. I just played what I had to play.

  Benny Carter

  Honesty, Thinking, Play

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• The truth is that after several decades of neoliberalism, the rich are becoming increasingly richer while the poor are both more numerous and increasingly poorer.

  Fidel Castro

  Neoliberalism, Becoming, Rich

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• The truth is, I just don't have the drive to be the prettiest and the thinnest. I can be happy for other people for their beauty.

  Salma Hayek

  People, Prettiest, I Can

  "Salma Hayek Supports Madonna’s Controversial Tour Style" By Rebecca Adams, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 6, 2012.

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• I like the fact that we're stripping the icons away. They're the WikiLeaks for the age that we're revealing, with the transparency of the characters. We're unearthing the truth beyond or underneath the myth. I love that aspect.

  Joseph Fiennes

  Character, Icons, Age

  "Joseph Fiennes, Tamsin Egerton & Exec. Producer Chris Chibnall Interview CAMELOT". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 1, 2011.

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• We know it's being referred to as the robot boxing movie [Real Steel], but truth is, 70% of the movie is the relationships.

  Shawn Anthony Levy

  Real, Boxing, Robots

  Source: collider.com

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• Most people argue over who's right, not about what the truth is.

  Bob Saget

  People, Arguing

  Twitter post from Jan 08, 2013

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• The New Yorker has devoted itself for 59 years not only to facts and literal accuracy but to truth. And truth begins, journalistically, with the facts.

  William Shawn

  Years, Facts, Accuracy

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• The truth is, for however much my stories come out of things that have happened to me, they're not darkly or as deeply personal as someone like Marc Maron or a lot of comedians, but they are essentially my life and my interpretation of it.

  Eugene Mirman

  Comedian, Stories, Interpretation

  "The Erudite Absurdist: Eugene Mirman". Interview with Austin Nelson, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 20, 2011.

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• The truth is supposed to hurt. That's how it lets you know you don't got it.

  Brad Stine

  Hurt, Truth, Knows

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• Truth is the kind of error without which a certain species of life could not live. The value for life is ultimately decisive.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Errors, Kind, Life Is

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2011). “The Will to Power”, p.379, Vintage

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