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• I personally kind of yearn to play characters who are complex and who strike a truthful chord in me and who are challenged in some way and, I guess, who kind of move through those challenges.

  Toni Collette

  Moving, Character, Play

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• So a truthful assessment of how America is doing in the war on terror as a result of President Bush's war on Iraq is that we have been set back by decades.

  John Olver

  War, Assessment, Iraq

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• [The Player is] not a truthful indictment of Hollywood. It's much uglier than I portrayed it, but nobody would've been interested if I'd shown just how sadistic, cruel and self-orientated it is.

  Robert Altman

  Player, Self, Hollywood

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• Loyalty consists of many things, including being truthful with our friends. When you really disagree, you have to say so.

  Peggy Noonan

  Loyalty, Including, Disagree

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• We all teach from that same frame of reference. We're like neighborhood - the people who have had the opportunity through this music to gain a platform and spread the message of this music, which is basically love in a form of communication that's honest and truthful.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Communication, Opportunity, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• If you are truthful you will survive. If you lie you shall perish.

  Khalid ibn al-Walid

  Lying, Ifs

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• There are many Welsh who are taciturn, truthful, well formed, open minded, handsome and peaceful, even if no particular individual immediately springs to mind.

  Auberon Waugh

  Spring, Peaceful, Mind

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• Everything is out of your control, and you can only be truthful about how you feel.

  Shailene Woodley

  How You Feel, Being Truthful, Feels

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• I have this natural thing in my head that when I sit down to write something serious, I tend to make jokes. I can't help it. I can't help but desire for the narrative to be as complicated and as truthful as possible. That's just the way my head works.

  Justin Simien

  Writing, Desire, Narrative

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• Plato said that poets should be excluded from the ideal republic because they are such liars. I am a poet, and I affirm that this is true. About no subject are poets tempted to lie so much as about their own lives; I know one of them who has floated at least five versions of his autobiography, none of them true. I of course - being also a novelist - am a much more truthful person than that. But since poets lie, how can you believe me?

  Margaret Atwood

  Plato, Liars, Lying

  "Margaret Atwood : Writing Philosophy". Waterstone's Poetry Lecture, Delivered At Hay On Wye, canpoetry.library.utoronto.ca. June 1995.

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• Its funny because when I did feel like I came out and I just felt like I was being truthful to myself, (it was at) that point I became very successful. So you know, it took a true kind of facing that truth of myself and being honest, that was when the real kind of fame or whatever that kind of stuff happened for me.

  Margaret Cho

  Real, Successful, Stuff

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• Journalism should be truthful and entertaining. You know, with news and important facts you can entertain people too. Have a little humor. Life isn't all that deadly all the time, but while you're having fun, tell the truth. If every word of a column is deadly serious, I can't read it. It makes me throw up.

  Jimmy Breslin

  Fun, People, Important

  Source: archives.cityandstateny.com

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• One of the most difficult things is to get truthful people. Nobody can manage well if they don't have a lot of mirrors around them that are honest, that tell them what they're doing is wrong or wrongheaded or misconceived. And in every large bureaucracy on earth, most people are afraid to tell the boss the truth.

  Robert Reich

  People, Boss, Earth

  Source: www.strategy-business.com

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• I've never seen a Western that was really truthful. Most are just morality plays. Good guys and bad guys - and the good guys always win, whereas in reality most of the sheriffs were as bad as the gangsters they were after.

  Harry Dean Stanton

  Winning, Reality, Guy

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I try to be fair, and I try not to be cruel or mean when I'm interviewing someone. But you have to push a few buttons. When you're on a roll and you're making a person laugh, you can say things that are truthful about them, and then they'll laugh at them as well. Otherwise, it might just sound like you're attacking them.

  Mark Critch

  Mean, Laughing, Trying

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• If it's illegal to rock and roll, throw my ass in jail!

  Kurt Cobain

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, Jail

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• A lot of the time, you're supposed to play to the top of your intelligence, as truthful as possible. But when you're on stage making people laugh, you're still acting. I think it helped me a bunch to go on stage two or three times a week.

  Ben Schwartz

  Thinking, Play, Two

  "Undercovers' Ben Schwartz on Agent Hoyt, Action Stunts and Improv in the Spy World". Interview with Kate Stanhope, www.tvguide.com. October 12, 2010.

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• Every time I crash the Internet, it's like this little drop of truth. Every time I say something that's extremely truthful out loud, it literally breaks the Internet. So what are we getting all of the rest of the time?

  Kanye West

  Littles, Internet, Crash

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• Humor is, by its nature, more truthful than factual.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Humor, Factual

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government”, p.10, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Misanthropy ariseth from a man trusting another without having sufficient knowledge of his character, and, thinking him to be truthful, sincere, and honourable, finds a little afterwards that he is wicked, faithless, and then he meets with another of the same character. When a man experiences this often, and more particularly from those whom he considered his most dear and best friends, at last, having frequently made a slip, he hates the whole world, and thinks that there is nothing sound at all in any of them.

  Plato

  Hate, Character, Men

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• The most powerful political moments for me come when I feel like my actions are aligned with a certain truth. I can feel it. When I'm talking to a group and I'm saying something truthful, I can feel a power that comes out of those statements that is different than when I'm just being glib or clever.

  Barack Obama

  Clever, Powerful, Talking

  "Transcript: Barack Obama and The God Factor Interview" by Cathleen Falsani, sojo.net. February 21, 2012.

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• I've never been satisfied with myself, ever. But I feel good about myself, because I'm truthful. I don't corrupt myself. I'm also a perfectionist. I'm very impatient. I've got energy and drive and I can't stand inefficiency in people. And I can't stand dumb people. Why surround yourself with people who are going to tie you down? I don't suffer fools.

  Jack LaLanne

  Ties, People, Feel Good

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• I like spiritual songs. They struck me as truthful and serious. They brought me down to earth and they lifted me up all in the same moment.

  Bob Dylan

  Spiritual, Song, Earth

  "Bob Dylan: 'Passion is a young man's game, older people gotta be wise'". Interview with Robert Love, www.independent.co.uk. February 7, 2015.

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• I'm not big on trying to label it [my rap] or trying to prove people otherwise. I'm just making records that I like and that I wanna make. I'm just making records that relate to me and that relate to my life. If you listen to what I'm saying I'm not talking about anything that isn't my life. I take pride in having truthful lyrics.

  Mike Stud

  Rap, Pride, Talking

  Source: respect-mag.com

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• Those who are truthful, nonviolent and brave do not cease to be so because of the stupidity of their leader.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Leader, Brave, Stupidity

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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