- Moments
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- Nov 07, 2020
Truth Quotes
Truth, examined from a few angles.
This set opens with the idea that a story's meaning ultimately depends on the relationship between reader, writer, and character, before turning to a pointed geopolitical observation about oil and foreign intervention. For more grounded reflections, see Heart.
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- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1994, when I went back to Haiti from exile, we established a Commission for Truth and Justice and Reconciliation. I passed the documents to the next government, and I never heard about it again.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
What has always attracted me in life is poetry. Any genre can have poetry. For me, poetry contains truth.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
To tell the truth, I don't feel the pressure of fame. I don't have the problem of being a celebrity in terms of recognizability.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a lie who always speaks the truth.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the truth of it is that when you get down to actually having to do the things on the ground, there is only one way to do it, and that's in cooperation with the communities.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know I am done lying. Obscuring the truth is no longer something I have any interest in doing. I want it all to come out. The good, the bad, the ugly.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the press mistakenly thought that all of these 'mumblecore' filmmakers were banded together in a similar ideology, but the truth is that we were all just using the same digital camera and helping each other make our movies because we were broke, and we were the only idiots willing to do it.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
On 'Transparent,' I work closely with LGBTQ and gender-nonconforming people who are now my close friends - truth be told, we're all more like family.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
Things are difficult enough about Iraq without the Federal Government suppressing the truth about Iraq.
- Lie
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't feel comfortable talking about the specifics of how it all comes together, but the truth is, I don't ever know when Michelle Obama is going to wear my clothes! She, like everyone else, picks her outfits and wears them when she wants - sometimes two or three times. It's not ever calculated.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
My truth - what I believe - is that there are no answers here and, if you are looking for answers, you'd better choose the question carefully.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020