- Fighting
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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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wasn't interested in politics. My attitude about it was, I can't make a difference no matter what I do. And the truth is, I don't even care enough to try.
- Handed
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Whale Talk' is a tough book, but it is also a compassionate book about telling the truth and about redemption. I didn't draw the tough parts out of thin air; they are stories handed to me by people in pain.
- Tell
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- Nov 07, 2020
The truth is that key influencers exist in all effective organizations, but a solid-line org chart won't tell you where they are.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
The truth was you can't continue to spend the kind of money our spending on all these entitlement programs. I think we need more people in public life who are willing to say, no, we can't afford certain things. No, we can't do certain things.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know, I think what the American people want more than anything else right now is someone who's just going to look them in the eye and tell them the truth, even some truths that they don't like. And - but they have to believe the person's speaking from their heart and are authentic.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's not that I'm universally loved. We know I'm not in New Jersey. But what they do say in New Jersey is, 'We like him, and we think he's telling us the truth.' I think we need to have that type of politics on the national level.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
We believe - we believe that, if we tell the people the truth, that they will act bigger than the pettiness we see in Washington, D.C. We believe it is possible to forge bipartisan compromise, and stand up for our conservative principles.
- Help
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- Nov 07, 2020
A documentary film-maker can't help but use poetry to tell the story. I bring truth to my fiction. These things go hand in hand.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
The truth is, it's a totalitarian dictatorship when you're making films. You are the boss. You can listen to other people, and it can be a benevolent dictatorship, but it's a dictatorship nonetheless. A lot of directors go past their first experience, that's what they've come away with.
- Elephant
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- Nov 07, 2020
The truth is, I have an excellent team, a staff that handles Blue Elephant, my translation company, perfectly. It is like a well-oiled machine.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only passion that guides me is for the truth... I look at everything from this point of view.
- Matters
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- Nov 07, 2020