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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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- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most important thing about music that I've learned after all this time is that to me, it's a way of reaching the truth.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
As long as people are living their truth or their vision, whether they're activists or not, that's the important thing.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I might write a book. I like writing. People have asked me if I would get into politics, but I think I feel a lot more effective being a representative of truth through the arts.
- Facts
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- Nov 07, 2020
The attempts to distort the truth and to hide the facts behind blanket accusations have been undertaken at all stages of the Ukrainian crisis.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
Attempts to put pressure on Russia and to compel it to abandon its values, truth and justice have no prospects whatsoever.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
As far as 'Birdsong' is concerned, I think the television program made a very honorable attempt at it, but the truth of the matter is that adaptations of long, ambitious books very seldom transfer well to the screen, and why would they?
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always operated under the notion that audiences don't always know when they're being lied to, but that they always know when they're being told the truth.
- Innocent
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm glad the truth is out. I'm glad everyone knows I'm innocent, not guilty.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
But that citizen's perception was also at one with the truth in recognizing that the very brutality of the means by which the IRA were pursuing change was destructive of the trust upon which new possibilities would have to be based.
- Nov 07, 2020
In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself.
- Quality
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- Nov 07, 2020
The kinds of truth that art gives us many, many times are small truths. They don't have the resonance of an encyclical from the Pope stating an eternal truth, but they partake of the quality of eternity. There is a sort of timeless delight in them.
- Shut Up
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm someone who believes the truth needs to be heard. And if I'm empowered with the truth, I'm not going to shut up.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020