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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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- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Easter is reflecting upon suffering for one thing, but it also reflects upon Jesus and his non compliance in the face of great authority where he holds to his truth - so there's two stories there.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Genocide is not just a murderous madness; it is, more deeply, a politics that promises a utopia beyond politics - one people, one land, one truth, the end of difference. Since genocide is a form of political utopia, it remains an enduring temptation in any multiethnic and multicultural society in crisis.
- Fit
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- Nov 07, 2020
Accusations fit on a bumper sticker; the truth takes longer.
- Painting
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- Nov 07, 2020
I see architecture not as Gropius did, as a moral venture, as truth, but as invention, in the same way that poetry or music or painting is invention.
- Centered
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- Nov 07, 2020
The dialogue of architecture has been centered too long around the idea of truth.
- Nov 07, 2020
There's a truth that comes through when an author performs his own work that is unique and special.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
The purpose of satire has been rightly stated as to strip off the veneer of comforting illusion and cosy half truth, and our job, as I see it, is to put it back again!
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- Nov 07, 2020
Not all artists have a responsibility to be socially or politically aware, but they do have a responsibility to make great art. They have to find some truth and put that in their music.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The world doesn't revolve around me anymore. Now it's all about this little baby. I come home after a rough day, I see her and she smiles and nothing but that matters. I know that sounds really cliche but it's the truth.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the minds of many Americans, if you are a radical Democrat or a Socialist, you are automatically a Communist. And if you are a Communist, then therefore you are an anti-American person and a person who is not a patriot. But nothing is further from the truth.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Together with Milan and our media team, we released a statement clearly stating it was a hoax and there was no truth in the rumour that I had Ebola. And that's when the whole thing started to die down. Still, it took about two days or so for people to actually stop talking about it.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
I realize now I could have gotten a whole book out of that and so I think that was a big mistake. But the truth is you write in the moment and with your head down and there is no way back then that I could have conceived of Harry having the longevity that he has had.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020