- Life
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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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- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am just a journeyman actor. Most often I take what's offered me, and I've been able to work year after year. I was in 'Scarface.' Some people think this must have done me a world of good. Truth to tell, six months after 'Scarface' I had to take a job with a real estate development friend for a few months just to get by.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Do you want to know the truth, or see me hit a few dingers?
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
To cover politics in Washington allows you to live in the very, very wide gap between what the actual truth is, and how people are trying to manipulate the truth. They speak in the language of spin, obsequiousness, obfuscation. The meta of politics is just this endless source of material that can shed light on the psychology of the process.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
What my thing is, I tell most of the time the truth, and sometimes it's good for me, sometimes it's bad. But, it's true.
- Internet
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dear Internet: You are very good at spreading rumors. Truth is more valuable and much harder to come by.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to push people till I get the truth out of them.
- Nov 07, 2020
The truth is, I was D.J.-ing on my college radio station in 1987, and I was called 'Mad Marj.'
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The hardest thing is to tell the truth about oneself. One doesn't like to remember unpleasant details, but forgetting them makes one's life seem disorganized.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every year, there is a new diet that all the celebs or housewives are trying. We all want the perfect diet or the perfect pill. If we surveyed a million women, and they could choose to learn the truth about God or the foolproof diet, I guarantee more women would pick the miracle diet over the miracle of life.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
The truth is if you can eat just a serving size, you can eat anything. But we all know how those harmless treats can call out your name all night long, and rationalizing in the middle of the night is very easy.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of the American press at the time was saying 'just watch what happens when Bertelsmann tries to buy EMI, that will be a moment of truth that will show the Commission's true colors.' Well, that deal never happened either.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was in Italy a hidden demand for a boring government which would try to tell the truth in non-political jargon.
- Teammates
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- Nov 07, 2020
Not all teammates tell the truth.
- Drifting
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- Nov 07, 2020
The truth is that beginning in the 1970s, the heart of our Democratic party, America's strong striving middle class, began drifting away from us.
- Lie
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- Nov 07, 2020
Marilyn Monroe wasn't even her real name, Charles Manson isn't his real name, and now, I'm taking that to be my real name. But what's real? You can't find the truth, you just pick the lie you like the best.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020