- People
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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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- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sure, 'An Inconvenient Truth' was my first documentary. What a wonderful experience. I saw Al Gore doing his slideshow presentation, and had this nutty idea that we had to make a movie out of it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm thankful my parents obliged me to live with the unvarnished truth: I might not have been a looker, but I was a better speller than the prettiest girl in my class, and I was funnier, too.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
All the best art and music feels like some type of truth - even if it's really simple - that you just can't deny. A listener can feel that.
- Not Perfect
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yes, I take a private plane on holiday a couple of times a year, and I feel horribly guilty about it. I probably shouldn't do it. But the truth is, I'm not perfect.
- Eye
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- Nov 07, 2020
Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.
- Books
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nine books have been written about me, and there's not a word of truth in any of them.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
We keep secrets from people that we love because we're afraid of our own truth. I think sometimes we're afraid to hurt people, because you never know. I think we're afraid of what is, and what can't be.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
At some point, I picked up an old library copy of 'To The Lighthouse' someone had bought for 25 cents. I began to read and didn't stop until the sun had blistered my back. A mysterious rightness, a beautiful submerged truth had invaded me, one that has ever since seemed slightly beyond my grasp.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I knew nothing about wrestling! Sometimes that's a great thing, and sometimes that really annoys people in this industry but that's the truth. I had no clue how to wrestle. I had to learn everything, absolutely everything. To start from the bottom.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truth, but only a problem of art is solved in poetry.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am not 'in pursuit of truth.' It is not my 'quarry.' I am of my human nature a thinker, and conscious of need, responsibility of thinking-speaking with truth. I do not go about hunting 'truths.'
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, the truth is that a lot of people lie about their health, they lie about the finances, they lie about things at work, they lie about things.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020