Jesse Ball Quotes
Malicious lying is usually a matter of need, but often the cruelest things we say are the truth.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't know if I'm selfless - I still want to make a great record. I want to make a hit record. I want to tour; that's not completely selfless. But the truth is I'm not interested in people coming to my show for me as much as I am for them coming to my show for themselves. That's always been how I am.
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I'm always trying to do the impossible to please people. It comes from not being secure in myself and not looking at the things within I have to fix. Sometimes you keep going because you don't want to face the truth.
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The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
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After 'The Poisonwood Bible' was published, several people believed that my parents were missionaries, which could not be further from the truth.
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Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth.
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The cops picked me up for attempted murder. I can still see the detectives, licking their chops. Thought they had me. Two weeks later, the cat came out of a coma and told the truth. I was innocent.
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I need a spiritual connection - I can make changes, but I can't make miracles - and I need people around me who'll support me and believe in me and tell me the truth and not let me deceive myself into avoiding the what's scary and hard and necessary.
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The truth is that I know very few novelists who have been satisfied with the adaptation of their books for the screen.
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When I started off, I didn't only ride to fame on my looks though many people I know think otherwise.
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I love wearing my hair curly, but turning the curling iron all the way up creates curls that look really made up and artificial.
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Why do you think the fans like us - why they prefer our street raps over all that phony stuff out there? Because we're telling the real story of what it's like living in places like Compton. We're giving them reality. We're like reporters. We give them the truth.
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The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode.
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Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
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Attributing to anything or anyone more good than God has attributed to them is not a positive move, nor does it mean that you have done them any good. A single grain of truth is preferable to a bumper harvest of false imaginings.
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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.
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The only thing I can do is tell the truth as I see it and let the chips fall where they may.
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Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.
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A wonderful but kind of a terrible truth about acting is that you actually get to a point where you become content with an impossible task: it is really impossible to properly prepare. You kind of have to start over every time.
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In thy face I see the map of honour, truth and loyalty.
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The irony of her story is merely that her love became, in the end, her motive rather than her goal, the doorway rather than the house.
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In war," answered the weaver, "the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich make slaves of the poor. We must work to live, and they give us such mean wages that we die. We toil for them all day long, and they heap up gold in their coffers, and our children fade away before their time, and the faces of those we love become hard and evil. We tread out the grapes, another drinks the wine. We sow the corn, and our own board is empty. We have chains, though no eye beholds them; and are slaves, though men call us free.
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These days, you don't just break into comics once. You have to break in again and again after each job is finished.
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The microprocessor is a miracle.
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Malicious lying is usually a matter of need, but often the cruelest things we say are the truth.
