Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild Quotes
Truth, like all other good things, may be loved unwisely may be pursued too keenly may cost too much.
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I cannot be much pleased without an appearance of truth; at least of possibility I wish the history to be natural though the sentiments are refined; and the characters to be probable, though their behaviour is excelling.
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When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.
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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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Because I spent many years during my previous life as an academic researching game theory, some commentators rushed to presume that as Greece's new finance minister, I was busily devising bluffs, stratagems and outside options, struggling to improve upon a weak hand. Nothing could be further from the truth.
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Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
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Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.
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This simple truth is the essence of my message to Muslims throughout the world: know who you are, who you want to be, and start talking and working with whom you are not. Find common values and build with fellow citizens a society based on diversity and equality.
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Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth were slaves by birth, freedom fighters by temperament.
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I know what I like in other actors: truth. That's the best. It makes you say, 'OK, I'll go with you on this.'
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The truth of it is that every singer out there with songs on the radio is raising the next generation, so make your words count.
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The painful truth is that while we might have the illusion, none of us are free.
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Wasn’t that their natural right, to know the truth so as to be able to let the truth lead them to do good or evil, as they chose?
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I just want to go back to rockin', but I'm uncertain as to what to actually do … The truth is, I never stopped thinking about rock 'n' roll for a second that I'm on holiday.
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The law of socialism is that of the desert: a tooth for a tooth, an eye for an eye. Socialism is a rude and bitter truth, which was born in the conflict of opposing forces and in violence. Socialism is war, and woe to those who are cowardly in war. They will be defeated.
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The repeated lies become history, but they don't necessarily become the truth.
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I think heterosexuality and homosexuality are a kind of psychosis, and the truth is somewhere in the middle.
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I think our sense as actors of what we've just done - whether or not it be in an audition - is usually really not connected to any truth. I'm always asking for more takes and more goes. I think I just need to shut up and listen.
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You need to tell the truth to the audience, or they will throw a brick through the TV. They'll turn you off.
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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.
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What is to be done? We who are still half alive, living in the often fibrillating heartland of a senescent capitalism -- can we do more than reflect the decay around and within us? Can we do more than sing our sad and bitter songs of disillusion and defeat?
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When the President does it, that means that it's not illegal.
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Truth, like all other good things, may be loved unwisely may be pursued too keenly may cost too much.
