Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
On the other hand, Uncle Mickey liked to say that everybody deserved a day off from the truth.
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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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We are a nation of immigrants, and if the truth be known, don't we need a whole lot of immigrants to be buying homes and to drive our economy and to take jobs that U.S. citizens don't want?
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A lot of guys go, 'Hey, Yog, say a Yogi-ism.' I tell 'em, 'I don't know any.' They want me to make one up. I don't make 'em up. I don't even know when I say it. They're the truth. And it is the truth. I don't know.
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I like the lasso of truth. There is something so beautiful about the fact that people have to tell the truth when they have the lasso around them. And it's not too violent.
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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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As someone who specializes in deception, I'll tell you this much: When someone insistently implores, 'Believe me,' don't. Pleading 'believe me' or 'trust me' - insisting to people that you are telling the truth - is a tell-tale sign that you probably aren't.
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I say it with my tongue firmly planted in cheek but there's truth to it - being a comedian is very close to being a therapist. When you're working smaller clubs, you're listening. You're feeling an energy, you're going with a tone but when people start yelling out, you almost start a conversation with people.
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I really don't know where my interest in death comes from. Maybe I've just got a twisted imagination. The truth is, I haven't had a hugely eventful life - maybe I'm compensating in my creative life. Or maybe I'm just a bit sick.
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We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand.
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I preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's. But behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that there's no truth.
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Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
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Obviously any band, any group, someday is not going to be together anymore. That's the truth.
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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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Whosoever, in writing a modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may happily strike out his teeth.
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You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes.
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Total falsehoods can be easily exposed for what they are by citing exceptions to their claims. Hence, they are less likely to be accepted as the total truth.
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Superstition is marked not by its pretension to a body of knowledge but by its method of seeking truth.
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Truth, in the matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.
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The truth is, no matter what your lifestyle or occupation, nothing can really stop you when you're allowing yourself to be exactly who you want to be.
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Intellectuals never sound more foolish than when posing as the last civilised man.
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Why, thou deboshed fish thou...Wilt thou tell a monstrous lie, being but half a fish and half a monster?
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You must not think That we are made of stuff so fat and dull That we can let our beard be shook with danger And think it pastime.
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I never allow of any difficulties. The great secret of being useful and successful is to admit of no difficulties.
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On the other hand, Uncle Mickey liked to say that everybody deserved a day off from the truth.
