Chapman Cohen Quotes
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I like the performing. And interviews, even. And the stuff that's not sitting in a room by yourself with empty paper. But I never loved writing, to tell you the truth.
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The third time you say a thing it sounds like a lie.
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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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I used to say to my bubbe, 'Bubbe, is this story true?' And she'd say, 'Of course it's true! But it may not have happened.' What my bubbe was saying is profound: All stories are true. The truth is the journey you take through it - did it make you laugh, cry, seek and want justice? Then it's true.
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I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
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Songwriters tell the truth.
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I always felt that a scientist owes the world only one thing, and that is the truth as he sees it.
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I will get to the truth, if not in Ukrainian courts, then in international ones. I will fight to my last breath. They want to put me in prison but that won't help. My voice will be heard even louder from prison than now, and the whole world will hear me.
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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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We all get paid very, very well, and we have responsibilities.
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When there are multiple versions of a story, you really have three ways to go. You can pick the most sensational version. You can try to balance things in your gut to get to what you think is the honest truth. Or you can err on the side of kindness.
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But it is no good using the tongs of reason to pull the Fundamentalists' chestnuts out of the fire of contradiction. Their real troubles lie elsewhere.
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Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.
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Scarce any problem will appear more hard and difficult, than that of determining the distance of the Sun from the Earth very near the truth: but even this... will without much labour be effected.
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Facts are many, but the truth is one.
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Homer was able to give us no information relating to the truth, for he wrote of human rather than divine things.
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Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth were slaves by birth, freedom fighters by temperament.
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I am for gay marriage. Or same-sex marriage. I don't want to say it the wrong way. I think people are sensitive to it. I have been painted as being this right-wing zealot on choice. Nothing could be further from the truth.
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Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth.
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I made a lot of mistakes out of the ring, but I never made any in it.
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When you move your focus from competition to contribution life becomes a celebration. Never try to defeat people, just win their hearts.
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Working in this industry, I have been exposed to so many products and now realize more than ever how cruel and unnecessary animal testing is.
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To actually feel like you've done something good with your life and you're useful to others is what I was always wanting, and was always looking for.
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Persecution is the compliment paid by a threatened lie to a conquering truth.
