Chris Shays Quotes

You've got to tell the truth, ... And if you don't tell the truth, then everything else you say goes into question.

Chris Shays

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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.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Great
  • Truth

• 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.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • People
  • Great
  • Truth

• 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.

  

  Barry White
  • Truth
  • Thought
  • Innocent

• Truth be told, actually, my favorite director of the Movie Brats was not Scorsese. Loved him. But my favorite director of the Movie Brats was Brian de Palma. I actually met De Palma right after I'd done 'Reservoir Dogs,' and I was very beside myself.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Done
  • Truth
  • Movie

• Our problem is not adopting reforms, which we will do without question. It is not reaching an objective, which we will meet. But it is finding an end to the recession.

  

  Yannis Stournaras
  • Question
  • Problem
  • End

• In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Men
  • May
  • Truth

• I always felt that a scientist owes the world only one thing, and that is the truth as he sees it.

  

  Hans Eysenck
  • World
  • Truth
  • Always

• You shouldn't talk about yourself all the time - most of us aren't for sale. Our books are. Talk about them. It's not a question of whether or not you're fascinating on a personal level - it's that your trivia and trials might not have any connection to the tone, tenor and sense of your books.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Time
  • Question
  • Yourself

• I suppose popularity is measured by ratings. If a broadcaster is known as the leader because of ratings, then that's where people most want to be seen and heard, so there's no question that there's an advantage.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • People
  • Want
  • Question

• If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • You
  • Know
  • Question

• The greatest MCs came out of groups; the greatest singers came out of groups. So you can't tell us we're not MCs.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • You
  • Greatest
  • Tell

• I think most of us are outsiders. And I think that's good because it makes you question things.

  

  E. L. Konigsburg
  • Good
  • Think
  • Question

• The truth is you can't get more water from reservoirs that are empty.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Truth
  • Water
  • Truth Is

• 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.

  

  Samuel P. Huntington
  • Truth
  • Exposed
  • Exceptions

• The soul active sees absolute truth; and utters truth, or creates.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Truth
  • Soul

• There is no question that religions have historically played the role of making people contented with their lot. ...such a doctrine would be very appealing to the ruling classes of a society. ...Many societies, for this reason alone, encourage the contentment with your lot that the religious premise of heaven affords.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • People
  • Society
  • Alone

• Until recently, the question was 'Why can't a woman be more like a man?' It should have been changed to 'Why can't both sexes be more like the best parts of each other?' Instead, the pendulum swung to the 1960s feminist lapel button Adam Was a First Draft. True enough. So are we all.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Why
  • True
  • Question

• Q. You do not consider your statement a disloyal one? A. No, sir. Scientific truth is beyond loyalty and disloyalty. Q. You are sure that your statement represents scientific truth? A. I am.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Truth
  • Loyalty

• We are speaking of life, because whenever we speak of universities, we speak of life. What are you? If I were asked that question right now, I would have to say that you are life, you are symbols of life.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Life
  • Question

• I have a horror of tags and labels. I don't understand, for instance, how people can talk about Bergman's 'symbolism'. Far from being symbolic, be seems to me, through and almost biological naturalism, to arrive at the spiritual truth about human life that is important to him.

  

  Andrei Tarkovsky
  • People
  • Life
  • Important

• In a sense, I think a movie is really a little like a question and when you make it, that’s when you get the answer.

  

  Francis Ford Coppola
  • Movie
  • Question
  • Make

• Fishing is a hard job. Fishing at night. Rain. Day, night. You have to be wise and smart. And quick.

  

  Mariano Rivera
  • Job
  • Night
  • Wise

• As a kid, all I wanted to do was be in a Viking film.

  Craig Fairbrass

• You've got to tell the truth, ... And if you don't tell the truth, then everything else you say goes into question.

  

  Chris Shays
  • Truth
  • Question
  • Tell