Alfred Nobel Quotes
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It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.
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Anyone who says there isn't pressure to look good as an actor in L.A. is lying.
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I'm almost incapable of lying. I'd be a terrible spy.
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Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.
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Some guy refuses to fight and we call that the sin, but he's standing up for what he believes in and that seems pretty damned American to me.
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There's no point in lying saying I am doing really, really well because I'm not; I'm cult level.
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Since St. Augustine announced that Eve - and, hence, collective woman - was responsible for original sin, rabid sexism has been a major pillar of patriarchal religious tradition.
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If you had told me I'd be making 62 tomorrow, I'd say you were lying.
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Cunning leads to knavery. It is but a step from one to the other, and that very slippery. Only lying makes the difference; add that to cunning, and it is knavery.
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I spent years thinking I had to make a choice between being true to myself and being with a man and not having a family, and trying to live something of a lie and being with a woman and having children.
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I love doing lesbian love scenes. Before I did my lesbian scenes in Gia, I talked to actresses who said love scenes are easier with another woman than a man. Bound's Gina Gershon and Jennifer Tilly said they'd lie there and discuss the sale at Barney's between takes.
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The blood of Christ can cleanse away all sin. But we must 'plead guilty' before God can declare us innocent.
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... the habit of literature [is] the best defense against believing the half-truths of ideologues and the lies of demagogues.
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Those nights lying alone are not discontinuous with this cold hectic dawn. It is who I am.
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The unpublished manuscript is like an uncon-fessed sin that festers in the soul, corrupting and contaminating it.
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You must lie upon the daisies and discourse in novel phrases of complicated state of mind. The meaning doesn't matter if it's only idle chatter of a transcendental kind.
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I don't think you fully appreciate the importance of Illusion in life, the Essential Nature of Lies and Deception of the body politic.
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Lies are like children. If you don't nurture them, they'll never be useful later.
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In Catholicism, you learn to worship a superior god that creates, who organizes and creates. And when you do novels, you have this illusion that you are following the model of the creator, that you are playing the creator who has to organize that. It is a vice and a sin, and I like to sin. I'm a vicious person.
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Asking for forgiveness is just one of the most painful kind of experiences.
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I don't find myself sexy.
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Lying is the greatest of all sins.
