Ally Carter Quotes
Every decent con man knows that the simplest truth is more powerful than even the most elaborate lie.
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Country music is three chords and the truth.
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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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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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There is no consensus, there is no homogeneity, there is no truth.
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Self-censorship is a lie to yourself; if you are going to be trying to seriously create art, to create literary art, and you decide to hold back, to censor yourself, then you are a fool to yourself and it would be better that you kept your mouth shut and did not speak.
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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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The simple truth of our finiteness is that we could, by whatever means, go on interminably only at the price of either losing the past and, therewith, our identity, or living only in the past and therefore without a real present. We cannot seriously wish either and thus not a physical enduring at that price.
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Movements begin when oppressed people make - and keep remaking - a deeply inward decision to stop consenting to external demands that contradict a critical inner truth, the truth that they are worthy of respect.
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In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.
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Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
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The crimes that become iconic etch themselves into the collective consciousness because they suggest a frightening truth: that the universe does not rely on cause and effect.
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The truth is that you can only come to know God when you give up the past and the future in your mind and merge totally into the now, because God is always here now.
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I film normal-life subjects in natural settings that some people would consider uncinematic. But what I want to show is nature itself, as the truth of life.
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When truth takes a backseat to ego and politics, trust is lost.
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In therapy you sit down; in analysis you lie down.
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'No matter how fast a lie runs, the truth will someday overtake it.'
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Accept no substitutes; I bring truth to the youth.
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To tell the truth, to arrive together at the truth, is a communist and revolutionary act.
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A society that has no ideals, that discards the principles of humanitarianism, that abandons the fundamental rights and dignity of humanity, can only survive by denying truth, fairness and justice.
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I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy.
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Department of Defense news briefing (12 February 2002)
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I used to tell the players that professional football is a part-time profession. I used to tell them it gets you ready for your life's work.
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After 'Punk'd,' my company Katalyst did a deal with AOL to produce short-form content for the Web. At that time it was a different game. If you got front-page coverage on any popular website, you could probably get a push.
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Every decent con man knows that the simplest truth is more powerful than even the most elaborate lie.
