Said Nursi Quotes
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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.
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I couldn't tell the truth if my life depended on it.
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I think that all things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least.
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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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One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
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There is no consensus, there is no homogeneity, there is no truth.
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My friends seem much more excited about my doing Anastasia than Brainstorm... and to tell you the truth, I feel the same way.
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I gradually became persuaded that the subjects, without intending to, had revealed to me a basic truth about markets that was foreign to the literature of economics.
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I'm shy, and I can hide behind my acting and discover the truth about myself because it's cathartic in that way. But I tend not to read reviews.
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As a young woman, I had been seeking experience, knowledge, truth, the stuff writers need in their work, but when the artist actually kicked in, I came to understand that in this romantic relationship I was not free to be myself, or to find myself, in order to begin the true work I needed to do.
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The Assembly has witnessed over the last weeks how historical truth is established; once an allegation has been repeated a few times, it is no longer an allegation, it is an established fact, even if no evidence has been brought out in order to support it.
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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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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, I've been going pretty much nuts all year. I constantly have to fight being scattered. I feel like I'm on automatic pilot from fatigue. The hardest thing is trying to be present, living for the moment, for everybody in the family.
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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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The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode.
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Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
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Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
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In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story.
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Every human encounter is the external embodiment of an attraction between two magnetic fields. The encounter comes suddenly, unexpectedly. It is a moment of truth. It is a moment of revelation, as when the right ray of sun penetrates through the right window pane, and falls with the right slant on one picture in the museum.
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The only thing I can do is act, but it's not something I even feel comfortable doing. It costs me a lot, because I'm a shy person, even if I don't look it.
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I've never felt like I had anything important to say.
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The truth cannot be deceptive, and one who sees it cannot be deceived.
