David Bowie (David Robert Jones) 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.
Samuel Johnson
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Anyone who says there isn't pressure to look good as an actor in L.A. is lying.
Camilla Luddington
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I'm almost incapable of lying. I'd be a terrible spy.
Gary Oldman
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If you had told me I'd be making 62 tomorrow, I'd say you were lying.
Aaron Neville
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As a scholar I am interested in the philosophy of language, semiotics, call it what you want, and one of the main features of the human language is the possibility of lying.
Umberto Eco
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The man in between waits between the two, not hearing the lie and not seeing the true. Unknowing what is and denying what seems, and there he will sleep, the man in between.
Neil Diamond
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[On women in previously all-male fields:] I think it will change in a lot of workplaces. I'm not so sure it will ever change on Capitol Hill until more women are in powerful positions. Because this is the last plantation for men.
Andrea Mitchell
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills...
Alan Paton
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Infallible denotes the quality of never deceiving or misleading and so means wholly trustworthy and reliable; inerrant means wholly true. Scripture is termed infallible and inerrant to express the conviction that all its teaching is the utterance of God who cannot lie, whose word, once spoken, abides for ever, and that therefore it may be trusted implicitly.
J. I. Packer
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Parents shouldn't lie to their children-not even when they think it's for their own good. Even a little lie is dangerous.
Pablo Casals
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Changes in the traditional way of building are only permitted if they are an improvement. Otherwise stay with what is traditional, for truth, even if it be hundreds of years old has a stronger inner bond with us than the lie that walks by our side.
Adolf Loos
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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.
W. S. Gilbert
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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.
H. G. Wells
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Your heart knows the truth of openness and suffers the tense lie of your closure.
David Deida
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Success is always something completely different to people. I feel like I've succeeded, if I'm doing something that makes me happy and I'm not lying to anybody.
Kristen Stewart
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All of us must act selfishly to Iearn charity, must lie to learn honor, must betray and be betrayed to learn to value trust and commitment.
Bill Vaughan
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White lies are ushers to black ones.
Frederick Marryat
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A ruined man fell from her hands like a ripe fruit, to lie rotting on the ground.
Emile Zola
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But trailing clouds of glory do we come, From God, who is our home: Heaven lies about us in our infancy!.
William Wordsworth
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Let me realize that my past failures at follow-through are no indication of my future performance. They're just healthy little fires that are gonna warm up my ass
Ze Frank
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The weapon of nonviolence does not need supermen or superwomen to wield it; even beings of common clay can use it and have used it before this with success.
Mahatma Gandhi
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We must come to good works by faith, and not to faith by good works.
William Gurnall
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Elvis is English, and climbs the hills. Can't tell the bullshit from the lies.
David Bowie