Lie Quotes
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Truth-tellers who expect others to believe them tend to speak naturally and un-self-consciously. But if they don't expect to be believed, they may try too hard to seem honest. Unfortunately, the result makes them sound less believable. Obviously, then, not every oddly phrased statement is a lie.
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People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
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New York is something awful, something monstrous. I like to walk the streets, lost, but I recognize that New York is the world's greatest lie. New York is Senegal with machines.
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I never lie to my fans.
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Difficult years lie ahead, patience is required.
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In politics, sometimes you have to lie, or you make a promise that you cannot keep.
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There is no easy path leading out of life, and few easy ones that lie within it.
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Recent economic data shows that our economy is robust, growing and headed in the right direction. The numbers don't lie. Americans are currently enjoying falling gas prices, low unemployment, increased job creation, and a stock market that has reached an all-time high.
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In almost every interview someone asks what does HIM stand for. I can't even remember our latest lie about that. When Hanson was hot, we said it means Hanson Is Murder. The name doesn't have a particular history. His Infernal Majesty was a totally different band. I think HIM derives from some death metal joke.
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Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.
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Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.
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The consequence of Mr. Bush's and Blair's historic lie that the reason for invading Iraq was weapons of mass destruction, is that everything is being doubted.
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Don't hate me for what tabloids write about me, because I guarantee it's a lie.
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The third time you say a thing it sounds like a lie.
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You can always lie to others and hide your actions from them... but you can not fool yourself.
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Don't lie - when you are 105 years of age - on your deathbed, thinking, 'I should have done a few things!' I would like to think I tried as much as I could.
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In therapy you sit down; in analysis you lie down.
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Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
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When we don't have information, we go to the simplest outlook, to black and white. But then we have to lie to ourselves. Black is never as black as you're painting it and white is never as white.
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In Iranian cinema, all the lying takes place before making the film. In order to be able to make the film, you have to lie.
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Gamble, cheat, lie, and steal. Let me explain: Gamble for your best shot in life - dare to take risks. Cheat those who would have you be less than you are. Lie in the arms of those you love. And finally, steal every moment of happiness.
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The prevalence of mobile homes does not correspond with the prevalence of poverty, or with much of anything else. All that can be confidently said about America's mobile homes is that they are massed in places where you wouldn't want to be in one. Florida's mobile homes lie athwart the path of hurricanes. Georgia's are in the way of tornadoes.
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This little expression, 'It doesn't matter what you believe as long as you're sincere,' is a monstrous lie.
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I was involved in legislating dozens of laws, perhaps hundreds. But my glory didn't lie in legislative work, if there is any glory in it. The Israeli law books are full of laws that aren't enforced anyway.
