True Quotes

• What I try to do often when I'm acting and what I like when I'm seeing good acting is how authentic it is. How true is this to what I know of the world that's been created for me? The ultimate test for me is, like, if I heard a clip of it on the radio, I'd like the audience not to know if I'm acting.

  

  Alex Karpovsky
  • World
  • Good
  • True

• It's possible that we could change a human gene and double our life span. I don't know if that's true, but we can't rule that out.

  

  Cynthia Kenyon
  • Life
  • True

• The promise, made when I am in love and because I am in love, to be true to the beloved as long as I live, commits me to being true even if I cease to be in love. A promise must be about things that I can do, about actions: no one can promise to go on feeling in a certain way. He might as well promise to never have a headache or always to feel hungry.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Long
  • Live
  • Feeling

• No, but I've always felt that with true talent, and a commitment to hard work, it is possible to achieve an enduring respect and appreciation. In other words, I don't take my fans for granted.

  

  John Fogerty Creedence Clearwater Revival
  • Work
  • Words
  • Respect

• Thus I came...to a deep religiosity, which, however, reached an abrupt end at the age of 12. Through the reading of popular scientific books I soon reached a conviction that much in the stories of the Bible could not be true....Suspicion against every kind of authority grew out of this experience...an attitude which has never left me.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • End
  • Books
  • Religiosity

• We have a lot of suspicion of robots in the West. But if you look cross-culturally, that isn't true. In Japan, in their science fiction, robots are seen as good. They have Astro Boy, this character they've fallen in love with and he's fundamentally good, always there to help people.

  

  Cynthia Breazeal
  • People
  • Good
  • Character

• I've never told anyone this. But I suffer from terrible stage fright. True. You can't tell though, can you? Unbelievable, the panic. I nearly die of fear before I go on stage. Something wicked. I can't eat a thing the day before a gig. It'd make me vomit.

  

  John Joseph Lydon
  • True
  • Fear
  • Die

• Remain true to yourself while practicing this business of being an actor. And it is a business.

  

  Carrie Preston
  • Business
  • Yourself
  • Actor

• A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • True
  • Artist
  • Inspired

• Dreams can come true.

  

  Lil' Romeo
  • True

• True conservation provides for wise use by the general public. The American people do not want our resources preserved for the exclusive use of the wealthy. These land and water resources belong to the people, and people of all income levels should have easy access to them.

  

  George Aiken
  • People
  • American
  • Water

• My office is at Yankee stadium. Yes, dreams do come true.

  

  Derek Jeter
  • True

• The fact is that given the challenges we face, education doesn't need to be reformed -- it needs to be transformed. The key to this transformation is not to standardize education, but to personalize it, to build achievement on discovering the individual talents of each child, to put students in an environment where they want to learn and where they can naturally discover their true passions.

  

  Ken Robinson
  • Education
  • Environment
  • Challenges

• Even if they try to kill you, you develop the inner conviction that there are some things so precious, some things so eternally true that they are worth dying for. And if a person has not found something to die for, that person isn't fit to live!

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • True
  • Kill
  • Conviction

• A philosophy can only be a route to knowledge. It cannot be knowledge crammed down one's throat. If one has a route, he can then find what is true for him. And that is Scientology.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • True
  • Knowledge

• By being present and being true, I believe that, in my own way, I am promoting diversity.

  

  Philomena Kwao
  • Believe
  • Present
  • Diversity

• Henry Ford was right. A prosperous economy requires that workers be able to buy the products that they produce. This is as true in a global economy as a national one.

  

  John Sweeney
  • True

• I guess the very first thing is to own your true self, and that includes achieving the point of not lying to others; the first step should be not lying to yourself.

  

  Ayumi Hamasaki
  • True
  • Step

• If we would know true love and understanding one for another, we must realize that communication is more than a sharing of words. It is the wise sharing of emotions, feelings, and concerns. It is the sharing of oneself totally.

  

  Marvin J. Ashton
  • Words
  • Understanding
  • Wise

• True greatness isn't so much what you do as who you are.

  

  Ben Carson
  • True
  • Greatness

• 'True Blood' is truly a playground. You get to go in and just let loose and completely just have fun and play around. There is so much freedom on set.

  

  Lindsay Pulsipher
  • True
  • Fun
  • Freedom

• I have readers tell me that I must be bored, but that's not true. I am never bored with the characters. I like them.

  

  Martha Grimes
  • True
  • Bored

• The same would be true for something like Social Security, where historically, if you just read the law and the fact that it excluded domestic workers or agricultural workers, you might not see race in it, unless you knew that that covered a huge chunk of African Americans, particularly in the South.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Law
  • Race
  • African-American

• If naturalism were true then all thoughts whatever would be wholly the result of irrational causes. It cuts its own throat.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • True
  • Thoughts

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