True Quotes
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I try to be as honest and open as I am with everything that I do because it's just, um, It helps me, you know, like whether it's stand up or singing or act. I just try to stay true.
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An unconscious, gentle process whereby people who want to be loving attempt to be so by telling little white lies, by withholding some of the truth about themselves and their feelings in order to avoid conflict. Pseudocommunity is conflict-avoiding; true community is conflict-resolving.
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The true aim of medicine is not to make men virtuous; it is to safeguard and rescue them from the consequences of their vices. The physician does not preach repentance; he offers absolution.
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If I wasn't true to myself, I couldn't live with myself.
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He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things ought himself to be a true poem.
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What strikes me about Jesus is that he is a remarkably true person; he never changes his personality to fit in with whatever crowd he finds himself. He is simply himself, and he never plays to his audience.
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Far more often than asking the question 'Is it true?' Children have asked me: 'Was he good? Was he wicked?' That is, they were far more concerned to get the Right side and the Wrong side clear. For that is a question equally important in History and in Faerie.
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If you're on TV, you can't complain, right? And I understand that, and it's true to a certain degree.
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I think if people want to go back and look at season two of 'True Blood,' I'm proud of my work in that.
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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
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If we can advance any propositions that are both true and new, these are indisputably our own, by right of discovery; and if we can repeat what is old more briefly and brightly than others, this also becomes our own, by right of conquest.
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As an artist I'd choose the thing that's beautiful more than the one that's true.
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I don't think anyone's sexuality needs to be a public issue other than to give others the confidence to love themselves wholeheartedly and to be their true, authentic self without any shame.
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Whenever you're feeling moments of discomfort, that means true change is happening for you.
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If religion is only human, and its form is man's form, it follows that everything in religion is true.
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Perhaps it's true that I'm very hard on myself, but that's better than exhibiting mediocre work... too few were satisfactory enough to trouble the public with.
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The duty of 'saving' became nine-tenths of virtue and the growth of the cake the object of true religion.
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The facile delusions which conceal from us our true situation all amount to this: that we are, or can be, wiser than the wisest men of the past. We are thus induced to play the part, not of attentive and docile listeners, but of impresarios and lion-tamers.
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Everybody's always living in fiction just as much as children, but the way our stories are faked is curtailed by all sorts of narratives we take into our own lives about what are the true narratives and what's not.
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Ignorance ain't not knowin' stuff; ignorance is knowin' stuff that AIN'T TRUE.
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It was so much more complicated than it had to be, but the changeling had noted that this was true of every human biological function that wasn’t involuntary.
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Nothing is ever too good to be true.
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My novels are never directly based on a true crime incident, but I want to get the details right. I want to know how homicide detectives think, what a SWAT team might do to prepare.
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I think the most important thing that young people should be taught at school is how they can decide what they're being told is true.
