Honest Quotes
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When you're onstage, it's a communication technique when you make people laugh. You're communicating. You're communicating with other human beings and when they laugh you know that you're connecting. Laughing is an honest reaction and it's something that I can trust, and I love that feeling of knowing that I connected.
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The most enviable praise of all is just to be called an honest man.
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I don't like it, to be honest, when politicians make a big thing of their religious beliefs, so I don't make a big thing of it.
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I have been lately introduced to the famous Thomas Paine, and like him very well. He is vain beyond all belief, but he has reason to be vain, and for my part I forgive him. He has done wonders for the cause of liberty, both in America and Europe, and I believe him to be conscientiously an honest man. He converses extremely well; and I find him wittier in discourse than in his writings, where his humour is clumsy enough.
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All good writers speak in honest voices and tell the truth.
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And if you think that you're showing your love to Catherine by suffering the way you've been doing, then somewhere along the way, I must have messed up in raising you." "You didn't mess up...." "I must have. Because when I look at you, I see myself, and to be honest, I'd rather see someone different. I'd like to see someone who learned that it's okay to go on, that it's okay to find someone that can make you happy. But right now, it's like I'm looking in the mirror and seeing myself twenty years ago.
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People can see it when you're honest and sincere.
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I wanted to write honest books for kids because I didn't have those when I was a kid.
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Be honest with yourself and lie to everyone else.
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Be good and honest to your fellow man and try to do something good for somebody.
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I love people who are very honest and very open and don't pretend to be anything they're not.
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I think I've been incredibly raw my whole career. A lot of people spend a lot of time trying to look cool and spend time being guarded and putting up walls. I just never had the time. It seems more honest to say, 'Hey, this is who I am.'
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Wanting an honest opinion about my art from someone whose opinion I respect makes me feel vulnerable. It's a great space to be in.
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I'm not trying to be romantic. I think you can tell when people are trying to be sexy onstage. When I was doing 'All the Way,' I was really thinking about my wife. People don't know my personal experience, but they can tell it's an honest interpretation.
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An honest politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought.
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Surely the whole point of writing your own life story is to be as honest as you possibly can, revealing everything about yourself that is most private and probably most interesting for that very reason.
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You have to be honest about who you are.
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My siblings and I were raised like tenants, to be honest. There was a total absence of intimacy in my family, though there was still a great deal of camaraderie among the kids. Things were set up almost like a business, and it had to be managed that way because we were really poor, and there were a lot of mouths to feed.
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In order for us to appreciate this world, we have to be a bit more honest, and I hope I do that.
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It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.
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To be honest, my husband and my children are my best friends.
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Superfluous money buys wasted time, propelling desires that otherwise lay buried beneath the feet of honest toil.
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I long for the days of good honest crooks.
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... our objects, bibelots, whatnots, and knickknacks-say the most about who we are. They are as honest as a diary.
