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  • Be candid with everyone. -- Jack Welch
  • I am what I am and I'm a horrible liar. I can't do it. I'm just very candid. -- Pamela Anderson
  • But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send, Save me, oh, save me, from the candid friend! -- George Canning
  • I call it like I see it. I don't hold back when it comes to being candid on the hot issues. -- Jerry Doyle
  • I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow. -- Franz Grillparzer
  • The kids are Job One. So, to be quite candid, if they need me, I do my utmost to make sure I'm there. -- Susan Rice
  • Social Security must be preserved and strengthened. But we need to be candid about the costs and willing to make the tough choices that real reform will require. -- Lindsey Graham
  • If I were to make public these tapes, containing blunt and candid remarks on many different subjects, the confidentiality of the office of the president would always be suspect. -- Richard M. Nixon
  • To be candid with you, free agency hurts all sports. It's great for athletes making an enormous amount of money. But to say it helps the sports, I don't believe that. -- Jerry West
  • If I write a book where all I've ever experienced is success, people won't take a positive lesson from it. In being candid, I have to own up to my own failures, both in my marriage and in my work environment. -- Sonia Sotomayor
  • I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world. -- Carl Sandburg
  • Really, I'm incredibly disjointed and not candid. Just in general, my thoughts tend to come out in little spurts that don't necessarily connect. If you hang around long enough, you can find the linear path. But it will take a second. That is why these interviews never go well for me. -- Kristen Stewart
  • If indeed you must be candid, be candid beautifully. -- Khalil Gibran
  • Ye marshes, how candid and simple and nothing-withholding and free, Ye publish yourselves to the sky and offer yourselves to the sea. -- Sidney Lanier
  • I have adapted the whole book [Candid] into tweets of 140 characters, and these are being sent out daily, at the rate of eight tweets per day . -- Mark Ravenhill
  • In regard to religion, mutual toleration in the different professions thereof is what all good and candid minds in all ages have ever practiced, and both by precept and example inculcated on mankind. -- Samuel Adams
  • Wherefore the race being not to the swift, etc. but time and chance happening to all men, I leave the Judgement of the whole to the Candid, of whose correction I shall never be impatient. -- William Petty
  • There is the question of language. Although the play [Candid] is not written in strict verse form, there is an underlying beat of rhyming couplets, with echoes of Pope and the tradition of eighteenth-century philosophical verse. -- Mark Ravenhill
  • We are going to be a government of no surprises and no excuses; a government which keeps its commitments and a government which is straight and candid with the Australian people and that's what we intend to do. -- Tony Abbott
  • We're talking about the lawyers for the United States of America. And I think it's very, very important that the lawyers be comfortable being very candid and open about their views on very sensitive issues affecting the United States. -- Alberto Gonzales
  • Voltaire's novel [Candid] offers us parallel universes, the possibility of entering into alternative worlds existing side by side, and this is something quite modern. Nested narratives and parallel universes are popular at the moment in many different art forms. -- Mark Ravenhill
  • Even within single sentences, there are sudden changes of register. And when the travellers go to Venice, they see a play by Voltaire! This is a novel [Candid] which has narratives within narratives, such as when Cunégonde recounts her story. -- Mark Ravenhill
  • Candid and searing, Deborah Jiang Stein's memoir is a remarkable story about identity, lost and found, and about the author's journey to reclaim"?and celebrate"?that most primal of relationships, the one between mother and child. I dare you to read this book without crying. -- Mira Bartok
  • I'm fascinated by mankind. I grew up watching 'Candid Camera' and thought it was funnier than any standup, any joke, anything that could possibly be written because you're dealing with humanity. And people can relate to that. It touches everybody who sees it. It hits a nerve. -- Howie Mandel
  • ...candid still photography had taken over... What was interesting was that the photographs came without any intention of instructing you... You're like a cat looking out the window. You don't have to even know what you're watching, but you're watching it, and you're watching it very accurately. -- D. A. Pennebaker
  • Smile and others will smile back. Smile to show how transparent, how candid you are. Smile if you have nothing to say. Most of all, do not hide the fact you have nothing to say nor your total indifference to others. Let this emptiness, this profound indifference shine out spontaneously in your smile. -- Jean Baudrillard
  • Of the two great political parties which have divided the opinions and feelings of our country, the candid and the just will now admit that both have contributed splendid talents, spotless integrity, ardent patriotism, and disinterested sacrifices to the formation and administration of this Government, and that both have required a liberal indulgence for a portion of human infirmity and error. -- John Quincy Adams
  • Let me just be candid: My party is full of racists. And the real reason a considerable portion of my party wants President Obama out of the White House has nothing to do with the content of his character, nothing to do with his competence as commander-in-chief and president, and everything to do with the color of his skin. And that's despicable. -- Colin Powell
  • My parents both had a great sense of humor, and always laughed a lot. One night, when they were watching 'Candid Camera,' I finally understood what comedy was all about. I heard the laughter on television, I turned around and saw my parents laughing, and that's when I thought: 'This is great. This is what I can do. I'm gonna prank somebody.' -- Howie Mandel
  • I do not like candid pictures. They are so unattractive. -- Rose Kennedy
  • People are afraid because I'm candid. They're always worried I'm going to get into trouble. -- Steve Madden
  • Strangely, I feel that I become increasingly reclusive in my normal life and more open and candid in my music. -- Mika
  • Most other documents leaked to WikiLeaks do not carry the same explosive potential as candid cables written by American diplomats. -- Evgeny Morozov
  • President-elect Bush spoke in a forceful and candid manner that it is his passion that all children should have access to a first class education. -- George Miller
  • I've always been a pretty candid person. I'm not a very secretive person; I'm not a very discreet person. One of my best friends once described me as pathologically indiscreet. -- Andrew Sullivan
  • I do serve on various boards and I'm very honest and frank, obviously. I am a very forthright person and I do, sort of, share my candid views on anything. -- Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
  • Honesty' in social life is often used as a cover for rudeness. But there is quite a difference between being candid in what you're talking about, and people voicing their insulting opinions under the name of honesty. -- Judith Martin
  • I know it's not particularly tech-savvy of me to suggest a camera that doesn't have a touchscreen, but I think when it comes to candid shots of nights out with friends, there's nothing better than a disposable camera. -- Derek Blasberg
  • What you have said, Mr. President, fully satisfies me that you have given to every proposition which has been made, a kind and candid consideration. And you have now expressed the conclusion to which you have arrived, clearly and distinctly. -- Salmon P. Chase
  • In making the jump from a local program to the showcase of a coast-to-coast broadcast, Ted Yates and I were determined to maintain the candid, sometimes combative style we'd introduced on 'Night Beat.' But that proved easier said than done. -- Mike Wallace
  • To be candid, some people have given positive thinking a bad name. I can't stand to hear some gung-ho individual say that with positive thinking you can just do 'anything.' If you think about that one for a moment, you recognize the absurdity of it. -- Zig Ziglar
  • I am a candid interview and I have a dark and dry sense of humor - a very Canadian sense of humor and I am only learning now stupidly that you can't read tongue. When I say something funny in a newspaper and I meant it to be funny, it doesn't read that way. -- Michael Buble
  • The secret to understanding me is, I'm not trying to be anybody other than who I actually am. People want candid, refreshing leadership. And I've always tried to go with solutions. You know, I've always tried to say, here's how we get our economy growing, here's why we get our debt under control. That's what Mitt Romney is offering. -- Paul Ryan
  • Is management candid with the shareholders? -- Warren Buffett
  • Truth between candid minds can never do harm. -- Thomas Jefferson
  • Let me be candid, my party is full of racists -- Lawrence Wilkerson
  • A candid spirit is mightier than the most persistent dogmatism. -- Amos Bronson Alcott
  • The candid incline to surmise of late that the Christian faith proves false. -- Robert Browning
  • Whenever one has anything unpleasant to say, one should always be quite candid. -- Oscar Wilde
  • A full and candid admission of one's mistakes should make proof against its repetition. -- Mahatma Gandhi
  • Suicide is the utmost sincere and candid apology to the ones you hurt most -- Christopher J Marshall
  • Politics: the art of appearing candid and completely open while concealing as much as possible. -- Frank Herbert
  • Blame where you must, be candid where you can, And be each critic the Good-natured Man. -- Oliver Goldsmith
  • Generosity is nothing more seen than in a candid estimation of other men's virtues and good qualities. -- Isaac Barrow
  • The candid camera is the greatest liar in the photographic family.... It is anarchic, naïve, and superficial. -- Lincoln Kirstein
  • Don't hide bad news. With multiple information channels available, bad news always becomes known. Be candid right from the start. -- John C. Maxwell
  • I am a candid interview and I have a dark and dry sense of humor - a very Canadian sense of humor. -- Michael Buble
  • Most people probably assume that Hristo is a grumpy, stubborn guy... That can't be further from the truth. He's a cheerful, candid person that never holds a grudge. -- Michael Laudrup
  • Unfortunately I don't have my grandparents, but Mum and I are working quite well together. That's candid, that's frank. Your grandmother is never going to lie to you. -- Rose Leslie
  • But honest men do not pretend to know; they are candid and sincere; they love the truth; they admit their ignorance, and they say, We do not know. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
  • It's all very confusing. I think I'm very honest and candid, but I'm also proud of how honest and candid I am -- so where does that put me? -- David Foster Wallace
  • When I was training, those were some of the most indelible experiences I've ever had, in my life. It is so raw. It is so human. It is so candid. -- Sanjay Gupta
  • Linde's Danger to Self is a warm, candid and appealing account of being an emergency room psychiatrist. Linde captures the non-conformist, hard-boiled style of the psychiatrists who work in this setting. -- Tanya Luhrmann
  • There are photographic fanatics, just as there are religious fanatics. They buy a so-called candid camera there is no such thing: it's the photographer who has to be candid, not the camera. -- Weegee
  • Eye Nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as they rise; Laugh where we must, be candid where we can, But vindicate the ways of God to man. -- Alexander Pope
  • ARTLESSNESS, n. A certain engaging quality to which women attain by long study and severe practice upon the admiring male, who is pleased to fancy it resembles the candid simplicity of his young. -- Ambrose Bierce
  • When they finally did dare it, at first with stolen glances and then candid ones, they had to smile. They were uncommonly proud. For the first time they had done something out of Love. -- Patrick Süskind
  • President Trump is bringing a very candid - and direct type of leadership to the White House. And in conversations with leaders around the world, frankly, I think they all find it very refreshing. -- Mike Pence
  • No one who has read official documents needs to be told how easy it is to conceal the essential truth under the apparently candid and all- disclosing phrases of a voluminous and particularizing report. -- Woodrow Wilson
  • We are rather candid with them about the nature of their political processes and the state of development of their institutions, but they are looking to the West because they know that's where success lies -- Colin Powell
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