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People take things at face value on social media. Earnestness is the assumption. -- Mindy Kaling
If we took Chaucer's writings at face value, we'd have to conclude he was a complete drip. -- John Hutton
A lot of books, if you take them at face value, they're just not gonna work as films. -- Christopher McQuarrie
I know I'm not much on face value, but when it comes to stage value, I'll deliver for you. -- Edward G. Robinson
I don't take anything at face value. I always look for the reasons people are the way they are. -- Leslie Mann
We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like that. -- Laura Dern
If you take life at face value, it loses its luster pretty quickly. If you go after it, you get more out of it. -- Christopher Meloni
At face value, the U.S. Congress, there is a - they have a long way to go before they fully appreciate and understand Iranian people. -- Hassan Rouhani
I think when two people get together, their past is their past. Their reputations are reputations. You can only take someone the way you find them... on face value. -- Shane Warne
Brain research tells us that only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony, which means that eighty percent of the world takes everything at face value. -- Douglas Coupland
Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could. -- William F. Buckley, Jr.
I've learned that I need to spell out, even in cases seemingly so blatant, that in fact I am not taking this at face value and am being 'sarcastic.' -- James Fallows
A vast percentage of the human race is literally not wired neurologically to get irony. Well more than half of humanity takes life at face value, which is to me terrifying. -- Douglas Coupland
We didn't understand irony yet in the '80s; we just kind of existed at face value, so there was no nerd cool yet because the digital revolution was still in its infancy. -- Chris Hardwick
I am cynical about politicians. My experience of politicians has been thoroughly negative. I have found that politicians are people that can not be taken at face value. There are very few politicians I have been impressed with. -- Zac Goldsmith
Pathological liar' is absolutely the toughest individual to deal with as a psychiatrist. Because you can't take anything they say at face value. And you can't, you know, fill in their personality. You don't know what's real and what's not. -- Dale Archer
I think when two people get together, their past is their past. Their reputations are reputations. You can only take someone the way you find them... on face value. I think that was how we were both, the way we were. -- Shane Warne
If the response you finally receive from me is 'thanks but no thanks', then please accept at face value that I would really not be the right investor for you. You've got to trust me on this, and in this case take 'no' for an answer. -- David S. Rose
Science is very vibrant. There are always new observations to be found. And it's all in the interest in challenging the authority that came before you. That's consistent with the punk rock ethos that suggests that you should not take what people say at face value. -- Greg Graffin
The press never accepts at face value that the President is taking a certain action because he wants to create jobs or because he believes that it is in the best interests of the American people or that he is genuinely committed to making life better for people. -- Dee Dee Myers
Few people realize what a handicap it is to be what people call a beautiful woman. I'm glad, of course, that I don't look like an unmade bed, but too often, I'm just taken at face value. And there aren't many men who believe a beautiful woman can have any brains. -- Joan Caulfield
It was truly a lesson in don't take something at face value. You know, so many of us do in life. Whether it's because of how somebody looks or because of what they're wearing or what have you, you kind of assess a person in the first five minutes before they even speak. -- Shemar Moore
My paternal grandmother gave me the courage to investigate things and not take things at face value or judge people by what I first imagine them to be. -- Erykah Badu
smile, It increases your face value -- Robert Harling
Smile, it enhances your face value. -- Dolly Parton
Smile, it increases you face value. -- Dolly Parton
You should not take your intuitions at face value. -- Daniel Kahneman
Kindness is a language more often misunderstood than taken at face value. -- Joyce Rachelle
Never take anything at face value. Dare to question and seek the truth. -- Mike Colter
On the face of it, shareholder value is the dumbest idea in the world, -- Jack Welch
I can take everything on her face at face value, and that's valuable in a friend. -- David Levithan
Every minute of life carries with it its miraculous value, and its face of eternal youth. -- Albert Camus
Just like old librarians, old coins are often more valuable than they appear at face value. -- Kate Klise
My optimistic outlook on life is to sort of be positive and take everyone at face value. -- Rhys Darby
It seems to me that the civilized human being is a skeptic someone who believes nothing at face value. -- Robert McKee
We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like that -- Laura Dern
What is the value of sticking a microphone in a man's face right after he has learned of his wife's death? -- Jessica Savitch
Not only are the studies themselves often lacking even face value, but they also drain badly needed funds away from patient care needs. -- Neal Barnard
Early Chinese thinkers had taken variety at face value. They had favored diversification and collected anomalies instead of trying to explain them away. -- Paul Feyerabend
Self-respect, the value of 'face,' is universal but is most pronounced in China, then in Japan where the Confucian ethic is most influential. -- F. Sionil Jose
A good trader has to have three things: a chronic inability to accept things at face value, to feel continuously unsettled, and to have humility. -- Michael Steinhardt
Truth, though, is nothing in the face of self-falsehood, and principles are of no value if the idealist cannot live up to his own standards. -- R. A. Salvatore
Never look at an opportunity at face value & pass it on that basis. Examine the income vs. the profit vs. expenses then make your decision. -- Ziad K. Abdelnour
There are only two creatures of value on the face of the earth: those with the commitment, and those who require the commitment of others. -- John Adams
Fiction is just that-fiction. Yes, it is serious business, but it should also be taken for face value. It's entertainment. It's escapism. It's 365 pages of relaxation. -- Rachel Wade
The spirit in which a thing is given determines that in which the debt is acknowledged; it's the intention, not the face-value of the gift, that's weighed -- Seneca the Younger
As Christians we are here to affirm the supreme value of direct sharing, of immediate encounter -not machine to machine, but person to person, face to face. -- Kallistos Ware
I've learned that I need to spell out, even in cases seemingly so blatant, that in fact I am not taking this at face value and am being 'sarcastic. -- James Fallows
Volcanic ash will be experienced in all parts of your world, as the volcanoes around your earth are simultaneously activated. Face masks and goggles will be of great value -- Esther Hicks
... when confronted with unusual life situations... A warrior acts as if nothing had ever happened, because he doesn't believe in anything, yet he accepts everything at its face value. -- Carlos Castaneda
It is good that man should accept at face value the cheats of sense and snares of flesh, and through the fogs of sentiency pursue the lures and lies of passion. -- Jack London
I grew up in a very politically aware family. My mother always taught me to question everything, never believing anything simply at face value - especially the nicest, most adamant politicians. -- Dave Matthews
I tell the audience every night, "I hope you didn't pay more than face value on that ticket, because we ain't worth more than that, and you ain't gonna get any more than that." -- Billy Joel
Art can make a difference because it pulls people up short. It says, don't accept things for their face value; you don't have to go along with any of this; you can think for yourself. -- Jeanette Winterson

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