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I'm a feminist in the true sense of the word. It's about equality. -- Natalie Dormer
Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Singing provides a true sense of lightheartedness. If I sing when I am alone, I feel wonderful. It's freedom. -- Andrea Bocelli
Unlike scientism, science in the true sense of the word is open to unbiased investigation of any existing phenomena. -- Stanislav Grof
I do love using keyboards and I love writing keyboard parts, but I am not a player in the true sense of the word. -- Geddy Lee
We do not have a functioning market in the true sense of the word in health care. That's a layer of transparency that's sorely needed in America. -- Paul Ryan
The architect must be a prophet... a prophet in the true sense of the term... if he can't see at least ten years ahead don't call him an architect. -- Frank Lloyd Wright
There's nothing like meeting someone's family to get a true sense of them and a reflection of their ethics and personality. It just makes them a more rounded person. -- Lenora Crichlow
Hollywood sold its stars on good looks and personality buildups. We weren't really actresses in a true sense, we were just big names - the products of a good publicity department. -- Ann Sothern
In the true sense one's native land, with its background of tradition, early impressions, reminiscences and other things dear to one, is not enough to make sensitive human beings feel at home. -- Emma Goldman
The workman in the true sense of the word - the artist in guns - is either extinct, or hidden in an obscure corner. There is no individuality about modern guns. One is exactly like another. -- Richard Jefferies
Unless you are really grounded and have a true sense of reality, you can get lost in that and a lot of people do and that's why you see so many people with successful careers but with destructive lives. -- Morris Chestnut
My approach to the work is the same, whether I had the lead or a supporting role. I consider myself a character actor in the true sense of the word. Unless I'm doing my autobiography, I'm playing a character. -- Ving Rhames
It is certain that the truth of the Christian faith becomes more evident the more the faith itself is known. Therefore, the doctrine should not only be in Latin but also in the common tongue, and as the faith of the Church is contained in the Scriptures, the more these are known in the true sense, the better. -- John Wycliffe
For me, the reason to make the movie is that if people like the comic, then people would like the movie if it was well made. There are good movies for them, but very few. And I mean that in a true sense. If they love your story for freaking 30 years, then they can do a movie about it. -- Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero
I love what I do. And in the true sense, from my training, I try to create a character each time. It is something I do. But I don't want that term to limit what I can do. I prefer people to say to me, 'You're one of my favorite actors,' rather than 'You're one of my favorite character actors.' It sounds like a slam. -- William Forsythe
All true knowledge contradicts common sense. -- Mandell Creighton
Life in the true sense is perceiving or thinking. -- Aristotle
If it doesn't make sense, it's usually not true. -- Judy Sheindlin
Courage is being true to yourself, true to a sense of integrity. -- Cornel West
Prince.. a true artist in every sense of the world.Gone way too soon. -- Quincy Jones
Nothing can bring a real sense of security into the home except true love. -- Billy Graham
The sense of gratitude produces true spiritual alchemy, makes us magnanimous - large souled. -- Sam Keen
Faith is the effort to believe what your common sense tells you is not true. -- Elbert Hubbard
If you can act as if something is true, in a sense that makes it true. -- Roger Ebert
True wisdom is marked by willingness to listen and a sense of knowing when to yield. -- Elizabeth George
In the nice bee, what sense so subtly true From pois'nous herbs extracts the healing dew? -- Alexander Pope
In the strict sense of the term, a true democracy has never existed, and never will exist. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge. -- William Hazlitt
Music speaks from spirit to spirit and in that sense you could call it a true spiritual language. -- John McLaughlin
True artists are prophets. I don't want to be that prophetic in that sense because it's so lonely. -- Yoko Ono
Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth. -- John Stuart Mill
True genius repeats itself forever, and never repeats itself--one ever varied sense beams novelty and unity on all. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
There is no sense in making statements that will not continue to be true after they are made. -- Frank Knight
The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding. -- John Updike
Transformation without work and pain, without suffering, without a sense of loss is just an illusion of true change. -- William P. Young
We're not always going to understand why something happens.True faith is trusting even when it doesn't make sense -- Joel Osteen
Transformation without work and pain, without suffering, without a sense of loss is just an illusion of true change. -- William P. Young
No matter what, I need to maintain my sense of self and always be true to who I am. -- Lily Collins
What has stayed true all the way through my work is my composition, I hope, and my sense of color. -- Annie Leibovitz
Sound morals, religious liberty, and a just sense of religious responsibility are essentially connected with all true and lasting happiness. -- William Henry Harrison
On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true. -- William James
Surely we may with reverence say that, in a true and deep sense, God Himself is the answer to prayer. -- Caroline Emelia Stephen
We should live in such a way that our lives wouldn't make much sense if the gospel were not true. -- Dorothy Day
Every religion, every mythology is true in this sense: It is true as metaphorical of the human and cosmic mystery. -- Joseph Campbell
Billie Holiday's voice was the voice of living intensity of soul in the true sense of that greatly abused word. -- Leonard Feather
A true account of the actual is the rarest poetry, for common sense always takes a hasty and superficial view. -- Henry David Thoreau
I'm not a particularly dark individual. I have my moments, it's true, but I do have a sense of humor. -- Alan Moore
If we are not one, we are not in the true sense of the word the disciples of the Lord Jesus. -- Brigham Young
Unless we base our sense of identity upon the truth of who we are, it is impossible to attain true happiness. -- Brenda Shoshanna
For decades, we've been told that it doesn't make economic sense to switch to renewable energy. Today, that's no longer true. -- Barack Obama
Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams. -- Charles Baudelaire
True wisdom is free of the dramas of culture or religion and should bring us only a sense of peace and happiness. -- Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche
When nothing makes sense and the world seems upside down, listen to your heart, it will never lie about your true feelings. -- Leon Brown
No religion is a true religion that does not make men tingle to their finger tips with a sense of infinite hazard. -- William Ernest Hocking
The essence of true education in one's life is to show the presence of mind, heart and soul to sense everything right. -- Anuj
The only 'anti-fascist' song that makes any sense to me is the Beatles' 'Love Is All You Need', because, quite simply, it's true. -- Penny Rimbaud
I might have been born into a very literal sense of chaos, but in fact that state is true of all of us. -- Anselm Kiefer
I have a strong sense of responsibility. I like to be directed, it's true. If I didn't like that, I'd do something else. -- Catherine Deneuve
The true fisherman approaches the first day of fishing season with all the sense of wonder and awe of a child approaching Christmas. -- John D. Voelker
As an astronomer in the true sense of the term, Sir John Herschel stood before all his contemporaries. Nay, he stood almost alone. -- Richard A. Proctor
If one harbors anywhere in one's mind a nationalistic loyalty or hatred, certain facts, though in a sense known to be true, are inadmissable. -- George Orwell
Common sense is, of all kinds, the most uncommon. It implies good judgment, sound discretion, and true and practical wisdom applied to common life. -- Tryon Edwards
Prayer is the act by which man, detaching himself from the embarrassments of sense and nature, ascends to the true level of his destiny. -- Henry Parry Liddon
The true exceptional performer is on super pilot. Every single sense, every fiber of his body is brought together in what he is doing. -- John Eliot
Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith. -- Reinhold Niebuhr
[Rumi] is trying to get us to feel the vastness of our true identity... like the sense you might get walking into a cathedral... -- Coleman Barks
Three-dimensional, complex women get an audience engaged as much as the men. I'm a feminist in the true sense of the word. It's about equality. -- Natalie Dormer
Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true. -- John Keats
I think the French have a romantic cliche that Englishmen have great style, great music, irony and sense of humour. Well, sometimes cliches are true. -- Josephine de La Baume
This is the feeling that gives a man true courage-the feeling that he has a work to do at all costs; the sense of duty. -- Charles Kingsley
What Pascal said of an effective religion is true of any effective doctrine: it must be "contrary to nature, to common sense and to pleasure. -- Eric Hoffer
One of the embarrassing facts from social psychology is that most stereotypes are true, in the only sense that stereotypes are ever true: on average. -- J. Michael Bailey
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Christianity in its true sense puts an end to the State. It was so understood from its very beginning, and for that Christ was crucified. -- Leo Tolstoy
But the creative principle resides in mathematics. In a certain sense, therefore, I hold true that pure thought can grasp reality, as the ancients dreamed. -- Albert Einstein
Some memories come with a very compelling sense of truth about them. And that happens to be the case even with memories that are not true. -- Daniel Kahneman
I've always felt writing a song was a bit like going on location. That's true in an almost literal sense. Where you are seeps in somehow. -- Elvis Costello
Archaeopteryx probably cannot tell us much about the early origins of feathers and flight in true protobirds because Archaeopteryx was, in the modern sense, a bird. -- Alan Feduccia
Psychologists have set about describing the true nature of women with a certainty and a sense of their own infallibility rarely found in the secular world. -- Naomi Weisstein
The best causes tend to attract to their support the worst arguments, which seems to be equally true in the intellectual and in the moral sense. -- Ronald Fisher
Truth, in the broadest sense, means being attuned with the real. To be authentically in touch with the true, and the good and the beautiful. Yes? -- Ken Wilber
I really do feel now that the way I dress onstage and for work is a true reflection of my own sense of style as well. -- Rachel Stevens
To think what is true, to sense what is beautiful and to want what is good, hereby the spirit finds purpose of a life in reason. -- Johann Gottfried Herder
If you contribute to other peoples happiness, you will find the true meaning of life. The key point is to have a genuine sense of universal responsibility -- Dalai Lama
There is an Easter sense in which all things are made new in the risen Christ. A tiny gleam of this is reflected in all true art. -- Evelyn Waugh
But as long as you have some fixed idea or are caught by some habitual way of doing things, you cannot appreciate things in their true sense. -- Shunryu Suzuki
True kindness is rooted in a deep sense of abundance, out of which flows a sense that even as I give, it is being given back to me. -- Wayne Muller
Because true belonging only happens when we present our authentic, imperfect selves to the world, our sense of belonging can never be greater than our level of self-acceptance. -- Brene Brown
Because true belonging only happens when we present our authentic, imperfect selves to the world, our sense of belonging can never be greater than our level of self-acceptance. -- Brene Brown
Because true belonging only happens when we present our authentic, imperfect selves to the world, our sense of belonging can never be greater than our level of self-acceptance. -- Brene Brown
It's true that General Musharraf opposes my return, seeing me as a symbol of democracy in the country. He is comfortable with dictatorship. I hope better sense prevails. -- Benazir Bhutto
A friend in the true sense is not a person who passively nods approval of our conduct or ignores improper behavior. A friend is a person who cares. -- Marvin J. Ashton
Writing is acting in the sense that you're imagining and inhabiting another. In the book I was trying to get at the root of what true acting is. -- Rebecca Miller
They said that love was terrifying and tender, wild and sweet, and none of it made any sense.But now I knew that every mad word was true. -- Rosamund Hodge
The only good reason to embrace a philosophical position is that you are convinced it is true or at least makes sense of the world better than the alternatives. -- Julian Baggini
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Barbarian --A Code of Conduct honored by all true barbarian warriors, requiring excellent coordination with weapons, closeness to nature, awkwardness with women, common sense, and completion of the mission. -- Piers Anthony
You will find that there is no death at all, in the true sense of the word, but everything goes on living, transmuting and becoming perfect according to primitive laws. -- Franz Bardon
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Education in the true sense, of course, is an enablement to serve-both the living human community in its natural household or neighborhood and the precious cultural possessions that the living community inherits or should inherit. -- Wendell Berry

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