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I like to wear sleeves because they cover up my arms. -- Jordin Sparks
I wouldn't want a tattoo at all. They're difficult to cover up. -- Richard C. Armitage
Oh it's clearly a cover up. I mean, I have no reluctance in saying that. -- Christopher Shays
Even on the spiritual path, we have things we'll tend to cover up or be in denial about. -- Sharon Salzberg
They offered me one cover about 10 years ago, and I said, no, I can't do it. I'm happy to cover up now. -- Ursula Andress
Trees cover up a multitude of sins. -- Bob Ross
You can't cover up the swagger of a cowboy. -- Jaycee Ford
My long hair just can't cover up my redneck. -- David Allan Coe
Charity is suppose to cover up for a multitude of sins. -- Bob Dylan
There are some things you can't cover up with lipstick and powder. -- Elvis Costello
It was easy to cover up ignorance by the mystical word "intuition. -- Isaac Asimov
Bullies often act out by marshaling aggression to cover up for insecurity. -- Amy Dickinson
All the makeup in this world can never cover up an empty brain. -- Edmond Mbiaka
There's some things you can cover up. And there's some things you can't. -- Ray Lewis
In painting you cover up your sins and everyone thinks you're naturally talented. -- Robert Genn
Alone each heart must cover up its dead; Alone, through bitter toil, achieve its rest. -- Bayard Taylor
Being Overconfident often exists when one tries to cover up one's insecurities without facing them. -- Edmond Mbiaka
I think Donald Trump is trying to use populist rhetoric to cover up a right-wing agenda. -- Charles Schumer
He found a new way to cover up his bad breath. He holds up his arms. -- Rodney Dangerfield
I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Christ never intended to cover up the dark side of life, but rather to illuminate a path through it. -- Dan B. Allender
See that you do not use the trick of prayer to cover up what you know you ought to do. -- Oswald Chambers
That's what God does. He doesn't try to cover up our flaws; He starts from scratch and makes us new. -- Sharon Jaynes
Time will bring to light whatever is hidden it will cover up and conceal what is now shining in splendor. -- Horace
Time will bring to light whatever is hidden; it will cover up and conceal what is now shining in splendor. -- Horace
Most people use excuses to cover up mistakes, but it takes less time to do something right the first time. -- Robert Cheeke
Bones, what is everyone doing in here? Spade, cover up. Frigging vampires think everyone wants to see what they've got." ~Cat -- Jeaniene Frost
We are always doing something to cover up our basic existential anxiety. Some people live that way until the day they die. -- Joko Beck
Whenever we just try to please ourselves, all we do is cover up another window in the little house we're stuck in. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Darkness has the ability to cover up; light has the ability to uncover! Darkness is the enemy of truth; light is the friend of truth! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
I think carrying moral baggage is very dangerous for an artist. If you have a duty, it's to be true and not cover up the cracks. -- Bono
With watercolour, you can't cover up the marks. There's the story of the construction of the picture, and then the picture might tell another story as well. -- David Hockney
You hurt the ones that I love best and cover up the truth with lies. One day you'll be in the ditch, flies buzzin' around your eyes. -- Bob Dylan
I always wanted to get into rock music so I could cover up my real personality, change my voice, and create a false self to hide behind. -- Ariel Pink
It is a very trying task for deceitful people, always to have to cover up their lack of sincerity and to repair the breaking of their word. -- Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de ...
Most friendly fire incidents aren't investigated properly because of neglect or a natural inclination to cover up the embarrassing fact that they killed one of their own. -- Jon Krakauer
The same old hypocrisy. Life is a fight, and the strongest wins. All civilization does is hide the blood and cover up the hate with pretty words! -- Ursula K. Le Guin
There is something laughable about the sight of authors who enjoy the rustling folds of long and involved sentences: they are trying to cover up their feet. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The New Testament doesn't present Jesus as a single man to cover up his humanity. It presents him as a single man because... he was a single man. -- John Ortberg
I don't think that any government has a right to subvert the truth or to cover up the truth, and all I see WikiLeaks doing is exposing the truth. -- Paul Watson
President Bush is in the hot seat over Iraqi pre-war intelligence. Remember the good ol' days when the only thing the president was trying to cover up was a stain? -- Craig Kilborn
At its best, flattery is truth well dressed, and it is best dressed with fine see-through fabrics. Honest flattery can caress a lover, cover up a gaffe, and muffle aggression. -- Willis Regier
Some of the imperfections will be visible, but this house has been here a long time. I see no reason to cover up the dings and scars. We've all got 'em. -- Chris Coppernoll
Disney is just Disney. It's a company that's very good at what it does - controlling and promoting an image - until something happens that it can't control or cover up. -- Carl Hiaasen
A good friend will help you to discover the potentials you haven't uncovered. A bad friend will help you to cover up the potentials you have already recovered. Make your choice! -- Israelmore Ayivor
We buy our way out of jail but we can't buy freedom, We buy a lot of clothes when we don't really need them, Things we buy to cover up what's inside. -- Kanye West
I would push for more production and Steve Miller would say, "Why do you want to have more production when you have real songs? You don't want to cover up the song." -- Dar Williams
Paris Hilton has launched a new champagne in a can called Rich Prosecco. For the ad campaign Paris posed wearing nothing but gold paint. Thatâ??s a unique way to cover up herpes. -- Chelsea Handler
You don't ever want to appear like you're wearing too much makeup. If you have a heavy eye and a heavy lip, people are like, 'Wow, what are you trying to cover up?' -- Emma Roberts
Frazier was not a big man at all. Frazier was about 5'9, but he would make anyone run. Put up your dukes and cover up because he's coming. He never backed up from anyone. -- George Foreman
This is deeply disturbing. Congress provided loans to help businesses hurt by the Sept. 11 attacks, not to be used as an accounting gimmick to cover up this administration's failure to provide for small businesses. -- John F. Kerry
When you don't cover up the world with words and labels, a sense of the miraculous returns to your life that was lost a long time ago when humanity, instead of using thought, became possessed by thought. -- Eckhart Tolle
When I was starring as Roxie Hart in 'Chicago,' I got my stiletto heel caught in my fishnet tights and fell flat on my face. It was incredibly painful and not something you can cover up. -- Birgitte Hjort Sorensen
The impulse to write comes, I think, from a desire - perhaps a need - to give imaginative life to experience, to share it with the reader, not to cover up the truth but to deliver it obliquely. -- Paul Theroux
Even if you know that what you'll say will hurt a woman's feelings, I've learned that it's better to be truthful with her than it is to cover up. Ultimate honesty is what a relationship is really about. -- Stephen Moyer
She [Hillary Clinton] put her emails on a secret server to cover up her pay-for-play scandals in the State Department. Nothing threatens the integrity of our democracy more than when government officials put their public office up for sale. -- Donald Trump
Optimism has always seemed to me the cunning alibi of egoists, anxious to cover up their state of chronic self-satisfaction. They are optimists in order to avoid pitying other men and their misfortune. ~~ Yet pity is a vexed question. -- Georges Bernanos
Presidential power was overruled by the high bench in July 1974, when President Nixon was ordered to turn over some audio tapes of his White House conversations, including the 'smoking gun' tape of June 23, 1972, that revealing the Watergate cover up. -- Helen Thomas
The following of authority is the denial of intelligence. [It] may help us temporarily to cover up our difficulties and problems; but to avoid a problem is only to intensify it, and in the process, self-knowledge and freedom are abandoned. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
If it suddenly became impossible for us to cover up all the junk we normally hide from the rest of humanity, I have a feeling we would all get real motivated to deal with the source of what ails us. -- Andy Stanley
Mayonnaise, like hollandaise, was invented by the French to cover up the flavor of spoiled flesh, stale vegetables, rotten fish. Beware the sauce! Where food comes beslobbered with an elegant slime you may well suspect the integrity of the basic ingredients. -- Edward Abbey
Why is there such vanity about hair? I make a point to bathe. I worry about boogers in my nose, and I ask the makeup artist to cover up my pimples, but beyond that, I try not to be too vain. -- Anthony Edwards
I believe that presidents up through and including George Bush have known that Americans were left alive and in violation of law, these high officials and certain of their appointed subordinates have continued and perpetrated a cover up of this reality. -- Bo Gritz
It's been my experience when you lie things work out in such a way that you are obliged to tell many more lies to cover up your first one. It's so much easier to just tell the truth the first time around. -- Astrid Yrigollen
I think bare legs in winter are idiotic. Unless your naked pins are toned, tanned and veinless, it's best to cover up. There is nothing more elegant in winter than dark tights worn with matching knee-length boots and a belted trench coat. -- Joan Collins
Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins. We parry and fend the approach of our fellow-man by compliments, by gossip, by amusements, by affairs. We cover up our thought from him under a hundred folds. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When I turned 30, I just started getting pimples out of nowhere. I do sometimes break out on my chin. So I just use a little RCMA Foundation to cover up a blemish and that's it. I don't do a full face of makeup. -- Amber Rose
On my iPad, and I'm quite a fool for this, but I use Post-It notes to cover up the camera. It's just weird with that little eye there and sometimes it'll be green and I know I didn't turn it on. It's very spooky. -- Taraji P. Henson
Success achieved by the most contemptible means cannot but destroy the soul. ... It helps to cover up the inner corruption and gradually dulls one's scruples, so that those who begin with some high ambition cannot, even if they would, create anything out of themselves. -- Emma Goldman
Now, I know from experience that the trouble with one lie is that it usually takes more lies to cover it up. And if you don't watch out, you wind up telling lies to cover up the lies that are covering up the original lie. -- Wendelin Van Draanen
Tell the truth. If you tell the truth all the time you don't have to worry three months down the line about what you said three months earlier. Truth is always the truth. You won't have to complicate your life by trying to cover up. -- Benjamin Carson
But when a man suspects any wrong it sometimes happens that if he be already involved in the matter he insensibly strives to cover up his suspicions even from himself. And much this way it was with me. I said nothing and tried to think nothing. -- Herman Melville
When I was 14, I almost had a big green leprechaun tattooed on my forearm. Thank God I didn't - it would have been a nightmare to cover up as an actor. I went with a group of mates and, being Irish, thought a leprechaun would be perfect. -- Jonas Armstrong
If you cannot be at ease with yourself when alone, you will seek a relationship to cover up your unease. You can be sure that the unease will then reappear in some other form within the relationship, and you will probably hold your partner responsible for it. -- Eckhart Tolle
When I was 14, I almost had a big green leprechaun tattooed on my forearm. Thank God I didnt - it would have been a nightmare to cover up as an actor. I went with a group of mates and, being Irish, thought a leprechaun would be perfect. -- Jonas Armstrong
I know our congressmen hasn't done it, has anybody put a server in their basement? Oh boy, Hillary Clinton's only - Hillary Clinton's only experience in cyber security involves her criminal scheme to violate federal law, engineering a massive cover up and putting the entire nation in harm's way. -- Donald Trump
History can never be covered up. -- Zhu Rongji
I think growth covers up mistakes. -- Howard Schultz
The First Amendment rejects red tape, cover-up and double-speak. -- Roy Barnes
And, believe me; they will do everything to cover this up. -- Sibel Edmonds
I love cover songs, but I always mess up the words! -- Miranda Lambert
The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up. -- Marilyn Monroe
Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate. -- Margaret Cho
It is almost always the cover-up rather than the event that causes trouble. -- Howard Baker
Thank God for our form of government. The media won't let there be any cover-up. -- John McCain
Compared to a lot of artists, I'm usually quite covered up in videos and photo shoots. -- Paloma Faith
I'm inspired by people who are so sensitive and vulnerable that they try to cover it up. -- Jessica Chastain
It isn't the original scandal that gets people in the most trouble - it's the attempted cover-up. -- Tom Petri
I don't go to war for the adrenaline rush. I cover wars because that's what I've ended up doing. -- Tim Hetherington
Most truths are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little bit. -- Edward R. Murrow
The fact of the Watergate cover-up is not nearly as interesting as the step into making the cover-up. And when you understand the step, you understand that Richard Nixon lied. That he was a criminal. -- Bob Woodward
All belief is a cover-up for insecurity -- Deepak Chopra
Everyone looked pensive, which is good cover-up for clueless. -- Nelson DeMille
To err is human. To cover it up is weasel. -- Scott Adams
Everybody makes honest mistakes, but there's no such thing as an honest cover-up. -- Price Pritchett
Some people say "if we split up,we can cover more ground"-with blood -- Seth Grahame-Smith
The cover-up, more than the initial wrongdoing, is what is most likely to bring you down. -- Madeleine Albright
In the long run, there are no secrets. in science. The universe will not cooperate in a cover-up. -- Arthur C. Clarke
Are you not justified in feeling inferior, when you seek to cover it up with arrogance and insolence? -- Malcolm Forbes
I don't necessarily believe in aliens coming to the States, and I don't buy into the government cover-up. -- Jeri Ryan
One time I actually cleaned out my closet so good I ended up on the cover of Time magazine. -- Ellen DeGeneres
It's a violent world we live in. I don't agree with trying to hide that or cover it up. -- Brad Pitt
Big fires flare up in a wind, but little ones are blown out unless they are carried in under cover. -- Saint Francis de Sales
Those who gave the orders, oversaw the killings, and ordered the subsequent cover-up have yet to be arrested and prosecuted. -- Victoria Nuland
I know now it is children who accept life; grown people cover it up and pretend it is different with drinks. -- Rumer Godden
I'm prone to getting dark circles under my eyes when I'm tired, so I l use cover-up and instantly feel more confident. -- Bridgit Mendler
Agh-uhh!" the baboon grunted. He turned and waddled up the stairs. Unfortunately, the Lakers jersey didn't completely cover his multicolored rear. -- Rick Riordan
When I did the cover of 'Cosmo International,' Turkey picked it up and I got a lot of backlash for it. -- Khloe Kardashian
To shoot a decent fight, you need to cover all the different angles, and it ends up eating a lot of days. -- David Benioff
Oh would I were dead now, Or up in my bed now, To cover my head now, And have a good cry! -- Thomas Hood
I thought it was amazing to work with authors, to get a manuscript and try to make up a cover for it. -- Dick Bruna
God is so big He can cover the whole world with His love, and so small He can curl up inside your heart. -- June Masters Bacher
Artists have to show us what is not going well within the person and within the society, not try to cover it up. -- Nhat Hanh
Every man is sensitive. Some cover it up with brutality, others with cowardice and vanity, but a small few wear it bravely like armor -- Solange nicole
Any fool knows that bravado is always a cover-up for insecurity. That's the truth. And on that note, I'll say goodnight. God love you. -- Bobby Darin
As so often happens with Washington scandals, it isn't the original scandal that gets people in the most trouble - it's the attempted cover-up. -- Tom Petri
And the Zionists have used the Holocaust as a weapon to deny the rights of the Palestinians and to cover-up the crimes of Israel. -- David Duke
The dentist drills some more and you hear him make a mistake. And to cover it up, they all say the same thing: "Okay, rinse." -- Bill Cosby
I feel that's important that I have some place to go that isn't on the cover of a magazine. I signed up to make music. -- Matt Tong
I have excellent information and proof relating to conduct of the FBI, .. I can prove beyond a reasonable doubt that this case is an FBI cover-up. -- Zacarias Moussaoui

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