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I pefer an ugly truth to a pretty lie. If someone is telling me the truth that is when I will give my heart. -- Shakira
I prefer an ugly truth to a pretty lie. If someone is telling me the truth that is when I will give my heart. -- Shakira
If I didn't work on the assumption that people were mostly telling me the truth, I think I'd go mad... And I'd rather be mistaken about others than mistrustful of them. -- Una McCormack
To me, horror is when I see somebody lying. I mean a person I know. A friend. And he's telling me something that I accept. And then suddenly, as he or she is telling it, there's something that gives them away. They're not telling me the truth. -- Jonathan Frid
This is me telling the truth. It just so happens to be a very explosive truth. -- Corey Clark
A gaffe in Washington is someone telling the truth, and telling the truth has never hurt me. -- Joe Biden
When I won the Oscar, there was something telling me 'this isn't the truth'. I had to get back to real work. -- Juliette Binoche
When you're on stage, unless you surrender to the moment, you're not telling the truth. I look for people that tell me the truth. -- David Sanborn
I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies. -- Pietro Aretino
I've always seen writing as a way of telling the truth. For me, writing is about truth. I have always tried to be faithful to my own experience. -- Edmund White
Jon Stewart, Bill Maher, Stephen Colbert. Those are the guys I look at who are telling me pretty much the truth. And they throw humor into it which makes it much more interesting to listen to. -- Grace Slick
Whale Talk' is a tough book, but it is also a compassionate book about telling the truth and about redemption. I didn't draw the tough parts out of thin air; they are stories handed to me by people in pain. -- Chris Crutcher
For me, exploration is about that journey to the interior, into your own heart. I'm always wondering, how will I act at my moment of truth? Will I rise up and do what's right, even if every fiber of my being is telling me otherwise? -- Ann Bancroft
From an early age, I had the idea that writing was truth-telling. It's on the record. Everybody can see it. Maybe it goes back to the sacred origins of literature - the holy book. There's nothing holy about it for me, but it should be serious, and it should be totally transparent. -- Edmund White
What I've found - and the older I get, the more I understand this and stand behind it - is, my whole life has been an exploration of telling the truth. It's scary to be truthful, and it's scary to reveal yourself, and I'm very attracted to doing things that scare me. -- Jane Wiedlin
Well, I - all cases to me have interest. Every case is important to somebody, the people litigating that case. But the most difficult case for me is the case where one person says a, the other person says b, and you just don't know for certain who is not telling you the truth. -- Mills Lane
Phil has always been a fighter. He was getting in fights all the time. I told him that if he ever hit me then I would leave the band. He wanted to find out if I was telling him the truth. He hit me so I left and that is how UFO split up. -- Michael Schenker
I felt like all of the American people did not believe me because of the things that were said about me, and said that people would say that it was just for the money, and it wasn't about the money. It was about what he did to me. And I knew I was telling the truth. -- Paula Jones
NPR fired me for telling the truth. The truth is that I worry when I am getting on an airplane and see people dressed in garb that identifies them first and foremost as Muslims. This is not a bigoted statement. It is a statement of my feelings, my fears after the terrorist attacks of 9/11 by radical Muslims. -- Juan Williams
Yesterday NPR fired me for telling the truth. The truth is that I worry when I am getting on an airplane and see people dressed in garb that identifies them first and foremost as Muslims. This is not a bigoted statement. It is a statement of my feelings, my fears after the terrorist attacks of 9/11 by radical Muslims. -- Juan Williams
I tell you, it was kind of two-fold. I fortunately had a lot of support. My coach was amazing - he told me to focus on being prepared and that is what I did. Every athlete is nervous - any athlete who tells you they're not nervous isn't telling you the truth. I was as prepared as I could be. -- Carl Lewis
Truth-telling frightens me. Lying confuses me. -- Mason Cooley
Telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies. -- Pietro Aretino
Don't thank me for telling the truth when it would have been mercy to lie to you. -- Marissa Meyer
When someone starts talking to me about the truth, what I hear is what they're telling me about themselves. -- Nicole Kidman
Please explain to me why John Kerry sounds more dickish telling the truth than Bush sounds when he's lying. How is that possible? -- Jon Stewart
But I have told the truth. Isn't that ironic? They sent me because I am so good at telling lies. But I have told the truth. -- Elizabeth Wein
Their fate rested entirely on me. I could save them by telling the truth. I could destroy them by lying. No one should have that much power. -- Neal Shusterman
Judaism for me is a sensibility of collective self-questioning and uncomfortable truth-telling. I feel a debt of responsibility to this past. It is why I am Jewish. -- Tony Judt
Ive always seen writing as a way of telling the truth. For me, writing is about truth. I have always tried to be faithful to my own experience. -- Edmund White

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