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In the lead up to the Iraq war and its later conduct, I saw at a minimum, true dereliction, negligence and irresponsibility, at worse, lying, incompetence and corruption.
Author:
Anthony Zinni
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I remember just lying in the grass, staring at the clouds, wondering where they drifted off to after they floated over Texas. I never would have imagined that one day I would follow one of those clouds and find myself in Hollywood.
Author:
Renee Zellweger
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People will sooner aid a sick dog lying on the sidewalk than to try to find shelter for a sick person. It's too much to deal with.
Author:
Michael Zaslow
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Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.
Author:
Lin Yutang
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There's hostility to lying, and there should be.
Author:
Bob Woodward
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The failure of the system to deal quickly was attributable to Nixon's lying, stonewalling and refusal to come clean. So it took 26 months for the final truth to be known.
Author:
Bob Woodward
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The worst kind of lying I've ever done is keeping things from people.
Author:
Elijah Wood
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I remember lying down for a nap one day at about 4:00 and walking up at 11:00 the next morning.
Author:
April Winchell
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In so many interviews, they bring up the sexual aspect of the record. I've had some journalists say it sounds like I'm lying down in bed singing with a microphone. It gets so old!
Author:
Lucinda Williams
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What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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But the Bible speaks against it, and because the Bible speaks against it, we allow rampant sin including homosexuality and lying, and to me lying is just as b ad as homosexuality, and we've allowed this sin to run rampant in our nation.
Author:
Reggie White
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I don't take criticism lying down.
Author:
William Westmoreland
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It was around the summer of 1982 when the drug problem really impacted. It became a lifestyle rather than a recreation. When you start lying and stealing, you cannot con yourself you're in control any more.
Author:
Irvine Welsh
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Advertising is legalized lying.
Author:
H. Wells
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There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying unless detachment is present too.
Author:
Simone Weil
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In this play we're dealing with relative truths - who's lying, who's telling the truth. But underneath that, Ed and I have hit this deeper level of intimacy between old friends that comes out in the play.
Author:
Fred Ward
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Lying at the root of the social agreements of 1980 are the courage, sense of responsibility, and the solidarity of the working people. Both sides have then recognized that an accord must be reached if bloodshed is to be prevented.
Author:
Lech Walesa
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When he is late for dinner and I know he must be either having an affair or lying dead in the street, I always hope he's dead.
Author:
Judith Viorst
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Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he'd lie just to keep his hand in.
Author:
Harry Truman
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Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides.
Author:
Harry Truman
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An actor is never so great as when he reminds you of an animal - falling like a cat, lying like a dog, moving like a fox.
Author:
Francois Truffaut
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There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.
Author:
William Thackeray
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When he's late for dinner, I know he's either having an affair or is lying dead in the street. I always hope it's the street.
Author:
Jessica Tandy
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I saw the Count lying within the box upon the earth, some of which the rude falling from the cart had scattered over him. He was deathly pale, just like a waxen image, and the red eyes glared with the horrible vindictive look which I knew so well.
Author:
Bram Stoker
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We were racing at circuits where there were no crash barriers in front of the pits, and fuel was lying about in churns in the pit lane. A car could easily crash into the pits at any time. It was ridiculous.
Author:
Jackie Stewart
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I like summer. I like warmer weather and long days. I'm one of those silly people who still enjoy lying in the sun - my children are horrified!
Author:
Danielle Steel
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Lying under oath, and encouraging lies under oath, does go to the very heart and soul of what courts do. If we say we don't care, let's forget about courts, and we'll just have other ways of figuring out how to handle disputes.
Author:
Kenneth Starr
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Lying is an elementary means of self-defense.
Author:
Susan Sontag
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Lying is the most simple form of self-defence.
Author:
Susan Sontag
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I began to pray those same fervent prayers, lying in bed at night, hoping to see a scroll unrolled from the ceiling with a message from God just for me.
Author:
James Somerville
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Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.
Author:
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.
Author:
Steven Soderbergh
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I propose a Constitutional Amendment providing that, if any public official, elected or appointed, at any level of government, is caught lying to any member of the public for any reason, the punishment shall be death by public hanging.
Author:
L. Smith
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I'm a Utilitarian, so I don't see the rule against lying as absolute; it's always subject to some overriding utility which may prevent its exercise.
Author:
Peter Singer
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No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.
Author:
Lucius Seneca
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If an ordinary person is silent, it may be a tactical maneuver. If a writer is silent, he is lying.
Author:
Jaroslav Seifert
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Until we totally change the way we elect our leaders, until we remove private money from public campaigns, lying will be the de facto method of governance in this country.
Author:
Peter Schuyler
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You will not be carried to Heaven lying at ease upon a feather bed.
Author:
Samuel Rutherford
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See that you buy the field where the Pearl is; sell all, and make a purchase of salvation. Think it not easy: for it is a steep ascent to eternal glory: many are lying dead by the way, slain with security.
Author:
Samuel Rutherford
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No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose, and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds.
Author:
John Ruskin
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The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.
Author:
John Ruskin
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A good puzzle, it's a fair thing. Nobody is lying. It's very clear, and the problem depends just on you.
Author:
Erno Rubik
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Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect.
Author:
Francois Rochefoucauld
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I knew when I grew up, I always wanted to be a liar, and if you're in television, you're lying because you're just pretending to be yourself much like I'm doing now.
Author:
John Ritter
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I remember lying on the floor of the living room with headphones on when I was four or five years old, listening to the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack.
Author:
Kevin Richardson
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Lying is done with words and also with silence.
Author:
Adrienne Rich
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98% of the people who get the magazine say they read the cartoons first - and the other 2% are lying.
Author:
David Remnick
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After he was assassinated, his family and the men who had served him continued the lying and began the destruction, censoring and hiding of JFK's medical records.
Author:
Richard Reeves
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For that reason you can't write with music playing, and anyone who says he can is either writing badly, or not listening to the music, or lying. You need to hear what you're writing, and for that you need silence.
Author:
Philip Pullman
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At the end of the first Halloween, when I shot 6 bullets into Michael Myers, John Carpenter said, Let's get a shot of you looking out of the window and seeing no one lying there.
Author:
Donald Pleasence
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The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.
Author:
Plato
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As was to be expected, the discovery of the nervous apparatus of the salivary glands immediately impelled physiologists to seek a similar apparatus in other glands lying deeper in the digestive canal.
Author:
Ivan Pavlov
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Cunning leads to knavery. It is but a step from one to the other, and that very slippery. Only lying makes the difference; add that to cunning, and it is knavery.
Author:
Ovid
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If anybody says their facelift doesn't hurt, they're lying. It was like I'd spent the night with an axe murderer.
Author:
Sharon Osbourne
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The decision that has to be made was whether it was material, whether he knew he was lying under oath, whether he did it willfully. I think that's required of any prosecutor who is charged with an investigation of this.
Author:
Barbara Olson
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There's no point in lying saying I am doing really, really well because I'm not; I'm cult level.
Author:
Gary Numan
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I have like 250 letters that I have to whittle it down to 150. Only then do you have the whole overview of a book. When it was finally edited, at least my take was, everybody's lying. You know?
Author:
Don Novello
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No Man is richer for having his Estate all in Money, Plate, etc. lying by him, but on the contrary, he is for that reason the poorer.
Author:
Dudley North
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My doctor asked me how many golf balls I had hit in my career. I'm lying there in bed calculating somewhere between four and five million golf balls I had hit to do that on my body.
Author:
Greg Norman
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In the morning he was lying dead on one of the beds fully clothed. He was dead. I got the impression he wanted to go, and I must have killed him. I can't remember strangling him. I just sat there shocked.
Author:
Dennis Nilsen
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The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.
Author:
Friedrich Nietzsche
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If you had told me I'd be making 62 tomorrow, I'd say you were lying.
Author:
Aaron Neville
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I don't know about you, but I can tell when someone's lying. They can't look you in the eye - they look you in the bridge of your nose.
Author:
Michael Musto
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The difference is that with fame comes a spotlight, one which has recently made it impossible to ignore the fact that more and more of those folks we place on pedestals aren't even pausing to consider an option other than lying.
Author:
Michael Musto
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The only difference between a dead skunk lying in the road and a dead lawyer lying in the road is that there are skid marks around the skunk.
Author:
Patrick Murray
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I would bend over backward to be back on Grey's. Any day, I'll choose lying in bed with Katherine Heigl looking over me over getting thrown against walls by supernatural persons at 5 in the morning.
Author:
Jeffrey Morgan
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I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
Author:
Michel Montaigne
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I know of no sentence that can induce such immediate and brazen lying as the one that begins, 'Have you read - .'
Author:
Wilson Mizner
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Washington, DC is to lying what Wisconsin is to cheese.
Author:
Dennis Miller
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I'm not too good at lying still in the sun.
Author:
Vince McMahon
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If you're lying, you're lying.
Author:
John Maxwell
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Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.
Author:
Clare Luce
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Politeness is half good manners and half good lying.
Author:
Mary Little
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Politeness is only one half good manners and the other half good lying.
Author:
Mary Little
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A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.
Author:
C. Lewis
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I'd be lying if I said I wasn't angry some days. But I really have worked hard to put a lot of the anger and disappointment in the past.
Author:
Monica Lewinsky
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A degree of lying - you know, white lies - seems to be inherent in all languages and all forms of communication.
Author:
Matthew Lesko
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I will say that the idea of a woman being deceptive came from that original discussion with critics and reporters about if woman could do that kind of thing. Evelyn, herself, grew out of the discussions about how capable women are of deceit and lying and manipulation.
Author:
Neil LaBute
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I have avoided becoming stale by putting a little water on the plate, lying on the plate, and having myself refreshed in a toaster oven for 23 minutes once every month.
Author:
Dean Koontz
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A dead cow or sheep lying in a pasture is recognized as carrion. The same sort of a carcass dressed and hung up in a butcher's stall passes as food.
Author:
John Kellogg
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I was showing early symptoms of becoming a professional baseball man. I was lying to the press.
Author:
Roger Kahn
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True enough, nature has endowed me with a fair measure of patience and composure, yet I should be lying if I told you that, having seen the reporter off on his way to make his deadline, I fell peacefully asleep.
Author:
Leon Jouhaux
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Language is political. That's why you and me, my Brother and Sister, that's why we supposed to choke our natural self into the weird, lying, barbarous, unreal, white speech and writing habits that the schools lay down like holy law.
Author:
June Jordan
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It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.
Author:
Samuel Johnson
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Every nut who kills people has a Bible lying around. If you're looking for violent rape imagery, the Bible's right there in your hotel room. If you just want to look up ways to screw people up, there it is, and you're justified because God told you to.
Author:
Penn Jillette
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When I went off to the army when I was 17 years old, I believed in America and the rights of freedom. But today I believe my government is lying to the American people and that my president, George Bush, is a criminal.
Author:
Jack Herer
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As we look forward to freedom, the shining city on the hill and the best days of America lying ahead, it is the men and women in uniform who protect, defend and make us proud to whom we should look and give thanks every night.
Author:
Robin Hayes
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Lying can never save us from another lie.
Author:
Vaclav Havel
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He steps on stage and draws the sword of rhetoric, and when he is through, someone is lying wounded and thousands of others are either angry or consoled.
Author:
Pete Hamill
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I've never met or spoken to David Lee Roth, yet it's rather ironic that even he's saying Eddie's lying about things. I'm saying he's not telling the truth, yet Eddie insists that the two of us are lying! You be the judge.
Author:
Sammy Hagar
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I'm naturally going to react to that and he'll bring out elements in my musical character that were lying dormant, because I'm relating what he's playing.
Author:
Benny Green
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Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.
Author:
Allen Ginsberg
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Acting is like lying. The art of lying well. I'm paid to tell elaborate lies.
Author:
Mel Gibson
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Euphemism is a euphemism for lying.
Author:
Bobbie Gentry
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I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger.
Author:
Jean Genet
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I take them seriously but I try not to read them. I take them personally, that's why I don't read them. I think people are lying when they say they don't care, that's not true. I take them personally.
Author:
Antoine Fuqua
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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.
Author:
Jonathan Frid
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I also focus on Bush and his administration - who do a lot of lying - and how a right-wing media has allowed them to get away with a lot of stuff that, in a different media environment, they probably wouldn't be able to get away with.
Author:
Al Franken
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I won't tolerate lying.
Author:
Vito Fossella
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And I'd be lying if I told you that as a black man in baseball I hadn't gone through worse times than my teammates.
Author:
Curt Flood
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So people think I'm lying about my age all the time? It's the records that are wrong. I've never told anyone how old I am. The minute they ask me, I say 'That's none of your business.' So that means I've never once lied about my age. Now that's true!
Author:
Calista Flockhart
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When lying, be emphatic and indignant, thus behaving like your children.
Author:
William Feather
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It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.
Author:
Epicurus
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We tell lies, yet it is easy to show that lying is immoral.
Author:
Epictetus
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Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.
Author:
Ralph Emerson
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I looked below and saw my people there, and all were well and happy except one, and he was lying like the dead - and that one was myself.
Author:
Black Elk
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Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?
Author:
George Eliot
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There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.
Author:
Albert Einstein
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Willie Mays was the best ever. When I was in college I once made a catch like the one Mays made over his head. Sometimes when I'm lying in bed at night I think about it. It still makes me warm.
Author:
David Duchovny
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I was painting sets, working in editorial as an assistant, driving their trucks, lying that I knew how to drive a truck, and doing commercials and documentaries.
Author:
Richard Donner
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With any part you play, there is a certain amount of yourself in it. There has to be, otherwise it's just not acting. It's lying.
Author:
Johnny Depp
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Every performer who ever performed in rock and roll or even close to it is lying if they tell you that they weren't influenced in some way or another by Elvis Presley. He turned the world around.
Author:
Mac Davis
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I wish to Christ I could make up a really great lie. Sometimes, after an interview, I say to myself, 'Man, you were so honest - can't you have some fun? Can't you do some really down and dirty lying?' But the puritan in me thinks that if I tell a lie, I'll be punished.
Author:
Willem Dafoe
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I wouldn't abandon nobody. I would be lying if I said I was just talking to everybody.
Author:
Puff Daddy
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There are some good people. But a good chunk of them will lie for no reason at all - it'll be ten o'clock and they'll tell you it's nine. You're looking at the clock and you can't even fathom why they're lying. They just lie because that's what they do.
Author:
John Cusack
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The sexual deviance - I'd be lying if I said I didn't miss that; but we do have hints of it but in a more psychological way and therefore more human way, arguably. Or certainly to the extent that the animated series takes that sexuality.
Author:
Marton Csokas
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Again like Williams, with the emphasis now regrettable, when a man makes a poem, makes it mind you, he takes the words as he finds them lying interrelated about him.
Author:
Robert Creeley
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Propaganda is that branch of the art of lying which consists in nearly deceiving your friends without quite deceiving your enemies.
Author:
F. Cornford
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Lying just for the fun of it is either art or pathology.
Author:
Mason Cooley
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The power of lying is much less than the power of what is not to be discussed.
Author:
Mason Cooley
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Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.
Author:
Samuel Coleridge
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I wanted readers to be genuinely unsure as to whether she's telling the truth or lying. It meant making her partly sympathetic, and partly unsympathetic, which wasn't easy.
Author:
Lee Child
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Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
Author:
Gilbert Chesterton
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With Clinton, there's no question that I would have made fun of his out-and-out lying. But he's also a good friend.
Author:
Chevy Chase
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I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms.
Author:
Giacomo Casanova
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Autobiography is probably the most respectable form of lying.
Author:
Humphrey Carpenter
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If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.
Author:
Dale Carnegie
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All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.
Author:
Thomas Carlyle
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I don't use sex to sell records, obviously, but I'd be lying if I said that I don't feel like I have to make an effort to look good when I go out onstage, to wear something pretty.
Author:
Vanessa Carlton
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I was half asleep lying there writing this lyric in my head at about 3:30 in the morning. I woke Steve up with this idea and then we went into the living room where there was a little upright piano and finished the song. I wonder where that piano is now?
Author:
Jim Capaldi
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Remember that it is not enough to abstain from lying by word of mouth; for the worst lies are often conveyed by a false look, smile, or act.
Author:
Abraham Cahan
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Anyone of my generation who tells you he hasn't 'done Brando' is lying.
Author:
James Caan
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The next morning we saw nothing of the enemy, though we were still lying to.
Author:
John Byng
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The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
Author:
Samuel Butler
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Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.
Author:
Samuel Butler
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So, I'm lying on the couch and Laura walks in and I say, 'Free at last,' and she says 'You're free all right, you're free to do the dishes.' So I say, 'You're talking to the former president, baby,' and she said, 'consider this your new domestic policy agenda.'
Author:
George Bush
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I like, though, that people have a hunger to connect with other people. They're desperate to know that you're not lying to them or misleading them.
Author:
Augusten Burroughs
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The men who made the war were profuse in their praises of the man who kicked the P.M. out of his office and now degrades by his disloyal, dishonest and lying presence the greatest office in the State.
Author:
John Burns
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It was OK for the media to pursue Former President Clinton year after year for lying about a private, consensual sexual affair, but we have five justices who committed one of the biggest crimes in American History, and it ceased to be a big story.
Author:
Vincent Bugliosi
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I'm lying in my bed, blanket is warm, this body will never keep me safe from harm. I still feel your hair, black ribbons of coal. Touch my skin to keep me whole. If only you'd come back to me. To feel you at my side, wouldn't need no Mojo Pin to keep me satisfied.
Author:
Jeff Buckley
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A love for humanity came over me, and watered and fertilised the fields of my inner world which had been lying fallow, and this love of humanity vented itself in a vast compassion.
Author:
Georg Brandes
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You can get through your whole day only around people who will tell you that you're wonderful. But pretty soon they're going to have to be lying about that.
Author:
Lara Boyle
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With attention deficit democracy, I am trying to wake up people to how the combination of mass ignorance, fear mongering by the government, and lying politicians is putting our entire system of government to a death spiral.
Author:
James Bovard
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I do believe sometimes discipline is very important. I'm not just lying around like a lazy cow all the time.
Author:
Bjork
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There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying.
Author:
Josh Billings
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Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.
Author:
Ambrose Bierce
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There's nothing undignified about lying about all day and being waited on by servants, sipping bloody champagne.
Author:
Jeffrey Bernard
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He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest.
Author:
Walter Benjamin
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A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.
Author:
Robert Benchley
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A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
Author:
Robert Benchley
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If it was about lying under oath - we actually know that Clinton certainly was deceptive, as most people would be about their sex lives - but, in fact, he did not lie.
Author:
Paul Begala
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Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying.
Author:
Mikhail Bakunin
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There's a lot of lying and these are people who are incredibly flawed, and not in very sort of empathetic ways, either. Some of the things they do are pretty awful and some of the things they do to each other are pretty awful.
Author:
Will Arnett
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Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.
Author:
Aristotle
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Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.
Author:
Hannah Arendt
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The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide.
Author:
Hannah Arendt
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It's a terrible thing to have to tell your fans, who have waited like Detroit's have, that their team won't win it this year. But it's better than lying to them.
Author:
Sparky Anderson
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Dying is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down.
Author:
Woody Allen
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On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down .
Author:
Woody Allen
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I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort.
Author:
Spiro Agnew
