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I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves.
Author:
Norma Jeane - Marilyn Monroe
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If you're going to be two-faced, at least make one of them pretty.
Author:
Norma Jeane - Marilyn Monroe
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Lies run sprints, but the truth runs marathons.
Author:
King of Pop - Michael Jackson
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I'm inspiring like fireworks, that indicate over giant wetlands
Author:
Firework - Katy Perry
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I'm not afraid to be a jerk, but I do it clean, stay labeled 'other limits' for discomfort or extremes.
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Slim Shady - Eminem
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Balancing on the brink of a transient summer night, I remember vividly how audible solace sprouts where diluted aspirations gently die away in calm constructions of tribal gods painted by misleading filaments of spectacle bare mistruths.
Author:
Arkadi Lysakiv
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Wisdom is recognizing that solitude fuels clarity, allowing our thoughts to gold forage truths, immersed in the quiet.
Author:
Hayden Alto
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Honesty is the sunlight that dispels the fog of doubt in our relationships.
Author:
Sarah Windham
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Honesty is the bridge that connects integrity to trust, allowing truth to bear the weight of genuine relationships.
Author:
Emma Clarke
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Honesty is the unwavering backbone of trust; without it, relationships crumble beneath the weight of deception.
Author:
Maria Thornton
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Honesty is the mirror where integrity reflects, illuminating the path to trust.
Author:
Emma Caldwell
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Honesty is the beacon that guides us through the murky waters of human interaction.
Author:
Ava Reynolds
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Honesty is the clear lens through which trust is built and relationships thrive.
Author:
Emma Reynolds
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Honesty is the brush that paints integrity upon the canvas of life.
Author:
Clara Reid
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Just because I'm nice doesn't mean I won't tell you what's on my mind!
Author:
Ellen DeGeneres
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In a world where you can be anything, be kind, be silly, be honest.
Author:
Jennifer Nettles
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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise; seek what they sought.
Author:
Matsuo Basho
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True strength is found in vulnerability, where honesty and imperfections shine brightly.
Author:
Emily Smith
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Embrace the power of vulnerability, for it is in our moments of raw honesty that true strength is born.
Author:
Sophia Johnson
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Speak your truth even if your voice shakes.
Author:
Maya Angelou
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Integrity is the bridge that connects honesty with character.
Author:
Sophia King
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Success is not defined by the applause of the crowd, but by the whispers of your own conscience.
Author:
Jack McCoy
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Sometimes the greatest act of courage is to be honest with yourself, even when the world expects you to play a different role.
Author:
Megan Smith
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Success is not defined by the accolades you receive, but by the integrity you uphold.
Author:
Rachel White
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Authenticity is not just about being true to yourself, but also being true to others.
Author:
Maya Angelou
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True strength is not in how well you hide your weaknesses, but in how openly you embrace them.
Author:
Amy Poehler
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It's not about being perfect, it's about being real.
Author:
Carrie Fisher
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Stand firmly in your truth, even if the world tries to sway you with its lies.
Author:
Maya Angelou
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A life lived with honesty and integrity is a masterpiece painted with the colors of truth.
Author:
John Doe
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The most valuable currency in life is not money, but trust; it is earned through honesty and integrity.
Author:
Michelle Obama
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Do not let fear dictate your choices, for it is better to fail with integrity than to succeed with deceit.
Author:
Cassandra Clare
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Life is too short to be anything but honest with yourself and others.
Author:
Maya Angelou
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To choose authenticity in a world full of illusions is a triumph of the true self.
Author:
Elizabeth Blackwell
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Do not be afraid to speak your truth, for in doing so, you shine a light for others to do the same.
Author:
Brene Brown
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The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.
Author:
Zig Ziglar
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Achievements on the golf course are not what matters, decency and honesty are what matter.
Author:
Tiger Woods
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The important things are children, honesty, integrity and faith.
Author:
Andy Williams
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Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.
Author:
Richard Whately
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I've done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.
Author:
Jessamyn West
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Honesty is never seen sitting astride the fence.
Author:
Lemuel Washburn
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I feel honesty always works.
Author:
Bobby Unser
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Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus goodness is attained. Be honest to those who are honest, and be also honest to those who are not honest. Thus honesty is attained.
Author:
Lao Tzu
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Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.
Author:
Mark Twain
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I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
Author:
Anthony Trollope
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It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man's interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.
Author:
Anthony Trollope
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Good design begins with honesty, asks tough questions, comes from collaboration and from trusting your intuition.
Author:
Freeman Thomas
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I think the number one thing that I find important is the importance of honesty with your friends and your parents, if you can be. But I think that telling people how you really feel, being who you truly are, being safe and taking care of yourself is the most important thing.
Author:
Emma Stone
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It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.
Author:
John Steinbeck
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Honesty is as much saying everything as it is saying what is true.
Author:
Richard Snelling
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But I love honesty, and, therefore; do I make great account of facts.
Author:
Gerrit Smith
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I am a very conscientious golfer. I count every stroke. I learned to play that way. That is the only way I can play. It taught me to be honest. There is no greater virtue than honesty.
Author:
Martin Sheen
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I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.
Author:
George Shaw
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No legacy is so rich as honesty.
Author:
William Shakespeare
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Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any honesty in him.
Author:
William Shakespeare
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If you write songs and if you write music that's very sincere and very honest, it's pop music, but it is pop music with a lot of honesty and a lot of heart.
Author:
Jon Secada
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With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.
Author:
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Irony is just honesty with the volume cranked up.
Author:
George Saunders
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Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty.
Author:
Sallust
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They envy the distinction I have won; let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it.
Author:
Sallust
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I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.
Author:
Bertrand Russell
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To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.
Author:
John Ruskin
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And so it's inescapable and people who proclaim scrupulous honesty can only proclaim that if they don't examine closely the things they believe.
Author:
Todd Rundgren
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Confidence... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.
Author:
Franklin Roosevelt
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Honesty is the cruelest game of all, because not only can you hurt someone - and hurt them to the bone - you can feel self-righteous about it at the same time.
Author:
Dave Ronk
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Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.
Author:
Adrienne Rich
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Almost any difficulty will move in the face of honesty. When I am honest I never feel stupid. And when I am honest I am automatically humble.
Author:
Hugh Prather
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The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.
Author:
Plutarch
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Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.
Author:
Plato
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A friend to honesty and a foe to crime.
Author:
Allan Pinkerton
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Especially when you deal with comedy, you have got to be really honest because it's the honesty and the spontaneity that causes people to chuckle, that catches people.
Author:
Austin Peck
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Let your actions speak louder than your words, for integrity is built on the foundations of honesty and consistency.
Author:
Grace White
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The first question at that time in poetry was simply the question of honesty, of sincerity.
Author:
George Oppen
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Industry, economy, honesty, and kindness form a quartet of virtues that will never be improved upon.
Author:
James Oliver
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The person who is brutally honest enjoys the brutality quite as much as the honesty. Possibly more.
Author:
Richard Needham
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I always like to reveal the fact that the emperor has no clothes. And children are best at that. They teach us how to see the world in that sense. They are without artifice; they see it for what it is. I am drawn to that ruthless honesty.
Author:
Mira Nair
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I think it requires a bit of honesty, Swan Lake.
Author:
Graeme Murphy
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You frighten a lot of scientists. If they say that climate is not changing, they lose their research grants. And some people cannot afford that; they become silent, or a few of us speak up, because we think that it's for the honesty of science, that we have to do it.
Author:
Nils-Axel Morner
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Intellectual honesty is the quality that the public in free countries always has expected of historians; much more than that it does not expect, nor often get.
Author:
Samuel Morison
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Anything well written with good language and clarity and honesty is worth doing. It comes out of the same tradition as Shakespeare.
Author:
Michael Moriarty
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Philip Larkin has a tough honesty and sense of humor that I find irresistible, as a contemporary poet.
Author:
Robert Morgan
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Men are as we have always known them, neither better nor worse from the hearts of rogues there springs a latent honesty, from the depths of honest men there emerges a brutish appetite - a thirst for extermination, a desire for blood.
Author:
Frederica Montseny
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Confidence in others' honesty is no light testimony of one's own integrity.
Author:
Michel Montaigne
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That inner voice has both gentleness and clarity. So to get to authenticity, you really keep going down to the bone, to the honesty, and the inevitability of something.
Author:
Meredith Monk
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Honesty is the most single most important factor having a direct bearing on the final success of an individual, corporation, or product.
Author:
Ed McMahon
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In my time, we served with noble and ethical leaders: Gerry Ford, Bob Michael, John Rhodes, men of impeccable honesty. We didn't have anybody locked up for a violation of ethics.
Author:
Pete McCloskey
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Both politicians and journalists face situations which strain their honesty and humanity. My opinion is that politicians on the average stand up somewhat better than journalists.
Author:
John McCarthy
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As a governor and senator, John Chafee set the standard for honesty and decency that the rest of us on our best days could only dream to emulate.
Author:
John McCain
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Honesty has come to mean the privilege of insulting you to your face without expecting redress.
Author:
Judith Martin
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A child, from the time he can think, should think about all he sees, should suffer for all who cannot live with honesty, should work so that all men can be honest, and should be honest himself.
Author:
Jose Marti
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Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.
Author:
Don Marquis
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He that loseth his honesty hath nothing else to lose.
Author:
John Lyly
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A sarcastic person has a superiority complex that can be cured only by the honesty of humility.
Author:
Lawrence Lovasik
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Coming out is a means of redefining oneself, of claiming membership in a lifestyle and a social order with distinct values. Chief among these values is honesty.
Author:
Lance Loud
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Washington's entire honesty of mind and his fearless look into the face of all facts are qualities which can never go out of fashion and which we should all do well to imitate.
Author:
Henry Lodge
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The trite saying that honesty is the best policy has met with the just criticism that honesty is not policy. The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy.
Author:
Robert Lee
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Sexuality is a big issue, but there are others - how much you commit to a relationship, to social obligation, to honesty and being honest with yourself.
Author:
Ang Lee
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All pro sports, as well as the NCAA, should thank God every day we have sports betting here... We have the only agency in the world that regulates the honesty of games.
Author:
Meyer Lansky
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I'm a firm believer in absolute honesty.
Author:
Frank Langella
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I think there's a form of honesty, because I used to be very honest with the press, and then it backfired on me, and I understood it.
Author:
Shia LaBeouf
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I think all those artists are artists who are appreciated because you believe their words and you appreciate their honesty in their music. If you don't appreciate the honesty in the music, the beat can be fly as hell but you'll never give an emcee props.
Author:
Talib Kweli
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Acting is all about truth and honesty, and the sensitivity that's capable of transporting you.
Author:
Thomas Kretschmann
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All stories should have some honesty and truth in them, otherwise you're just playing about.
Author:
Nigel Kneale
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And, because there was an honesty about all that was going on. It connected with the people in the street.
Author:
Ben King
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Three simple words - freedom, justice and honesty. These sum up what the Liberal Democrats stand for.
Author:
Charles Kennedy
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There's a place for all types of country music as long as there is honesty and realness and a real human experience for the fans.
Author:
Wynonna Judd
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Not really in all honesty because until you take control of your own health and go to your own doctor and have your own doctor tell you what's going to work for you.
Author:
Star Jones
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He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
Author:
Samuel Johnson
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Authenticity is not just about being true to yourself, but also being honest with the world around you.
Author:
Maya Angelou
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Honesty is something you can't wear out.
Author:
Waylon Jennings
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Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
Author:
Thomas Jefferson
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Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not.
Author:
Dean Inge
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Honesty will never break you.
Author:
Kate Hudson
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Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.
Author:
Kin Hubbard
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If money, education, and honesty will not bring to me as much privilege, as much equality as they bring to any American citizen, then they are to me a curse, and not a blessing.
Author:
John Hope
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Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.
Author:
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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I just don't think that I could be the kind of actor I want to be and not be honest with myself. Honesty is very important to me as an actor and as a person. I didn't even think about it.
Author:
Randy Harrison
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The high road is always respected. Honesty and integrity are always rewarded.
Author:
Scott Hamilton
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Surely the President can agree with us, that theft from government is not good. I know it's bold. It's out on the edge. I know from a Chicago-Springfield background it's hard to fully grasp that honesty could be part of government.
Author:
Newt Gingrich
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It was a department where you had honesty and integrity stamped right on you when you came into the Los Angeles Police Department. If you violated that, or if you were a dishonest cop, you were terrible. We got rid of you as quickly as possible.
Author:
Daryl Gates
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I like honesty and fair play.
Author:
Marcus Garvey
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Honesty is the best policy.
Author:
Benjamin Franklin
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I believe honesty comes across in music because for people that music isn't just something to dance to. For people for whom music is something that they feel, they understand what I'm talking about.
Author:
Willa Ford
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In all my public and private acts as your president, I expect to follow my instincts of openness and candor with full confidence that honesty is always the best policy in the end.
Author:
Gerald Ford
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That's a wonderful thing, because one of the primary qualities of a good performance is honesty.
Author:
Roberta Flack
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I believe fundamental honesty is the keystone of business.
Author:
Harvey Firestone
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Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favor.
Author:
Henry Fielding
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Honesty is all you need.
Author:
Cass Elliot
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There is indeed a inherently honesty to it.
Author:
Ben Edwards
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When I do documentaries, my best information ends up on the cutting-room floor. People have trouble dealing with sexual honesty.
Author:
Betty Dodson
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I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.
Author:
Charles Dickens
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Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
Author:
Salvador Dali
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It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
Author:
Noel Coward
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It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
Author:
Noel Coward
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Party honesty is party expediency.
Author:
Grover Cleveland
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The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.
Author:
Arthur Clarke
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Concentration is my motto - first honesty, then industry, then concentration.
Author:
Andrew Carnegie
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Living in Washington, you can't take politics too seriously. I draw the line at honesty. I have no time for political hacks who say things they don't believe because they get paid to.
Author:
Tucker Carlson
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Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
Author:
George Burns
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The most important thing in acting is honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
Author:
George Burns
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The main thing in acting is honesty, to feel the humanity and get to the essence of the character. You can't put anything into a character that you haven't got within you.
Author:
Genevieve Bujold
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The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.
Author:
Merry Browne
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I'd much rather have the honesty than not. Because if you will say what's on your mind and get it off your chest, then the sooner I can prove you wrong!
Author:
Garth Brooks
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There are quite a few honest songwriters out there writing about relationships and their own personality traits. But for some reason, once they step out of the bedroom, their honesty doesn't seem to come with them.
Author:
Billy Bragg
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More by example than by word, my father taught me logical reasoning, compassion, love of others, honesty, and discipline applied with understanding.
Author:
Paul Boyer
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I have built my reputation on honesty, I have sometimes been too honest.
Author:
David Blunkett
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Honesty does not always bring a response of love, but it is absolutely essential to it.
Author:
Ray Blanton
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TV is a major force in our lives - a FORCE. It must be handled very carefully, both its censure and its artistic honesty.
Author:
Bill Bixby
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Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.
Author:
Josh Billings
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Honesty is very sexy.
Author:
Valerie Bertinelli
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In LA I was watching At the Movies with Ebert and Roper, it was, nice to see them differentiate between the subject matter and the art form of making the film, and they both gave it thumbs up, and I was kind of pleased at their honesty as far as reviewers go.
Author:
Michael Berryman
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Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity.
Author:
Stephen Benet
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An autobiography is not about pictures; it's about the stories; it's about honesty and as much truth as you can tell without coming too close to other people's privacy.
Author:
Boris Becker
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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.
Author:
Charles Baudelaire
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In all honesty, at that time, I never saw myself as an author... I was just a Mom in a state of panic, trying to enter a short story contest to win the prize money in order to keep the lights on in my home.
Author:
Leslie Banks
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The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty.
Author:
Abu Bakr
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Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.
Author:
Richard Bach
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Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
Author:
Mary Ash
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All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.
Author:
John Adams
