"That's the one for my tombstone... Here lies David Byrne. Why the big suit?"

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"That's the one for my tombstone... Here lies David Byrne. Why the big suit?"

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"Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie."

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian Philosopher

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"There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie."

Aeschylus, Greek Poet

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"When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine."

Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish Writer

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"Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance."

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

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"I made over forty Westerns. I used to lie awake nights trying to think up new ways of getting on and off a horse."

William Wyler, American Director

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"As, however, the port in reality lies in thirty-two degrees thirty-four minutes, according to the observations that have been made, they went much beyond it, thus making the voyage much longer than was necessary."

Junipero Serra, Spanish Clergyman

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"I would rather do what I did than crawl in front of a ritualistic Left and lie the way those other comrades did betray my own soul."

Elia Kazan, American Director

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"One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie."

Pierre Corneille, French Dramatist

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"When you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas."

Jean Harlow, American Actress

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"I don't like guys who will lie down and take it. I want someone who'll fight back. I like people who can argue well."

Sandra Bullock, American Actress

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