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Honesty Quotes
"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."
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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."
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"Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made."
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"We must lay before him what is in us not what ought to be in us."
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"Industry, economy, honesty, and kindness form a quartet of virtues that will never be improved upon."
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"Honesty has come to mean the privilege of insulting you to your face without expecting redress."
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"That's a wonderful thing, because one of the primary qualities of a good performance is honesty."
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"The person who is brutally honest enjoys the brutality quite as much as the honesty. Possibly more."
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"I have built my reputation on honesty, I have sometimes been too honest."
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"In all honesty my cake was baking when I met Al - I had made up in my mind already to get physically healthy. He refreshingly was on his own journey so it was almost as if we walked together."
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"If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness."
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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."
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"Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully."
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"He doesn't play the game ... He refuses to lie. Lying is not only saying what isn't true. It is also, in fact especially, saying more than is true and, in the case of the human heart, saying more than one feels. We all do it, every day, to make life simpler. But Meursault, contrary to appearances, doesn't want to make life simpler. He says what he is, he refuses to hide his feelings and society immediately feels threatened."
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"If there is an essence to this wordly life, then it is the basis of honesty [morality]. If you have little wealth but have honesty even then you will attain peace. And if you do not have honesty but lot of wealth even then restlessness will remain within."
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"The most important thing in acting is honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made."
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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."
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"Three simple words - freedom, justice and honesty. These sum up what the Liberal Democrats stand for."
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