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Lie Quotes
"Usually, about 85 percent of what the tabloids report is a lie. Over the last year, I can truly say it has been 99 percent."
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"A soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for a still longer period."
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"Where there is a worker, there lies a nation."
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"I have a punishing workout regimen. Every day I do 3 minutes on a treadmill, then I lie down, drink a glass of vodka and smoke a cigarette."
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"Brazil has rediscovered itself, and this rediscovery is being expressed in its people's enthusiasm and their desire to mobilize to face the huge problems that lie ahead of us."
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"When I feel like exercising I just lie down until the feeling goes away."
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"In Hollywood people lie to each other and cheat each other and then go and play tennis. But I don't want to be a tennis player."
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"Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances."
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"These newspaper reporters... ever since Sullivan versus New York Times... have got a license to lie."
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"The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what it was, nor forward to what it might be, but living in the present and accepting it as it is now."
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"Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion."
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"Even as fog continues to lie in the valleys, so does ancient sin cling to the low places, the depressions in the world consciousness."
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"It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation."
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"Immortality: A toy which people cry for, And on their knees apply for, Dispute, contend and lie for, And if allowed Would be right proud Eternally to die for."
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"The lark that shuns on lofty boughs to build, Her humble nest, lies silent in the field."
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"When you hear in the tape recordings Nixon's own voice saying, We have to stonewall, We have to lie to the Grand Jury, We have to pay burglars a million dollars, it's all too clear the horror of what went on."
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"So I think what you see in this show is it's really not a just world at all, but you get what you give. So in terms of world view, I would say that's where the differences lie."
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"But I know newspapers. They have the first amendment and they can tell any lie knowing it's a lie and they're protected if the person's famous or it's a company."
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"That's the one for my tombstone... Here lies David Byrne. Why the big suit?"
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"Opportunity ideas do not lie around waiting to be discovered. Such ideas need to be produced."
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"All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies."
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"A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, rapture possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie."
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"But the important thing is to lie down and fall asleep. That little nap means you wake up fresh again and can continue."
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"I believe that our national security lies not just in protecting our borders, but in bridging divides."
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"Although this crisis in some ways started in the United States, it is a global crisis. We bear a substantial share of the responsibility for what has happened, but factors that made the crisis so acute and so difficult to contain lie in a broader set of global forces that built up in the years before the start of our current troubles."
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"With new jobs, new ideas, and growing confidence that our brightest days lie ahead, Wisconsin is on the move."
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"Will they attack us? Yes. Will they smear our backgrounds and distort our records? Undoubtedly. Will they lie about us, harass our families, namecall to try to intimidate us? They will. There's nothing safe about it. But is it worth it? Well, let me ask you. Is freedom worth it? Is America worth it?"
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