Quotes About Authenticity

The soldier must say Yes when he thinks Yes. But when many say Yes and think No, when they feel forced to say Yes, though they think No, or when they say Yes for the sake of their careers, their own comfort or self-interest while their consciences tell them No, the point has been reached where true soldiering dies out altogether. And not only soldiering. This is death's great triumph. For when conscience dies, mankind dies with it.

The face he showed in Jesus is really his true and single face.

With everyone else, you put up this facade so you can hide the crud and make them like you. But with real friends, you show them the crud-and that makes them care. When we get rid of the facade, we connect more.

Replicas never have the ghosts. They're bodies without souls.

Billy Joel was on the radio, singing, "I love you just the way you are." Big talk, Myron mused, when you've been married to Christie Brinkley.

She looks really happy. Everyone looks happy on Facebook. I know, right? What's up with that?

Everyone looks happy," he'd said to Corinne. "Oh, not you too." "What?" "Everyone looks happy on Facebook," Corinne said. "It's like a compilation of your life's greatest hits.

There was an awkwardness to him, a stoicism that most people, with their need for appearances and fake smiles, found off-putting. Shane couldn't handle small talk or the excess bullshittery of modern society. When

Myron likes to say that even the ugliest truth is better than the prettiest of lies.

Cat fish? A cat fish is a person who pretends to be someone thay're not online, especially in romantic relationships. Her voice was flat, matter-of-fact. She needed that now. She needed to spout facts and figures and definitions and not feel a damn thing. Someone took your pictures and created an online profile for you and put it on a singles site. Two women who fell for the catfish-you are missing.

They asked for my name. I was tempted to go with either I. P. Daily or Wink Martindale, but I stuck with Mark Kadison because he was a friend of mine and if they called, he'd just laugh.

The ugly truth was better than the fanciful lie.

I didn't say it was. I said everyone looks happy. That was kinda my point. If you judge the world by Facebook, you wonder why so many people take Prozac." Corinne

Why do we insist that there can only be one "us," one life that makes us up in our entirety? Why can't we have more than one identity? And why do we have to destroy one life in order to create another? We claim to long for the "well rounded," the Renaissance man or woman inside all of us, yet our only variety is cosmetic. In reality we do all we can to smother that spirit out, to make us conform, to define us as one thing and one thing only.

The ugliest truth is still better than the prettiest of lies.

Truth is truth. By definition. Anything else is a lie.

But I know my truth.

In order to be totally spontaneous, you can't be too obsessed with accuracy, but if you're inaccurate in a drawing, it will look fake, and when you act, it will sound fake. You have to find miraculously some proper balance between the two, but there's no formula.

I know, because I tried all sorts of ways of being in character, and the best way is to be totally straight.

People who are friends with me and who know me, know a side of me that is totally not cold.

You've got your Justins who have all the back flipping dancers and stuff, and then you've got Lemar, and he totally moves you without having to do all of that, and he's gorgeous.

Did people think I sounded black? Totally, but that was a marketing tool as well, but also this is how I grew up and these are my influences.

Sometimes you feel more naked when you're totally dressed than the other way around.

I remind myself to stay down to earth so I can keep in touch with my audience.