Quotes About Authenticity

I'm not mean, I'm honest. Nobody is ever straightforward. But sometimes people need to hear the truth.

For people who say they hate being lied to, just start telling them nothing but the pure truth--about everything. That will teach them

Tell the truth through whichever veil comes to hand – but tell it. Resign yourself to the lifelong sadness that comes from never ­being satisfied.

When you showed someone how you felt, it was fresh and honest. When you told someone how you felt, there might be nothing behind the words but habit or expectation.

Integrity is a bugger, it really is. Lying can get you into difficulties, but to really wind up in the crappers try telling nothing but the truth.

the truth will set u free but first it will piss u off

There is nothing so powerful as truth - and often nothing so strange.

I would rather die an individual than live my life as a clone.

If you like someone, you tell the truth because that, to me, is respect. If you hate someone, you tell them the truth because what do you have to lose?

Fake sUCKs!

I play with the fire of my own truth, " she told me, "I will burn for the things I love.

There are only two ways of telling the complete truth--anonymously and posthumously.

Each of us is shaped by the truth of our natures.Von to Silver

The truth doesn't mind being told every once in a while.

I will never compromise Truth for the sake of getting along with people who can only get along when we agree.

I am not cruel —only truthful.

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.

I shall remind myself who I am so I can share that with them, instead of trying to explain why I am not who they think I should be. (Yalia Sagewhisper)

just hope that maybe some people will read about us and see how we weren't manufactured," Watt says, "that we were just three dudes from Pedro and that maybe they could do the same thing themselves.

I just hope that maybe some people will read about us and see how we weren't manufactured," Watt says, "that we were just three dudes from Pedro and that maybe they could do the same thing themselves.

Artistically (and in many other ways), the band was liberated by the fact that they'd never sign to a major label. "In a way, we were cheating because we didn't have that light at the end of the tunnel," Prescott says. "And who knows? We were human—if the light had been there, maybe we would have turned crappy quicker. It's a really hard thing to say. Now I'm glad that it was like it was.

they wouldn't do interviews with magazines they themselves wouldn't read; they would play only all-ages shows and tickets would be $5.

You didn't have to have choruses, you didn't have to have lead guitar solos, you didn't have to have anything," said Watt. The lyrics were basically rants by both Watt and Boon that they dubbed "spiels." "We just say what we say

punk rock could be anything anyone wanted it to be.