Quotes About Authenticity

I'll explain what I just said." She turned to look squarely at Captain Hudson. "I'll have to explain something else, too. I am not Lt. Charlotte Tennyson. I am her clone!

I am learning to forgive my inner geek, and even value him as a free man.

Without the adjustment, you are working under a lie. Everyone knows it and has to hide to protect themselves. This is no way to get good software done and deployed;

Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable; be honest and frank anyway.

Do not fall prey to the false belief that mastery and domination are synonymous with manliness.

If I lived in a big house and had rooms full of different things, if I had big cars and a library full of books, if I had pulled out all the flowers and medicine plants and made a lawn that looked like a rug, people would come to me and ask me about everything because they would say I am a 'good' Indian. All it would mean is that I am an Indian with lots of possessions, just like a white man. That would make me good and important in your eyes. Admit it.

Every once in a while I would have to go to a powwow and put on some feathers so you could believe I was a real Indian. But other than that you would think I was smarter and more important if I lived in a big house and owned lots of things. That's just the way white people are. It's the way you are trained.

You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.

Never buy anything from someone who is out of breath.

Art does not have to be dull, to be effective; the artist does not have to be a bore, to be real.

If you open a book and find that the writer is trying to impress you with his knowledge of long, unusual words or by his use of foreign phrases, close the book quickly with no sense of loss or of deficiency or of having missed anything; for the author has not learned how to write and perhaps never will, and there is no need for you to offer yourself as a sounding board for his incompetence.

Maybe some women aren't meant to be tamed. Maybe they just need to run free until they find someone just as wild to run with them.

After 'Freaks and Geeks ' I dealt with several producers who wanted to cover up all my beauty marks, every single mole on my body. They tried to cover them on my first two episodes of 'Dawson's Creek ' and it just looked ridiculous, so I had to put my foot down. But it's not something I'm insecure about.

Sincerity may be humble but she cannot be servile.

The truth is in the pudding.

Religion that is confined to the sanctuary is worse than no religion at all, for it is false.

I'm not in search of sanctity, sacredness, purity; these things are found after this life, not in this life; but in this life I search to be completely human: to feel, to give, to take, to laugh, to get lost, to be found, to dance, to love and to lust, to be so human.

Destiny is real. And she's not mild-mannered. She will come around and hit you in the face and knock you over and before you know what hit you, you're naked- stripped of everything you thought you knew and everything you thought you didn't know- and there you are! A bloody nose, bruises all over you, and naked. And it's the most beautiful thing.

There are people who are generic. They make generic responses and they expect generic answers. They live inside a box and they think people who don't fit into their box are weird. But I'll tell you what, generic people are the weird people. They are like genetically-manipulated plants growing inside a laboratory, like indistinguishable faces, like droids. Like ignorance.

You will manage to keep a woman in love with you, only for as long as you can keep her in love with the person she becomes when she is with you.

Life is too short to waste any amount of time on wondering what other people think about you. In the first place, if they had better things going on in their lives, they wouldn't have the time to sit around and talk about you. What's important to me is not others' opinions of me, but what's important to me is my opinion of myself.

Many things — such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving unaffectedly — are done worst when we try hardest to do them.

Eros will have naked bodies Friendship naked personalities.

Did I love what I was doing, or did I love myself in doing it?