Quotes About Authenticity

Truth is the ultimate power. When the truth comes around, all the lies have to run and hide.

I don't rhyme about guns I ain't shot Hoes I ain't caught Or shit I ain't bought.

That's basically the gangster code. Just be yourself. Just be you, dog. The easiest way to get your card plucked around a gangster is to be a fake. If we feel like you're trying too hard, if you're trying to act like you're from the street, you're in trouble.

One thing I learned on New Jack City is that when you're making a movie, the trick is to make it feel real but not be

real. The art of filmmaking is being able to eliminate all the bullshit and repetitiveness of real life for the sake of telling a smooth, clear story.

A lot of times I'd step out of my own zone as Scotty Appleton and tell Wesley or Chris or Judd how shit really would get said in the game. Subtle little things like gestures and looks. Things I lived firsthand, things I witnessed, I was able to add that into the performances.

Some people have something to say. Some people have to say something Avoid the second group.

Before a man can become great, he must look foolish to the crowd.

For me, 'Rent' was all about coming out of myself, finding out who I was, learning the power I could have as a performer.

Inner Knowledge -- You want to become wise in one lesson: First become a real human being.

Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza A fool: A man trying to be honest with the dishonest.

Teach honesty by all means - you do know what it is, don't you?

One lie will keep out forty truths.

Even if false gold makes a man happy: At the mint it will be identified.

Do not think that your magic ring will work if you are not yourself Solomon.

You can perceive a person's aspiration if it is genuine, because this creates a change in the emanations from such a person.

Sufi service has to be the right kind of service; neither servitude nor hypocrisy.

There is something in man which can detect real love. We rub it out, or muffle it, by substitute-love.

Si no puedes reír con frecuencia y autenticidad, no tienes alma.

Rumi himself once said that counterfeit gold is only to be found because there is such a thing as real gold to be copied.

Much religious teaching in the world is in reality a confused or deteriorated form, very different from its roots.

If a Manx cat tells you that it is trying to preserve its long, beautiful tail, you don't have to believe it - especially if you have eyes.

Donde haya una cosa verdadera o útil, con seguridad habrá una falsificación.

Deteriorated science is a cult, so is imitative or deteriorated Sufism.