Quotes About Integrity

You don't want your credibility banana to turn brown, but you do want to speak out about what you believe in.

We can and must turn this page if we are friends and are prepared to look one another in the eye.

Sometimes songwriting can turn into a gossip column, and I try to avoid that as much as I can.

I have a conscience about my work and try to turn out a good piece of craftsmanship.

There's nothing cure or funny or lovable about being cheap. It's a total turn-off.

I have turned down a lot of money for things that would have made me feel cheesy.

I've never turned my back on country music.

I have turned down a lot of garbage lately.

I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right, on condition of being turned into a sort of clock and would up every morning before I got out of bed, I should instantly close with the offer.

I've turned down projects based on raunchiness before.

I have the same friends I had before I turned a singer or an actor.

There were times I was told, 'You are too gay.' I turned down a lot of things because producers said they wanted me to be different. I said, 'It's not going to happen.'

Being a journalist, you write what you see. If we can't do that, what use are we? I turned years of training on myself.

I lost agents and managers because I turned down big movies that were smutty.

We've turned down multi million dollar films, simply because we liked the film better. We have the luxury to do so - we have projects that make the money, and others that we do for love.

I'm the same Nina Turner, whether I'm on MSNBC or talking to my hometown newspaper or CNN.

I was turning down cigarette campaigns before it became fashionable. I wouldn't let CBS Radio sell 'The Stan Freberg Show' to R.J. Reynolds and American Tobacco, which had sponsored Jack Benny, the man I replaced.

I didn't want to be told what to do. I don't want to water down my music to fit into their formats. I know what rock and roll is to me, but everything's turning into one big commercial.

Before turning pro, I would never have just left my skates sitting in the locker room unattended.

The most successful politicians are the ones who embrace their best traits while turning their liabilities into loveable attributes. And yet, many a candidate tries to run as something they aren't simply because the strategy dictates it.

You don't always have to have a record out. I'm not a sausage factory, you know, turning out records every year.

I did a terrible television pilot that was so badly written and dumb that it became a turning point for me and I decided that I would never accept a job just because I needed the money.

Now there are two or three teams who are very ethical in their outlook who have opened up the economic benefits and that is probably going to be a turning point in the sport.

'Con Air' was kind of a turning point for me, in my mind. I never shot anybody in that movie - I never did anything bad - because there were so many bad guys in that movie. I said, 'The hell with this, I'm just gonna be a lovable guy.' I'm like Steve McQueen in 'The Great Escape.'