Quotes About Transparency

If someone looks genuinely interested and asks me a deeply personal question, I'll give the answer. I'm too open.

George W. Bush always said and did what he believed and he let it rip.

I'm not eloping. When I get married, everyone will know.

I think with my book, I wanted to first of all just be completely involved in it. I wanted to write it; I didn't want a ghost writer. I wanted to be honest about everything.

If you look like a ghost, you feel like a ghost.

Giving up something personal to the public, you are surrendering something.

They don't know they're living in a glass house.

Why are we tiptoeing on glass? You can ask me whatever you like; people usually do, and I try to be as honest as I can.

You're basically like glass: People see the candidates through you.

Festering political problems do not go away simply because they are kept in a dark corner.

I am pretty much as you see me. I don't have deep, dark depths and go home in despair.

I'm the Godfather of Boxing. Everything is out in the open with me. What you see is what you get.

We all live in a televised goldfish bowl.

When you read reviews on Yelp, you get a good sense of what's going to happen when you walk in the door of that business. The challenge is that there are fifteen million businesses in the U.S., and its very hard to communicate with all of them about how Yelp works, and why it works the way it does.

I don't think secrets are a good thing. I think they are a cancer of the soul. So I decided to come out.

The truth is a good thing.

People say what they think online because it's not to your face. That's a good thing. You don't really want people just being nice to you with their opinions.

Laura n'a jamais dissimulé ni différé le moindre de ses sentiments. Si Laura aime quelqu'un, elle l'embrasse, si Laura boit, elle est ivre, et elle le dit, si elle s'emmerde, elle quitte la table au milieu du repas, en disant qu'elle s'emmerde, et si elle veut tuer quelqu'un, elle le tue. Et elle le tue elle-même, et elle dit pourquoi!

You use your real voice with those you love, and you cannot be phony with those who know you well.

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Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.

He wants to be known deep down, abysmally deep down, before he is capable of being loved at all; he dares to let himself be fathomed. He feels that his beloved is fully in his possession only when she no longer deceives herself about him, when she loves him just as much for his devilry and hidden insatiability as for his graciousness, patience, and spirituality.

Honest things, like honest men, do not have to explain themselves so openly. What must first be proved is worth little.

Silence is worse; all truths that are kept silent become poisonous.