Quotes About Honesty

If a player hears me make a statement, I don't want them to be able to deny it.

As anchorman of the CBS Evening News, I signed off my nightly broadcasts for nearly two decades with a simple statement: 'And that's the way it is.' To me, that encapsulates the newsman's highest ideal: to report the facts as he sees them, without regard for the consequences or controversy that may ensue.

I do admit there have been times when I have made a statement that was incorrect.

I'll say, what makes me happy about making movies is, every once in a while through movies we find a kind of honesty. There's an honesty in fiction that's as effective or even more powerful than the honesty of our lives. We can find something that's genuinely true, like a chemistry between people or a statement that speaks to an audience.

If you're making a statement just to poke, people can see that. If you're making it to say something genuinely, people can understand that as well. They are smart enough to see the difference.

I have never claimed to do the right kind of things and make politically correct statements.

When there are falsehoods and ludicrous statements made at briefings, we've got to call that out.

More Democrats should be speaking without vetting their statements through their staff because it will feel realer.

I don't think I'm making any great statements, and I certainly don't think I'm making art.

I'm against people reading statements. When you read statement, I automatically take it as though you can't talk, and it's not real.

I don't try to sugarcoat things, but I also think my books make positive statements about the people and values in small-town America.

I don't make grandiose, prophetic statements in my songs.

I treat people and I deal with my fighters and I deal with the fans like a real person. I don't come out and read canned statements written by our lawyers.

I just believe in speaking truth and probably that is why leaders are scared of my statements.

My statements and actions are pretty clear.

That statesman is indeed happy who can count as his friends the really honest and consistent, the true Patriots, and the men of honorable thought.

I have never hidden my marital status.

I had to come to terms about becoming an addict, which, for a long time, I lied to myself about the status of until I couldn't lie any more, 'cause I was either going to die or get better.

Legitimate small businesses are put at a huge competitive disadvantage when bad actors lie about their small business status and don't play by the rules.

I think you owe it to yourself and you owe it to your status as an artist to be true to who you are.

Wrong is wrong. Guys try to find a way to get the ball to reverse, but you have to stay in the laws.

Loving people does not require you to stay silent when you see something that merits being called out.

If you stay true to your ideas, film-making becomes an inside-out, honest kind of process.

The show is just basically a mirror of our lives, and the goal was to stay true to that.