Quotes About Genuineness

When I write nonfiction, it's always absolutely true. There will be no moment in my nonfiction where I have made something up and have to apologize to the bullying hostess of a talk show.

I would do another talk show if it was the way that I wanted to do it. Like, you can't tell me what we're talking about, and I want to hear real stuff.

As far as the creative process goes, I always make sure that anything that gets discussed or talked about in the record is true to form. I make it a point not to sing anything that I haven't felt or gone through.

I'm not a good small talker. I'm not into small talk, frankly.

If you hang around political talkers or strategists much, you're likely to hear a lot about authenticity. This is supposed to be the golden currency which we all look for in our leaders.

If you're not talking about the truth, I don't even want you around me.

I love talking to people, hearing people's stories; I love honest things.

I would say that if you don't feel like talking to the crowd something is wrong and if you force yourself to talk to them things will happen and to that extent things aren't choreographed.

The last thing I want to become is one of those talking heads where everything is satiny smooth and you know what the next question is going to be.

My mom is just authentically herself all the time. She loves herself. She loves her sense of humor. She brings people in when she talks. She brings people in when she laughs. Watching her, I think that that's when I first learned and was encouraged to be myself and to sort of love and live in that way.

God, what is man's best gift to mankind? To be beautiful of soul and then let people see into your soul.

Superficiality is the curse of our age.

Stop trying to impress people with your clothes and impress them with your life.

My strong point is not rhetoric, it isn't showmanship, it isn't big promises-those things that create the glamour and the excitement that people call charisma and warmth.

Their life is a lie. I would rather live an honest life than an admired lie.

Yes, emotions may be authentic, and authenticity is a modern virtue, but one can be authentic without being unnecessarily revealing.

Remember what Anatole France said about the dog masturbating on your leg--'Sure, it's honest, but who needs it?

Lo que puede parecer un atrevimiento, para Dios es autenticidad. Dios escucha las palabras apasionadas de sus amigos; se aburre con los clichés reverentes y previsibles. Si quieres ser amigo de Dios, debes ser sincero con él, comunicarle lo que de verdad sientes, no lo que piensas que deberías sentir o decir.

Don't try to sound cool. Guys do that all the time, and I'm telling you it's a complete turnoff, okay? Just be you. You're cute; live with it. But don't try to sound like James Bond or something, because you're not. - Summer Sumner

Be honest about your joy.

Nós não somos tão lúcidos quanto fingimos ser.

Anything more than the truth would be too much.

This being-nice crap was for the birds.

There is no form to this story because it is true, or at least as close to true as I have been able to make it.