Quotes About Truth

I'm not saying that the gas chambers didn't exist. I couldn't see them myself.

You might say that my work is just simply lying on the ground, and I go and I gather it, and I pick it up, and I put it together.

I'm not an adulterer. I'm not gay.

I'm just going to say I'm not gay. I really, really like women. That's all I can really say about that.

If you ask anyone who is gay, they know, there is no confusion.

Discovering I'm gay just sort of happened much later in life.

Finding out that I was gay when I was older was a shock and a disappointment.

No one knows my gender more than I do. You do not know my gender better than I do. A doctor doesn't know it better than I do. My parents don't know it better than I do. No one experiences my gender in the way that I experience it.

I think the days of the climate deniers are over. To deny basic science is to risk the trust of the general public.

It took us a long time to find out that we had been lied to by our parents' generation. The moralities that were followed during our parents' generation were basically arbitrary. This caused a rift between the two generations, which was brought on by the beatniks.

The genuine truth, and I do think about this a lot, is that I'm one of the least competitive people you'll ever meet. Except with myself.

I think when you're telling a story from inside of you that's genuine, people connect with it.

I think, a lot of times, people think they know what they want, but what they really want is something that's genuine.

I try to be as genuine and authentic as possible.

Children, like animals, and believe me, that's a compliment in my world, feel the difference. They know where the truth lies. They can feel it in a minute if someone is genuine.

I think being genuine, and being authentic, is a big part of leadership.

I really don't act. I just live what George and I are doing. It has to make some sort of sense to me, or it won't ring true. No matter what the script says, there's no audience and no footlights and no camera for me. There's no make-believe. It's for real.

When I went off to the army when I was 17 years old, I believed in America and the rights of freedom. But today I believe my government is lying to the American people and that my president, George Bush, is a criminal.

I talk about things that happened in my life. Now, do I embellish? Absolutely. Come on, we all do it. It makes for a better story. But it always comes from a germ of truth.

You know, I wanted to get married, and so I - but I, you know, I realize no matter what you want, it's kind of a fantasy.

I can't get married. I can't fake sleep for 30 years.

When a man is wrong and won't admit it, he always gets angry.

People believe that forensics these days is the answer to everything and because we believe so ardently that forensics can lead us to the criminal we're also a bit nonplussed when someone gets in there and manipulates forensics to their advantage.

If you take a lie and allow your desire for the truth, you'll end up with some truth - not fact, but something that gets you closer to the truth. That's what we want. When we go to a play, we need to be assured that the experience we're having.