Quotes About Truth

I work with the people in the piazza, where there is reality. Here in Parliament, often there is a mystification of reality. They are not representatives of the people. They represent themselves and their own interests.

I believe that an artist working for and representing the Kingdom of God should do the best of their ability to show and prove the depth, life, newness, creativity, truth and excitement of their Heavenly Father through the work that is set before them.

Everybody was apprehensive about a documentary. When we're all dead and gone, we don't want to leave something that is not going to be representing the band in a true and honest way that shows everything that's important.

The reality is, when you're representing someone that's guilty, you're in the position of taking that position.

Good journalism, I think, represents life and if you try to organize something too neatly it usually blows up in your face and doesn't really happen the way you want it to.

However, I need to make music that represents my inner truth and inner voice. I've found myself more able to do that within an international space that has an Indianness at its root but branches out to encompass sounds and cultures across borders.

Being gay is a fundamental part of my being - the core of who I've always been, and the thing that I had repressed and run from all my life.

Repressed English writers have to write love stories because they can't say what they really mean.

I don't like denial. I don't like repression.

I believe that the 'believe all women' vision of feminism unintentionally fetishizes women. Women are no longer human and flawed. They are Truth personified. They are above reproach.

The very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction. The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced. The hyper real.

Now one of two things is true: Either a republic is a desirable form of government, or else it is not.

What bothers me the most are the Republicans and the Democrats: they act like little kids. They are lying to real people out here trying to get through life.

We have to expose Republicans for the frauds that they are when it comes to what they want to do for working men and women.

Anyone who says the Republicans have been irresponsible aren't looking at the facts.

I hope 'Bamboozled' will serve as a roadmap that will assist Republicans in reaching out to women, black and Latinos. I believe once minority groups open their eyes and are not afraid to see truth, they will choose the party of Lincoln.

I'm no hardened criminal who the authorities need to hunt.

Anyone who says they're not afraid at the time of a hurricane is either a fool or a liar, or a little bit of both.

We keep secrets from people that we love because we're afraid of our own truth. I think sometimes we're afraid to hurt people, because you never know. I think we're afraid of what is, and what can't be.

I always find the worst lies are told in relationships - I learned to never lie about your happiness in order to save someone's feelings from being hurt.

I know for me, personally, when something is being said about me that isn't true, it's extremely hurtful and frustrating.

I'm never concerned about my beliefs hurting me in any way. I'd rather lose a job than have to lie.

Don't compromise even if it hurts to be yourself.

Sometimes it hurts to hear the truth, but you need it.