Quotes About Truth

I've read in various media stories that my dad and I had demanded guarantees of playing time or that we didn't want to play at Florida. Nothing could be further from the truth. It was the exact opposite. We went in there and specifically said we weren't looking for guarantees.

However, the word madda in modern Hebrew specifically means science.

There's just been so much, you know, blatant lies about me, specifically when it comes to questions of Nazism and racism.

When you do a really good play, the audience and the performers are looking into the same looking glass, the same microscope. And the specimen they are looking at is human life and that's why I do it, that's why I like it.

To abandon facts is to abandon freedom. If nothing is true, then all is spectacle.

Born with blue spectacles, you would think the world was blue and never be conscious of the existence of the distorting glass.

I have my opinions about the way my father was. But they are my opinions, not necessarily the truth, and they are certainly not the whole spectrum of what this man was going through. It's my young, selfish interpretation of that person.

The papers feed the public interest but then the public interest demands more in the press and speculation can look like fact.

Speculation replaces fact. It's very easy to see news outlets running with information that is unconfirmed or erroneous.

There is speculation that I was arrested in Pakistan, but that's not true.

He knew the lie of silence to be as evil as the lie of speech.

We have no blasphemy laws these days but with that freedom comes the responsibility which should always attend the exercise of free speech: truth, courtesy and an awareness of impact. It is the last of these which is so neglected by so much modern comedy.

We have freedom of speech, and anybody's idea can't be a fact.

For the liespotter who knows how to listen well, the random words, sounds, and phrases in a person's speech are never as random as they seem. They offer a clear sightline into the liar's psyche.

One of the jobs of comedy is to expose hypocrisy. When you look at countries like Iran or North Korea that don't have freedom of speech, we who do should push it as far as we need to.

Protected free speech has boundaries, and one boundary is fraud.

Everything Bernie Sanders says in his speeches is based on facts and is about empowering people, not making them angry.

Poetry, just because it is poetry, doesn't mean it is some kind of magic spell.

What I felt was, if you spend your life just writing fiction, you are going to falsify your material. And the fictional form was going to force you to do things with the material, to dramatize it in a certain way. I thought nonfiction gave one a chance to explore the world, the other world, the world that one didn't know fully.

Hiding spending does not reduce spending.

I found out I'd spent my whole life believing things that weren't necessarily accurate. My sisters' memories of certain events are entirely different from mine.

All I can say is anybody who's spent most of his life living a lie is not somebody I admire.

If anybody says their facelift doesn't hurt, they're lying. It was like I'd spent the night with an axe murderer.

As someone who has spent a lot of her career as an investigative reporter, I'll confess that a frustration of mine has always been that so much investigative journalism involves a dissection of events in the past.