Quotes About Truth

The pressures to get the story first, if wrong, are greater sometimes than the pressures to get the story right, if late.

Contrary to common belief, the presumption of innocence applies only inside a courtroom. It has no applicability elsewhere, although the media do not seem to be aware of this.

I don't live a lie. You have to understand that people who choose not to discuss their personal lives are not living a lie. That is a presumption that people jump to.

I want to challenge the presumption that the world cannot know it is the world unless there is an alternative to the world.

I believe that everybody is entitled to a presumption of innocence.

I'll never pretend to be I'm something I'm not.

We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.

Everyone knows we get paid a lot of money, so why pretend otherwise?

I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means.

We're completely confused about the boundaries between fiction and non-fiction. To me, the moment you compose, you're fictionalising; the moment you remember, you're dreaming. It's ludicrous that we have to pretend that non-fiction has to be real in some absolute sense.

Nobody's perfect, and to try to pretend you're perfect is an exhausting fool's errand.

In drama you can either pretend everything is OK, or you can show the world as it really is in the hope that it gets better.

If I was going to pretend to be the supermom next door, it would've been counterfeit and a lie. I figured I had to write something out of a new place.

Don't pretend to be a journalist if you're not a journalist.

I think it would be shocking for me to pretend not to have any past. And also, it would be a lie.

I love when someone doesn't pretend to be someone they are not.

I wouldn't pretend to tell you we don't pay our lawyers well.

I'm not a journalist, never pretend to be.

You can't really pretend something is rosier than it is and expect people to buy it.

I don't pretend that I can read minds. I don't believe anybody can read minds. In other words, I don't believe in psychics.

Jesus didn't die for us so we could pretend to be something we're not.

Some adults would rather pretend that bad things don't exist than to talk about them.

If you're gonna pretend to be something, then you have to at least live up to what it is.

I'm not a housing market expert, and I don't want to pretend to be one.