Quotes About Truth

The thing about a failure is that it is possible to deny it forever.

You can't deny the truth. And that's what makes smart comedy so good.

The one curse in America is that we deny who we really are and what we like.

I come from money. I'm not going to deny that.

I am not denying anything I did not say.

Who wouldn't be depressed living in a society that can't agree on reality, let alone health-care policy?

Writing my first book, 'Beautiful,' was the time that I was able to write the truth of it - that I was despairing at times, that I got depressed and felt like I couldn't cope. Writing became about being honest.

There is no satisfaction to be derived from having had many of our arguments borne out by events.

1 + 1 = 2. Everything else is derived.

I already know what things look like - I don't want description. People believe in appearances, and I don't believe in appearances at all.

If you're doing something wrong, you deserve to be caught.

I only scream if screaming is deserved.

I have not been true to my values and the behavior my family deserves.

I will never see myself as a businessman. I'm a designer. I have to be true to what I believe.

I've convinced myself - I hope I'm right - that children despair of you if you don't tell them the truth.

It blows my mind when I actually consider that men are as human as I am. How can you possibly be as human and have all of the thoughts and feelings that I have and never be able to talk about it, ever? Guys are in desperate need of truth telling. They are in desperate need of a revolution.

People are always trying to be on top. And not always with a macabre agenda, but I think that people are desperately trying to remain in control, rather than being honest.

Character is destiny.

Political commercials encourage the deceptive, the destructive and the degrading.

I think the most destructive thing is fear: when people don't want to say what they think.

Fans don't lie. They just tell you what they really think, and they see details that even people in fashion don't.

But the problem is that you cannot just admit to something you haven't done; you need to deliver the details, which you can't when you haven't done anything. It's not just, Yes, I did!' No, it doesn't work that way: you have to make up a complete story that makes sense to the dumbest dummies.

It's hard to determine where lies culpability.

I detest people who lie. I can't stand it.