Quotes About Truth

Any talk of me engaging in a conspiracy against Pakistan is completely baseless.

What's beautiful is all that counts, pal. That's all that counts.

Whenever you talk about Chinese dragons, emperors, palaces, concubines - they conjure up a whole colonial argle-bargle that has nothing to do with historical reality.

We need to expose the lies and educate the Palestinian public that Israel is not the enemy. Israel actually helps the people of Gaza more than anybody else. We need the average Palestinian to see this clearly.

I read in the paper that I'd slashed my wrists. But I didn't.

Part of my job is to read the paper, watch C-Span and show things that haven't been shown or were buried.

I think a lot about something: Abe Rosenthal was once asked what he wanted on his headstone, and he said he wanted it just to say, 'He kept the paper straight.' And I think about that a lot.

There has been so much rubbish written up in the papers over the years.

I don't believe what the papers are saying They're just out to capture my dime, Exaggerating this, exaggerating that.

I've been so mutilated by a lot of articles. I know I haven't said a lot of things I'm quoted as saying in the papers.

I keep seeing in the papers that I am good friends with Samantha Cameron. I've never met her in my life.

Most of the stuff that parades as drug education in this country is just rubbish with no foundation in evidence.

If the majority of people were right, we'd be living in paradise. But we are not living in paradise, we are living in hell. What does it mean? That means the majority of people are wrong. So I never believed what people told me.

The whole notion of an alternative truth is a paradox. How can you have an alternative to truth?

Reality is contradictory. And it's paradoxical.

I'm really just trying... to write what feels true to me. I don't think about a lofty responsibility. I think I'd be paralyzed by that. Like any of my male colleagues, I'm writing the stories that interest me in a way that feels true to me.

I'm not a paranoid schizophrenic.

I used to think of it as a joke that all paranoids were right. That was a joke in the '60s, but now I'm convinced that people should be paranoid reflexively - and then pare it down from there if there's any indication that they're wrong.

Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.

What we think about Paris is a part of how we feel about it. Our idea of Paris is our idea and we don't know that that's not necessarily the way it really is. It feels so real.

What I want to do with my filmmaking is help kids experience the truth and wisdom of nature no matter where they are, whether or not they have the opportunity to go to a national park.

Don't tell me that Colonel Parker or Brian Epstein didn't tell a little lie from time to time.

Parks said, he's guilty and that's the end of the story.

Parliament must not be told a direct untruth, but it's quite possible to allow them to mislead themselves.