Quotes About Truth

I completely identify with finding freedom in boundaries. That's why I tend to have more freedom when I write nonfiction over fiction: because I'm running up against actuality and beholden to the truth in a different way.

The music industry is a world of smoke and mirrors: they tell you exactly what they think you want to hear. And they are bare-faced lying. I tend to stay away from that.

I'm shy, and I can hide behind my acting and discover the truth about myself because it's cathartic in that way. But I tend not to read reviews.

I don't tend to lie. If I do, it's a little one. Like, 'I'm only around the corner...' when really I'm 10 minutes away.

Even on the spiritual path, we have things we'll tend to cover up or be in denial about.

I tend to read non-fiction.

I don't have anything to hide but what happens is the media tend to beat up what I say.

I tend to like things that already exist.

When I was a child, I'd see a movie, I took it for what it was, I enjoyed it. And if I believed it I would tend to be more interested in knowing more about it.

We have a tendency to think everyone's idiotic and everyone's only doing something idiotic, and the world is controlled by a not-so-secret group of morons. There's great truth in that, I suppose, but then it's also not true.

I cannot stand dishonesty among people, the tendency to prevaricate.

There is a tendency to seek an objective account of everything before admitting its reality.

When you write a roman a clef, there is a tendency on the part of the reader to wonder how much of this is true, how much invented.

Obviously, in journalism, you're confined to what happens. And the tendency to embellish, to mythologize, it's in us. It makes things more interesting, a closer call. But journalism taught me how to write a sentence that would make someone want to read the next one.

To those who don't want the truth about Kennedy's assassination to become known, the very repetition of a charge lends it a certain credibility, since people have a tendency to believe that where there's smoke, there's fire.

There's a tendency for designers to embellish the size of their business. I never lie.

The premise and promise of Big Data is that there are no stories, only patterns; that the human preference for story is aligned with the human tendency for error; and that only through dislocations in scale - the scale of sample size and of time - will truth emerge.

The media has a tendency of manipulating things to show in their favor.

I am a very honest, open person and I think there is a tendency in celebrity autobiographies to gloss over certain things which have happened.

Our job is to represent the truth of human nature, whether you're playing a tender love story that's set in a coffee shop or whether you're in 'The Avengers,' which is set in a Manhattan which is exploding.

If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart.

The media tends to report rumors, speculations, and projections as facts... How does the media do this? By quoting some 'expert'... you can always find some expert who will say something hopelessly hopeless about anything.

As a journalist, one tends to think there's nothing off limits.

Sometimes when you think something is shiny and gold, it tends to be rusted and bronze, but that's just the way it is, man.