Quotes About Genuine

He who thanks but with the lips. Thanks but in part; the full, the true Thanksgiving. Comes from the heart.

I like the laughter that opens the lips and the heart, shows at the same time the pearls and the soul.

I want friends, not admirers. People who respect me for my character and my deeds, not my flattering smile. The circle around me would be much smaller, but what does that matter, as long as they're sincere?

Perfection is shallow, unreal, and fatally uninteresting.

Some people wanted to get rich or famous, but my friends and I wanted to get real. We wanted to get deep. (Also, I suppose, we wanted to get laid.)

He actually cared. It was an odd friendship- awkward, grown slowly from beginnings of mutual contempt- but it was real nonetheless.

So sure, start with a slogan. But don't bother wasting any time on it if you're merely going for catchy. Aim for true instead.

I want a private life, I truly do. I'm not just pretending to want one like lots of celebrities.

I act according to the requirements of the character, and if I try to play the role, then I play it truthfully. In my daily life, I'm a laid-back, peaceful guy. I'm just doing my job to act.

If you can make something genuine, then the ground is fertile for introducing something new. And that happened a few times in my life where I could sow the seeds and see something grow out of it.

Life is not for show, but for real.

I really like writing from real-life experiences. Audiences seem to prefer the stuff I couldn't have made up.

I think I lead a really real life.

My definition of country music is really pretty simple. It's when someone sings about their life and what they know, from an authentic place.

In real life, I'm always in tracksuits, and I never wear makeup.

I like to do stand-up for people who live real life.

It is more important to me to make art that is an honest expression of my life than it is to make pictures people think are well drawn

The general plot of life is sometimes shaped by the different ways genuine intelligence combines with equally genuine ignorance.

The best way to begin genuine bipartisanship to make America stronger is to work together on the real crises facing our country, not to manufacture an artificial crisis to serve a special interest agenda out of touch with the needs of Americans.

being with you was so easy and natural - there was no strain - I never had to guard my words...

You can't do anything to be funny. That's cringeworthy. If your humor comes out of a place of love every time, you don't make the joke bigger than you. The funniest comedians are in touch with their emotional level.

Affectation is an awkward and forced imitation of what should be genuine and easy, wanting the Beauty that accompanies what is natural.

Home-made, home-made! But aren't we all?

Being ill makes you feel what well people call sentimental, but what you feel is nonetheless genuine whatever they call it.