"Never tell a lie when you can bullshit your way through it"

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Source : Eric Ambler (2012). “This Gun for Hire”, p.21, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

Eric Ambler

#Lying Quotes #Bullshit Quotes #Way Quotes

“When it comes to the health of our families, Barack refused to listen to all those folks who told him to leave health reform for another day, another president. He didn't care whether it was the easy thing to do politically - that's not how he was raised - he cared that it was the right thing to do.”
“The party line is that stocks historically have outperformed all other investment plans.”
“It's always been hard to be gay in Washington.”
“You will hear people say the C-word. Except, it's a regional language: in British English, c - t has much less of an inflammatory sense than it does in North American English. You can hear someone on British TV called "a c - ting monkey" or a man being called a c - t. The particular fascination of profanity is how culturally specific it is and how it evolves.”

Source : Source: www.macleans.ca
“Actors have a different kind of existence because they blow up over night into superstars in their early 20s. Let's say you were a superstar in your early 20s and somebody gave you millions of dollars, I mean come on. Let's be honest here, we don't know anything in our 20s.”
“Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them. There is almost no kind of outrage-torture, imprisonment without trial, assassination, the bombing of civilians-which does not change its moral color when it is committed by 'our' side. The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.”
“When I play, what I see are people who mean something to me, both positively and negatively. It's my private life, in a way, what I see, and this is what I share.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I'm not geeky but I have my geeky, corky moments, and then I've got some aspects of cool in me, I guess.”

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