"The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. "One word of truth outweighs the world."

-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#Truth Quotes #Honesty Quotes #Lying Quotes

“Recognition is one of the three big elements of comedy.”
“Mostly actors are progressive because we are accustomed to all the nuances of human life, whereas dictators just try to flatten it all out. So we usually try to stand up to dictators like, well, we won't mention names.”
“Good grief! They're going to call us inside soon, and Sticky hasn't even met Madge yet!" "Who's Madge?" Sticky asked. "Her Majesty the Queen!”
“The fact is that one of the earliest lessons I learned in business was that balance sheets and income statements are fiction, cash flow is reality.”

Source : John Edgar Wideman, Bonnie TuSmith (1998). “Conversations with John Edgar Wideman”, p.54, Univ. Press of Mississippi
“I think that when you start your own business you have to be very clear on what you're passionate about and what your values are. I was very passionate about travel and I wanted to inspire other people. At the same time, I knew if I was going to start my own business, it was going to have to mirror my values, and I knew I was passionate about the environment and about sustainability.”
“I hold a mouses wit not worth a leke, That hath but on hole for to sterten to.”
“When I see some of the people who are glorified in magazines these days - who are so thin it's bordering on sickness - I just feel exhausted.”

Source : "The Girl of Summer '07". Interview with Laurie Sandell, www.glamour.com. May 31, 2007.
“When I was four I thought everything in TV was just TV, then I was five and Ma unlied about lots of it being pictures of real and Outside being totally real. Now Iâ€™m in Outside but it turns out lots of it isnâ€™t real at all.”

Source : Emma Donoghue (2015). “Room: Picador Classic”, p.194, Pan Macmillan

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