Lie Quotes
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“A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.”
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“Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.”
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“A lie told often enough becomes the truth.”
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“Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.”
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“A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.”
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“The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.”
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“Half a truth is often a great lie.”
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“We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.”
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“For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth.”
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“On the plains of hesitation lie the blackened bones of countless millions who at the dawn of victory lay down to rest, and in resting died.”
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“There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.”
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“By a lie, a man… annihilates his dignity as a man.”
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“Numbers don't lie. Women lie, men lie, but numbers don't lie.”
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“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
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“Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you.”
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“Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.”
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“Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.”
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“People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.”
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“Fiction is the truth inside the lie.”
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“To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.”
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“Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he'd lie just to keep his hand in.”
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“You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.”
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“Don't run if you can walk. Don't walk if you can stand. Don't stand if you can sit. Don't sit if you can lie down.”
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“If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.”
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“I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.”
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“Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.”
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“The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.”
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“Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death.”
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“I'll never tell a lie. I'll never make a misleading statement. I'll never betray the confidence that any of you had in me. And I'll never avoid a controversial issue.”
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“Someone who lies about the little things will lie about the big things too.”
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“The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.”
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“A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.”
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“The beginnings and ends of shadow lie between the light and darkness and may be infinitely diminished and infinitely increased. Shadow is the means by which bodies display their form. The forms of bodies could not be understood in detail but for shadow.”
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“The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.”
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“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.”
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“An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded.”
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“Justice and judgment lie often a world apart.”
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“All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.”
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“There's only two people in your life you should lie to… the police and your girlfriend.”
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“Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people.”
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“Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.”
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“I pefer an ugly truth to a pretty lie. If someone is telling me the truth that is when I will give my heart.”
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“Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.”
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“There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.”
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“In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.”
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“Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie: a fault which needs it most, grows two thereby.”
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“The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become.”
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“If it is a crime to love the South, its cause and its President, then I am a criminal. I would rather lie down in this prison and die than leave it owing allegiance to a government such as yours.”
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“Men are liars. We'll lie about lying if we have to. I'm an algebra liar. I figure two good lies make a positive.”
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“A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.”
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“To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.”
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“The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.”
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“Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.”
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“The main difference between a cat and a lie is that a cat only has nine lives.”
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“People can choose between the sweet lie or the bitter truth. I say the bitter truth, but many people don't want to hear it.”
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“You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.”
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“Summer is the annual permission slip to be lazy. To do nothing and have it count for something. To lie in the grass and count the stars. To sit on a branch and study the clouds.”
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“The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word 'love'. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.”
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“Multiculturalism leads to parallel societies and therefore remains a 'life lie.'”
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“The oblique paradox of propaganda is that the lie in the throat becomes, by repetition, the truth in the heart.”
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“The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.”
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“The biggest lie about getting older is that excitement and growth end with youth.”
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“We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.”
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“An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.”
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“Most people don't care if you're telling them the truth or if you're telling them a lie, as long as they're entertained by it. You find that out really fast.”
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“My mother taught me that when you stand in the truth and someone tells a lie about you, don't fight it.”
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“A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings.”
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“A lie never lives to be old.”
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“An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie and intrigue for the benefit of his country.”
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“I lie, I cheat, and I steal.”
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“Sometimes the point isn't to make people believe a lie - it's to make people fear the liar.”
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“It's when you begin to lie to yourself in a poem in order to simply make a poem, that you fail.”
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“The moment the alarm goes off is the first test; it sets the tone for the rest of the day. The test is not a complex one: when the alarm goes off, do you get up out of bed, or do you lie there in comfort and fall back to sleep? If you have the discipline to get out of bed, you win - you pass the test.”
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“Sometimes you have to lie. One often has to distort a thing to catch its true spirit.”
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“The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces.”
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“A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt dangerous.”
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“Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.”
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“Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath. Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important. Just lie down.”
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“I can't say why people lie; they just do. Everyone has their own reasons for not telling the truth.”
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“Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.”
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“Animals don't lie. Animals don't criticize. If animals have moody days, they handle them better than humans do.”
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“Never lie, never cheat, never steal.”
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“I have a punishing workout regimen. Every day I do 3 minutes on a treadmill, then I lie down, drink a glass of vodka and smoke a cigarette.”
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“I'm not going to lie, I believe that aliens are already here.”
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“If we went by the world's definition of who I'm supposed to be because I look weird… 'Well, surely, this guy can't have a productive life, surely, he doesn't have a sense of humor. Surely, he can't love life.' We stereotype people in this world. And so… if the world thinks you're not good enough, it's a lie, you know. Get a second opinion.”
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“I seek truth over a lie; I seek justice over injustice; I seek righteousness over the rewards of evildoers, and I love Allah more than I love the state.”
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“The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.”
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“Gamble, cheat, lie, and steal. Let me explain: Gamble for your best shot in life - dare to take risks. Cheat those who would have you be less than you are. Lie in the arms of those you love. And finally, steal every moment of happiness.”
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“It's a complete lie, why do people buy these papers? It's not the truth I'm here to say. You know, don't judge a person, do not pass judgement, unless you have talked to them one on one. I don't care what the story is, do not judge them because it is a lie.”
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“Camera lies all the time. It's all it does is lie, because when you choose this moment instead of this moment, when you… the moment you've made a choice, you're lying about something larger. 'Lying' is an ugly word. I don't mean lying. But any artist picks and chooses what they want to paint or write about or say. Photographers are the same.”
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“When you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas.”
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“I can't even lie: Sometimes, I be antisocial.”
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“Do you know who the real hypocrite is? It's the federal government and the Justice Department. It's a fraud; it's a lie. They have no interest in the education of black children. They are only interested in the politics of it.”
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“No one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone's eyes.”
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“The camera cannot lie, but it can be an accessory to untruth.”
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“Why lie? I'm not going to be a hypocrite and say the opposite of what I think, like some others do.”
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“There are not two sides to a story when one side is a lie. Journalists - and the rest of us - must stop giving equal time to things that don't have an opposing side.”
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“The girls and women of our race must not be afraid to take hold of business endeavor and, by patient industry, close economy, determined effort and close application to business, wring success out of a number of business opportunities that lie at their very doors.”
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“Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying.”
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“You don't have to live a lie. Living a lie will mess you up. It will send you into depression. It will warp your values.”
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“Sometimes I lie awake at night, and ask, 'Where have I gone wrong?' Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night.'”
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“Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn.”
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“One of Satan's most deceptive and powerful ways of defeating us is to get us to believe a lie. And the biggest lie is that there are no consequences to our own doing. Satan will give you whatever you ask for if it will lead you where he ultimately wants you.”
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“Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different.”
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“Whenever I see a mirror, I just look at myself, or when I see my own reflection, I quickly take a look; I won't lie about that. But when I am in front of the camera, it's just the character, not me.”
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“Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.”
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“I never lie. I believe everything I say, so it's not a lie.”
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“Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.”
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“A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention, by false speaking, to deceive and injure your neighbour.”
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“Don't lie about anything, ever. Lying leads to Hell.”
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“Ali's got a left, Ali's got a right - when he knocks you down, you'll sleep for the night; and when you lie on the floor and the ref counts to ten, hope and pray that you never meet me again.”
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“When I was 16, I got 'Jamon, Jamon.' Of course, I had to lie about my age. And I had to lie to my parents about the content of the script.”
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“It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goals to reach.”
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“Without the compassionate understanding of the fear and trepidation that lie behind courageous speech, we are bound only to our arrogance.”
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“Biographies, as generally written, are not only misleading but false… In most instances, they commemorate a lie and cheat posterity out of the truth.”
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“Seeing is no longer believing. The very notion of truth has been put into crisis. In a world bloated with images, we are finally learning that photographs do indeed lie.”
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“The capacities by which we can gain insights into higher worlds lie dormant within each one of us.”
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“Trump is unloved in his own house. A figure of ridicule, a theatrical creation, he is almost sympathetic. He was told by the greedy and the outright stupid that he would make a swell president. The Liar's Paradox has spun out of control, with liars lying to a liar who believed the lie. What would that be called? Fox News, I think.”
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“I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms.”
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“Men lie, women lie, numbers don't.”
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“I ain't gonna lie: I love that cheese.”
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“Tradition has it that whenever a group of people has tasted the lovely fruits of wealth, security, and prestige, it begins to find it more comfortable to believe in the obvious lie and accept that it alone is entitled to privilege.”
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“The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon.”
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“He who has the fastest golf cart never has a bad lie.”
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“I'm not going to lie; listen, I'm nice at basketball.”
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“My dad once told me, he was like, 'The only time you should lie is when someone's holding a gun to your head and says 'Okay, lie or I'm going to shoot you.' And that really stuck with me.”
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“New Day rocks. I can't lie.”
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“In politics, a lie unanswered becomes truth within 24 hours.”
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“Art is a deception that creates real emotions - a lie that creates a truth. And when you give yourself over to that deception, it becomes magic.”
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“I'm not going to lie. I am a psycho. Luckily, I get most of it out on stage.”
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“The solutions to Africa's problems lie in Africa, not in Live Aid concerts.”
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“Every edit is a lie.”
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“We must take positions. Our weakness in the West is born of the fact of so-called 'objectivity.' Objectivity does not exist - it cannot exist!… The word is a hypocrisy which is sustained by the lie that the truth stays in the middle. No, sir: Sometimes truth stays on one side only.”
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“Abortion and racism are evil twins, born of the same lie. Where racism now hides its face in public, abortion is accomplishing the goals of which racism only once dreamed. Together, abortionists are destroying humanity at large and the black community in particular.”
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“Eyes lie if you ever look into them for the character of the person.”
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“Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.”
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“The immense cities lie basking on the beaches of the continent like whales that have taken to the land.”
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“Keep a watch also on the faults of the patients, which often make them lie about the taking of things prescribed.”
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“The great spirals… apparently lie outside our stellar system.”
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“Poesy must not be drawn by the ears: it must be gently led, or rather, it must lead, which was partly the cause that made the ancient learned affirm it was a divine, and no human skill, since all other knowledges lie ready for any that have strength of wit; a poet no industry can make, if his own genius be not carried into it.”
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“If you want to rip the heart out of a democracy, you go after the facts. That's what modern authoritarians do. You lie. All the time. Then, you say it's your opponents and the journalists who lie.”
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“Tact: to lie about others as you would have them lie about you.”
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“Stories lie deep in our souls. Stories lie so deep at the bottom of our hearts that they can bring people together on the deepest level. When I write a novel, I go into such depths.”
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“True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.”
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“'Tis not where we lie, but whence we fell; the loss of heaven's the greatest pain in hell.”
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“Nothing fools you better than the lie you tell yourself.”
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“Don't disrespect me, lie about it, and then come smile in my face and act like nothing's wrong.”
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“Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.”
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“It seems strange that bears, so fond of all sorts of flesh, running the risks of guns and fires and poison, should never attack men except in defense of their young. How easily and safely a bear could pick us up as we lie asleep! Only wolves and tigers seem to have learned to hunt man for food, and perhaps sharks and crocodiles.”
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“People are so docile right now. It is almost as if good government means when the politicians lie to us for our own good, for the public good, and bad government is when politicians lie for their own selfish interests.”
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“Picasso said, 'Art is a lie that tells the truth.' What if you just want to tell the truth and not lie about it?”
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“I know where my priorities lie.”
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“The claim that Israel seeks to annihilate the Palestinians is simply a lie. Israel seeks to stop rocket attacks and tunnel invasions, and as long as Hamas is dedicated to those actions, they can expect a forceful Israeli reaction.”
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“You can't live a lie. You have to follow your heart.”
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“I partly know why I have not led a perfect life like other believers. But I avow to my Lord, and I do not lie, that from the time when I first knew him, the love of God and the fear of him has grown in me from my youth so that I have, by the power of God, always till now kept the faith.”
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“The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet - when they do meet, their victims lie strewn all round.”
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“When you learn that a truth is a lie, anger follows.”
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“Even as fog continues to lie in the valleys, so does ancient sin cling to the low places, the depressions in the world consciousness.”
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“If your stomach disputes you, lie down and pacify it with cool thoughts.”
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“Mime is an art beyond words. It is the art of the essential. And you cannot lie. You have to show the truth.”
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“A fundamental lesson on being fired: Never lie about it. People will know what you're saying is a cover-up for how you really feel - embarrassed, discouraged, and afraid.”
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“When I was a youth, to be called 'African' was a diss. At school, the African kids used to lie and say they were Jamaican. So when I first came in the game, and I'm saying lyrics like, 'I make Nigerians proud of their tribal scars/ My bars make you push up your chest like bras,' that was a big deal for me.”
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“I know a girl who cries when she practices violin because each note sounds so pure it just cuts into her, and then the melody comes pouring out her eyes. Now, to me, everything else just sounds like a lie.”
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“And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade.”
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“The remedy for speech that is false is speech that is true. This is the ordinary course in a free society. The response to the unreasoned is the rational; to the uninformed, the enlightened; to the straight-out lie, the simple truth.”
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“See, I believe that it is not true that different races and nations are alike. I'm profoundly convinced that that's a total lie. I think people are different. Sardinians, for example, have stubby little fingers. Bosnians have short necks.”
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“There is a beauty in nature and culture that we no longer have access to. Those things you can't forget, you embroider… The further you tell, the further you travel from truth, which means, of course, that literature is a lie.”
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“You can't lie down in the ashes of another person's life.”
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“We tell lies when we are afraid… afraid of what we don't know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger.”
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“My whole life has been a lie.”
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“I like to say that the greatest handicap of deafness does not lie in the ear, it lies in the mind. I hope that through my example, such as my role on 'The West Wing,' I can help change attitudes on deafness and prove we can really do everything… except hear.”
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“Look, all administrations, all governments lie, all officials lie and nothing they say is to be believed. That's a pretty good rule.”
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“When you look at yourself in a mirror, do you like what you see, or do you judge your body and use the word to tell yourself lies? If you believe that you are not attractive enough, then you believe a lie, and you are using the word against yourself, against the truth.”
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“It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.”
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“Women lie about their age; men lie about their income.”
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“If you can lie, you can act, and if you can lie to crazy girlfriends, you can act under pressure.”
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“Mother believed that I should have an enormous amount of sleep, and so I was never really tired when I went to bed. This was the best time of day, when I could lie in the vague twilight, drifting off to sleep, making up dreams inside my head the way they should go.”
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“Washington couldn't tell a lie, Nixon couldn't tell the truth, and Reagan couldn't tell the difference.”
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“New York is something awful, something monstrous. I like to walk the streets, lost, but I recognize that New York is the world's greatest lie. New York is Senegal with machines.”
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“It's often been observed that the first casualty of war is the truth. But that's a lie, too, in its way. The reality is that, for most wars to begin, the truth has to have been sacrificed a long time in advance.”
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“Not gonna lie - having a personal glam squad is pretty amazing.”
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“Sanity is a cozy lie.”
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“There is no god, so how can I consider myself a god? God is the greatest lie invented by man.”
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“When I feel like exercising I just lie down until the feeling goes away.”
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“I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it - but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.”
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“I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.”
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“Now, today is the day we honor, of course, the Presidents, ranging from George Washington, who couldn't tell a lie, to George Bush, who couldn't tell the truth, to Bill Clinton, who couldn't tell the difference.”
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“All true happiness, pure joy, sweet bounties, and untroubled pleasure lie in knowledge of God and love of God; they cannot exist without them.”
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“The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.”
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“The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.”
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“Whenever I wake up, I'm up. I don't lie there like an idiot. I get up, run up a hill, get some exercise, and have some time with my thoughts.”
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“That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not.”
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“When it comes down to that moment, when it's me against you, you know in your head whether you worked hard enough. You can try to lie to yourself. You can try to tell yourself that you put in the time. But you know - and so do I.”
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“When you lie down with a short prayer, commit yourself into the hands of your Creator; and when you have done so, trust Him with yourself, as you must do when you are dying.”
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“These newspaper reporters… ever since Sullivan versus New York Times… have got a license to lie.”
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“Since it is impossible to know what's really happening, we Peruvians lie, invent, dream and take refuge in illusion. Because of these strange circumstances, Peruvian life, a life in which so few actually do read, has become literary.”
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“People who lie to themselves about investing are the same as overweight people who blame their genes for their obesity.”
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“I have always appreciated designers who dare to reinterpret fabrics and proportions, so I follow the Japanese and Belgian designers. The pieces are so animated. When they lie still, they are one thing, but once you stand them up or wear them, they become something else.”
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“Truth is seldom appreciated and never understood, whereas a flattering lie is always appreciated and instantly understood.”
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“There is no easy path leading out of life, and few easy ones that lie within it.”
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“To make me believe that those men who have regulated education in our country have humanity in their hearts is to make me believe a lie.”
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“Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.”
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“The true Resurrection is based not on the mythical lie of the guilty victim who deserves to die, but on the rectification of that lie, which comes from the true God and which reopens channels of communication mankind itself had closed through self-imprisonment in its own violent cultures.”
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“When I am angry, I pray God to swing our globe into the fiery sun and prevent the sorrows of the not-yet-born: but when I am content, I want to lie forever in the shade, till I become a shade myself.”
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“There's something outrageously funny about the bold-faced lying that's going on, in a general way. Just the blatant denial of facts, whether it's climate change or crowd sizes. Every day, there's another blatant lie. I think there's comedy in there somewhere.”
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“As you submit to God more and more, you will get accustomed to being nourished by the power of truth. He is so holy that He cannot lie. God reveals His truth to His people through the Holy Spirit.”
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“A man who will not lie to a woman has very little consideration for her feelings.”
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“Every time you go to a new team, every time, it's like going to a new job. You have to go to your coworkers and tell them your story. 'Hey, are you married? Do you have kids?' I got tired of telling a lie. I really got tired of that.”
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“Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.”
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“While photographs may not lie, liars may photograph.”
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“The lie is a condition of life.”
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“How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.”
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“Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument. The memories which lie within us are not carved in stone; not only do they tend to become erased as the years go by, but often they change, or even increase by incorporating extraneous features.”
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“Difficult years lie ahead, patience is required.”
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“If you go to the supermarket and buy a package of food and look at the photo on the front, the food never looks like that inside, does it? That is a fundamental lie we are sold every day.”
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“I do understand that America is a predominantly Christian country. A lot of morals and values are based in Christianity as opposed to Buddhism, which it's not, or Judaism, which it's not, or Islam, which it's definitely not. So I'm not going to lie to myself and just be like, 'Well you know, everybody's equal.' Because we're not.”
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“It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.”
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“Economy does not lie in sparing money, but in spending it wisely.”
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“The difference in golf and government is that in golf you can't improve your lie.”
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“I used to lie in bed in my flat and imagine what would happen if there was a zombie attack.”
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“Feelings don't lie.”
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“In 'Casino,' there was this scene where Bob De Niro tape-records Sharon Stone's phone call. Then he asks her about where she's going, and he catches her in a lie. It was a great scene, especially for Bob's work, but we found that, in light of the whole film, it wasn't needed.”
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“People with water-borne diseases occupy more than 50% of hospital beds across the world. Does the answer lie in building more hospitals? Really, what is needed is to give them clean water.”
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“Perhaps the great American Republic, whose interests lie in the Pacific and who has no hand in the spoliation of Africa, may someday dream of foreign possession.”
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“Special counsel Robert Mueller, investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election, provided ample evidence that the president should be investigated for obstruction of justice in his attempt to quell the Russia investigation by firing Comey and urging aides to lie.”
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“The law condemns and punishes only actions within certain definite and narrow limits; it thereby justifies, in a way, all similar actions that lie outside those limits.”
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“Everybody say I give them Pac vibes. I ain't gonna lie: I ain't really grow up on Pac, but I kinda see it - just off everything I do, though.”
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“When I started, I knew I didn't fit any visual that anyone was going to lie down and take their clothes off about. Work doesn't come to me; I go out and look for it.”
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“Little white lies are part of everyday life. If you're in court being charged with a felony, you're probably going to be tempted to lie. Or if your girlfriend asks you if the sweater she is wearing makes her look fat; you're going to lie because you love that person. There are different reasons and justifications to lie; it's human nature.”
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“I Don't Miss You' is me trying to lie to myself about my feelings - how I distract myself from them, how I compartmentalize them, and how I ultimately lose to them.”
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“The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth.”
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“Similarly, only people as misanthropic as myself can be counted on not to have to lie to others, since we have the unique luxury of not caring what sort of opinions others formulate about us.”
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“Thank God I have the seeing eye, that is to say, as I lie in bed I can walk step by step on the fells and rough land seeing every stone and flower and patch of bog and cotton pass where my old legs will never take me again.”
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“The greatest impediments to changes in our traditional roles seem to lie not in the visible world of conscious intent, but in the murky realm of the unconscious mind.”
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“Pakistan's future viability, stability and security lie in empowering its people and building political institutions. My goal is to prove that the fundamental battle for the hearts and minds of a generation can be accomplished only under democracy.”
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“The only way to cover up a lie? Keep lying.”
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“Vietnam was a lie but at least there was a political agenda. It was the domino theory. Iraq is about nothing but George Bush's ego laced with imperialist ambitions. And it was helped by your government.”
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“Governments are supposed to lie to their citizens.”
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“All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.”
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“What is faithfulness, anyway? Can you be unfaithful to your own feelings and faithful to someone else? Is it faithful to lie in bed night after night with someone you love but no longer desire while ardently dreaming of someone else?”
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“We Indians are Latin America's moral reserve. We act according to a universal law that consists of three basic principles: do not steal, do not lie and do not be idle.”
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“Rude people will now & then ask me why I think I know so much about Politics. I tell them it's because I'm Smart… But that is a lie: The real reason is because I'm an incurable Gambling addict.”
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“And if that isn't the truth, it would be a lie.”
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“For me, the facts in anything are always secondary. You don't lie convincingly with the truth. You lie convincingly with being a good liar.”
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“I can deal with imperfection, but I can't deal with people who lie to themselves and lie to the world to make the world feel better.”
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“Christian values were important at home. Cleanliness. Don't steal. Don't lie. Those were the rules, and they were strictly enforced. Especially the stealing and lying. When you broke the rules, you got a beating. I always broke the rules a lot.”
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“There's good and bad everywhere in any aspect in life. The only people who we can't really trust are politicians. Because those guys lie to everybody and constantly.”
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“The first lie of fiction is that the author gives some order to the chaos of life: chronological order, or whatever order the author chooses.”
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“If I was going to pretend to be the supermom next door, it would've been counterfeit and a lie. I figured I had to write something out of a new place.”
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“My evidence that I am saved does not lie in the fact that I preach, or that I do this or that. All my hope lies in this: that Jesus Christ came to save sinners. I am a sinner, I trust Him, then He came to save me, and I am saved.”
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“I have no wish for a second husband. I had enough of the first. I like to have my own way to lie down mistress, and get up master.”
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“I can take any truth; just don't lie to me.”
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“You don't lie to your own doctor. You don't lie to your own attorney, and you don't lie to your employees.”
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“I grew up as a Mormon, and that had more of an impact on my values than my beliefs. I'm afraid I will always feel the weight of a lie. I'm very hard on myself anyway. Religious guilt carries over too. You can't really misbehave without feeling badly about it. At least, I can't.”
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“The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea.”
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“If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.”
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“You learn that the only way to get rock-star power as a girl is to be a groupie and bare your breasts and get chosen for the night. We learn that the only way to get anywhere is through men. And it's a lie.”
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“I've got to take a break, to be honest. I'm not even going to lie.”
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“Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.”
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“We have to see that the human person needs the infinite. If God's not there, if the infinite isn't available, the human person creates its own paradises, giving the appearance of 'infinitude' that can only be a lie.”
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“It's always been a lie that it's difficult to make films.”
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“Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.”
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“A lie cannot live.”
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“British culture loves the image of itself in the mirror; it doesn't want to look deep inside, behind the eyes, inside the brain, inside where those shivers and nightmares lie.”
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“You shall not steal, nor deal falsely, nor lie to one another.”
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“I am a lie who always speaks the truth.”
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“Well, sometimes you need the fields to lie fallow in order to gain nutrients.”
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“Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.”
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“I know what I do and what it means to me and where its sources lie, and that's mine. It still is mine.”
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“Ball don't lie!”
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“There's a difference between a rumor and a lie.”
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“Fiction is a lie that is told in the service of truth.”
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“The ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently as in their source; and this is what we call God.”
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“A major focus of 'Reality Hunger' is appropriation and plagiarism and what these terms mean. I can hardly treat the topic deeply without engaging in it. That would be like writing a book about lying and not being permitted to lie in it.”
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“Speak the truth. People will forgive an honest mistake; they won't forgive you if you lie.”
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“What I've discovered is that in art, as in music, there's a lot of truth-and then there's a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It's the moment that the audience falls in love.”
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“We have to ask ourselves, 'What kind of world is it where a baby-food executive substitutes artificial flavoring and sugar for apple juice? What kind of businesses have we created when we even lie to infants?'”
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“I remember doing the sex scene in Red Rock West. I had to kiss Nic Cage and then look like I was going down on him. And he couldn't do anything - he just had to lie there.”
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“Mother's Day celebrates a huge lie about the value of women: that mothers are superior beings, that they have done more with their lives and chosen a more difficult path.”
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“It would be a lie if I say I never imagined what G-Dragon oppa would've been like if he was a girl. I want to keep the title of 'Female GD.'”
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“I don't like being lied to, so I only lie about the stupid things. White lies, basically.”
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“You know, there's a big lie in this business. The lie is that it's okay to go out in flames. But that doesn't do anybody much good. I may be wrong, but I think Hendrix was trying to come around.”
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“Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.”
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“Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.”
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“The power of literature does not lie in resonance with the particular but the way that the particular speaks to a broader, more universal truth.”
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“A liar often smiles subtly while telling a lie; it's an unconscious expression of his delight in getting away with a whopper.”
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“The greatest lie that was ever told is that I'm some sort of rightwinger.”
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“But every single damn thing matters! Only we don't realize. We just tell ourselves that art runs on one track and life, our lives, on another, and we don't realize that's a lie.”
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“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.”
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“It's important that you don't lie to yourself. If you lie to yourself, you end up with burnout.”
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“As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.”
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“One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.”
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“Sometimes, I have to beat myself first in order to beat the other guy. And that sucks. I'm not gonna lie. But that's me.”
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“I reject the idea of work-life balance. The phrase is a bald-faced lie, designed to hang over the human psyche like the Sword of Damocles, because balance presumes an even distribution of weight, of value. But anyone who has ever lived understands that no set of tips or tricks can create a lifestyle equilibrium.”
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“When you deliberately distort and selectively present the truth, you lie.”
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“There are a lot of people who lie and get away with it, and that's just a fact.”
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“I made over forty Westerns. I used to lie awake nights trying to think up new ways of getting on and off a horse.”
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“I should learn the language of a politician - give away as little and keep the rest to yourself. Not lie, I just want to be more guarded.”
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“The danger is not lest the soul should doubt whether there is any bread, but lest, by a lie, it should persuade itself that it is not hungry.”
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“The burdens of generations of poverty and powerlessness lie heavy in the fields of America. If we fail, there are those who will see violence as the shortcut to change.”
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“I work for the British people. I do not gather intelligence so the government can lie to the British people.”
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“The rule of law and the independence of the judiciary underpin our democracy and lie at the heart of our way of life. They are the very cornerstone of our freedoms.”
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“Japan has very long hospital stays. Ah, it's almost a rest cure. People in Japan who are hospitalized might lie around the hospital for a week or two just to take a rest.”
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“I got a feeling about political correctness. I hate it. It causes us to lie silently instead of saying what we think.”
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“I spent a lot of years on the road, and what happens is you find out who your real friends are and you find out where your strengths and weaknesses lie in communication. I've had the same friends for 20 years now and I can count them on one hand.”
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“To be honest, I really can't lie on the beach for more than an hour.”
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“Stand up for your rights and be brave, and don't be intimidated. Read your Bible. That's really given me strength, and it will give you strength. Pray, and use God's name, Jehovah. And never tell a lie, ever.”
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“Opportunity ideas do not lie around waiting to be discovered. Such ideas need to be produced.”
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“Nobody can honestly say that they never lie.”
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“I'll tell you something that's completely true - you can, as a man, obtain everything you want with the truth. If you lie, first of all you've got to be a very good lying actor, which is tres difficile. And it's going to give you poison inside the body.”
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“All truth is simple… is that not doubly a lie?”
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“I don't really lie about anything, I have to be honest. I like to live with the truth.”
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“Most poets are young simply because they have not been caught up. Show me an old poet, and I'll show you, more often than not, either a madman or a master… it's when you begin to lie to yourself in a poem in order simply to make a poem that you fail. That is why I do not rework poems.”
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“We were on welfare, and my mom thought you needed the government to survive. 'Don't try to make it on your own, because it won't be enough. The kids won't be fed:' My mom believed that lie. So I've lived with a poverty mentality. But after I got my first job, at a local McDonald's, and I got my first check, I felt such a sense of pride.”
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“Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth. Do not follow those who lie in contempt of reality. Let your lie be even more logical than the truth itself, so the weary travelers may find repose.”
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“Abortion is wrong. I think everyone knows that, which is why abortion activists are so angry all the time. It's a bit like when you catch someone out in a lie, and they get really mad at you really quickly, and you can't work out why until later. It's guilt.”
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“I was the biggest liar for no reason, and then as I got older, I thought, 'Why am I lying to everybody?' I would hear other people lie and be like, 'You sound so stupid.' So then I would just change my lies. The only person I lie to is my little sister, when I steal her clothes.”
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“We are in the middle of a big swamp of ignorance that is taught by a lot of nonsense, propaganda, absurdity, amalgams. I have a hard time listening to any speech. You feel like you want to stop the TV every two seconds to rephrase them, because it's lie after lie, turning stuff upside down, and you can't follow that. That's the trap.”
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“I lie to my children every day. Just little things to get them out the door when the school run is happening. White lies.”
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“In the Lamborghini I have to avoid certain roads because of pot holes, and there's nowhere to put my drink, no cup holder. And I'm not going to lie, it looks pretentious. I used to think it was cool to, like, drive it to dinner. Now? Like I really need to be looked at any more.”
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“I did see the Yahoo Sports story Kevin Iole wrote about how the ratings for TUF go up when there's a women's fight in the episode. I can't lie: it felt really good to see that the UFC fans - not only MMA fans but fans of the UFC who maybe hadn't seen any female fights before February of this year - look forward to watching the women fights so much.”
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“A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable.”
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“I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth.”
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“I'm trying to enjoy my lie as much as I can and I know that tennis hopefully is going to be my life the next 10, 15 years.”
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“It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards.”
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“You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police.”
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“So a lie told a million times becomes the truth.”
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“In April, God speaks to us in the seas whose rhythmic murmuring fills our ears from a long way off. It was in April that the Titanic went down into the deep to lie like a slasher's victim, bleeding the 'debris field' - its passengers' personal possessions, the everyday things of everyman and everywoman - across the ocean's floor.”
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“There are many critics who have an idealised version of where my strengths lie.”
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“I don't think there's much point in bemoaning the state of the world unless there's some way you can think of to improve it. Otherwise, don't bother writing a book; go and find a tropical island and lie in the sun.”
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“After doing films like 'Krrish,' 'Bang Bang,' and 'Mohenjo Daro,' 'Kaabil' is one film where you can't lie at all. You can't be a hero. You have to be real. You have to be yourself. So that was a challenge.”
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“When I was twenty-two it was a lot harder to get hurt by women. It was easier for me to, you know, cheat on a girlfriend. I can't lie like that anymore.”
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“I don't mind what people say about me as long as it's an opinion or the truth. If someone says, 'He's the worst comedian in the world,' that's fine. If someone says, 'His face makes me want to punch the TV,' that's fine. But if they say, 'Oh, and I know for a fact he hunts squirrels,' I go: no, no, no… that's a lie.”
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“I can't get through some movies without shedding a tear; I can't lie.”
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“If you're going to say to all the people that you're working with, 'We want you to treat the customers honestly; don't lie and don't cheat,' it is somewhat hypocritical if you're not following the same rules.”
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“I'm not going to lie, there are more interesting ways to spend your time than answering questions about yourself. But if there were no questions to ask me, I might have a beef with that.”
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“All my life I have been taught to take the high road and never to dignify salacious or false accusations and I have been taught never, never to lie.”
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“In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.”
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“Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without the thorn.”
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“Asceticism doesn't lie in mere words; He is an ascetic who treats everyone alike. Asceticism doesn't lie in visiting burial places; it lies not in wandering about nor in bathing at places of pilgrimage. Asceticism is to remain pure amidst impurities.”
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“I am not into action and adventure on holiday; that doesn't really do it for me. I would much rather go and lie down.”
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“I love the idea of spies in love. How would it work between two people who were so programmed to lie and be suspicious, who have a whole life based on pretence?”
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“Young writers should keep out of pubs and remember that the cliche way of the artistic life is a lie.”
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“Never to lie is to have no lock on your door, you are never wholly alone.”
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“A thing's innate disposition or God-given nature does not lie; whatever this innate disposition says is the truth.”
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“For me, the moral difficulties lie in the continual pressure brought to bear on my friends and immediate family, pressure which is not directed against me personally but which at the same time is all around me.”
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“No one knows anything about economics. It's the great lie of the economists. By contrast in football people might have contrasting opinions, each of which has some validity. But the economists always speak in conditionals - what a mess.”
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“With everything that's happened since I was exposed as a scammer, I can't lie, it's been good for business. Now I can sell my story for way more than my original book deal ever was.”
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“I haven't done great things for Spain - I can't lie - but when I play well, they should say so. They criticise me for my character, but I also have quality.”
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“In regard to music, I just think that it's always best to have an attitude of being a perpetual student and always look to learn something new about music, because there's always something new to learn. Don't dismiss something out of hand because you think it's either beneath you or outside of the realm of where your interests lie.”
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“I might not be in a relationship anymore, but I don't believe that people should have to lie to themselves just to make somebody else feel good.”
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“A great lie is like a great fish on dry land; it may fret and fling and make a frightful bother, but it cannot hurt you. You have only to keep still, and it will die of itself.”
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“Even in a healthy society, violence, lawlessness, and predation lie just below the surface.”
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“Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.”
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“Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.”
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“Lie down and listen to the crabgrass grow The faucet leak, and learn to leave them so.”
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“The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.”
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“I won't lie, I stole a lot of ideas from Giampaolo.”
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“Individualism is a formidable lie.”
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“It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country.”
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“Pain forces even the innocent to lie.”
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“Japan is a model already to the lie that economic growth is the key to our future. If they can really show an alternative to nukes and fossil fuels, then they will be the poster boy for the renewable energy for the future.”
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“I don't know about you, but I lie awake nights worrying about Canadian uranium. I know these people. I grew up there. You have no idea what they're capable of doing. If Sidney Crosby hadn't scored that goal to win the Olympic gold medal, there's no telling what might have ensued.”
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“Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.”
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“Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.”
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“You have nothing if you're texting a guy in a relationship. We can text six women a minute. We can text it and push 'reply all.' I mean, since we're lying, we might as well lie to everybody.”
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“I could lie and pretend that I hunt and camp, but that wouldn't be me. Clothes? Shopping? That's stuff I like!”
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“Bruce always had to tell a lie. He was always living that lie. Caitlyn doesn't have any secrets.”
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“The Arab Spring, with all of its failings and failures, exposed the lie that if we are to live, then we must live as slaves. It was an attempt to undermine not only the orthodoxy of dictatorship but also an international political orthodoxy where every activity must be approved by the profit logic of the 'ledger.'”
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“If I am to judge others, I should be subject to be judged. You make your bed, you must lie in it.”
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“Victory doesn't lie in taming our nature but in progressively discovering and revealing more of it.”
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“If you think about evolution, sleep, at some time, was a dangerous undertaking. You lie down in your cave or shelter, and along comes a predator and has you for dinner. Many creatures do not sleep or sleep while standing so they can escape from dangerous situations.”
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“The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the Government of Reasons; to place our Subject in a Right Light, and excite our Hearers to a due consideration of it.”
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“I had to come to terms about becoming an addict, which, for a long time, I lied to myself about the status of until I couldn't lie any more, 'cause I was either going to die or get better.”
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“I'm 0 for 3 with marriage - the scoreboard doesn't lie, never has. So what we all have is a marriage of the heart. To sully or contaminate or radically disrespect this union with a shameful contract is something that I will leave to the amateurs and the Bible grippers.”
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“Whenever we tell the truth, nobody believes us. We lie, and people take it as etched-in-stone fact.”
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“You are going to get knocked down, but you don't lie there. You get up and face the challenge.”
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“I was raised with traditional stories of leadership: Robert E. Lee, John Buford at Gettysburg. And I also was raised with personal examples of leadership. This was my father in Vietnam. And I was raised to believe that soldiers were strong and wise and brave and faithful; they didn't lie, cheat, steal, or abandon their comrades.”
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“Rock helps me communicate directly with the people because rock doesn't lie, and people are fed up with lying politicians.”
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“I live a quiet daytime life. I walk everywhere. I lie down. I wash socks. I fry an egg.”
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“I'm a really rotten liar. Generally, if I've tried to pull off a lie, it hasn't worked out to my advantage.”
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“Some days, I'd feel better with Punxsutawney Phil in the Oval Office - at least he doesn't lie about the weather.”
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“All I know is what I have been given and what opportunities lie before me. Try to make the best of them, and I'm not going to give up until I make it to the top.”
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“I have a problem with cabinets being messy and people just shoving things in and closing the door. I will lie in bed and not be able to sleep because I'll say to myself: 'I think I saw something in that cabinet that just shouldn't be there.'”
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“George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.”
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“It's a good thing to be old. Because when you get older, that means you haven't died yet, right? And when I do get older, I want to have the grace to be proud of it, not to lie about it or try to fight it.”
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“The dream doesn't lie in victimization or blame; it lies in hard work, determination and a good education.”
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“I'm not gonna lie, I love Usain Bolt and Serena Williams. What I love about Serena is that she just gets on the floor and she dominates. She handles her business very well, I respect that.”
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“I have confidence that the Unitarian Church will steadily grow and will help to sustain many of my fellow citizens in these important days that lie ahead of us.”
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“Polygamy is needed to prevent a man from taking up a lover, which can cause health issues and rifts in the family and would lead him to live a lie, constantly deceiving his wife and children.”
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“My grandfather was a police officer. He taught Dad about lie detectors and police interrogation methods, so Dad got this old World War II lie detector and used it on us regularly. He was obsessed with the truth.”
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“I believe that it is my responsibility as the prime minister of Israel to do whatever can be done to exploit the unique opportunities that lie ahead of us to move towards peace. Not everything can be done by one act.”
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“One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.”
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“A German is someone who cannot tell a lie without believing it himself.”
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“You can't just slander someone, defame them, lie about them. You can't incite people to crime. There's all sorts of reasonable restrictions on free speech that are already codified in the British common-law system.”
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“Lie on the bridge and watch the water flowing past. Or run, or wade through the swamp in your red boots. Or roll yourself up and listen to the rain falling on the roof. It's very easy to enjoy yourself.”
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“Every word she writes is a lie, including and and the.”
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“Putin does not lie. When he says something, he means it.”
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“I don't really have a drive toward being a director at all. Not that I wouldn't rule it out, but I just don't think my instincts lie necessarily in a very visual way. But I am very interested in storytelling, narrative and character development, so writing is something that I absolutely want to do.”
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“It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.”
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“One-year-olds learn concealment. Five-year-olds lie outright: they manipulate via flattery. Nine-year-olds - masters of the cover-up. By the time you enter college, you're going to lie to your mom in one out of every five interactions.”
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“Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask why me? Then a voice answers nothing personal, your name just happened to come up.”
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“I'm a guy who shakes your hand and will never let you down. I have a code of honor and I don't lie.”
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“I walk in, and people go, 'Oh, look who it is! It's the devil! Speak of the devil!' It's fun. I'm having a lot of fun. I'm not going to lie. It's a little bit like being able to say anything you want to and getting away with it. 'Rush' was fun because he thought he was immortal, but this is more fun because Lucifer is immortal.”
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“Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won't stand up either.”
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“An important priority for me is a business must get their own house in order. Be or become an agent of positive change in your own enterprise and adopt responsible practices to eliminate the risks that often lie at the root of inequality and poverty.”
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“I've never been willing to lie about my age. Why on earth would I want to tell people I'm 35, which I'm not, and have them say, 'Oh that's nice,' when I could tell them I'm 47, which I am, and have them look at me and go, 'Whoa!'. I'm not afraid of aging. I stopped being afraid of life a long time ago.”
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“Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.”
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“I have never seasoned a truth with the sauce of a lie in order to digest it more easily.”
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“It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation.”
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“Marilyn Monroe wasn't even her real name, Charles Manson isn't his real name, and now, I'm taking that to be my real name. But what's real? You can't find the truth, you just pick the lie you like the best.”
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“We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand.”
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“The body cannot lie. You cannot be somebody else onstage, no matter how good of an actor or dancer or singer you are. When you open your arms, move your finger, the audience knows who you are, you know.”
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“When you crop the photo, you tell a lie.”
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“It is impossible for someone to lie unless he thinks he knows the truth. A person who lies is thereby responding to the truth, and he is to that extent respectful of it.”
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“Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.”
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“If you tell a lie to make a person better, then that is not a sin.”
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“When it comes to memoir, we want to catch the author in a lie. When we read fiction, we want to catch the author telling the truth.”
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“When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door.”
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“As of today, we do not need expert reports by the authoritative analytical institutions to realise that the reasons for such a situation in our community lie in global inequality, poverty and illiteracy.”
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“Morality is the least of my concerns. To me, morality in a society that - however moral its pose - is hierarchically organized is simply a lie, an alibi for the inequalities that exist in society.”
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“Lying can never save us from another lie.”
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“I'm never concerned about my beliefs hurting me in any way. I'd rather lose a job than have to lie.”
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“The only difference between me and my critics is that I don't lie to the world about who I am. People are complicated and often seemingly hypocritical. Embrace the diversity of your mind.”
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“What is it in people, or just in people like me, that would rather let a lie go by, would rather wish it away or minimize it, than point it out and cause the liar embarrassment?”
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“You can't lie to God - it's ridiculous.”
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“People walking down the street would just say 'Ball don't lie.' I kinda feel like Bobby McFerrin, the mastermind behind 'Don't worry, be happy.'”
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“I try to find my deepest, often hidden feelings about what's working and what's not. This is difficult because I do lie to myself without being aware that that's what I'm doing.”
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“Some people may believe that their conscience is enough to guide them not to lie, be deceitful or do the other things God has commanded us not to do. I disagree.”
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“My strengths as a businessman lie in the design and sale of women's shoes, and I have never been comfortable with complicated or technical legal or business documents.”
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“If you make excuses, you're going to believe in a lie. And I don't believe in that lie that you can't make it, that somebody is trying to hold you back.”
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“You have to be honest, even when you are upset with your child. Your intentions must be clear. You must never lie to your child.”
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“This is why the ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently as in their source; and this is what we call God.”
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“I never want to lie about my age. If I look around at the actresses I admire, they are all women who have not fought growing older, but embraced it and been proud of it - women like Sophia Loren or Audrey Hepburn.”
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“I had to lie so much about sex, first when I was 15, because I wasn't supposed to be having it. And then when I got older, I lied to everybody I was having sex with, so I could have sex with other people.”
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“I used to lie between cool, clean sheets at night after I'd had a bath, after I had washed my hair and scrubbed my knuckles and finger-nails and teeth. Then I could lie quite still in the dark with my face to the window with the trees in it, and talk to God.”
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“If you screw up and do something, don't lie about it; come clean.”
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“A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie.”
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“People can lie in letters, but they tend not to. They certainly lie in memoirs.”
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“If you have to lie, cheat, steal, obstruct and bully to get your point across, it must not be a point capable of surviving on its own merits.”
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“The moment a man talks to his fellows he begins to lie.”
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“Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment; only there does its satisfaction lie.”
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“It's hardly surprising that the corporate aliens lie when it comes to the relationship between doing something about climate change and the economy.”
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“I don't have any reason to lie about anything.”
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“The law requires a paper towel ad to be scrupulously honest, but allows political candidates to lie without reproach. What's wrong with this picture?”
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“The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.”
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“The best time to listen to a politician is when he's on a stump on a street corner in the rain late at night when he's exhausted. Then he doesn't lie.”
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“I lied to everybody. I lie very well, being an actress, naturally.”
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“I would dodge, not lie, in the national interest.”
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“A composite is a euphemism for a lie. It's disorderly. It's dishonest and it's not journalism.”
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“A lie should be tried in a place where it will attract the attention of the world.”
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“I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.”
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“Immortality: A toy which people cry for, And on their knees apply for, Dispute, contend and lie for, And if allowed Would be right proud Eternally to die for.”
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“The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.”
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“Actions lie louder than words.”
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“As you make your bed, so you must lie in it.”
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“There are some good people. But a good chunk of them will lie for no reason at all - it'll be ten o'clock and they'll tell you it's nine. You're looking at the clock and you can't even fathom why they're lying. They just lie because that's what they do.”
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“Be honest with yourself and lie to everyone else.”
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“Superior strength is found in the long run to lie with those who had right on their side.”
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“We can lie in the language of dress or try to tell the truth; but unless we are naked and bald, it is impossible to be silent.”
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“In Sleep we lie all naked and alone, in Sleep we are united at the heart of night and darkness, and we are strange and beautiful asleep; for we are dying the darkness and we know no death.”
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“I touched Roger's bat and held it to my heart. My bat will lie next to his. I'm damn proud of that.”
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“It is a peculiar part of the good photographer's adventure to know where luck is most likely to lie in the stream, to hook it, and to bring it in without unfair play and without too much subduing it.”
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“A lie can be halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on.”
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“Truth never was indebted to a lie.”
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“Weaklings must lie.”
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“A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically.”
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“The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie.”
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“Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.”
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“Simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.”
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“Never lie when the truth is more profitable.”
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“When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.”
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“There is no lie that a man will not believe; and there is no man who does not believe many lies; and there is no man who believes only lies.”
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“Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true.”
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“I can't believe that we would lie in our graves wondering if we had spent our living days well. I can't believe that we would lie in our graves dreaming of things that we might have been.”
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“With new jobs, new ideas, and growing confidence that our brightest days lie ahead, Wisconsin is on the move.”
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“The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape.”
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“When American presidents prepare for foreign wars, they lie.”
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“I truly believe the brightest days lie ahead for the Great State of Hawaii.”
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“Knowing what I know of love, I hang back because I don't like to lie to myself.”
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“Brazil has rediscovered itself, and this rediscovery is being expressed in its people's enthusiasm and their desire to mobilize to face the huge problems that lie ahead of us.”
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“I refuse to stand up in front of a rabbi and my friends and the woman I love - who I will tell you I can love with all my heart - and promise she will be the only one I will ever have until the day I die. That's a lie.”
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“The biggest challenge for everybody to realize out there is that we're in a very complicated business world and that were all under one umbrella and it's very challenging for everybody to figure out where the priorities lie and where the loyalties lie.”
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“I wish to Christ I could make up a really great lie. Sometimes, after an interview, I say to myself, 'Man, you were so honest - can't you have some fun? Can't you do some really down and dirty lying?' But the puritan in me thinks that if I tell a lie, I'll be punished.”
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“To Live signifies to believe and hope - to lie and to lie to oneself.”
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“Why would anyone lie? The truth is always more colorful.”
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“You know that saying, bad things don't happen to good people? That's a lie.”
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“I sometimes lie, especially about personal things, because what does it matter? I am a kind of minute commodity, my name is no longer my own.”
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“I try to lie as much as I can when I'm interviewed. It's reverse psychology. I figure if you lie, they'll print the truth.”
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“The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person; and in the end they unite.”
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“When we don't have information, we go to the simplest outlook, to black and white. But then we have to lie to ourselves. Black is never as black as you're painting it and white is never as white.”
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“Even if a minefield or the abyss should lie before me, I will march straight ahead without looking back.”
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“It is all right for the lion and the lamb to lie down together if they are both asleep, but if one of them begins to get active, it is dangerous.”
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“Earlier on in my career I felt that I had to hide behind a lot of different masks, and showboat ways of performing. Now, that's a lie. The less I have to hide, the less I have to act.”
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“Let me say this loud and clear. There is a world of difference between terrorist acts and the Islamic Shari'a. Islam is not only a religion, but a way of life. And at its heart lie the sacred principles of tolerance and dialogue.”
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“As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.”
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“My soul is now her day, my day her night, So I lie down, and so I rise.”
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“Let sleeping dogs lie.”
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“Look, if America - if being an American means anything, it means not having to lie under oath, not even for the president.”
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“He knew the lie of silence to be as evil as the lie of speech.”
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“A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, rapture possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie.”
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“I see it all the time in politics. If a candidate gets caught in a lie, he quickly tries to change the subject by throwing more mud at his opponent. The mud keeps flying until some of the slanderous material sticks.”
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“It's a lie, but Heaven will forgive you for it.”
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“We must find out where the roots of terrorism lie.”
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“You lie awake at 3 in the morning thinking of story ideas. You're online at 8 a.m. on a Sunday or midnight on a Wednesday. It's a job that you never push aside.”
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“But aesthetics is not religion, and the origins of religion lie somewhere completely different. They lie anyway, these roses smell too sweet and the deep roar of the breaking waves is too splendid, to do justice to such weighty matters now.”
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“We can't control it, and we've basically quit trying. People are going to talk, and people are going to lie.”
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“In spring they lie flat at the first warmth, they ruin my summer and in autumn they smell of women.”
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“It is long since I could have adventured on eternity, through God's mercy and Christ's merits; but death remained somewhat terrible, and that now is taken away; and now death is no more to me, but to cast myself into my husband's arms, and to lie down with Him.”
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“After filming I like to go home and lie down with my daughter and have a glass of wine so I don't really socialize with the other actors.”
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“The actual Blue Rose murders, which lie at the core of the three novels, yield various incorrect solutions which assume the status of truth.”
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“Children - if you think back really what it was like to be a child and what it was like to know other children - children lie all the time.”
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“If you talk to the Whites in Mississippi they will tell you, 'You can go to any school you want to; we don't see race.' Biggest lie ever told.”
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“When the National Security Agency recruited me, they put me through a day of lie detector tests. They found out all my weaknesses and immediately seduced me. They used the strongest drugs in our culture, sex, power and money, to win me over.”
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“We all lie to each other, present some sort of front.”
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“You might hold an ethical position that it's wrong to lie, but if you have plans for a war in Iraq, and you want to keep them secret for practical reasons - to reduce casualties, perhaps - and someone asks you about those plans, you may need to lie for a 'good' outcome.”
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“We lie to one another every day, in the sweetest way, often unconsciously. We dress ourselves and compose ourselves in order to present ourselves to one another.”
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“It's the lie of evolution that all man are just evolved and that they're all equal, and that all creatures are equal.”
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“The advantage does lie with us because we're at home and if we can't motivate ourselves for this match then we can't motivate ourselves for any match. I think the crowd will be up for it as well.”
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“It's up to us, the people, to break immoral laws, and resist. As soon as the leaders of a country lie to you, they have no authority over you. These maniacs have no authority over us. And they might be able to put our bodies in prison, but they can't put our spirits in prison.”
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“I lie around the floor with my cats Billy and Jazz or watch DVDs with my best friends.”
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“I know my brother. Michael, he's not that kind of person. He doesn't do that. That's all a lie on him.”
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“In movement class, you had to lie on the floor and get your alignment in to pass the class.”
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“Politicians often lie.”
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“Ah, well, the truth is always one thing, but in a way it's the other thing, the gossip, that counts. It shows where people's hearts lie.”
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“But the important thing is to lie down and fall asleep. That little nap means you wake up fresh again and can continue.”
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“It's rather naive, apart from being ethically objectionable, to assume that our investigators travel around the country with bags of money trying to bribe witnesses to lie on the witness stand. We just don't operate that way.”
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“Most people outside of America won't get it. It's the Easter bunny. It's another lie and I don't understand why we had to invent this character.”
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“Changes in the traditional way of building are only permitted if they are an improvement. Otherwise stay with what is traditional, for truth, even if it be hundreds of years old has a stronger inner bond with us than the lie that walks by our side.”
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“I don't think that we necessarily lie. I mean, we make our living by pretending that we're someone else. I don't tell tall tales. I always tell the truth.”
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“This is a nation that has lost the ability to be self-critical, and that makes a lie out of the freedoms.”
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“If you take a lie and allow your desire for the truth, you'll end up with some truth - not fact, but something that gets you closer to the truth. That's what we want. When we go to a play, we need to be assured that the experience we're having.”
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“Let's put one lie to rest for all time: the lie that men are oppressed, too, by sexism-the lie that there can be such a thing as men's liberation groups.”
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“The consequence of Mr. Bush's and Blair's historic lie that the reason for invading Iraq was weapons of mass destruction, is that everything is being doubted.”
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“In writing the history of a disease, every philosophical hypothesis whatsoever, that has previously occupied the mind of the author, should lie in abeyance.”
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“The claim that the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were attacked because fundamentalists hate our prosperity and freedom is a ridiculous lie.”
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“Remember always that the composer's pen is still mightier than the bow of the violinist; in you lie all the possibilities of the creation of beauty.”
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“Acid wasn't getting a whole lot of bad press at the time, and as I saw the whole bad-press thing happen, I became aware that the government had done a whole lie on all the other benign drugs as well. It became clear to me that the government wanted no real drug education.”
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“The anxiety of most parents in seeing their sons and daughters enlist does not lie only in the fear of the physical dangers they may encounter.”
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“I could lie and tell you I'm a hardcore gamer - I'm not.”
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“When you hear in the tape recordings Nixon's own voice saying, We have to stonewall, We have to lie to the Grand Jury, We have to pay burglars a million dollars, it's all too clear the horror of what went on.”
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“But I would lie on the floor and analyze everything. I'd listen to all the strings and the background vocals on the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack and try to pick out the different instruments.”
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“I have a rule on my team: when we talk to one another, we look each other right in the eye, because I think it's tough to lie to somebody. You give respect to somebody.”
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“If it was about lying under oath - we actually know that Clinton certainly was deceptive, as most people would be about their sex lives - but, in fact, he did not lie.”
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“Humor is imperative, more important than food. You have a choice when someone dies. You can lie down or get back into life. Do something for someone else.”
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“A soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for a still longer period.”
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“I would rather do what I did than crawl in front of a ritualistic Left and lie the way those other comrades did betray my own soul.”
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“You know sometimes I just want to curl up on stage and lie there for a while - it's weird.”
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“Usually, about 85 percent of what the tabloids report is a lie. Over the last year, I can truly say it has been 99 percent.”
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“My entire life has been a lie.”
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“Everybody thinks I'm at death's door, but I'm not. There's nothing seriously wrong with me, and my heart is in 100 percent working order. Anything else you may hear is a damn lie!”
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“Should I perchance still feel after my death, I would no longer have any doubt, but I would most certainly give the lie to anyone asserting before me that I was dead.”
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“And also they were absolutely brilliant in one way, you know: they knew how effective is not to punish somebody who is guilty; what Communist Party members could afford to do was mind-boggling: they could do practically anything they wanted - steal, you know, lie, whatever.”
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“I love to read. I love to stretch. In the morning, I get up, and if I'm not in a hurry, I will lie on the floor on a rug, look through some books and magazines, and maybe listen to music and try to do stretching exercises to tune up.”
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“The Gorillaz cartoons seem more real to me than the actual people on TV. Because at least you know that there's some intelligence behind the cartoons, and there's a lot of work that's gone into it, so it can't all be just a lie.”
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“Yes and our obsession with youth in our culture and how we, women lie about their age after 35 obsessively and no one wants to let anyone know they're getting older, et cetera.”
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“Life would be so much harder if I had to lie about who I was.”
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“The roots of racism lie deep in man's nature, wounded and bruised by original sin.”
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“But I know newspapers. They have the first amendment and they can tell any lie knowing it's a lie and they're protected if the person's famous or it's a company.”
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“And so I put down some of the things that he said, about keeping your tools sharpened and not letting them lie on the ground where they get hurt or get abused and dirty and can't find them. And some thoughts about how his father used to do things.”
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“I'd stand in line for Confession with old people and little kids, and as the line moved up, I knew when I got into the box that I would lie! Again!”
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“If you put down a list of jobs, doctor, lawyer, janitor, teacher or movie star, everybody would pick the movie star. And why? So you could lie around the pool, drink margaritas and send money to your parents. So that's what I did.”
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“I am such a bad liar. I would like to lie, though.”
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“Lie detection is like language; there is a learning window. Telling whoppers to small children seems to be a family tradition in many families.”
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“But it is no good using the tongs of reason to pull the Fundamentalists' chestnuts out of the fire of contradiction. Their real troubles lie elsewhere.”
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“When I perform Strauss, it is as if the music fits me like a glove. My voice seems to lie in a happy area in this music, which is lyrical and passionate at the same time.”
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“I don't like guys who will lie down and take it. I want someone who'll fight back. I like people who can argue well.”
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“We who go out to die shall be remembered, because we gave the world peace. That will be our reward, though we will know nothing of it, but lie rotting in the earth - dead.”
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“And at least in poetry you should feel free to lie. That is, not to lie, but to imagine what you want, to follow the direction of the poem.”
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“When I was 21, I got into a motorcycle accident while traveling in Europe and I had to lie around a lot in the aftermath, which was really the first time in my life that I became really focused and inspired to write.”
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“So I think what you see in this show is it's really not a just world at all, but you get what you give. So in terms of world view, I would say that's where the differences lie.”
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“I might lie a lot but never in my lyrics.”
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“But then Iraq happened after September 2001 and America claimed that Al Qaeda was there, and we all know that was a lie and we now know that our own Prime Minister deceived the country terribly.”
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“Creative work is incredibly difficult, and that is where the tests lie.”
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“I lie around and play guitar, that's something I do for sure. In fact that's all I do, I think.”
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“In Hollywood people lie to each other and cheat each other and then go and play tennis. But I don't want to be a tennis player.”
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“To say I'm the easiest person to live with would be a lie.”
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“I'm the oldest 26-year-old I know. A lot of experience has been crammed into a short amount of time. Some days I feel a good 65, 70. Like I want to lie down.”
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“A myth is the name of a terrible lie told by a smelly little brown person to a man in a white suit with a pair of binoculars.”
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“I don't think people understand that being poor means you have to work from dawn until dusk just to survive through the day. I think there's some notion that poor people lie about all day not doing anything.”
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“I don't think the news department will have to lie down and play dead like it has in the past. By and large the network has been understanding, but then so have I.”
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“It's a humorous statement that doesn't mean anything. You can't lie to God - it's ridiculous.”
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“When Shakespeare was writing, he wasn't writing for stuff to lie on the page; it was supposed to get up and move around.”
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“A child's appetite for new toys appeal to the desire for ownership and appropriation: the appeal of toys comes to lie not in their use but in their status as possessions.”
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“The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to the right-it lies in rejecting conventional political categories.”
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“I never quite understood these actors - though I envy them sometimes - who can lie out for a year or two. I feel as though time is a real pressing issue, and I want to get as much work done in the time that I have left.”
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“When I was 5 years old I would lie in bed, look at the radio, and I wanted to be on the radio. I don't know why.”
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“It was a myth that's often perpetuated at commencement that holds that only hope and promise lie beyond the halls of academe. Don't worry, be happy. Everything is fine.”
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“Recent economic data shows that our economy is robust, growing and headed in the right direction. The numbers don't lie. Americans are currently enjoying falling gas prices, low unemployment, increased job creation, and a stock market that has reached an all-time high.”
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“This is probably why, my life is easier, and my family is very happy, because we never lie each other. This is probably all people supposed to feel each other, so be always in all of the world they'll be peace.”
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“And it seems to me in that experience may lie at least some of the clues for policy development perhaps constitutional changes as well that Labour will need to make at the national level too.”
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“The greatest talents often lie buried out of sight.”
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“The third time you say a thing it sounds like a lie.”
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“Don't lie if you don't have to.”
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“Many good purposes lie in the churchyard.”
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“One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie.”
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“A good portion of speaking will consist in knowing how to lie.”
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“Never was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women can.”
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“Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, a box where sweets compacted lie.”
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“This only grant me, that my means may lie too low for envy, for contempt too high.”
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“In art there are tears that lie too deep for thought.”
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“What is a lie? It is to say what is real is not real. It is to deny the existence of what exists.”
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“The tombstone is about the only thing that can stand upright and lie on its face at the same time.”
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“A lot of people are tired around here, but I'm not sure they're ready to lie down, stretch out and fall asleep.”
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“I sometimes lie awake at night trying to think of something funny that Richard Nixon said.”
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“There is no point in asking a man a question until you have established whether he has any reason to lie to you.”
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“I never lie because I don't fear anyone. You only lie when you're afraid.”
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“The idea that you're not a writer until you're published is a lie.”
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“I don't know why it is we are in such a hurry to get up when we fall down. You might think we would lie there and rest for a while.”
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“A snowdrift is a beautiful thing - if it doesn't lie across the path you have to shovel or block the road that leads to your destination.”
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“An omnipotent God is the only being with no reason to lie.”
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“I can't judge any of you. I have no malice against you and no ribbons for you. But I think that it is high time that you all start looking at yourselves, and judging the lie that you live in.”
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“No lie ever reaches old age.”
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“It takes good memory to keep up a lie.”
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“The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age.”
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“I would love to work more - I really would - but there is not a lot of stuff around and the stuff that is around is not very complicated; it tends to lie a little flat.”
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“Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie.”
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“You'll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.”
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“I've never heard of anybody smoking a joint and going on a rampage. It makes you lie around on the floor and look at the ceiling. What's wrong with that?”
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“You women could make someone fall in love even with a lie.”
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“The solution really has to lie within the Iraqi people.”
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“Although this crisis in some ways started in the United States, it is a global crisis. We bear a substantial share of the responsibility for what has happened, but factors that made the crisis so acute and so difficult to contain lie in a broader set of global forces that built up in the years before the start of our current troubles.”
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“I run six-to-eight miles a day, plus weights and aerobics in the lunch hour. I also lie a lot, which keeps me thin.”
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“I'm an awful driver. I'm not going to lie about it. I'm not a good driver. I tried for a long time to pretend that I was. There's a lot of road rage and a lot of times it's directed at something I've done on the road.”
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“This lie of political correctness is bringing this country down. You just want to break through it all.”
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“I know from my constituency what is going on. Doctors that are told, begged, by mothers, 'Please don't write down that my child as asthma. Please lie and say it's bronchitis, because if you write down asthma, when my child turns 18 or 20 and has to get his or her own insurance, it will be a pre-existing condition.'”
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“Despite what anti-aging ads say, growing older can be better. I feel better in my skin, 100 percent. You have greater effects of gravity, but the better sense of yourself you have is something I wouldn't trade. Women who lie about their age - 'why?'”
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“Will they attack us? Yes. Will they smear our backgrounds and distort our records? Undoubtedly. Will they lie about us, harass our families, namecall to try to intimidate us? They will. There's nothing safe about it. But is it worth it? Well, let me ask you. Is freedom worth it? Is America worth it?”
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“If you have a dream, just lie about it. Lie your way unto your dreams.”
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“I got into shape because I took kick-boxing lessons every day to prepare for a fight scene with Taylor Lautner. I really wanted to lie down and eat Chinese food, but I kick-boxed every morning and ran. If someone was filming you with your kit off, you'd do the same thing.”
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“We encourage China to engage as a good global citizen and we are clear-eyed about where differences do lie.”
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“Blacks' problems lie not in the heads of white people but rather in the wasted and incompletely fulfilled lives of too many black people.”
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“I wouldn't say I was grumpy. It's more pathological - I have seismic tantrums. I get red in the face and cry at least three times a week, and I have to lie down and have a nap afterwards.”
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“I am wearing a size 28 Paige Jeans. Jeans don't lie, and I am just happy!”
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“I need to tell the world what I'm about, my nature, because not doing so would be teaching my children how to lie. I didn't want it to be.”
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“I don't want to lie. I dislike dishonesty. And I work in Hollywood, a town and a business that relies on a lot of falsehoods with people hiding behind different facades. I don't want to be a part of that.”
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“Racism springs from the lie that certain human beings are less than fully human. It's a self-centered falsehood that corrupts our minds into believing we are right to treat others as we would not want to be treated.”
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“If we're gonna progress as a people we are going to realise that, as one of my favourite poets says, the other is a lie. There are no other people. Race is a social construct.”
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“100 million iphones don't lie. What an amazing man. He is the apple of all of our i's. We have an i everything and its all so amazing.”
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“Right now, it's really about my fans knowing that whatever I believed spiritually at the time is what I believed. I just wouldn't deliberately lie to them just to save my image.”
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“The addict will screw you over and lie to you and do all kinds of things.”
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“My epiphany came in that police cell: I realised I was about to lose everything and it didn't bother me, not in the slightest. I'd come to hate cycling because I blamed it for the lie I was living.”
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“One of my weaknesses happens to be lying, and I could tell you that I'm never going to lie again in my life, but that would be a lie.”
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“I was living a complete lie. But unfortunately, guilt doesn't make you stop.”
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“In a presidential campaign, you can't lie. You can't hide what you are and what you want. You can't hide what kind of President you'll be. You can't keep on talking about nothing indefinitely and committing to nothing, you can't keep running away from debate, masking the challenges.”
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“I refuse to lie to children.”
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“You know, it's just a matter of working through the pitfalls sometimes and working through the challenges that lie ahead.”
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“I'm just taking it one day at a time. Actually, that's a total lie. I always think about what's in front of me.”
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“We have to lie to ourselves as decathletes and say that we like all ten events.”
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“I think that what trips up a lot of great musicians is that they become involved with too many things that aren't where their strengths lie.”
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“There are a lot of people out there who lie about their age and I think it does us all a disservice. It can't all be over when you hit 30. That would be rubbish.”
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“I can't lie, I did a lot of really, really stupid things, and it was because it was my way of crying for help.”
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“I would lie in bed, and I was nine years old, and say to myself: 'I want to be the richest man in the world.' I've come a long way from there.”
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“I could have probably gone on and still played the part of the guitar player of Limp Bizkit, but musically I was kind of bored. If I was to continue, it would have been about the money and not about the true music, and I don't want to lie to myself, or to them or to fans of Limp Bizkit.”
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“We're all human beings, but some of us are more sophisticated at covering our flaws. We're just smart enough to lie to ourselves that everything is OK.”
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“Learning to drive is a scary thing for a parent. I had to basically lie to get the keys when I was a kid.”
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“A friend of mine has a house with a basketball court and a pool. The guys go over and play basketball; I lie by the pool and nap in the sun. That defines me. That's consistent with who I am. I don't pretend to play basketball because I wanna feel like one of the guys. I wanna lie in the sun and relax.”
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“My perfect day is constantly changing. Right now, it would be to lie around in a hammock reading with a portable phone and a table of food next to it. I would spend all day there. And that's all that I can possibly come up with on the spur of the moment.”
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“Without intervention today, the cost of care for adults with autism will be significantly greater and the burden will no longer lie with the parents, but on our entire society.”
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“I've got a song on One Direction's album called 'Tell Me A Lie'. It's a really cute song - I love it. I loved that they liked it. They sound really great on it. I already have it - I'm so VIP with my copy on my computer! It does sound really good.”
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“A boxing workout is the heaviest thing, but it's the best. The worst part is that boxing gyms are the smelliest things in the universe. You have to lie down on the floor, where everyone has been sweating and spitting, and do 1,000 situps and push-ups.”
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“Part of my preparation is I go and ask the kit man what colour we're wearing - if it's red top, white shorts, white socks or black socks. Then I lie in bed the night before the game and visualise myself scoring goals or doing well.”
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“I was horrified when Richard Chamberlain and Rupert Everett said gay actors should stay in the closet. They were saying to people that they should live a lie and not be liberated, to live in fear of being found out.”
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“I could lie and say my wife cooks for me, but she doesn't. My wife has never learnt cooking but she has great cooks at home.”
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“I spent most of the '60s, when I was starting to try to write novels, living and working in Greece and Turkey. These are countries where the ancient past is interfused with the daily present, and I remember being struck with wonder at the constant sense of continuity and connection, the reminders that lie in wait for you at every turn.”
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“My father was sleepless most of his life. So by the age of five, I was awake with him all night long, watching bad television or we'd lie in the same bed, and I'd read my comic books while he read his latest spy or mystery novel.”
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“I couldn't lie to get myself fame and fortune.”
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“I still lie awake at night thinking about everything that could have been, that wasn't done to stop 9/11. To the 9/11 families, I said, you deserve better from your entire government. All of us.”
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“It is harder to lie in an interview. A good interview - and it can be polite - is not a one way street like a candidate controlled ad. An interview is not programmed by the candidate and so the candidate can't be exactly sure what will be asked.”
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“I never lie, so if somebody asked me a question, I told them.”
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“Men lie the most. Men lie all the time.”
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“Becoming emancipated at 14, my life wasn't normal. I didn't have to go to school, so I didn't. I was rebellious by nature. I spent my 20s focusing on my company, Flower Films, and producing movies. Now that I'm almost 30, I would like to try other things in lie. I'm crazy about photography, and I want to take an art history class.”
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“In therapy you sit down; in analysis you lie down.”
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“It sounds so cheesy, but there's something very powerful about looking in the mirror and asking yourself a question. Because I think it's really hard to lie.”
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“Oh, I love to lie. That's one of my favorite things in the world, coming up to somebody, especially press people, and telling them some enormous lie that couldn't possibly be true.”
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“In almost every interview someone asks what does HIM stand for. I can't even remember our latest lie about that. When Hanson was hot, we said it means Hanson Is Murder. The name doesn't have a particular history. His Infernal Majesty was a totally different band. I think HIM derives from some death metal joke.”
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“You know, actors lie all the time. 'Can I ride on the horse? Are you kidding? Of course! I was born on a horse!'… It's the same with motorcycles.”
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“Not only do I never lie, I never respond to lies, no matter how vicious, no matter how hurtful.”
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“Every summer my husband and I pack our suitcases, load our kids into the car, and drive from tense, crowded New York City to my family's cottage in Maine. It's on an island, with stretches of sea and sandy beaches, rocky coasts, and pine trees. We barbecue, swim, lie around, and try to do nothing.”
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“I've been living a lie all my life.”
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“I would like to say that I am a very relaxed, loving person who is not competitive, but that's a lie!”
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“My 'thing' is that I just lie in my immense bed and look out the window at the skyline over Virginia and the sky and the airplanes coming into Reagan. I really love doing that.”
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“Europe is difficult to coordinate, and our main deficit may not even lie in this area of finance and economics, but in foreign and security policy. We have a leadership problem because we are still 27 different members who have still not decided on how to work with each other based on what we used to call a European constitution.”
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“Most people don't care if you're telling them the truth or if you're telling them a lie, as long as they're entertained by it.”
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“I'm a bit of a caveman - I don't go out into the digital space very often. I lie facedown on the grass and count how many bugs I can find.”
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“My talents do not lie in DIY.”
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“I was living a life of a lie, I really was.”
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“A myth is an old lie that people believe in. White people believe that they're better than anyone else on earth - and that's a myth.”
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“Given the choice between accomplishing something and just lying around, I'd rather lie around. No contest.”
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“I'm kind of lazy. I like to lie around with my husband and watch TV and stuff like that.”
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“I exercise every morning. I do light weights - 5lb and 10lb arm exercises - and then lie and lift my arms and legs. It's all about keeping core strength. I do a lot of stretching too.”
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“I'm not going to lie. I check the iTunes charts. It's all about the iTunes charts. I only go on the Internet for the iTunes charts and basketball blogs.”
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“If my Dad doesn't like you, you will know. My Mom is just too innocent to ever lie. She doesn't even cuss.”
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“I used to lie awake at night, willing myself to put in the hard work, the determination, the passion.”
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“I love animals and I love working with them because they don't lie.”
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“Well, the truth is that a lot of people lie about their health, they lie about the finances, they lie about things at work, they lie about things.”
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“I am deeply committed to the cause of Indigenous Australians, and not just because of the Apology, but the big challenges which lie ahead in closing the gap.”
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“When I was young, an eccentric uncle decided to teach me how to lie. Not, he explained, because he wanted me to lie, but because he thought I should know how it's done so I would recognise when I was being lied to.”
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“I won't lie, I've had a lot of discouraging moments in the past years, moments I wasn't sure about things and doubted myself.”
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“I felt like a sinful person when I dated men and allowed them to feel for me in a way I knew I could never naturally feel for them. That felt wrong and a lie.”
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“When someone is looking down, they're saying no. When they're looking up, they're looking to their brain for memory. When they look to the left, they're looking for a lie or something they memorized. When they look to the right, they're feeling sorry - they don't want to answer.”
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“I have no business being a journalist. I'm the least, I'm the least - I'm the most trusting, I absolutely make a habit of believing anything that anybody tells me about themselves. I've never had any reason in the world to think that anyone has wanted to harm me, or lie to me. I believe whatever is being sold, most of the time.”
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“I don't ever want to be caught up in a system of thinking I can do one thing 'cos that's just… that's just telling yourself a lie.”
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“Now I come to 75 years of age, I think what's most important in life is your conscience. If you told a lie and made other people suffer, I think that's very difficult when you reach this age.”
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“I can't lie… My face always gives me away. I'm also pathetically bad at poker!”
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“I think all politicians lie.”
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“Well, I do lie for a living. I'm an actor.”
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“I'm actually incapable of lying. I'm like a parody of a person who can't lie.”
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“Crime and legal stories, broadly speaking, are just where my interest happens to lie.”
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“Many say an art dealer running a museum is a 'conflict of interest.' But maybe the art world has lived an artificial or unintentional lie all of these years when it comes to conflicts of interest.”
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“If you know that life is basically going to be horrendously difficult, at best, and all but unlivable at worst, or possibly even unlivable, do you go on? And the choice to go on is the only thing that I think can be called hope. Because if hope isn't forced to encounter the worst possibility, then it's a lie.”
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“You lie when you're a teenager, I think, because your parents are treating you like you're younger and you - in your mind - think that you're so much older. You make up all of these lies because you think it's what you should do.”
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“I definitely used to lie about my age. I'm from Tennessee and everyone would vacation in Destin, Florida, where there are lots of cute guys. I would go with my older sister and lie about my age to them.”
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“Entertainer of the Year, to me, there's never been any question that that's one on my bucket list that I want. I'm not going to sit here and lie to you. If there's one that I ever could get - I would trade all the rest of them in for that one.”
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“I think it would be shocking for me to pretend not to have any past. And also, it would be a lie.”
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“Never lie to your mother. That's like the biggest lesson that I learned, learned throughout my life, you know?”
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“But Bill Clinton had the good taste to lie about his sexual peccadillos. He had the honor and the decency to want to cover it up.”
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“The only thing that I have is the truth, so the only thing I fear is a lie.”
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“I've had gay friends who grew up in small towns in France who had to lie for most of their lives, even to themselves. But eventually such lies become stronger than the people, and they have to face them.”
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“In politics, sometimes you have to lie, or you make a promise that you cannot keep.”
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“I was raised to believe in myself. I know I'm cool. I'm not trying to brag or say I'm the man or anything like that. I don't lie or cheat, and I'm not mean to anybody. I treat people with respect.”
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“It is in Rousseau's writing above all that history begins to turn from upper-class honour to middle-class humanitarianism. Pity, sympathy and compassion lie at the centre of his moral vision. Values associated with the feminine begin to infiltrate social existence as a whole, rather than being confined to the domestic sphere.”
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“Cynicism and naivety lie cheek by jowl in the American imagination; if the United States is one of the most venal nations on Earth, it is also one of the most earnestly idealistic.”
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“It will be in the convergence of evolutionary biology, developmental biology and cancer biology that the answer to cancer will lie. Nor will this confluence be a one-way street.”
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“Film is a window to the real world but a lie that makes you believe the unbelievable.”
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“When I think it's good not to say the truth, I don't say anything. I don't like actors in general, they lie, they are liars, trust me.”
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“Broadcasting's best days lie ahead as both an engine of local economies and as an integral part of tomorrow's technological world.”
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“I love the ocean, but I'm just not one to lie on the beach.”
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“Our culture does not teach us this, but what happens in Vegas does not stay in Vegas. If you cheat in Vegas, it comes right home with you. If you cheat in Vegas, you walk home as a cheater. You lie awake at a night a cheater. You cannot escape it.”
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“As a kid I'd lie awake at night and convince myself that a meteor was about to hit the Earth. It's my fatalistic streak, which I've inherited from my mum. I firmly believe something cataclysmic is going to happen in my lifetime and I have to be prepared to run for my life when the time comes.”
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“With the birth of my first child and my involvement with my first husband, I basically stopped lying. I just didn't want to lie anymore, because it reduces the stature of the person you're lying to.”
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“I believe it was probably less than ten minutes that went by from the invention of photography to the point where people realized that they could lie with photographs.”
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“People lie, and they always are very very creative in finding new ways to lie.”
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“Early on I decided that I was going to lie to the press. The best approach to talking about my personal life was to lie.”
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“Someday, I have no doubt, the dead from today's wars will be seen with a similar sense of sorrow at needless loss and folly as those millions of men who lie in the cemeteries of France and Belgium - and tens of millions of Americans will feel a similar revulsion for the politicians and generals who were so spendthrift with others' lives.”
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“I think people tend to apply where they think the greatest opportunities lie.”
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“I think I have gone through my entire public career never telling a lie. I have made mistakes but I never knowingly lied.”
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“Most governments lie to each other. That's the way business gets done.”
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“I was really freaked out when I heard that Cookie Monster was going to be changed to Veggie Monster, but that turned out to be a lie.”
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“Manipulating people is what's so fun about poker. I love that you can just look into someone's eyes and lie - and it's perfectly acceptable.”
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“All bad things are exaggerated in the middle of the night. When you lie awake, you only think of bad things.”
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“My personal life is lived as 'me,' but my professional life is lived as other people. In other words, when I go to the office, I lie down, dream, and become 'someone else.' That's my job.”
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“Don't hate me for what tabloids write about me, because I guarantee it's a lie.”
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“Despite the fact that I spend a lot of time in London, Switzerland and New York, Africa is the place I know and love best, and my heart will always lie here.”
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“When something really hits me, it makes me want to either jump off something really high or lie down and be buried. I want people to get hit and caught by my music.”
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“I'm not someone who can lie on a beach and do nothing. I am not sure what you are supposed to do, so I get bored. I prefer to have a purpose, such as going to Alaska to see orca whales.”
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“Don't believe what the spiritual sharks and clever carnival hustlers tell you about fearless living - they lie.”
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“I would never lie to anyone about history.”
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“Because I used to play a lot of sport, I've always been in decent enough shape. When I used to get asked to do a bit of body work before a photo shoot I'd lie and say, 'Yeah, I'm going to the gym.' I literally never did anything.”
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“I recently got into 'Lie to Me' with Tim Roth and 'The Mentalist.'”
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“'Live a Lie' is inspired by recent combinations found in dubstep.”
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“Barack Obama isn't the first politician to break a promise, torture the truth or outright lie to the American people. But, he certainly is among the most accomplished at it.”
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“I had an attitude problem when I was a kid. I'm not gonna lie.”
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“I have three storage units, and that's no lie. Three storage units. All books.”
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“I would imagine that the more time you spend talking to another person, the more you're going to lie to them. So if you spend a lot of time with your relations, you're probably lying a lot to them.”
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“It is my position that allowing gays and lesbians to serve openly would be the right thing to do. No matter how I look at this issue, I cannot escape being troubled by the fact that we have in place a policy which forces young men and women to lie about who they are in order to defend their fellow citizens.”
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“Don't misquote me as wanting to hurt homosexual people in any way. That would be a dastardly lie.”
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“I'm not going to lie, I love TV. I watch a ton of it - golf, HGTV, football.”
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“Before I had kids, I thought you should never lie to a kid. But now I've had them, I realize you almost lie to them by definition, because if you're trying to summarize something for your 1-year-old, you put it in very simple terms. You only gradually complicate the explanation as they get older.”
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“I just have an inability to lie.”
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“Magic is an art form where you lie and tell people you are lying.”
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“When a magician lets you notice something on your own, his lie becomes impenetrable.”
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“Just because you have a blog doesn't mean that you should, like, lie for no reason.”
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“Politicians, it's in their job description to just lie, every day.”
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“In order to feel loved, be respected and stay connected, we humans have a tendency to lie. We lie about who we are, what we want, what we need, what we have done or will do. Perhaps 'lie' is too strong a word. Let me say that what we do is withhold the truth.”
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“I think the lie we've told people in the marketplace is that a degree gets you a job. A degree doesn't get you a job. What gets you a job is the ability to carry yourself into that room and shake a hand and look someone in the eye and have people skills. These are the things that cause people to become successful.”
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“Some people will lie to you because they mean to. Others will do it to tell you what you want to hear.”
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“I'm not going to lie: I still have days when I walk by the mirror on my way to the shower and think, 'Oh God, I didn't just see that!'”
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“A culture cannot lie down with dogs and not become utterly infested with fleas. The dogs, in this case, are the mongrel media and the corporate overlords who have grown fat on manufactured controversy and fear mongering.”
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“My own view is that if you filled every member of the parliamentary Labour party with a truth drug and lashed them to a polygraph lie detector, very, very few of them would support foundation hospitals.”
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“When we're upset, our vocal cords tighten and we can't speak. And when I lie - well, I can't lie, because the same thing happens - everyone who knows me knows that when I start squeaking, I've started lying.”
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“Oh, I talk about things; I drive my husband insane. And I can't tell a lie. Everyone knows. I do this smile thing.”
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“I was desperate for a friend, and I used to lie in bed at night thinking about what it would be like. My younger brothers and sisters had friends, and I used to watch them playing to try to work out what they did and how friendship worked.”
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“As a novelist, I'm incredibly lucky to make a living, but that doesn't mean that I don't lie awake at four o'clock in the morning, worrying.”
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“I was going to say that writing is about disclosure and acting is about obfuscation, but that's such a little lie. Both of them are about obfuscation and masking oneself.”
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“I think the greatest illusion we have is that denial protects us. It's actually the biggest distortion and lie. In fact, staying asleep is what's killing us.”
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“Most mustaches lie waiting for some Clark Gable or Tom Selleck to fix them in the mind. The greatest are identified with a single man, a bad man, usually, who so wrapped his identity with a particular configuration of facial hair that the two became inseparable.”
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“I have a sensible set of values that tell me to never lie.”
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“If you said to me, 'Lie down on that concrete floor and fall asleep,' I could do it. I can sleep anywhere at any time of day on any surface.”
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“As a kid in Fayetteville, N.C., I played golf all day, every day, a lot of it by myself. I spent hundreds of hours around the greens at Cape Fear Valley, the course my dad owned, hitting every shot I could think of - the one-hop-and-release, the chip that lands dead, the explosion from a bad lie.”
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“Don't see the point in reading ghost-written autobiographies, even though some of these published lives may fascinate me. The 'ghost' is always present, manipulating an interview into first-person singular text, and it feels like I'm reading a lie.”
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“As long as we decline to allow sick, uninsured people to just lie down and die on the side of the road, everybody has to have insurance for the health care system to work sanely.”
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“It's okay to lie as long as you reach a higher truth doing it.”
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“When I started travelling, I would go to a city and be on television and I used to get the question, 'Why do you work? If I were you, I'd just go and lie on a beach somewhere.' And I'd answer, 'Well, I wanted to make something of my life.'”
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“I sometimes lie awake at night and wonder why I am still so popular and, to be honest, I don't know.”
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“I'm very strange, I'm not going to lie.”
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“When I was really young, I used to lie a lot. Now I get paid to do it.”
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“It would be a lie to say that people are coming to adoption with joy at all times. Hope, perhaps, but it would be disingenuous to say that every part coming to an adoption isn't seriously grieving.”
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“There's a tendency for designers to embellish the size of their business. I never lie.”
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“Obviously as I'm getting older, I'm seeing changes in my body that I may not like… but I do love food, and I'm from the South. I'm not gonna lie, I eat fried chicken, I love macaroni and cheese, and I love grits.”
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“I only eat candy on Halloween. No lie.”
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“Novel-writing is a bit like deception. You lie as little as you possibly can. That's the way I do it, anyway.”
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“You get tough when you grow up unloved. People described me as a boyish girl - rather shy, but I didn't show it. I had an attitude. I was rather wild. I lied a lot because I knew the alternative was to be punished. As I got older I realised I didn't have to lie any more and it was a nice feeling. I could be myself.”
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“We always had money problems. Sometimes I would lie awake at night wondering how to pay the rent.”
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“I think you can never ever lie, ever. If you don't know, say, 'I don't know'.”
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“The best crime novels are all based on people keeping secrets. All lying - you may think a lie is harmless, but you put them all together and there's a calamity.”
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“The most difficult problems are naturally not involved in the search for forms for contemporary life. It is a question of working our way to forms behind which real human values lie.”
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“Reasoning based on cost has been strenuously resisted; it violated the Hippocratic Oath, was associated with rationing, and derided as putting a price on life… Indeed, many physicians were willing to lie to get patients what they needed from insurance companies that were trying to hold down costs.”
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“I prefer theater, but I love to do films, and I prefer theater primarily because I've done more. I know less about movies. You can't lie in either medium. The wonderful thing is that the camera, just like an audience, is made out of skin - because celluloid is skin.”
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“Playing a bad guy would be fun, I'm not going to lie. I'd definitely do that in a heartbeat, because it's so out of my nature.”
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“Forget about someone's resume or how they present themselves at a party. Can they blog or not? The blog doesn't lie.”
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“The drawings in 'Portal' were actually me scribbling that stuff… I had a funny moment when I realized that someone gotten 'The cake is a lie' tattooed on themselves. It was really interesting to see my handwriting tattooed on another human being. That… that's odd.”
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“One improvement I have learned from my childhood experience with my father: I do not threaten punishment in the morning. That was awful. Late into the night I would lie awake tossing and wondering what he was going to do to me. Usually he did nothing. A quiet, impressive 'talking to' was all I got.”
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“The topic of trust is an important factor in all matters of the heart - and here's why. Men lie to women. Women lie to men. And most people agree that some lying is even necessary - to avoid petty squabbles and to grease the wheels of a relationship.”
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“You cannot tell an audience a lie. They know it before you do; before it's out of your mouth, they know it's a lie.”
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“Fans don't lie. They just tell you what they really think, and they see details that even people in fashion don't.”
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“First of all, the idea that natural gas is better than coal is a lie, especially when it comes to fracking for natural gas. It is a lie that was bought into by a lot of Democrats and a lot of environmentalists because I think they wanted to have a win against something; against coal.”
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“I'm not going to lie; I'm not a huge remix person.”
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“I don't meditate in any formal way, but I often lie in bed or find myself in nature and enter into that state of quiet where I get images, feelings, or melodies.”
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“The idea that murder victims' families are best served by continuing the cycle of violence is something that I consider to be not only a lie, but criminally negligent. You lie to victims' families when you tell them they're going to receive closure if they participate in the process and witness the execution of a human being.”
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“The whole Modernist lie is that art is about the artist.”
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“What is the evolutionary value of blushing? It seems not to be to our advantage to do it, to involuntarily reveal our inner emotions. If we're trying to manipulate or lie, actions in furtherance of individual goals as opposed to the goals of others, blushing would not seem to be helpful. And yet everyone blushes, except the psychopath.”
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“I find this wave of super-skinny women scary. I'm not going to lie to you, I've got to drag myself down to the gym like everybody else. But I look at the red carpet sometimes and it's like a pageant.”
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“I try to tell one lie in every interview. It keeps people I know amused when they read the article.”
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“Nobody can be whatever they want to be. No kid can do whatever they want to do. It's a total lie. But they have the right to try and do whatever they want to do. That's their right, to aim to do whatever they want to do.”
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“You grow up in America and you're told from day one, 'This is the land of opportunity.' That everybody has an equal chance to make it in this country. And then you look at places like Harlem, and you say, 'That is absolutely a lie.'”
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“A human being at rest runs on 90 watts. That's how much power you need just to lie down. And if you're a hunter-gatherer and you live in the Amazon, you'll need about 250 watts. That's how much energy it takes to run about and find food.”
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“Africa's salvation doesn't lie in begging and begging for more aid, and as an African, I find it very, very humiliating.”
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“Theatre is liberating because it only works if it's truthful - that's what it requires. That's not true of film: the camera does lie.”
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“I can sleep anywhere! I can come off stage during the interval of a play, lie down for four minutes then wake up feeling better.”
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“You know that if you lie to yourself, surely other people lie to themselves. And if they lie to themselves, they will lie to you also.”
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“It's a lie! I am not an anti-Semite. The World Jewish Congress supported me and said that I am not anti-Semitic.”
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“I think people lie on the Internet. I would prefer to meet someone in person, and I need to have chemistry when we meet and spend a little time, and have a couple of dates.”
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“I think 20th century media were about tricking people - and the beauty of the Internet is you can't lie anymore.”
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“I always find the worst lies are told in relationships - I learned to never lie about your happiness in order to save someone's feelings from being hurt.”
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“I won't lie - when you're first bringing out music and you want people to notice, you probably overdo it, especially as a girl.”
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“I love period pieces. It's where my skill sets lie, with the horseback riding, the sword fighting and the accents. I love that world, and I love working on those big, epic shows. That's what I hope to find myself in, in the future.”
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“When I first left drama school, I was too posh for the working-class parts and not posh enough for the upper-class roles. You know what England is like: the gradations of accent and how you're judged by them are still there. I discovered that to get a break you have to lie about where you're from.”
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“I've told lots of lies in my life. I try not to lie, but I still do. It's very difficult to get to 37 and not be ashamed of something you've done. But I think your life is easier, ultimately, if you're honest.”
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“I've been a jealous person myself. I've been distrustful, convinced that somebody's having an affair with somebody else. If you believe it in your head, everything looks like a lie. When you're looking for it, you always see it - even the change of expression in their face.”
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“Lie to Me' is one of the smartest shows on TV. We have something different, unique and new to say to the audience that they're not going to get from any other show.”
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“If I have to spend prolonged periods of time in a trailer, I go mad. Stuck in a metal box doing nothing, I lie there paralysed with boredom.”
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“I'd lie in bed in my dormitory and grab at bits of my body, wanting to tear them off… I was so large by then that, in the heat, my thighs chafed together and bled. I was very unhappy, and yet no one ever asked me how I felt.”
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“I'm not a religious person in the regular sense, but in the Bible you're not allowed to steal, you're not allowed to lie and you're not allowed to feel you're above other people.”
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“You know what, I am not gonna lie, that Taylor Swift 'Trouble' song? I can't resist that song. Her melodies are very catchy.”
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“People wanna say that they're part Native American or mixed, or anything other than black. We're raised to believe that there's something better about not being fully black, something eccentric about it. I'm saying I used to tell girls that I was mixed, which is a bold-faced lie!”
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“Our responsibility in life is not to lie around and wait for things to happen. Our responsibility in life is to work. Life is getting out and getting things done. When people say they're over-the-hill at age 50, I don't understand it.”
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“A lie to me is a dream that might come true.”
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“My fans know me and love me the way I am. I don't want to lie to my fans.”
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“I - honestly, I don't know of a worse lie one could tell other than a lie to take a country to war. To make up things to take people to war. That's just got to be the most obscene, immoral thing to do.”
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“Many criminals believe what they say is true; they could pass a lie detector test.”
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“Self-censorship is a lie to yourself; if you are going to be trying to seriously create art, to create literary art, and you decide to hold back, to censor yourself, then you are a fool to yourself and it would be better that you kept your mouth shut and did not speak.”
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“Sometimes it's just 'Oh my God, I love the taste of fried oysters on French bread with mayonnaise and an order of French fries.' I'm not going to lie to you - I deal with that temptation every single day, many times.”
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“I don't live a lie. You have to understand that people who choose not to discuss their personal lives are not living a lie. That is a presumption that people jump to.”
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“The SuperPACs and the Citizens United ruling that gives corporations a voice in the political process are all bad news. They made it so you can now lie, and the politician being promoted on that lie will not be held responsible for it.”
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“WikiLeaks is exposing our government officials for the frauds that they are. They also show us how governments work together to lie to their citizens when they are waging war.”
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“I get paid to lie to people as an actor. Country music is the one area that I don't lie. I tell the truth.”
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“My favorite moment is when someone says, 'I like 'Unleashed.' 'Now You See Me' is so much fun.' That's what I want to do: smart, fun and big movies. I cannot lie, I love working with those big paint brushes. I have a blast doing these movies.”
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“I think that the ideal of parenting can make people unhappy. It's that this lie that they're being told by society that parenting is one thing - and when parenting is something completely different - that's what makes them unhappy.”
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“Painting is a lie. It's the most magic of all media, the most transcendent. It makes space where there is no space.”
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“I don't think lying has any ultimate justification. I don't think it ever leads to anything positive. The good fight to have is not to lie. That's one of the challenges in a way.”
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“When I'm singing 'Deanna,' for example, which I sing pretty much every night, it brings forward a kind of imagined, romanticized lie about this particular person, which I find really comforting and exciting to sing about.”
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“My idol is Emile Zola. He was a man of the left, so people expected of him a kind of 'Les Miserables,' in which the underdogs are always noble people. But he went out, and found a lot of ambitious, drunk, slothful and mean people out there. Zola simply could not - and was not interested in - telling a lie.”
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“It is a lie that our anger justifies our impulse to hurt or ignore our antagonists. We are to forgive to be forgiven. To wait for them to repent before we forgive and repent is to allow them to choose for us a delay which could cost us happiness here and hereafter.”
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“If you read 'Lord of the Rings' and dismiss it as a lie because it has orcs and elves, you're missing the whole point of the story. If children don't have to be concerned about strangers because there's no such thing as a Big Bad Wolf dressed like Granny, you're missing the point.”
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“To be in front of an audience and pretending, and to lie, this is the principle of acting.”
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“If I hear a lie in my life with my children, with my wife, my work, my audiences, I want to annihilate myself, vaporize myself and wipe myself off the face of the earth.”
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“I cannot raise a child to lie or to hide things. I wasn't raised that way, and I'm not going to raise a child to do that.”
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“I just feel like people like a little break. Especially at 12:37 at night, you go, like, 'I'm just tired of the snarky right now. I just want to lie down and have somebody make me laugh for an hour. Entertain me, and then I'm going to sleep with a smile on my face.' That's my job; that's what I do.”
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“A myth is a lie that conceals or reveals a truth. But if it reveals even a strand of history or truth, that's what gets my adrenaline going.”
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“It's very rare that you have a liberal run as an unabashed liberal. They have to lie about it. They have to mask who they are. And in order for them to survive and thrive, they have to keep that up.”
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“Feminism is liberalism, and look at what it's doing, look at what it's promoting, look at what it's condoning. All the while, we have to live in this lie that there's some sort of Republican War on Women. We don't do this to women! We don't objectify women like this.”
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“It doesn't benefit me to lie to people. They're eventually going to find out the truth, and then where am I? That's the problem with liberalism and socialism, by the way: it has to be propped up by lies.”
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“I'm not a big splurger of money, but my guilty pleasures do lie within BMWs. I get roped in.”
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“I make myself lie down every afternoon; otherwise I'll be too exhausted by the night-time. If I can't nap, I'll watch a little bit of TV and just relax for two or three hours.”
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“There is obviously a power and a truth in action that doesn't lie, which words easily can do.”
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“Every hateful statement ever made about me is a dirty lie.”
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“Actors always lie about horse-riding, and it ends terribly. I can horse-ride… ish.”
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“You have these catch-phrases that you associate with 'The X-Files': 'Trust No One,' 'Deny Everything.' 'Believe the Lie' was one of them.”
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“I always wanted praise, and I always wanted attention; I won't lie to you. I was a jazz critic, and that wasn't good enough for me. I wanted people to write about me, not me about them. So I thought, 'What could I do? I can't sing, I can't dance, I can't act or anything like that. OK, I can write.'”
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“I love to make songs out of some of those shadows - you know, some of the things you lie awake thinking about, social anxieties and romantic insecurities and all that stuff.”
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“I lie to myself every day when I tell myself, 'I can skip yoga.'”
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“If I write a joke, sometimes people will call it a 'lie,' and I'm fascinated with that.”
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“Tennessee Williams knew about the South, but he would clean it up and lie about it.”
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“My favorite lie was the online rumor that Bruce Willis was my uncle. That's hilarious.”
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“The trouble when you're doing something illegal is that you know what you're doing. You're lying to your parents, you're lying to your kids. The only person you can't lie to is yourself.”
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“Every time a congressman or pundit says its 'class warfare' to increase taxes on the wealthy, it's a massive lie.”
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“Thread count is actually a lie. Just because a thread count is 1,500 on a set of sheets doesn't mean that they're well-made sheets. Truly, the quality of the cotton and the quality of the way something is woven is much more important than thread count.”
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“If I'm sending emails, and I get all wound up and stressed and don't know what to do with myself for 20 minutes, I just go soak in hot water and lie there, thinking, 'What should I do?' So it's meditative.”
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“The truth doesn't lie. It's up in your face. It's in your conscience. It challenges your very being with the intention of cleaning you of sin and its influence.”
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“When I was younger - I don't do this too much now - but sometimes if I couldn't sleep, I would lie in bed and imagine all the characters I've played at a dinner table together.”
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“The prevalence of mobile homes does not correspond with the prevalence of poverty, or with much of anything else. All that can be confidently said about America's mobile homes is that they are massed in places where you wouldn't want to be in one. Florida's mobile homes lie athwart the path of hurricanes. Georgia's are in the way of tornadoes.”
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“When I started The Shins, it really was just me, alone, but it was still The Shins. I was totally recording stuff and writing songs as The Shins and all of that. So the beginning inception of the whole thing was some sort of a lie, I guess.”
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“'Perfect' is about a set-up that looks perfect from the outside - beautiful country house, beautiful wife and mother, everything where it should be - and the deep fissures that, in fact, lie beneath that. 'Perfect' was partly a response to the shock of my first book, 'The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry,' being a success.”
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“Everything is so chaotic. My nervous system can't handle it. I need my peace, so, every once in a while, while the kids are at school, I lie in bed, close the curtains, watch television and eat food.”
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“I'm certainly not 10 pounds away from being an ingenue! Of course I would love to lose 10 pounds. I would never lie and say I don't think about it, but I don't think about it on a daily basis. I love my body. I don't like wearing clothes that hide or cover it. I love wearing costumes that show it off.”
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“People who lie, particularly those who lie really big, can't do it effectively unless they feel that there's a righteous power behind what they're doing. You're entitled to lie because the end justifies the means.”
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“Transactive memory works best when you have a sense of how your partners' minds work - where they're strong, where they're weak, where their biases lie. I can judge that for people close to me. But it's harder with digital tools, particularly search engines.”
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“Like many people, I have a fascination with lies and the people who tell them. I wouldn't say I've never told a lie, but I don't think I've ever told one without both assuming I would be found out and feeling absolutely rotten about it.”
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“I'm not in a position to tell anyone anything about how to live his or her life, but I think it's worth noting that no one can lie to us as effectively as we can lie to ourselves. We know exactly what to say! And I do think that women, even extremely smart women, can be very, very vulnerable to men.”
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“Serious writers pretend they don't care about film adaptations of their work, but it's a colossal lie: We all care.”
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“In Iranian cinema, all the lying takes place before making the film. In order to be able to make the film, you have to lie.”
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“People say children are charming because they tell the truth. That's a lie. I've got five of them. They only tell the truth if they're in pain.”
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“Compassionate doctors sometimes lie to patients about the severity of their condition, and it is not always wrong to do so.”
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“You can legally lie about the real world to your heart's content, but until some human being is materially damaged, nobody will complain.”
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“The opportunity to completely become someone else and inhabit them is something that has always fascinated me greatly as an actor. With a bit of fortune, a few more of those opportunities will lie waiting for me in the future.”
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“That the role of size has been to some degree neglected in biology may lie in its simplicity. Size may be a property that affects all of life, but it seems pallid compared to the matter which makes up life. Yet size is an aspect of the living that plays a remarkable, overreaching role that affects life's matter in all its aspects.”
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“Most days, I have a slice of toast, then lie in a hot bath for an hour to get up a sweat. I have a sauna at the racecourse and then go and ride. On the way home, I might stop at a service station and have a bar of chocolate and a Diet Coke. And that's it, basically.”
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“Salem houses present to you a serene and dignified front, gracious yet reserved, not thrusting forward their choicest treasures to the eyes of passing strangers; but behind the walls of the houses, enclosed from public view, lie cherished gardens, full of the beauty of life.”
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“Scales always lie. They don't make a scale that ever told the truth about value, about worth, about significance.”
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“Film is drama. You've only two hours, so you lie by exclusion, and try to make up for it by portraying the environment.”
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“I don't think, as an actress, you want to be beautiful. It's actually a disadvantage because that's not where all the interesting parts lie.”
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“I was complexed and awkward that I was good for nothing and was always lying. I would lie to my school friends that I was a stud in my colony and to my colony friends that I was a stud in the school cricket and football teams, though I was in no team.”
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“Dandyism is a lie which reveals the truth, and the truth is that we are what we pretend to be.”
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“America's popular heroes have seldom been its great thinkers, and even less its scientists. The success of TV's 'Big Bang Theory,' which seems to give the lie to this claim, is more the exception that proves the rule.”
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“I won't lie - I picked up the occasional gossip magazine in the past because I thought that maybe 5 to 10 percent of it was true. Now I think it's zero percent.”
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“The notion that the 'leader' has the right to ask huge sacrifices of your generation for a notional future paradise - if you'd be good enough to lie down under the wheels of the juggernaut - that sentimental and self-aggrandising rationalisation for brute force and cowardice I felt from adolescence was wrong.”
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“President Obama is a gifted politician. He is gifted with rhetoric virtuosity. He is gifted with the ability to lie directly to camera without blinking. And he is gifted with some of the most incompetent conservative opposition in the history of the country.”
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“Not only do I lie, I take real pleasure in lying, in the transmission of magic effects.”
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“I like country music. I'm not going to lie. I'm from the South, and I grew up on it. My dad was a country singer-songwriter, so it's in my blood, and I love it.”
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“I was reluctant to be critical of the United States because I thought the United States could do no wrong; that the government could not lie to its people.”
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“Once in a while, when I was younger, I'd lie, then tell the truth, and I'd feel better.”
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“You can't lie to your audience. You can't lie to your fans.”
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“What's it like to figure out you're gay and then begin the process of coming out? Well, for most of my life, I felt doomed. I could imagine no path that would allow me to realize my authentic self. I felt the need to lie, even to myself, insisting: I am straight.”
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“The theater itself is a lie. Its deaths are mere special effects. Its tales never happened. Even the histories are distorted for dramatic effect. The theater is unnatural, a place of imagination. But the theater tells the audience something true: that the world requires judgments.”
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“The moment kids start to lie is the moment storytelling begins. They are talking about things they didn't see. It's amazing. It's a wonderful moment. Parents should celebrate. 'Hurray! My boy finally started to lie!' All right! It calls for celebration.”
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“If you take 10,000 people at random, 9,999 have something in common: their interests in business lie on or near the Earth's surface. The odd one out is an astronomer, and I am one of that strange breed.”
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“The president doesn't order the military to seize political opponents. He doesn't order his intelligence community to lie about national security for political purposes. He uses the military or intelligence communities to protect the United States and our citizens, not to help him win elections.”
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“We have been telling and hearing and reading war stories for millennia. Their endurance may lie in their impossibility; they can never be complete, for the tensions and the contradictions within them will never be eliminated or resolved. That challenge is essential to their power and their attraction. War stories matter.”
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“I don't care if every patriarch in the Church has made a mistake in a blessing, and told a lie, I believe with all my heart and soul that the gospel is true, and I will not allow my faith to be upset.”
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“Lie detectors sometimes work because people believe they work, deterring the wrong people from applying for jobs in the first place, or prompting admissions of guilt during interrogations.”
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“The thing that's depressing is teaching graduate students today and discovering that they don't know simple elemental facts of grammar. They really do not know how to scan a line; they've never been taught to scan a line. Many of them don't know the difference between 'lie' and 'lay,' let alone 'its' and 'it's.' And they're in graduate school!”
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“When I was going to school, I just wanted to be like everybody else. I would pull at my hair to try and get it to lie straight. America was where I would consume and absorb black culture, buy Ultra Sheen and watch 'Soul Train,' but I still had that weird in-between thing.”
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“My hair is God's aura. Everything went up when I got home from the penitentiary. One night I went to lie down next to my wife, and my hair started popping and uncurling all on its own - ping, ping, ping, ping! I knew that it was God telling me to stay on the righteous path so he could one day pull me up to be there with him.”
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“Gone are the days when you could lie on a beach between races and still be in good enough shape to compete. Gone are the days when simply wearing a brand on your firesuit was enough to justify the marketing expense of an Indy Car. Racing an Indy Car is only about a quarter of my life as a racing driver.”
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“I sure am handsome. I can't lie. This is one handsome guy.”
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“I find writing extraordinarily difficult and not very pleasurable, though I find having done it very pleasurable. I won't lie about that.”
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“I don't want to lie to my subscribers, so I'm really honest about my reviews and stuff.”
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“Some people would rather have a lie that makes them smile than a truth that makes them cry. I'm the opposite; I'd rather have people make me cry with the truth than try to make me smile.”
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“That whole thing: the paparazzi, a gazillion magazines. You can't lie on a beach. God forbid your bikini rides up too far or you've eaten too many doughnuts and they catch you wiping your mouth. That must be exhausting, that lack of privacy.”
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“I think it's cool to get to know designers. There is some anxiety, maybe, that after you've met a designer, you want to be loyal to them and wear their clothes. And sometimes it's just not my style. But you have to be honest, and I don't really want to lie.”
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“When it comes to belts and rank, I don't care what belt I am; I don't care what rank I am. I'm proud that I've achieved high ranks through some great instructors around the world, but ultimately, the mat doesn't lie.”
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“I know why people lie to themselves in life, but I'll never understand the appeal of the dishonest theater where the actor doesn't make some earnest attempt to include their own honest humanity in their collaboration with an author. It's so ugly to me that it hurts sometimes to see it happen.”
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“You think when you start getting jobs that it'll get easier, but that's the biggest lie ever. It gets harder. You have to put in more work. I wish it were the casting couch days because it'd be a lot easier!”
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“Johnny 'Fairplay' Dalton manufactured a lie about his dear grandmother dying in order to win a challenge. This is one of the best villain moments of 'Survivor' ever! This lie was pre-planned, evil, and perfectly played out.”
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“I like doing Pilates because I get to lie down on the floor for the duration of the session.”
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“I'm not gonna lie: I was not a big 'Star Wars' geek.”
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“First and foremost, telling historical stories is very tricky because it is something that is known. It is not like you can tell a lie or change something that is written in black and white.”
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“No doubt, corporate CEOs who lie to their shareholders and politicians who lie to their public know and believe intellectually that lying is immoral. Why then do they lie? They lie to others because they first lie to themselves.”
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“A trio of reputations lie at the heart of Henry James's 'The Portrait of a Lady.'”
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“I've said before that the common perception that all good actors should be good liars is exactly the opposite; only bad actors lie when they act.”
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“If a person lies to you about what's in their bank account, they'll lie to you about other things as well.”
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“Your woods, irons and wedges are built with specific lengths and lie angles, which demand that you stand to the ball a little differently for each one. The secret is to know which elements of your address position remain constant, and which ones you have to tweak to match the club in your hand.”
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“If you never lie to yourself, you'll always be happy with yourself, and eventually the person you wake up with and the person you go to sleep with is yourself.”
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“In greenside bunkers, the big thing is to adapt your stance to the shot. It's rare that you get a flat lie in the sand, so I make sure to align my body to the slope. Then I blast the ball out by splashing the sand underneath it.”
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“There's nothing wrong with material things as long as you don't lie, cheat and steal.”
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“It used to be the one or the other, right? You were the 'bad girl' or the 'good girl' or the 'bad mother' or 'the good mother,' 'the horrible businesswoman who eschewed her children' or 'the earth mother who was happy to be at home baking pies,' all of that stuff that we sort of knew was a lie.”
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“From a good lie in the middle of a fairway bunker, I'll make the same swing as I do from an average fairway lie. I'll dig my feet in slightly and keep my lower body stable so I won't slip, but I don't change my club selection or setup. It's only when the ball is sitting down in the sand that I'll make some modifications.”
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“For the most part, when you play a full shot from the primary rough at your course, you're gauging how close to a standard shot you can hit based on your lie in the grass.”
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“You have to know how to read your lie and take a calculated risk when you hit out of the rough.”
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“The thing that I think a lot of guys need to know how to do is not take your mother's advice about honesty being the best policy. Listen to your cool, drunk uncle who tells you to lie. Those are the relationships that last.”
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“Michael Grimm never met a tax he didn't lie to evade.”
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“I'd be willing to bet that any incursion throughout history in which the invading country has proclaimed it is bringing benefits to the conquered is based on a lie.”
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“One of biggest lies in politics is the lie that Republicans are the party of big business. Big business does great with big government. Big business is very happy to climb in bed with big government. Republicans are and should be the party of small business and of entrepreneurs.”
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“You can't be the dad who takes your kid out after your wife has said, 'No ice cream,' buys the ice cream, and says, 'Don't tell your mother.' You teach the child to lie - and to disrespect the other parent.”
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“All my novels are about the ambiguities that lie beneath the sharp edges of the law.”
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“There are people who love on weekends to go out when the sun comes out. I just want to lie in bed and watch sports and relax.”
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“I'm interested in stories that aren't getting told: it's where my interests lie.”
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“Modern capitalism seeks to assure us that it operates according to the principles of free creativity, endless development and diversity. It glosses over its other side in order to hide the reality that millions of people are enslaved by an all-powerful and fantastically stable norm of production. We want to reveal this lie.”
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“There are very few issues that lie specifically in one region now. Polio in Syria doesn't affect Syria alone. I don't think any issue can ever be isolated into local politics these days, because we all know too much.”
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“Being an artist, it's all a journey, and you learn where the subtle patterns lie.”
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“You want positive, go elsewhere. Go find a different lie.”
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“My priority doesn't lie with the whole website and Facebook and such; I'm still walking down the road in a pair of real shoes. You need to just play as much as you can. Get in front of people, as I've always said. It doesn't matter if it's ten people at an open mic or opening a show for someone. Play all the time.”
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“At the end of the day, I believe truth is stronger than any lie that's out there.”
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“In his final year in office, Clinton decided that his contribution to Middle East peace would lie not in the removal of Saddam Hussein but in a grand attempt to resolve the conflict between the Palestinians and Israel. With this, he missed his last chance to deal forcefully with the man he was publicly committed to overthrowing.”
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“Where does guilt and punishment lie, and are we not more expressive over remorse or guilt when other people see the badness in us?”
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“When I had a fellowship at the Smithsonian, I asked for a couch in the office because I liked to lie down and take a break.”
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“When you're telling stories, you are actually trying to illuminate some portion of the truth in an artful way. The story may immediately seem to be a lie, but it's like an impressionistic painting - you see the light and the color better than you would with a photo-realistic piece.”
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“The biggest lie of all is that capitalism is democracy. We have no way of understanding democracy outside of the market, just as we have no understanding of how to understand freedom outside of market values.”
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“I think about 'The Simpsons,' which has been going on for 25 years. Homer is still in his late 30's. Lisa is 8, Bart is 10. Their stories are told. Yet the series keeps going on and on like a zombie that won't lie down and die. That feels forced and unnatural. The characters never change, grow, age.”
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“As a child, I amused myself by making up stories. I'd lie in bed when I was supposed to be sleeping and imagine other lands where people were doing fascinating things. By fifth grade, I knew I wanted to be a writer, but it took several more decades to really find my way as an author.”
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“I used to want covers that represented the book's contents very closely and were also pretty. Many folks automatically believe that this is what makes a good cover. But I've changed my mind about this. While the cover should not lie (by implication or outright), its job is simply to say: 'Pick me up!' to someone who might like the book.”
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“How wonderful it would be to scatter words as they rise to consciousness, to let them lie where they fall.”
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“The best liars lie with their eyes rather than with their words. This might put writers at a disadvantage.”
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“Telling ourselves that fiction is in a sense true and at the same time not true is essential to the art of fiction. It's been at the heart of fiction from the start. Fiction offers both truth, and we know it's a flat-out lie. Sometimes it drives a novelist mad. Sometimes it energizes us.”
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“On TV, you never know where it's going. They may even lie to you about where it's going. You never really know because the scripts come in every couple of weeks or so.”
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“I never lie to my fans.”
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“In wrestling, there is no retreat. No way to slow things down. In wrestling, you advance and advance, and being tired is just a lie to make the other guy think he can relax. It's so hard - harder than anything I've ever done.”
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“I didn't apply to any colleges - I lied to all my friends and told them I was going to UCSD, because all their parents would be like, 'Mark, where're you going to college?' and I'd just lie 'cause I felt it was unrealistic to be an actor.”
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“I have two hammocks, one Mayan and one Guatemalan, both family size because I like to lie in them perpendicular. When I'm working on a character, I lie in them and daydream. They're the best tools for working that I have.”
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“Good poets have written in order to describe something or to preach something - with their eye on the object or the end. The essence of the poetry does not lie in the thing described or in the message imparted but in the resulting concrete unity, the poem.”
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“Sometimes things feel hopeless. Not always within my own life - but looking outward, it seems like rough times lie ahead of us. The world seems to be kind of caving in on itself in a lot of ways. But I try to look on the bright side.”
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“Don't lie - when you are 105 years of age - on your deathbed, thinking, 'I should have done a few things!' I would like to think I tried as much as I could.”
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“I'm not going to lie - it's insulting to be praised for being a 'woman' with 'no college degree.'”
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“I'm not going to lie. I rarely wear sunblock.”
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“I have an 'office,' technically. I never use it. I work on a couch in my living room, with my laptop on my lap, looking out the windows. I love space and green things. And I'm an incredibly casual person. I slouch. I close the laptop and just lie on the couch for a while if I need to think. I put my feet up on a table while I type.”
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“I have a couple of things I do to clear my head when I need it. The first is exercise, the kind of exercise that makes me lie on the floor afterward gasping for breath and wonder if I'm actually going to be able to breathe enough to not die. The other one is playing music.”
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“It's just a blessing from above. I can't stress that enough, because I don't feel like it's anything that I've done. For me to say, 'Well, it's because of this, this and that is why I've been able to play,' it's just a lie. I couldn't tell you why.”
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“I'd just lie around all day. It's the chemo, the poison they pump into you. Sometimes I'd be walking across the room and think, 'There it is; I got to rest.' And I had to, right then.”
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“I was a little ham and was a very open kid, probably because I was around adults all the time. That also forced me to grow up fast, and I learned at an early age about how people lie and deceive each other.”
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“'Our experience shows that security does not lie in weapons or fences or armies.' - √ìscar Arias”
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“I want to live in my truth. Tell me you don't like me, and I know it. But when you don't tell me, and you work behind my back, it's a lie, and I don't know how to fight that.”
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“It's hard for me to accept love. I wish I could lie to you and tell you that it's easy for me, but it's not.”
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“I think shows that are completely dramatic are a lie. People use humor to cope. That is how we deal with things. In the darkest situations, there's humor. And if you don't show that, you're not being true to real life.”
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“Writers divide fairly cleanly into those who only work through what they hear and those who are more visual. I am the latter, where I lie down on my office floor and play scenes through my head to - cinematically, several times with different elements - to see what works. I can't write a scene until I can see it.”
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“There isn't a lot of honesty when it comes to discussing Obamacare. Too many Republicans lie about the implications of the health-insurance program and dismiss out of hand the reasons a massive overhaul of the long-time system is necessary.”
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“Your soul's mission is to serve in the grandest way it can. Divine plans lie imprinted in your inner world, and there are important lessons for you to learn and share on this journey to your most magnificent self.”
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“Those of us who were part of creating the Scottish parliament believe we must always test constitutional arrangements. The real test is where do the powers lie? Is it in the best interests of Scotland?”
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“The word war itself has a kind of glazing abstraction to it that conjures up bombs and bullets and so on, whereas my goal is to try to, so much as I can, capture the heart and the stomach and the back of the throat of readers who can lie in bed at night and participate in a story.”
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“Working as a journalist, I was always tempted to lie. I felt I could do dialogue better than the person I was interviewing. I felt I could lie better than Nixon and be more concise than some random person I was covering.”