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I am one of the few men honest enough to say they do not understand women.

When we get to what happens when we die, we don't have any video footage. So let's at least be honest that we are speculating, because we are.

I feel like I grew up being babysat by a television, and all I ever wanted to do was be in movies, direct movies, make movies, but it took me a really long time to be honest with myself about it because my background is that my family was very poor.

As Americans, we have the right to decide who lives within our borders, and we can't let unscrupulous employers to undercut honest business owners by exploiting cheap labor.

Life runs to death as its goal, and we should go towards that next stage of experience either carelessly as to what must be, or with a good, honest curiosity as to what may be.

A doctrinaire is a fool but an honest man.

I'm the straight-talking woman in your life who is going to be really honest with you, but come from a place of love. I'm not talking down to you; I do this from my heart.

Interestingly, I matured as a musician and as an artist before I matured as a man. What I mean by that is, I was ready to be completely vulnerable and honest with myself and unapologetic when it comes to how I express myself in my medium. But I wasn't as secure in doing that when it came to just being myself.

I have met with some of them - very honest fellows, who, with all their stupidity, had a kind of intelligence and an upright good sense, which cannot be the characteristics of fools.

I'm very honest in my music and I'm often asked to explain the lyrics; as an introvert, I find that quite hard. And I always wear high heels on stage, which can be painful.

I'm certainly honest - and I can be socially awkward.

The author of McCarthyism was given the distinction of addressing the Republican National Convention. This strikes terror in the hearts of honest men.

I was too heavy to be a jockey and too honest to be a producer, so I became a writer

I think I have come to a place where I'm able to feel more comfortable about being honest.

To be honest, as an actor, job security is not a trait.

I'm a terrible interviewer. I'm not a journalist - although I have a Peabody Award - and I'm not really a late-night host. What I am is honest.

Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.

The Band was rebelling against the rebellion. The rebellion went to a place where it became too obvious, too trendy, like you were just following the pack. So it was our choice to get off the bandwagon - no pun intended - and do things that were in our background and what was the most honest thing to do.

As long as government is allowed to collect all Internet data, the perceived exigency will drive honest civil servants to reach more broadly and deeply into our networked lives.

Traveling around the country, meeting fans and hearing their stories in person and on my radio show has reenergized my commitment to creating honest and inspirational content that not only serves my own creative purposes but can help and touch others as well.

Be sweet and honest always, but for God's sake don't eat my doughnuts!

It's a challenge, writing about actors, especially a good actor, because you can't always tell when they're being honest and when they're pretending - that is, when they're acting. The really good ones don't always seem to know themselves.

'Something Borrowed' is looking like a romantic comedy, but it's a comedy. It shines as a comedy; it's definitely not just about the romance. It's an honest depiction of the struggle between the characters. The comedy aspect will make it shine.

The first job of a writer is to be honest.

To be honest with my music... for me to expect anyone to connect it has to come from a place of honesty.

You have to be OK with your own fears. If you're an honest person, you'll make mistakes, but that's when the most interesting things happen.

Most of us are not real eager to grow, myself included. We try to be happy by staying in the status quo. But if we're not willing to be honest with ourselves about what we feel, we don't evolve.

It's difficult for most of us to be completely honest with ourselves - we hate to admit how vulnerable or needful we are.

And to be honest, most actors are incredibly solipsistic.

In my lifetime, as a younger man, you were assumed to be an honest person. Your word was your bond, and a handshake was as good as a contract in business.

I think that if journalists, reporters who spend a lot of time on a story, are honest with themselves, we all have feelings about our subjects - I mean, unless you're a robot.

To be honest with you, I never looked at soccer as a sacrifice.

Our supporters can send the message that it's wrong for politically connected corporations to make millions while people doing an honest day's work are being cheated out of an honest day's pay.

Christopher Finazzo had a great job that paid him millions of dollars, but this honest living was apparently not enough to satisfy his greed.

He who is honest in his dealings simply because of the social prestige and position it secures will never develop his higher nature, but will always live along the lower lines.

For the life of me, I don't understand what honest motive there is in putting this in front of this body to philosophically debate marriage on a constitutional amendment that is not going to happen, and which is enormously divisive in all of our communities.

There's no question that any of us who are doing an honest job in government could do a lot better in private industry. During the years I was practicing law as an individual, my salary was a great deal more than it is now.

Review your work. You will find, if you are honest, that 90% of the trouble is traceable to loafing.

Baddies always do get the best lines, that's the honest truth.

To be honest everything goes over my head a bit.

If we meet an honest and intelligent politician, a dozen, a hundred, we say they aren't like politicians at all, and our category of politicians stays unchanged; we know what politicians are like.

I can honestly say that I am happier now than I have ever been. For the first time in my life I feel free.

Men mess up. Women create this big illusion in their head that the man they're going to be with is going to be perfect. Nobody's going to be perfect, and people are going to let you down. The only thing that you can hope for is someone that's going to be honest with you.

Most of us were probably less than immaculately honest as teenagers; it's practically encoded into adolescence that you savor your secrets, dress in disguise, carve out some space for experiments and accidents and all the combustible lab work of becoming who you are.

America is not static. America is striving. And sometimes, America requires critique. Jingoism is an avoidance of realism. You can simultaneously love and be disappointed in the object of your love, wanting it to be better than it is. In fact, that is a measure of love. Honest critique is a pillar of patriotism.

You have to be funny about it and honest about it. You can't leave yourself out of that mix. You have to be honest enough to say, I'm that messed-up one in the family.

I don't really want to control anyone, to be honest.

There may be men who think they are attacking Christianity when they investigate the historical origin or the morality of some dogma; I do not think so. Honest investigation can result only in growth.

If you're gonna tell your life story, you gotta be honest, or don't do it.

I'm actually not a very good driver, to be honest with you. I'm a scatterbrain driver. I'm not very focused. I'm always trying to find the right music station or put on a new CD or trying to eat something.

Anger is not an accepted thing for women. And, you know, I do get angry. I feel its a very honest emotion.

I am for anything that makes teens visible in an honest way... in other words, anything that represents them the way they are, positively or negatively.

I think I have great responsibility, and when I do my music, when I try to relate to my audience, I just try to do it in an honest fashion, you know, just try to be as earnest as possible and sometime it may be self-effacing. Sometimes it may be finger-pointing. Sometimes it may be beautiful, and sometime it may be ugly.

I can't remember too much about the '80s, to be honest with you... I wish that weren't true, but it is.

I've always enjoyed feeling a connection to the avant-garde, such as Dada and surrealism and pop art. The only thing the artist can do is be honest with themselves and make the art they want to make. That's what I've always done.

I don't really think about what's 'age appropriate' for my audience because I think they can handle quite a bit, but I do try to think about what's honest and true to my characters who have grown up in situations where they've been taught to handle these things very carefully and that they're very powerful.

I have gotten into a lot of trouble in my life for being brutally honest. Sometimes I put both my feet in my mouth. But like Elton John, I'm still standing.

Sometimes, the other characters are too normal and then you start to be brought back to reality but then Luna shows up and she is just so funny and cool and honest and slightly mad and she's all that matters. She is 100% true. She puts on no shows, because she is so comfortable with herself.

To be honest, I really don't like being the sex object.

I created a show called 'Crash' for Starz, which was their first original drama, and that was not a good experience. I had a great time working with the cast and crew, but it was a young network and an intrusive studio, and to be honest I didn't really enjoy the movie 'Crash.

An honest money system is the only alternative.

I met P. Diddy. Or Diddy. I like to call him Puffy because, let's be honest, that's who he is.

But I think doctors have always been either honest or dishonest.

Every now and then, a presidential candidate surprises us with a truly human and honest moment.

Through writing, through that process, they realize that they become more intelligent, and more honest and more imaginative than they can be in any other part of their life.

I don't like drum solos, to be honest with you, but if anybody ever told me he didn't like Buddy Rich I'd right away say go and see him, at least the once.

The English are crooked as a nation and honest as individuals. The contrary is true of the French, who are honest as a nation and crooked as individuals.

Books should make somebody look at how they feel, be honest with themselves.

I'm trying to keep my personal life personal. It's very hard for me because I'm a very honest person.

Our best comes out when we have honest discussions.

The more honest you can be, the less you have to hide... when I have nothing to hide, I have everything to give.

If everyone in the music business were brutally honest about what their intentions were then you could sort things out, but it's all smoke and mirrors.

I'm often uncomfortable with girliness, to be honest.

I'm rather uncomfortable with celebrity, to be honest.

I honestly have no strategy whatsoever. I'm waiting for that script to pop through the letterbox and completely surprise me.

Every mistake you make allows you to be honest because what's in the dark will come to light, so it's better to be truthful about it.

But I think it's more that when you're young, you're invincible, you're immortal - or at least you think you are. The possibilities are limitless, you're inventing the future. Then you get older and suddenly you have a history. It's fixed. You can't change anything. I find that a bit disturbing, to be honest.

Honest conviction is my courage; the Constitution is my guide.

I've heard some people say that I'm selling out, but I'm not. If I hadn't done 'Black Radio', and just kept on doing just piano trio stuff, I wouldn't be honest with myself; I'd be doing it to please other people. That would be selling out.

I'm very honest - brutally honest. I always look at things from their point of view as well as mine. And I know when to walk away.

It doesn't matter what you're saying if you come from an honest place.

I like working with an actor who doesn't do the oneupmanship. One who has no trick and gives a true, honest performance.

My most intimate secrets? Well, if I told you those they wouldn't be secrets now, would they? Seriously though I don't have too many secrets. I'm a very open and honest person, sometimes too honest for my own good.

I try to create songs that are really massive and intense, but at the same time remaining honest and raw.

I'd never managed anyone before, so I don't have a lot of experience. But I'm lucky - I have a lot of team members who have a really honest relationship with me.

Being so honest in my writing is cathartic.

To be honest, I look at my Pinball program and feel that it is old stuff. I could do much better.

There are lots of people depending on the government who are good, honest citizens who have worked all their lives.

Jess is not only a successful actress but also has a line of eco-friendly products called Honest that's become a million-dollar business. Jessica Alba an undercover businesswoman? That's my favorite kind of style - the kind with substance.

I wouldn't mind working with Queens of the Stone Age, doing some guitar stuff on that. Even Arctic Monkeys. I'd like to do be a bit of guitar with them guys. I'll play on anyone's record to be honest with you.

If you say you are the Safe Food Foundation, that means you're implying that your food is safer or that every other bit of food that we're eating is not safe. If they were a really honest foundation, they would call themselves the anti-GM foundation.

If an honest man is the noblest work of God, then Mr. Lincoln's title to high nobility is clear and unquestioned.

To be honest, it's easier for me to speak with an American accent.

I don't need anything to live, to be honest. Give me a mattress or a futon on the floor and I'll be the happiest camper.

John McEnroe is the most honest and real person I have ever interviewed.

All I care about, to be honest, is surfing. I love surfing more than anything. To me, there's nothing like that.

I've got to be honest, there's no pleasure when you're working.

We can love an honest rogue, but what is more offensive than a false saint?

I don't want to make it a hard, fast rule, but it's surprising how many 'fun for the whole family' acts are real scumbags. The people that confess they're scumbags on stage are generally really great people. They're more honest with the audience with who they are.

Not everyone has to be a model and a designer, there are so many other options that are great and long-lasting. It's just finding what you're good at and being honest with yourself.