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Honest Quotes

The main thing is to keep it simple, keep it real, be honest and pull no stunts. You can’t forget where you started and came from.

– Trick Daddy

Would you want to do business with a person who was 99% honest?

– Sydney Madwed

I’ve never pretended that I’m not female and vulnerable. To me, it’s just being honest.

– Victoria Pendleton

When you get a bad review, you hate the writer. It’s very painful; whoever says the opposite lies. It’s humiliating. Sometimes it comes from an honest place, but most times, it comes from a desire to trash someone.

– Thomas Vinterberg

‘Traveling with Pomegranates’ is a very personal, very honest story about my relationship with my daughter and Ann’s with her mother.

– Sue Monk Kidd

Segregation in the South is honest, open and aboveboard. Of the two systems, or styles of segregation, the Northern and the Southern, there is no doubt whatever in my mind which is the better.

– Strom Thurmond

Children are far more interesting to work with than grownups. They’re incredibly honest. They’ll tell you exactly what they think.

– Tim Sample

I think that Christians who have an interest in filmmaking need to deepen their love for cinema. To be honest, that’s what I think has been missing historically from the Christians who want to succeed in the Hollywood industry.

– Scott Derrickson

There’s been many times when a producer will say, ‘I don’t think you want to say that.’ We were told we shouldn’t be so brutally honest about songwriting or radio or the industry.

– Tyler Joseph

Not to be weirdly glib, but as a reporter, you should be honest all the time.

– Sarah Koenig

Our lives improve only when we take chances – and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.

– Walter Anderson

I’m honest and fair, but I don’t dispense false kindness.

– Steve Easterbrook

Actually, to be honest, this is a useful time to not be knowing what I’ll be doing in 2013 or 2014, because really, for the last however many years, I’ve known what I’ve been doing for years and years ahead. You get into a cycle of non-reflection, and that gets a bit scary.

– Stephen Daldry

I have to be honest – I don’t love guns.

– Vanessa Ferlito

When Twitter made its way to my radar I looked at it as a curiosity, then started experimenting. I approached that as a place to be less formal and more off-the-cuff, honest and ‘human.’

– Trent Reznor

If anybody ever dares to compare Bob Dole to Clinton, then they’re comparing a criminal to an honest man.

– Sonny Bono

Songs are about just being totally honest and putting those words to music.

– Tom Odell

I just have to do what it is going to make me happy, first and foremost – what is honest and what is sincere. Anybody that listens will hopefully connect with that.

– Sturgill Simpson

To be honest, proper recognition has only come from the fans. I don’t want to be hard, and I don’t want to be negative, but I want to be honest.

– Yaya Toure

I am an honest, straight guy.

– Vijay Mallya

And if I’m honest about it, I was obsessed with Nirvana and Pearl Jam. This is like ’92, right in the throes of Soundgarden and Pearl Jam and Nirvana. I think I probably wanted to be Kurt Cobain.

– St. Vincent

Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.

– Thomas Jefferson

To be honest, I didn’t even know what the Drama Desk Awards were until I was nominated.

– Spencer Kayden

In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn’t know what he is doing.

– William Wordsworth

I maintain that if there is such a thing as a true and honest environmentalist, it’s people like Slim and hopefully me, who have been caretakers of the land all our lives, along with the generations before us.

– Wilford Brimley

I want to be a female artist who is honest. I want to encourage other girls to be honest with who they are and not try to be picture perfect, because it’s a woman’s imperfections that make her perfect anyway.

– Tali Lennox

I also think there’s too many players who say the same boring answers, they don’t even have to turn up to interviews because journalists answer their own questions the way they ask them. Unfortunately the way it is now players are so afraid to say anything, but I’d like them to be honest.

– Shane Warne

I’ll be honest with you: not a chance in this world. But you know, stranger things have happened.

– Stacy Keach

Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten.

– Thomas Otway

To be honest, whatever troubles I’ve had, I’ve also gotten the opportunities to do things.

– Tim Burton

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