Quotes with true-story

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  • Henry David Thoreau Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Angela Davis Because it would be too agonizing to cope with the possibility that anyone, including our­ selves, could become a prisoner, we tend to think of the prison as disconnected from our own lives. This is even true for some of us, women as well as men, who have already experienced imprisonment.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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  • Augusten Burroughs Before I'm a writer, I'm definitely a reader and when I read memoir, I really want it to be true.
    Augusten Burroughs
    American writer (1965 - )
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  • David Herbert Lawrence Behold then Septimus Dodge returning to Dodge-town victorious. Not crowned with laurel, it is true, but wreathed in lists of things he has seen and sucked dry. Seen and sucked dry, you know: Venus de Milo, the Rhine or the Coliseum: swallowed like so many clams, and left the shells.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Plotinus Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being. We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
    Plotinus
    Roman philosopher (205 - 270)
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  • Bruce Robinson Bernard Shaw said that when you copy yourself, you know you've got style. And I feel that if you can write like you write, then you are true to yourself. And it's not an easy thing to do - it's a disgustingly difficult thing to do.
    Bruce Robinson
    English actor, director and novelist (1946 - )
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  • John Ruskin Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.
    Source: The seven lamps of architecture
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Vladimir Nabokov Between the age limits of nine and fourteen there occur maidens who, to certain bewitched travelers, twice or many times older than they, reveal their true nature which is not human, but nymphic (that is, demoniac); and these chosen creatures I propose to designate as ''nymphets.''
    Vladimir Nabokov
    American writer and poet (1899 - 1977)
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  • George Eliot Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Ben Parr Building a successful company (or living a happy life, for that matter) is not about embracing someone else's philosophy, but staying true to your own beliefs about the world and learning from the mistakes you make along the way.
    Ben Parr
    American journalist, author, venture capitalist (1985 - )
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  • Anita Hill But I think it would be irresponsible for me not to say what I really believe in my heart to be true - that there are some serious inequities that we face as women and that we can work to address these inequities.
    Anita Hill
    American lawyer and academic (1956 - )
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  • Beatrice Dalle But I've always attracted attention, it's true, ever since I was very young.
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  • Barack Obama But if you - if what - the reports are true, what they're saying is, is that as a consequence of us getting 30 million additional people health care, at the margins that's going to increase our costs, we knew that.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Harriet Martineau But is it not the fact that religion emanates from the nature, from the moral state of the individual? Is it not therefore true that unless the nature be completely exercised, the moral state harmonized, the religion cannot be healthy?
    Harriet Martineau
    British writer, social criticus (1802 - 1876)
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  • Anne McCaffrey But Ship Who Sang remains my favorite story. I really rocked folks with that and still cannot read it aloud myself without weeping at the end.
    Anne McCaffrey
    American-Irish writer (1926 - 2011)
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  • Brandon Routh But so long as we can keep this crew of fantastic people together and can continue to make real breakthrough films in this category, as well as characters that stay true to what we've done in this first film, I'd be more than happy to be a part of it.
    Brandon Routh
    American actor (1979 - )
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  • Gloria Steinem But somewhere within each of us, buried at varying depths depending on the age and degree of neglect or abuse, shame or coercion we endured, there is a resistant, daydreaming, rebellious, creative, unique child -- a true self who is waiting.
    Source: Revolution from Within (2012) 98
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Albert Pike But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. God is a spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
    Albert Pike
    American attorney, soldier, writer, and Freemason (1809 - 1891)
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  • Bob Schieffer But the reporter has the responsibility to determine, number one, whether that is true, and number two, to make a judgment as to whether it's in the public interest and whether or not it should be part of the debate.
    Bob Schieffer
    American television journalist (1937 - )
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  • Audre Lorde But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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