"Education in the understanding of citizenship is a short-term affair if we are honest and earnest."
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"I just like a good, honest personality. I like a real person, not somebody who is pretending to be something that they're not. That really annoys me."
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"I may be a burglar...but I'm an honest one, I hope, more or less."
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"I try to create songs that are really massive and intense, but at the same time remaining honest and raw."
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"For the traveler we see leaning on his neighbor is an honest and well-meaning man and full of melancholy, like those Chekhov characters so laden with virtues that they never know success in life."
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"I must be sincere towards what I am. ... Experimenting is the only thing that fills me with enthusiasm. ... It is the only sphere where I feel really honest and sincere."
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"If people are dishonest once, they will be dishonest a second time. And honest people should keep away from them. (Lady Chiltern)"
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"You can always cheat an honest man, but it takes more work."
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"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."
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"I met P. Diddy. Or Diddy. I like to call him Puffy because, let's be honest, that's who he is."
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"We need a free economy not only for the renewed material prosperity it will bring, but because it is indispensable to individual freedom, human dignity and to a more just, more honest society."
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"To be honest everything goes over my head a bit."
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"You can't make your choices based on what critics think. You have to make your choices based on what's honest for you."
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"When it thunders, the theefe becomes honest. [When it thunders, the thief becomes honest.]"
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"I am much interested and deeply impressed by what he has accomplished and by his evidenced honest purpose of restoring Italy and seeking to prevent general European trouble."
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"Only lies offend me, never honest counsel."
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"So many actors get caught up in their technique, and to be honest, I see it really getting in the way. I see them forcing things. I definitely do my best work when I'm free of that. But I think as an actor, I work really hard in preparing the roles. I spend like 90 percent of my waking moments walking around thinking: "What does this character do? What is his relationship with so-and-so?" Always, really. Too much!"
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"Jokes are generally honest. Complete solemnity is always dishonest."
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"There are many definite methods, honest and dishonest, which make people rich; the only instinct I know of which does it is that instinct which theological Christianity crudely describes as the sin of avarice."
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"No honest journalist should be willing to describe himself or herseif as 'embedded.' To say, 'I'm an embedded journalist' is to say, 'I'm a government Propagandist."
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