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"Anton Pannekoek didn't encourage radical workers and other activists of the anti-Bolshevik left to see revolutionary potential in his work in astronomy, for the simple reason that he was honest, and knew there was none to speak of."
"Time & Co. are, after all, the only quite honest and trustworthy publishers that we know."
"It is remarkable that there is little or nothing to be remembered written on the subject of getting a living: how to make getting a living not merely honest and honorable, but altogether inviting and glorious; for if getting a living is not so, then living is not."
"We just ask the agency to make reasonable and honest decisions, and the public deserves no less."
"Being alone feels more honest."
"I can think of a handful of auditions where the director has literally said, "That is the opposite of what I think." But it's really good to be honest and have that dialogue. I don't think you should be criticized though."
"If you want an honest dialogue, you can't criticize someone for what they say. You can't teach someone to think in a certain way."
"It is not surprising that honest and well-informed experts can disagree about facts. But beyond the disagreement about facts, there is another deeper disagreement about values."
"One is honest about oneself either with a sense of shame or with vanity."
"Even the most honest writer lets slip a word too many when he wants to round off a period."
"I sympathize far more with heavier people than I ever will with thin. I'll never be thin. Let's be honest."
"....honest men are few when it comes to themselves."
"No man is straitly honest to any but himself and God."
"Every man is wholly honest to himself and to God, but not to any one else."
"As a rule, we go about with masks, we go about looking honest, and we are able to conceal ourselves all through the day."
"Whichever kind of music I was making it was all about the melody anyway. The kind of music I'm making now is the way it is because I'm being 100% honest with myself."
"I have always been happy. Even if I had been more honest with regard to myself at that moment I should still have written La Nausee."
"I love insult, it's always honest."
"If we're really honest with ourselves, most of us will admit that we want to impress people, and this is what's causing us to do what we do."
"I took the easy way, and to an extent I regret that. Still, though, the way we did it was honest. We played it and sang it the way we felt it, and there's a lot to be said for that."
