"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."
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"I am committed to making Georgia a model for open and honest government"
"I never deal in transformations, for they are not honest, and no respectable sorceress likes to make things appear to be what they are not."
"The saving of labour of the individual should be the object and honest humanitarian considerations, and not greed, the motive."
"Our daily objectives should include an honest effort to improve on yesterday."
"All novels are fantasies. Some are more honest about it."
"If I ever lose my mind I hope some honest person will find it and take it to Lost and Found."
"This imputation of inconsistency is one to which every sound politician and every honest thinker must sooner or later subject himself. The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion."
"Kids will not listen to that. They're going to experiment no matter what, so you have to be honest."
"I'm a pretty happy person, to be honest with you."
"I am a fancy dress grump, to be honest."
"The more violent the storm, the quicker it passes."
"I always was a rich person because money's not related to happiness."
"We must not confuse humility with false modesty or servility."
"I won't have a hard time being brutally honest. But I won't be mean. You don't have to be mean to be honest."
"I know only one method of operation: to be as honest with others as I am with myself."
"If Nietzsche is correct, that to shame a man is to kill him, then any honest attempt at autobiography will be an act of self-destruction."
"People generally like happy endings, which is something I learned from my years in advertising. I like happy endings myself, but only if they're honest. I'm just as happy with a terrible, hopeless ending."
"An honest tale speeds best being plainly told."
"Humility is all about being truthful and honest."