"To be honest with you, I (would) much rather play basketball and not be famous."
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"Reproach is usually honest, which is more than can be said of praise."
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"Wealth is not necessarily a bad thing when it has been earned in an honest manner and neither other individuals nor the environment suffered for it."
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"Take stock of your fears now and see how many of them are senseless. If you are honest with yourself you will probably find most of them are groundless."
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"I prefer being honest to being 'honest to God.'"
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"I believe it`s important to be open and honest, especially with your friends."
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"Try to be as honest as possible."
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"One of the great qualities of Chancellor Merkel is that she is steady. She analyzes a situation. She's honest. Sometimes we've had disagreements, but when we do, it's very constructive. And we are consistently open with each other about how we should approach these issues."
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"I sometimes lie awake at night and wonder why I am still so popular and, to be honest, I don't know."
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"Be true. Be as true and honest with yourself as you can and then you've just got to let it go from there out into the universe. Whatever happens after that, I have no control of, but I do have control of what I'm willing to put out there."
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"I will say, with memoir, you must be honest. You must be truthful."
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"I prefer to believe that people are good and honest and respect me enough to tell me the truth. It's not easy to find those people all the time, but they're out there."
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"You know, if you're going to be honest with yourself, you have to admit that you go into show business wanting people to talk about you and wanting everyone to know who you are. But that also means there are going to be a whole bunch of people who don't like you. No matter who you are. I'm sure there's somebody out there who doesn't like Betty White because she's short and has white hair."
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"Remember this! No amount of Bacchic reveling can corrupt an honest woman."
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"Everyone should learn a manual trade: It's never too late to become an honest person."
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"I've got to be honest, there's no pleasure when you're working."
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"I can't be passionate about something that I don't understand. In my music, I feel that's why people can connect so well with it because it's all honest."
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"It's not like I had to throw the football and deal with that as well. It was more disheartening, to be honest with you, just to kind of see how the National Football League really is."
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"Nothing to be honest. I am a fighter. I'm crazy already. I'm not afraid of ghosts or anything."
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"I always try to just be honest ... As opposed to artifice or manipulation."
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