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As things mature - whether they be real estate, rock n' roll, politics, festivals, radio - there's an efficiency that develops, and with it, very often, comes some soul-crushing truths.
James Murphy
Politics
Real Estate
Some
Be Real
Develops
Rock
Real
Rock-N-Roll
Very
Efficiency
Festivals
Mature
Truths
Roll
Often
Estate
Whether
Radio
Things
From the first place of liquid darkness, within the second place of air and light, I set down the following record with its mixture of fact and truths and memories of truths and its direction toward the Third Place, where the starting point is myth.
Janet Frame
Memories
Darkness
Light
Myth
First
Down
Air
Record
Following
Direction
Fact
Point
Toward
First Place
Within
Mixture
Truths
Liquid
Where
Place
Second
Starting
Second Place
Third
Set
Starting Point
There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them.
Jean Cocteau
Say
Having
Only
Won
Truths
After
Which
Them
Right
The truth of good economic doctoring is to know the general principles, and to really know the specifics. To understand the context, and also, to understand that an economy may need some tender loving care, not just the so-called hard truths, if it's going to get by.
Jeffrey Sachs
Truth
Good
Care
Some
General
Economic
Tender
Economy
Know
Also
Principles
Understand
Context
Truths
Get
Going
May
Just
So-Called
Loving
Really
Hard
Need
One can spend too much of one's life locked in stuffy rooms seeking out obscure truths, searching, researching, until one is too old to enjoy life.
Jimmy Sangster
Life
Old
Enjoy Life
Too Much
Enjoy
Too
Spend
Locked
Out
Seeking
Obscure
Until
Truths
Rooms
Much
Researching
Searching
I am not by any means a philosopher, although I have worked with some talented people in the discipline. But certain philosophical concepts deeply inform the way I think about the world. The idea of 'opposing truths at extremes' is a powerful concept that I came to appreciate in my twenties.
Joe Lonsdale
People
World
Discipline
Opposing
Think
Philosopher
Philosophical
Way
Extremes
Some
About
Idea
Powerful
Talented
Talented People
Concept
Concepts
Although
Am
Came
Truths
Any
Inform
Worked
Certain
Means
Twenties
Deeply
Appreciate
I won't make shorthand films, because I don't want to manipulate audiences into assuming quick, manufactured truths.
John Cassavetes
Films
Assuming
Make
Because
Audiences
Quick
Truths
Want
Manipulate
Shorthand
I've always said, I thought the Sex Pistols was more Music Hall than anything else - because I think that really, more truths are said in humour than any other form.
John Lydon
Music
Thought
Sex
Think
Other
Else
Humour
Sex Pistols
More
Hall
Because
Said
Always
Than
Truths
Pistols
Any
Form
Anything
Anything Else
Really
But the more we search the Scriptures, the more we perceive, in this doctrine, the fundamental truth of the gospel - that truth which gives to redemption its character, and to all other truths their real power.
John Nelson Darby
Truth
Character
Power
Other
Perceive
More
Gives
Doctrine
Redemption
Gospel
Real
Truths
Real Power
Which
Scriptures
Search
Fundamental
The thing is, even if you're playing sort of a heightened character and playing inside sort of a heightened reality, you can still apply your own truths to those characters.
Johnny Depp
Character
You
Reality
Own
Those
Characters
Inside
Sort
Still
Truths
Your
Even
Thing
Apply
Playing
Europe is dying. That is one of the unsayable truths of our time. We are undergoing the moral equivalent of climate change and no one is talking about it.
Jonathan Sacks
Time
Change
Our
Our Time
Moral
About
No-One
Undergoing
Talking
Climate
Climate Change
Equivalent
Truths
Dying
Europe
It is to be deeply regretted that the clergymen would oppose an effort to teach the people the Bible truths; nevertheless, we find much opposition everywhere, and many clergymen will attempt to prevent the people from reading what is here written.
Joseph Franklin Rutherford
Bible
People
Will
Reading
Oppose
Everywhere
Would
Find
Prevent
Attempt
Written
Nevertheless
Clergymen
Opposition
Effort
Truths
Much
Regretted
Teach
Many
Deeply
Here
Man is more than merely an animal to exist and propagate his species. His mind gives him capacity to search out the great truths in God's arrangement and this lifts him far above the other animal creation.
Joseph Franklin Rutherford
God
Great
Man
Animal
Mind
Creation
Other
Out
Above
More
Gives
Lifts
Merely
Him
Arrangement
His
Exist
Than
Truths
Capacity
Far
Search
Species
When I give myself over to a good novel, I surrender to the truths fashioned from one writer's heart, mind and soul. I do not waste a nanosecond wondering whether what I'm reading 'really happened.'
Julia Glass
Myself
Good
Soul
Surrender
Heart
Mind
Reading
Give
Writer
Over
Truths
Wondering
Happened
Whether
Really
Novel
Waste
Philosophy has to be enquiring; it can take nothing on faith, and its methods are based not on the blind acceptance of authority, but on establishing truths by reason and argument.
Julian Baggini
Faith
Acceptance
Argument
Nothing
Philosophy
Take
Blind
Methods
Truths
Authority
Establishing
Reason
Based
The mathematician, carried along on his flood of symbols, dealing apparently with purely formal truths, may still reach results of endless importance for our description of the physical universe.
Karl Pearson
Universe
Our
Carried
Physical
Purely
Results
Along
Reach
Importance
Dealing
Still
His
Mathematician
Truths
Endless
May
Formal
Apparently
Description
Flood
Symbols
For 500 years after Gutenberg, the dominant form of information was the printed page: knowledge was primarily delivered in a fixed format, one that encouraged readers to believe in stable and settled truths.
Katharine Viner
Knowledge
Believe
Settled
Gutenberg
Delivered
Primarily
Readers
Printed
Years
Encouraged
Dominant
Truths
Fixed
Stable
Form
After
Format
Information
Page
Why am I not just some old woman ranting in a room? I think because what I say connects with people's truths.
Katie Hopkins
Woman
People
Old
Old Woman
Think
Say
Some
Because
Am
Truths
Just
Room
Connects
Why
Among the enduring truths I keep bumping into when there is the luxury of time to get to know people or institutions, is that their decisions are often made for what are not, strictly speaking, reasons of logic.
Ken Auletta
Time
People
Luxury
Made
Strictly
Strictly Speaking
Logic
Institutions
Know
Truths
Get
Often
Enduring
Decisions
Speaking
Reasons
Keep
Among
A good business book teaches simple truths.
Ken Blanchard
Good
Business
Book
Simple
Truths
Teaches
I am not 'in pursuit of truth.' It is not my 'quarry.' I am of my human nature a thinker, and conscious of need, responsibility of thinking-speaking with truth. I do not go about hunting 'truths.'
Laura Riding
Truth
Nature
Responsibility
Human Nature
Hunting
About
Pursuit
Am
Quarry
Go
Truths
Human
Conscious
Thinker
Need
Sometimes you can publish a first novel in a kind of lyrical flourish, but it is not really a lyrical form. The beautiful truths about the world are more hard won than that. Novels should be bleach boned. It's a question of cumulative observation and lived suffering. It takes time.
Lawrence Osborne
Beautiful
Time
You
Suffering
World
Sometimes
First
Publish
Lyrical
Kind
About
More
Observation
Takes
Question
Cumulative
Won
Than
Truths
Form
Really
Should
Hard
Novel
Novels
Lived
Flourish
Journalism, for me, has always been a calling. There are things that must be exposed to the light, truths that must be uncovered, stories worth risking your life for.
Leslie Cockburn
Life
Me
Worth
Light
Must
Risking
Uncovered
Journalism
Calling
Always
Been
Truths
Stories
Your
Exposed
Things
The most valuable thing I can share is the importance of living in truth. Sometimes, facing those truths can actually be your worst fear.
Liberty Ross
Truth
Fear
Sometimes
Valuable
Living
Valuable Thing
Those
Worst
Facing
Share
Importance
Most
Truths
Your
Actually
Thing
We use metaphors to express our own truths.
Lynn Nottage
Own
Our
Metaphors
Truths
Use
Express
Rock n' roll is the music where you can get away with pretty much saying everything, and it's OK. You can say truths in really interesting and good ways and really express yourself through it.
Marc Martel
Music
Saying
Good
You
Yourself
Everything
Say
Ways
OK
Pretty
Through
Rock
Rock-N-Roll
Truths
Get
Roll
Where
Interesting
Much
Really
Express
Express Yourself
Away
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