Honest Quotes

The people who watch Fox are not going to watch CNN. You know, let's be honest.
Fareed Zakaria

Watch, Fox, Cnn

America fell in love with the innocence of a kid who just was honest, saying, I did the best I could, and I had no formal training.
Paula Abdul

Love, Best, Saying

I'm not a loud, extravagant person; I'm never going to be that and, to be honest, I don't want to be like that.
Leona Lewis

I sympathize far more with heavier people than I ever will with thin. I'll never be thin. Let's be honest.
Kevin Smith

Far, Thin, Heavier

In many ways, being honest about 'Huckleberry Finn' goes right to the heart of whether we can be honest about our heritage and our identity as Americans.
Jane Smiley

Heart, Whether, Goes

I always say it took me 10 minutes to write 'Cars,' but if I am honest it could have been even less than that - and it has been a really successful song over the years. It is still massively used, in advertising, in films, and people do cover versions of it a lot.
Gary Numan

Successful, Write, Song

I try to be as honest and open as I am with everything that I do because it's just, um, It helps me, you know, like whether it's stand up or singing or act. I just try to stay true.
Jamie Foxx

True, Everything, Try

I decided to give acting a serious, committed try, and soon after, I read the script for 'Lovely and Amazing.' The story was beautiful and honest, and the characters struggled with the same insecurities many women - including me - face. I didn't think I had a chance in hell of being in the film, but I knew I had to go for it.
Emily Mortimer

Women, Amazing, Beautiful

Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.
Richard Whately

Best, Honesty, Policy

I've had a fair amount of experience with snakes, and I find them to be pretty honest in terms of how you read their body language and emotions. They'll tell you when they're grumpy. They'll tell you when they're okay.
Dominic Monaghan

Experience, Find, Pretty

Cathy was the first widely syndicated humor strip created by a woman. The strip was pretty revolutionary at the time not only because it starred a female, but also because it was so emotionally honest about all the conflicting feelings many women had in 1976.
Cathy Guisewite

Humor, Time, Women

If you're gonna tell your life story, you gotta be honest, or don't do it.
R. Kelly

Life, Tell, Story

To be honest, once you've driven around for about five, 10 laps, you don't notice a difference.
Danica Patrick

Around, Once, Difference

To be honest, I don't enjoy watching movies much when I'm working. They tend to fall apart on me a bit.
Christopher Nolan

Movies, Enjoy, Working

The holy spirit means the invisible power of Jehovah, holy because he is holy. This power of Jehovah operated upon the minds of honest men who loved and who were devoted to righteousness, directing them in the writing of the Bible.
Joseph Franklin Rutherford

Men, Power, Writing

If we turn our back on the people of this country who need to work for a living, we shouldn't be here, to be honest, because that has to be an essential part of what we do to protect the country, from the standpoint of defense, protect workers and make sure they have jobs.
Barbara Boxer

Work, Country, Living

To be honest, I find going out pretty scary and intimidating. Got all those people checking you out, with only one purpose: hooking up. I'm quite the dork, I'd rather sit home and play Scrabble. But that doesn't get you a girl, does it?
Wentworth Miller

Home, Girl, Find

The only honest and generous thing for me to do is to give people myself. That's all I've got as an artist, so I want to do that in an unflinching way.
Charlie Kaufman

Give, Artist, Generous

I'm interested in trying to explore what I think is the truth at a given time in my life, and part of the process of being honest is - in my mind - talking about the idea that you're watching a movie. You're sitting here watching a movie. And I like that. It appeals to me intellectually, and also in a way I can't even explain.
Charlie Kaufman

Life, Time, Truth

I don't normally cook, but if I did it probably would be beans, sausage, bacon and eggs. I never really get to eat that to be honest.
Wayne Rooney

Eat, Cook, Eggs

Everyone who watches me play knows I am an honest player.
Wayne Rooney

Play, Everyone, Knows

You can spend a lifetime, and, if you're honest with yourself, never once was your work perfect.
Charlton Heston

Work, Yourself, Perfect

You can make more money on unemployment than you can going down and getting one of those jobs that is an honest job, but it doesn't pay as much. And so, that's what's happened to us is that we have put in so much entitlement into our government, that we really have spoiled our citizenry and said you don't want the jobs that are available.
Sharron Angle

Money, Government, Job

I would vote for the man who's lived life, who's done different occupations, who's been out in the real world and struggled to make a living, struggled to raise a family, struggled with life as it exists. So I'd vote for experience, honest experience.
Oliver Stone

Life, Family, Experience

Oceans are one of the most important things in the world now and that is a national security threat of the United States of America, to be honest with you. That is why seeing the habitat destroyed is so short-sighted by us.
Ian Somerhalder

Important, America, Why

I found my love when I was 17-years-old and my love is one hundred percent honest. We've never had any ugly, rocky things to overcome.
Bo Derek

Love, Ugly, Found

Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind, and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that belongs equally to the honest man and to the gentleman.
James F. Cooper

Good, Mind, Both

I prefer the mystic clouds of nostalgia to the real thing, to be honest.
Robert Wyatt

Real, Clouds, Nostalgia

Especially when you deal with comedy, you have got to be really honest because it's the honesty and the spontaneity that causes people to chuckle, that catches people.
Austin Peck

Honesty, Comedy, Deal

By presenting a faithful and honest record of my experience as a mother, I hope to show both my readers and my children how truth can redeem even what you fear might be the gravest of sins.
Ayelet Waldman

Hope, Truth, Experience

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