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Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity, than straightforward and simple integrity in another.
Charles Caleb Colton

Simple, Nothing, Integrity

If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others.
Xun Zi

Through, Others, Gentleman

Nothing so completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straightforward and simple integrity in another.
Charles Caleb Colton

Simple, Nothing, Integrity

Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man's enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Enemy, Hands, Soon

What is the conservative movement? It's pretty straightforward. We believe that the way prosperity is created is when people have the freedom and the opportunity to pursue their dreams.
Marco Rubio

Dreams, Freedom, Pretty

I've discovered as I've grown up that life is far more complicated than you think it is when you're a kid. It isn't just a straightforward fairytale.
Rachel McAdams

I find it hard to deliver straightforward things.
Ang Lee

Hard, Find, Deliver

I believe that pluralistic secularism, in the long run, is a more deadly poison than straightforward persecution.
Francis Schaeffer

Long, Run, Deadly

What I learned from Lennon was something that did stay with me my whole career, which is to be very straightforward. I actually love talking about taking pictures, and I think that helps everyone.
Annie Leibovitz

Love, Career, Learned

I love guys and the way they think; they're so straightforward - and women can learn from that.
Rashida Jones

Love, Women, Learn

I like to play characters that are convincing, that aren't just straightforward and nice.
Clive Owen

Nice, Play, Characters

My take on rap is driven by straightforward American southern rock and blues.
Kid Rock

Rock, American, Blues

I'm more straightforward, and I speak up more than I did before. When I was younger, I wouldn't speak up as much, but now that I'm a mom, things have changed.
Britney Spears

Mom, Before, Speak

We are ashamed to seem evasive in the presence of a straightforward man, cowardly in the presence of a brave one, gross in the eyes of a refined one, and so on. We always imagine, and in imagining share, the judgments of the other mind.
Charles Horton Cooley

Mind, Eyes, Brave

I'm a hopeless romantic and I believe that you can find love in many different places and be very conflicted. I've discovered as I've grown up that life is far more complicated than you think it is when you're a kid. It isn't just a straightforward fairytale.
Rachel McAdams

Life, Love, Romantic

Sometimes God writes straightforward in twisted lines.
Gloria Trevi

God, Sometimes, Lines

I hate going to the gym and doing it the old-fashioned way. I hate anything that's too straightforward, too routine, too familiar. I get bored really, really quickly.
Rihanna

Hate, Bored, Gym

It is straightforward for me to be ethical, responsible, and kind-hearted because I have the resources to support that.
Edward Tufte

Support, Resources, Ethical

Doo-wop is special music to me because it's so straightforward and melody-driven and captures emotions.
Bruno Mars

Music, Special, Emotions

The films that I love are very straightforward stories, like really old-fashioned stuff.
Paul Thomas Anderson

Love, Stuff, Films

But with nonfiction, the task is very straightforward: Do the research, tell the story.
Laura Hillenbrand

Tell, Story, Research

Most anthropologists are doing straightforward ethnography, and should.
Clifford Geertz

I think if you show up and you work hard and you're straightforward, you can always create your own opportunities. I hope I'm right.
Cory Monteith

Work, Hope, Hard

So how can we test the idea that the transition from nonlife to life is simple enough to happen repeatedly? The most obvious and straightforward way is to search for a second form of life on Earth. No planet is more Earth-like than Earth itself, so if the path to life is easy, then life should have started up many times over right here.
Paul Davies

Life, Simple, Happen

I'm attracted to playing people who aren't necessarily straightforward.
Felicity Jones

Playing, Attracted

I think that when something happens when you're growing up, like a death or divorce, it does open the world slightly because things aren't as straightforward.
Felicity Jones

Death, Divorce, Happens

There's a certain logic to systems, and that logic is fairly self-evident. It's very straightforward, usually. It might take a little research, it might take a little bit of industry to prize it out, but it's there to be seen.
Michael Nesmith

Research, Might, Seen

I am a straightforward man.
Lajos Kossuth

I've made a connection with the television audience by being a proud Latino man. I am passionate for what I do, courageous in the face of peril, honest and straightforward.
Geraldo Rivera

Made, Proud, Honest

Living in New York, you get a lot of confidence; when I go back to Michigan, I realise how obnoxious and demanding and straightforward I am.
Angel Haze

Confidence, Living, York

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