The atomic weapons race and the secrecy surrounding it crushed American democracy. It induced us to conduct government according to lies. It distorted justice. It undermined American morality.
Sure, I’ve done movies in which I was embarrassed by my performance, or might not have cared for a co-star. Then I’d have to tell lies, like, ‘Oh, we love each other; everything was perfect!’
My personal view is that until there is a disincentive to write lies and abusive comments it’s going to continue.
There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.
The violinist must possess the poet’s gift of piercing the protective hide which grows on propagandists, stockbrokers and slave traders, to penetrate the deeper truth which lies within.
Not only do I never lie, I never respond to lies, no matter how vicious, no matter how hurtful.
I’ve had gay friends who grew up in small towns in France who had to lie for most of their lives, even to themselves. But eventually such lies become stronger than the people, and they have to face them.
The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.
The law is agnostic about truth. It’s very skeptical of ultimate truth. That’s why freedom of speech permits lies to be told.
History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.
Even the most cynical can hardly be surprised by the antics of Nixon and his accomplices as they are gradually revealed. It matters little, at this point, where the exact truth lies in the maze of perjury, evasion, and of contempt for the normal – hardly inspiring – standards of political conduct.
I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.
My opposition to Interviews lies in the fact that offhand answers have little value or grace of expression, and that such oral give and take helps to perpetuate the decline of the English language.
I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books.
Doing ‘White Collar,’ quite often my character goes undercover, so therein lies the compounding of the imagination. I get to play Peter Burke and then someone else when Peter Burke goes undercover.
Marriage is a sacrament, and the decision of what is a sacrament lies with the Church, not with Parliament.
If you have a child, you’re improvising with rules all day long, and some of them are total lies.
You don’t tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.
I’ve told so many lies about my age I don’t know how old I am myself.
The secret of food lies in memory – of thinking and then knowing what the taste of cinnamon or steak is.
Neither a life of anarchy nor one beneath a despot should you praise; to all that lies in the middle a god has given excellence.
‘Sesame Street’s’ genius lies in finding gentle ways to talk about hard things – death, divorce, danger – in terms that children understand and accept.
What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
I think great humor lies in playing the truth of a situation.
Our present moment is a mystery that we are part of. Here and now is where all the wonder of life lies hidden. And make no mistake about it, to strive to live completely in the present is to strive for what already is the case.
The reality is that nearly 80 percent of the world’s purchasing power lies outside the United States, and if we don’t tap those markets, others will.
Everybody walks around talking about, ‘Sam Allardyce’s style is not good enough, he doesn’t play the right way’ and so on and so forth and it is a massive problem for me. People believe it. You believe the false lies, the false implications. Football does that – it believes that lie sometimes.
I have dreams of becoming a professional pastry chef and having a little bakery – that’s how much I love baking. I love to cook in general, but my heart lies in desserts.
The real difference between the United States and other nations lies not in the words of the preamble to the Constitution, but in the fact that the substantive clauses of that Constitution are enforced by individuals independent of and not beholden to the elected branches.
Behind the phony tinsel of Hollywood lies the real tinsel.
The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what it was, nor forward to what it might be, but living in the present and accepting it as it is now.
The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
It has been rightly said that nothing is unimportant, nothing powerless in the universe; a single atom can dissolve everything, and save everything! What terror! There lies the eternal distinction between good and evil.
However old-fashioned and right-wing this may sound, the American genius for language lies in understatement, in saying things simply, pointedly and quickly, and in making new and clean and swift what otherwise might be ponderous, round and slow.
In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.
It’s a cliche, but it’s true that all the fun lies in baddies, grotesques and comic roles.
Real love is the love that sometimes arises after sensual pleasure: if it does, it is immortal; the other kind inevitably goes stale, for it lies in mere fantasy.
Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.
I really like my first movie a lot, ‘Kicking and Screaming.’ I think it’s a – I’m very pleased and proud of that movie, but it wasn’t the – it wasn’t ‘Citizen Kane’ right out of the box, you know? It wasn’t ‘Sex, Lies and Videotape.’
Vicksburg lies on top of a bluff on the east side of a large tongue of land jutting out into the Mississippi.
God touches and moves, warns and desires all equally, and He wants one quite as much as another. The inequality lies in the way in which His touch, His warnings, and His gifts are received.
My only true harmony lies deep within my soul, wherever that is. I know that somehow I am in tune with the universe.
There are more people at Obama’s table offering ideas than there were five years ago, but when it came to facing up to the Republicans’ threat to force a double-dip recession if they didn’t get their millionaires’ tax cut, they still amounted to nothing. And therein lies our fundamental problem.
The point – the power to hurt – of all figures lies in the truthfulness of their application.
Spirituality lies in what you do and how you do it and not what result you get.
Much of India that we dream of still lies ahead of us: housing, power, water and sanitation for all; bank accounts and insurance for every citizen; connected and prosperous villages; and, smart and sustainable cities.
My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.
Under each formula lies a corpse.
Art lies by its own artifice.
The most valuable real estate in the world lies between the president’s ears.
My friend James Cameron and I made three films together – True Lies, The Terminator and Terminator 2. Of course, that was during his early, low-budget, art-house period.
No talent lies in my dancing.
I believe that the people, instead of pretty lies, should be told the truth, no matter how ugly it may be. What can we do, destiny hasn’t been kind to us; but, with the help of God, we will prevail.
Before I was humiliated I was like a stone that lies in deep mud, and he who is mighty came and in his compassion raised me up and exalted me very high and placed me on the top of the wall.
I was a terrific liar as a child, and I believe my lies. So it’s a natural step into acting.
A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.
It’s the same old story. Nothing in this world happens unless white folks says it happens. And therein lies the problem of being a professional black storyteller – writer, musician, filmmaker.
But from each crime are born bullets that will one day seek out in you where the heart lies.
Everybody gathered at my Aunt Hannah’s house, and we sat around and talked, ate, drank and told lies. That’s what people do, and I just sat there and listened.
Self-improvement books, friends, and polite strangers often tell soothing lies about our physical appearance that prevent many of us from facing, discussing, and solving our real problems.
Fear of commitment lies behind the fear of writing.
There is always a multitude of reasons both in favor of doing a thing and against doing it. The art of debate lies in presenting them; the art of life lies in neglecting ninety-nine hundredths of them.
Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
Colombia is not how people think it is. We used to eat fish every Sunday at the beach. In the town where I grew up, people did not tell lies.
If you’re dealing with personal kind of acting, you’re not going to want to open up and expose it to everybody, because that’s where the power lies, you know? It would be a little like showing your hand in poker, and then hoping you can still win.
