I find the greatest songs in the world come out of pain, and I don’t like it! Here’s what it does: It strips away all of your facade. It makes you so honest. It’s cleansing.
I think the things that can define me is that I’m going to be honest, I’m going to be transparent, I’m going to be as open as I can.
I’ll be honest and say that looks are important for me. But ultimately, it all boils down to how much a girl loves.
I’d like to be a geneticist to be honest, but there are limits to what I can do now. For my dream to come true I’d have to be 20 years old again, heading off to a blue chip university.
A journal is your completely unaltered voice – it’s just for you. And if you know that voice, and you like it, you can bring it out to everyone else, and that’s the most honest and vulnerable thing you can do.
The law requires a paper towel ad to be scrupulously honest, but allows political candidates to lie without reproach. What’s wrong with this picture?
I think the best music is honest music.
To be honest, I am a really simple person, and most of my friends are not from the industry. I am most comfortable with them. They don’t treat me as an actor, and neither would they tolerate me behaving like one.
A good, hard-hitting dissent keeps you honest.
I’m not much of a salesman. I prefer the soft sell and the honest approach.
The American people voted to restore integrity and honesty in Washington, D.C., and the Democrats intend to lead the most honest, most open and most ethical Congress in history.
Any time I need to get a serious attitude adjustment, I put on one of their records, and there are examples there for all time to keep us honest and keep us reaching; they’ll never be eclipsed.
Let’s be honest: you can’t celebrate fall without it’s leading role – pumpkin! You can incorporate this flavor of the season in so many ways, from candles to lattes, pies to decorations.
I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.
I want to always be classy and honest, and I always want to have fun with music, and if I can’t really express who I am through my music, then it’s not really fun anymore.
Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.
If you are building a culture where honest expectations are communicated and peer accountability is the norm, then the group will address poor performance and attitudes.
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
It’s almost always possible to be honest and positive.
I sort of feel like people are not that honest about their own parenting. Take any teenage household; tell me there is not yelling and conflict.
I think my biggest appeal for fans is probably the fact that I’m honest. I’m up front about who I am. I’m a little naughty. I have a naughty side and everybody knows that. But I know when to use that and when not to.
I get no respect. The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I would be honest.
I’m very open and honest, and I feel like it’s important for women to hear that we’re not perfect; none of us are perfect. And sometimes we aspire to have these ideas in our heads of what perfection is, and I probably would’ve been better off if I’d left myself alone.
It’s meant to reaffirm the validity of that music – clean, minimalist, honest, classic music.
My theory is this; I’m not a political songwriter. I’m an honest songwriter.
I am sure Mr Heath thinks he is honest but I wish he didn’t have to have his friends say it so often.
My message is positive, and I am honest about who I am.
Me, I’m dishonest, and you can always trust a dishonest man to be dishonest. Honestly, it’s the honest ones you have to watch out for.
While some national security advisers have eschewed the Scowcroft Model and sought to ‘operationalize’ the NSC or pursue their own policy agendas without regard to the cabinet, the president and the country are best served by the NSC’s adherence to its intended ‘honest broker’ advisory role.
It’s very important for Christians to be honest with God, which often, you know, God is much more interested in who you are than who you want to be.
I think romance is anything honest. As long as it’s honest, it’s so disarming.
I’m actually just playing honest, whole young women.
I realised that you have to be honest. When you’re being open, that’s when people connect with you. You just have to be yourself.
Maybe I’ve got to admit that what I did here was enough. I can make some more films. Maybe I’ll direct a film. Maybe I’ll have my musical put on stage. But nothing, really, to be absolutely honest, competes with making a very successful pop band for 10 years of my life.
Oftentimes, you read these pilot scripts that come through for American work, and they don’t sing to you. I’ve got to be honest, not many of them ignite the flame or give you that burning feeling of, ‘Oh, God, I really want to be a part of this.’
Anyone, without exception, can know God if they really want to simply by praying, by honestly telling Him that they want to know Him. He always responds to honest seekers. Jesus promised, ‘All who seek, find.’
Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
The things that have always been important: to be a good man, to try to live my life the way God would have me, to turn it over to Him that His will might be worked in my life, to do my work without looking back, to give it all I’ve got, and to take pride in my work as an honest performer.
Marriage is a dialogue. But in any meaningful relationship, we should be honest, whether it is about having an affair or a fling.
It’s not just the kid who’s spent every penny from his job to upgrade his car to tell the world he cares about sports cars, it’s also the person driving around in a fuel-conscious hybrid electric car, because it’s more a message to the world than an effective means of saving fuel, to be quite honest.
I barely listen to the radio, to be honest. I don’t want anything infiltrating my ears that I don’t want to possibly put out in my song.
I’m pretty low-key. I’m pretty boring, to be honest.
Let’s be honest, I have enough money to never have to work again.
I realized that I had to be honest about where I was, where I was coming from, and what I was trying to do.
I knew it was going to be enormous because of the number of people who bought the books, but, to be honest, I never thought it would be bigger than Bond. Never in a million years.
I feel that as long as you’re honest, you have the opportunity to grow. It’s when you shut down, go into denial, and try to start hiding things from yourself and others, that’s when you lock in certain behaviors and attitudes that keep you stuck.
I didn’t think that anything is beyond humor – not profane humor, but a good, honest approach to humor.
Speak the truth. People will forgive an honest mistake; they won’t forgive you if you lie.
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.
My thought process is I have been lied to so much by people who I thought I could trust that it motivates me to want to be as honest as possible, to project that energy, because that is how I want people to treat me.
Sometimes if I tell people, ‘I’m afraid that I’m really a fraud,’ or ‘I have a lot of self-doubt,’ they go, ‘Oh, no, you’re kidding.’ I go, ‘No, I’m really honest.’
I know I have a very self-destructive tendency since my mother died, I have got to be honest.
Honesty and loyalty are key. If two people can be honest with each other about everything, that’s probably the biggest key to success.
I had everything I’d hoped for, but I wasn’t being myself. So I decided to be honest about who I was. It was strange: The people who loved me for being funny suddenly didn’t like me for being… me.
Our biggest struggle as human beings is to project ourselves as something that society has deemed admirable or likable instead of being honest.
I asked for the fight with Pulev to be honest with you. I didn’t duck and dive.
He who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave.
You know me: I’m always down to be brutally honest.
Every man should make up his own mind that if he expect to succeed, he must give an honest return for the other man’s dollar.
Surely the whole point of writing your own life story is to be as honest as you possibly can, revealing everything about yourself that is most private and probably most interesting for that very reason.
Our best comes out when we have honest discussions.
Necessity makes an honest man a knave.
I’m not a virtuoso on an instrument. You know, I’m not always singing in pitch. I laugh sometimes my way through the shows, but I’m an honest songwriter who’s always tried to bring the audience with me on my journey in hopes that they see their own lives reflected in the work.
The one reason why I got into cooking was because I wasn’t good at anything else – not that I was good at it, but it was considered honest work.
I’m honest about the journey I’ve been on, so I definitely don’t take dating lightly anymore.
