I realized that I had to be honest about where I was, where I was coming from, and what I was trying to do. – Richard Foreman
Rather than doing the kind of fact-checking that normally goes with a story, you ran with certain stories for not wanting to get beat. There’s a pressure that exists in your profession. I would be surprised in any honest exchange that you say that doesn’t exist. – Rahm Emanuel
I think an athlete should be honest. I know it’s difficult, but if a guy knocked me on my can, I couldn’t very well say, I slipped. – Sugar Ray Leonard
The thing that ‘Glee’ has successfully done that no other TV show has is that they’re just honest – but they don’t tell you what’s right or wrong. They don’t tell you what to agree with or what to believe in. – Samuel Larsen
It’s easy to figure out whether you’re getting stale. All you’ve got to do is look in the mirror and be honest with yourself. – Tony La Russa
To be perfectly honest the old habits, specifically deadlines, still very much inform what I do. I am brutally disciplined about getting manuscripts in on time. – Simon Winchester
I don’t really think about what’s ‘age appropriate’ for my audience because I think they can handle quite a bit, but I do try to think about what’s honest and true to my characters who have grown up in situations where they’ve been taught to handle these things very carefully and that they’re very powerful. – Veronica Roth
So let’s be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way. – Will Rogers
To be honest, I don’t really care about any pope. It’s not something I think about much, to be quite honest with you. – Viggo Mortensen
To be honest, I’m probably more of a comedy person, actually. I really enjoy the comedy stuff, and I’ve got some things I’ll be working on that I think are just different ways of combining genres in comedy and drama and action. – Sharlto Copley
I’m not a wilting flower. I’m honest, so I pick a lot of fights. I’ve burned a lot of bridges. – Scott Thompson
You just have to make sure you’re writing about something that’s true. It has to be honest and it has to have a real emotion behind it, regardless of where it’s coming from. – Teddy Thompson
I’m a little bit allergic to the whole brand thing to be honest but maybe it’s just happening around me and I’m not really aware of it. – Sophie Ellis-Bextor
By exploring the political and moral colorings of discoveries about what makes us tick, we can have a more honest science and a less fearful intellectual milieu. – Steven Pinker
To be perfectly honest, I can’t imagine getting married. I’ve got a lot to do before I have children – they are way off. – Sophie Hunter
Corruption has reached an unacceptable level. It devours resources that could be devoted to the citizens. It impedes the proper carrying out of market rules and penalizes the honest and capable. – Sergio Mattarella
If most writers are honest with themselves, this is the difference they want to make: before, they were not noticed; now they are. – Tom Wolfe
I love Feist. I love Francoise Hardy. She was a French singer-songwriter in the ’60s who was pretty huge. I think I’m drawn to her sincerity. I love Fiona Apple, too – she’s quirky and really honest in her lyrics. – Yuna
To be honest, I kind of dress like a 15-year-old boy. And I probably live like a 15-year-old boy, too. – Sandrine Holt