Genuine Quotes

Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.

One Saturday in 1984, I walked into my first AA meeting. I went regularly for six years and only stopped when I came to realize my underlying problem was not genuine alcoholism, but depression.

Everybody loves the underdog, and then they take an underdog and make him a hero and they hate him. But as long as they can knock you back down, it seems like if you're an underdog again, and things do surface, and they think this is real, 'these guys' intentions are genuine and sincere,' it seems like they will embrace you again.

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.

The intellectually sophisticated person is indifferent to all genuine individuality, because relationships and reactions result from it which cannot be exhausted with logical operations.

I think it took me a while to convince Nashville that what I do is genuine and my heart's in the right place, and I love country music.

Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on.

We need not renounce the use of conventional force. We will be ready to repel any clear and present danger that poses a genuine threat to our national security and survival.

I know Raft did have some genuine affairs with actresses.

I think George just nailed the whole thing, the whole time period, the whole look and feel of what that newsroom was like. I did a lot of research for the role and believe me, it's all pretty genuine, down to the very last cigarette butt.

Failure is authentic, and because it's authentic, it's real and genuine, and because of that, it's a pure state of being.

Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading.

He showed in the last interview, as on the later portions of the chart, a genuine fondness for the rabbit.

Kids are more genuine. When they come up and want to talk to you, they don't have an agenda. It's more endearing and less piercing to your aura.

But communication is two-sided - vital and profound communication makes demands also on those who are to receive it... demands in the sense of concentration, of genuine effort to receive what is being communicated.

We just did a few takes of a song and just picked the best one. It was real organic and genuine.

It isn't until you begin to fight in your own cause that you become really committed to winning and become a genuine ally of other people struggling for their freedom.

A lot of people resent that I've been in someone's life for 50 years. Why shouldn't people have an affection for me and what I've done? Didn't I have to be genuine for them to buy into what I did? There are children who grow up today who will not have that when they're 55 years old. With whom will they have it? Name an example for me.

I know many Catholics love God with all their heart. I have genuine respect for anyone who truly has given their life to Christ. We read about Mother Teresa and what a wonderful example she was.

The job in Wisconsin was the first genuine offer of an academic job in a university which I received.

I mean, the genuine roots of culture is folk music.

What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise although the philosophers generally call it recognition!

I would much prefer that they take me as I am, that way the experience is genuine between the both of us.

Learn to be quiet enough to hear the genuine within yourself so that you can hear it in others.

These seem to me so ambiguous, so vague, so easily misunderstood in comparison to genuine music, which fills the soul with a thousand things better than words.

The thing about television is that you can't fake it. Your sense of discovery must be genuine; you can't pretend to be surprised.

One person alone can't do anything as important as bringing genuine democracy to a country.

The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion.

I wish I could be as thin as Jessica Simpson. I think she looks gorgeous! I have had Jessica on my show several times, and I can tell you that girl is genuine and funny with a great self-deprecating sense of humor.

There's that stigma about New Yorkers, how they're so mean, but in my experience it was quite the opposite. People were very genuine and very nice, even on the subway.