True Quotes

This film business, perhaps more so in America than in Europe, has always been about young sexuality. It's not true of theatre, but in America, film audiences are young. It's not an intellectual cinema in America.

In a memoir, I think, the contract implies a certain degree of truth. I think you have to be as true to your memory and your experience as you possibly can.

The true musician is to bring light into people's hearts.

I love acting. Acting is a true love of mine, acting and math. Although they are both creative, they use very different sides of your brain. And I love both. Acting is my first love, and that's my main career, it really is.

I want to see the writers strike because the writers, god bless them, are the only true commies we have in Hollywood.

I don't want to see the military falling. I want to see the military rising to dignified heights of professionalism and true patriotism.

I love being in a band. I love that collaborative spirit, although some would suggest that I don't get involved in the collaborative spirit, but it's not true.

True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.

To win the cause we all believe in, the spread of true democracy all over the world, we need to win by example, not just with speeches but by example; not just with military might but by gaining the respect of the world.

Let me start by emphasizing that I am open to efforts to expedite environmental procedures for true emergencies or in other clear cases where current laws are needlessly burdensome.

There was the joke about Switzerland being an island surrounded by land. This was never true.

The true measure of life is not length, but honesty.

Modernity exists in the form of a desire to wipe out whatever came earlier, in the hope of reaching at least a point that could be called a true present, a point of origin that marks a new departure.

When you put your total faith in God, no matter what happens, to a person who's a true believer, if you die, you know you're going to heaven to be with God.

If it is true that we have a personal relationship with God, then that's enough for me.

It's traditional for an heiress to be raised in a sheltered way. No one thinks that's true of me, but it actually was.

Local color has a fatal tendency to remain local; but it is also true that the universal often borders on the void.

A lot of folks believe their best years are behind them. But I want Americans to recognize that's not true.

I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right, on condition of being turned into a sort of clock and would up every morning before I got out of bed, I should instantly close with the offer.

The U.S. is by far the biggest exporter of arms in the world. It was true during the Clinton administration, and it's true during the Bush administration. It's bipartisan.

I suspect that even today, with all the progress we have made in liberal thought, the quality of true tolerance is as rare as the quality of mercy.

These deserters were our undoing. I shall have a good deal more to say about them before I finally lay down my pen, and I shall not hesitate to call them by their true name, the name with which they will be for ever branded before all the nations of the world.

My training in music and composition then led me to a kind of musical language process in which, for example, the sound of the words I play with has to expose their true meaning against their will so to speak.

Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history, luxuries and necessities are selling at the same price.

Athletes as role models and heroes is a hoax, a sick hoax. The men and women who are fighting in Iraq, they are the true heroes.

A true leader has to have a genuine open-door policy so that his people are not afraid to approach him for any reason.

I don't think American independent films have ever really been particularly experimental, except for the original guys from the '60s who were huge influences, like Stan Brakhage, Robert Breer, and Stan van der Beek. They were the true independents.

A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer.

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

The reason is that in a group, individual errors on either side of the true figure cancel each other out.