authenticity Quotes

Sometimes I think it's possible to mistake desire for clarity and talking in a no-nonsense way for aggression.

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.

Lou Reed was a hero because he was an anti-hero.

I have been so great in boxing they had to create an image like Rocky, a white image on the screen, to counteract my image in the ring. America has to have its white images, no matter where it gets them. Jesus, Wonder Woman, Tarzan and Rocky.

Perhaps one of the most difficult things for us to do is to choose a notable and joyous dress for men. There would be more joy in life if we were to accustom ourselves to use all the beautiful colours we can in fashioning our own clothes.

I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common and private life just as well as with a life of richer stuff. Each man bears the entire form of man's estate.

If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right?

I am not somebody who meets a man or a woman somewhere and feels like that is an incredible character that I must write into a play.

I think Clinton, after getting into office and into Washington, was shocked at being bludgeoned. So he spent time trying to be all things to all people - one way guaranteed not to be successful or respected in a lion's den. You can't just play around with all those big cats - you've got to take somebody on.