“I think Baltimore suffers from nostalgia and it keeps us from being honest in talking about what really happened here. A place doesn't have to be perfect to be beloved, and I love this city and I love it better for seeing its flaws.” ThinkingSufferingPerfectCitiesTalkingSeeingHappenedHonestNostalgiaBeing HonestBelovedFlawsBaltimore Author:Laura Lippman
“Restaurant Man is kind of the story, an unabridged story of what happened in my life, the good bad and ugly. Some people might glean some life lessons. It is honest, not written as a press release.” PeopleMenKindStoriesMightWrittenHappenedHonestLessonsPressesUglyReleaseRestaurantsLife LessonPress Release Author:Joe Bastianich
“To be honest, after all the crap that happened with 'Summer Heights High,' I was like, 'I'm not going to write anything controversial or edgy ever again; I just can't handle the blame.'” WritingHappenedHonestSummerBlameHandleBeing HonestHeightCrapControversialEdgy Author:Chris Lilley
“It's therapy. [people] say true healing requires honest confrontation, and that can be seen on a macro scale with America and the things that have been swept under the rug, whether it be with the native Americans or slavery, or whatever holocaust that's happened on this soil.” PeopleHas BeensAmericaHealingHappenedHonestSlaveryScalesTherapySoilNativeHolocaustNative AmericanConfrontationMacro Author:Nate Parker
“It's an experience like no other experience I can describe, the best thing that can happen to a scientist, realizing that something that has happened in his or her mind exactly corresponds to something that happens in nature. One is surprised that a construct of one's own mind can actually be realised in the honest-to-goodness world out there. A great shock, and a great, great joy.” WorldMindI CanHappensJoyRealizingHappenedHonestGoodnessScientistBest ThingsBeing The BestShockConstructsRealisedGreat Joy Author:Leo Kadanoff
“Its funny because when I did feel like I came out and I just felt like I was being truthful to myself, (it was at) that point I became very successful. So you know, it took a true kind of facing that truth of myself and being honest, that was when the real kind of fame or whatever that kind of stuff happened for me.” KnowsFeelsKindRealFeltStuffSuccessfulHappenedHonestFameBeing HonestTruthfulBeing Truthful Author:Margaret Cho
“I hope, by being honest about what happened to me, to help nourish a culture of honesty that might make something different - and better - possible. We really need to squarely face the issue of child abuse in America, and to look at our perversity, our illness.” NeedsLooksChildrenDifferentHelpingMightAmericaFacesCultureIssuesHappenedHonestHonestyAbuseIllnessBeing HonestChild AbusePerversity Author:Laura Mullen
“I am just a simple guy and I like when people enjoy themselves. I always say: you can laugh, you can cry, you can express yourself but please don't hurt each other. I really don't know, to be honest with you. I'm very impressed with everything that has happened.” PeopleKnowsGuyEnjoyHurtSimpleLaughingHappenedHonestCryPleaseBeing HonestImpressedExpress YourselfSimple Guy Author:Tommy Wiseau
“It was a scary decision to let cameras into my life, but if I was going to do it, I just wanted to be really honest and kind of introduce myself as an adult. I think the world met me as a young girl, and they still associate me with who I was when I was 13, they still don't understand how over the last eight years what has happened and who I've become.” IfsThinkingWorldYearsKindStillsWantedLastsYoungGirlDecisionHappenedHonestMetsAdultsCamerasScaryEightIntroducingAssociates Author:Jamie Lynn Spears
“Sometimes, when I talk to someone who has just been diagnosed with cancer or some other illness, I'll remind them: "If you were honest with yourself, you were depressed before this happened. And if this were over you would be happy for a couple of weeks, a couple of months, and then something else would come along."” IfsSometimesWould BeHappenedWeekHonestMonthsCoupleCancerIllnessOver YouHonest With Yourself Author:Marianne Williamson
“In my acquaintance with John Rawls, I found him to be a simple and honest man, who just by chance also happened to be the greatest moral philosopher of the twentieth century. I would like to think that I could emulate at least his modesty - his refusal to exaggerate his perception of himself and his place in the larger scheme of things - even if my work never compares with his in its importance.” IfsThinkingMenFoundChanceSimpleMoralHappenedCenturyHonestPerceptionImportancePhilosopherCompareModestySchemesAcquaintanceTwentieth CenturyRefusalHonest ManEmulate Author:Allen W. Wood