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“There are a lot of smart honest, progressive people who I think can be good presidents.”

People Thinking President Honest Smart Be Good Progressive

Author:Bernie Sanders

“Ben Stiller isn't funny - honest. Ben Stiller is very funny, and smart, and cute, too, in a neurotic, New York kind of way.”

Way Kind Honest New York Smart Cute Neurotic

Author:Manohla Dargis

“Smart people duck when they hear the dread announcement 'I'm going to be perfectly honest with you.”

People Honest Honesty Conversation Smart Ducks Dread Smart People Announcements

Book:Miss Manners Rescues Civilization: From Sexual Harassment, Frivolous Lawsuits, Dissing, and Other Lapses in Civility

Source: Miss Manners Rescues Civilization: From Sexual Harassment, Frivolous Lawsuits, Dissing, and Other Lapses in Civility

“The public does not like you to mislead or represent yourself to be something you're not. And the other thing that the public really does like is the self-examination to say, you know, I'm not perfect. I'm just like you. They don't ask their public officials to be perfect. They just ask them to be smart, truthful, honest, and show a modicum of good sense.”

Knows Doe Self Shows Asks Perfect Honest Like You Smart Officials Truthful Examination Mislead Not Perfect Good Sense Being Smart I'm Not Perfect Self-examination Public Officials

Author:Ann Richards

“I think my love for books sprang from my need to escape the world I was born into, to slide into another where words were straightforward and honest, where there was clearly delineated good and evil, where I found girls who were strong and smart and creative and foolish enough to fight dragons, to run away from home to live in museums, to become child spies, to make new friends and build secret gardens.”

“If, as Marshall McLuhan once taught us, the medium is the message, then Derfner's medium-this lovely, discursive amalgamation of wit and smarts-is indeed his message about how to stay happy, sane, and honest in whatever situation one finds oneself in.”

Ifs Situation Honest Taught Messages Smart Oneself Wit Lovely Mediums Sane Taught Us Amalgamation Stay Happy

Author:Philip Gambone

“You have to be smart enough to see the world for yourself and honest. The whole book-publicity thing is not really honest, at base.”

World Book Enough Whole Honest Smart Publicity Being Smart

Author:Ethan Canin

“My mantra is that I can go back home at anytime. I have a degree, I am smart, and I am honest. I care about my career and what I do, yet I know my lane and where I desire to go.”

Knows I Can Home Care Desire Careers Honest Degrees Smart I Care Lanes Back Home Mantras

Author:Tone Bell

“Government usually doesn't work. It doesn't work because it is political. People who are wise, good, smart, skillful, or hardworking don't need politics, they have jobs. The difference between the political process and an honest life is the difference between parading around waving picket signs while hollering catcalls in front of the White House and getting up in the morning to go make a living.”

Source: All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty

“The truth is, I'm a storyteller. And it scares me, because my training as an academic is that the more accessible you are and the more human you are, the less smart you are. It's a shame trigger for me to be honest.”

Humans Honest Truth Is Smart Training Shame Being Honest Scare Academic Storyteller Triggers

Author:Brené Brown