Marian Anderson Quotes

I've always operated under the notion that audiences don't always know when they're being lied to, but that they always know when they're being told the truth.

I think you can fool people once but you can't fool the people all the time.

Honesty is often the best policy, but sometimes the appearance of it is worth six of it.

If you have a dishonest moment, you're going to lose the audience. So I had to not only light myself in the scenes.

You cannot tell an audience a lie. They know it before you do; before it's out of your mouth, they know it's a lie.

For me, the greatest fault would be to tell somebody something I'm not.

Sincerity: if you can fake it, you've got it made.

Most people don't care if you're telling them the truth or if you're telling them a lie, as long as they're entertained by it.

You can't lie to your audience. You can't lie to your fans.

People often think I'm a faker, but I'm usually honest, in a certain way - in such a way that often nobody believes me!

The thing that I've learned, not just from writing comics but also from writing television programs like 'Law & Order,' is that you can fool some of the people some of the time - but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.

I never lie to my fans.

You tell me the truth, and I am hooked for life, because the one thing that you can't find nowadays is the person who is going to be absolutely honest with you.

Politicians have to be themselves because if they are not, in the end, the people will see through it.

If you're faking it, people will know, and it's going to turn a lot of people off.

The worst thing you can do in a leadership position is be something you're not.

You can fool people some of the time, but you can't fool them all of the time.

By lying, we deny others a view of the world as it is. Our dishonesty not only influences the choices they make, it often determines the choices they can make—and in ways we cannot always predict. Every lie is a direct assault upon the autonomy of those we lie to.

People trust me. I sell sincerity.

Trust is built on telling the truth, not telling people what they want to hear.

Reality is easy. It's deception that's the hard work.

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

Honesty has always been an integral part of my operation, really.

I'm okay if everything is honest and truthful and relatable. If it's fabricated and ill-motived, it's not good.

For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth.