Truth Quotes
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The truth will set you free, so get Shmooping. Click on any truth quote below to see it in context and find out where it falls on Shmoop's pretentious scale. We'll give you details on who said it, when they said it, and in some cases, why on earth they thought it was okay to say it.
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"A lie keeps growing and growing until it's as clear as the nose on your face."Source: Pinocchio | Speaker: The Blue Fairy
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"All the lonely Starbucks lovers, they'll tell you I'm insane."Source: Blank Space | Speaker: Taylor Swift
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"Anything. Can be a slam. Poem. If you say it like this."Source: Parks and Recreation | Speaker: Leslie Knope
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"Because when we love, we always strive to become better than we are."Source: The Alchemist | Author: Paulo Coelho
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"Dear frozen yogurt: you are the celery of desserts. Be ice cream or nothing. Zero stars."Source: Parks and Recreation | Speaker: Ron Swanson
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"Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom."Source: 1896 Letter to Booker T. Washington | Author: George Washington Carver
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"Education is the most powerful weapon we can use to change the world."Source: 2003 Speech | Speaker: Nelson Mandela
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"He tells you when you've got on too much lipstick"Source: The Perfect Husband | Author: Ogden Nash
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"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."Speaker: Voltaire
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"I might love the people upstairs more If only they lived on another floor."Source: The People Upstairs | Author: Ogden Nash
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"I solemnly swear that I am up to no good"Source: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban | Author: J.K. Rowling
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"I stand behind my decision to avoid salad and other disgusting things"Source: Parks and Recreation | Speaker: Leslie Knope
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"I wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves, and I watch my daughters—two beautiful, intelligent, Black young women—playing with their dogs on the White House lawn."Source: 2016 Democratic National Convention Speech | Speaker: Michelle Obama
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"I wouldn't give you two cents for all your fancy rules."Source: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington | Speaker: Jefferson Smith
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"I'm no hero. I put my bra on one boob at a time like everyone else."Source: Bob's Burgers | Speaker: Tina Belcher
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"I'm the man who's gonna save your lives and all 6 billion people on the planet below. You got a problem with that?"Source: Doctor Who | Speaker: The Tenth Doctor
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"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it."Source: Misquote | Speaker: Joseph Goebbels
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"In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, and they had 500 years of democracy and peace. And what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."Source: The Third Man | Speaker: Harry Lime
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"It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness. That is life."Source: Star Trek: The Next Generation | Speaker: Jean-Luc Picard
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"It took more than one man to change my name to Shanghai Lily."Source: Shanghai Express | Speaker: Shanghai Lily
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"It's better to look at the sky than live there."Source: Breakfast at Tiffany's | Author: Truman Capote
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"It's me. I'm the thing that needs to be fixed. I'm the thing that needs to be handled. I'm the scandal, and the best way to deal with a scandal is to shut it down."Source: Scandal | Speaker: Olivia Pope
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"It's not who I am underneath, but what I do that defines me."Source: Batman Begins | Speaker: Batman
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"Love fades away. But things...things are forever."Source: Parks and Recreation | Speaker: Tom Haverford
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"One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them."Source: Brave New World | Author: Aldous Huxley
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"Seize the moment. 'Cause tomorrow you might be dead."Source: Buffy the Vampire Slayer | Speaker: Buffy Summers
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"Sometimes being stuck inside my own head is so exhausting it makes me want to cry."Source: Girls | Speaker: Marnie Michaels
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"Struggle is a never-ending process. Freedom is never really won. You earn it and win it in every generation."Source: My Life with Martin Luther King Jr. | Author: Coretta Scott King
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"The gift of a good liar is making people believe you lack a talent for lying."Source: House of Cards | Speaker: Frank Underwood
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"The hardest thing in this world is to live in it."Source: Buffy the Vampire Slayer | Speaker: Buffy Summers
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"The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence either way."Source: An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish | Author: Bertrand Russell
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"The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience."Source: Dune | Author: Frank Herbert
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"The seaweed is always greener in somebody else's lake."Source: The Little Mermaid | Speaker: Sebastian
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"The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him…"Source: Eichmann in Jerusalem | Author: Hannah Arendt
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"The trouble with poetry is that it encourages the writing of more poetry."Source: The Trouble with Poetry | Author: Billy Collins
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"There’s only one rule that I know of, babies—God damn it, you’ve got to be kind."Source: God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater | Author: Kurt Vonnegut
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"Wake up Maggie, I think I got something to say to you."Source: "Maggie May" | Speaker: Rod Stewart
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"Watch the skies. Everywhere. Keep looking. Keep watching the skies."Source: The Thing from Another World | Speaker: Ned "Scotty" Scott
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"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be very careful what we pretend to be."Source: Mother Night | Author: Kurt Vonnegut
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"We should emphasize not Negro History, but the Negro in history. What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world void of national bias, race hate, and religious prejudice."Source: "The Celebration of Negro History Week" in The Journal of Negro History | Author: Carter G. Woodson
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"What a treacherous thing to believe a person is more than a person."Source: Paper Towns | Author: John Green
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"What he did to Shakespeare we are doing now to Poland."Source: To Be or Not to Be | Speaker: Colonel Ehrhardt
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"Whenever you're wrong, admit it Whenever you're right, shut up."Source: A Word to Husbands | Author: Ogden Nash
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"You are from New York; therefore, you are just naturally interesting."Source: Girls | Speaker: Hannah Horvath
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"You must never lend any money to anybody unless they don't need it."Source: Bankers Are Just Like Anybody Else, Except Richer | Author: Ogden Nash
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"You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from."Source: No Country for Old Men | Author: Cormac McCarthy
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"You think I'm licked. You all think I'm licked. Well, I'm not licked."Source: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington | Speaker: Jefferson Smith