Candid Quotes - page 3

Most other documents leaked to WikiLeaks do not carry the same explosive potential as candid cables written by American diplomats. (Evgeny Morozov)
I'm fascinated by mankind, ... I grew up watching 'Candid Camera' and thought it was funnier than any standup, any joke, anything that could possibly be written because you're dealing with humanity. And people can relate to that. It touches everybody who sees it. It hits a nerve. View quote
Howie Mandel
I am a candid interview and I have a dark and dry sense of humor - a very Canadian sense of humor and I am only learning now stupidly that you can't read tongue. When I say something funny in a newspaper and I meant it to be funny, it doesn't read that way. View quote
Michael Buble
What scared me in that debate is that it's not about the ownership rules at all. The vast majority of people don't even know what the rules say, to be perfectly candid. Name all six of them. View quote
Michael K. Powell
Strangely, I feel that I become increasingly reclusive in my normal life and more open and candid in my music. View quote
Mika
In making the jump from a local program to the showcase of a coast-to-coast broadcast, Ted Yates and I were determined to maintain the candid, sometimes combative style we'd introduced on 'Night Beat.' But that proved easier said than done. View quote
Mike Wallace
If I write a book where all I've ever experienced is success, people won't take a positive lesson from it. In being candid, I have to own up to my own failures, both in my marriage and in my work environment. View quote
Sonia Sotomayor
Our ... advantage was that we had evolved unstated but fruitful methods of collaboration ... If either of us suggested a new idea, the other, while taking it seriously, would attempt to demolish it in a candid but non-hostile manner. View quote
Francis Crick
Really, I'm incredibly disjointed and not candid. Just in general, my thoughts tend to come out in little spurts that don't necessarily connect. If you hang around long enough, you can find the linear path. But it will take a second. That is why these interviews never go well for me. View quote
Kristen Stewart
And the food for the soul passes, candid and free, without paying tribute to the customs. View quote
Juan Ramón Jiménez
To be candid, in Middlemarch phraseology, meant, to use an early opportunity of letting your friends know that you did not take a cheerful view of their capacity, their conduct, or their position and a robust candor never waited to be asked for its opinion. (George Eliot)
We are rather candid with them about the nature of their political processes and the state of development of their institutions, but they are looking to the West because they know that's where success lies. View quote
Colin Powell
I like to be candid in my admissions - it is so very disarming ; you forestall the objection which you admit - at least your adversary has scarcely the heart to push to its utmost the advantage which you so meekly confess. View quote
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
ARTLESSNESS, n. A certain engaging quality to which women attain by long study and severe practice upon the admiring male, who is pleased to fancy it resembles the candid simplicity of his young. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
I'm going to be candid with you. I had hoped to be back here this week under different circumstances, running for re-election. But you know the old saying: you win some, you lose some. And then there's that little-known third category. View quote
Al Gore
We're talking about the lawyers for the United States of America. And I think it's very, very important that the lawyers be comfortable being very candid and open about their views on very sensitive issues affecting the United States. View quote
Alberto Gonzales
The secret to understanding me is, I'm not trying to be anybody other than who I actually am. People want candid, refreshing leadership. And I've always tried to go with solutions. You know, I've always tried to say, here's how we get our economy growing, here's why we get our debt under control. That's what Mitt Romney is offering. View quote
Paul Ryan
But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send, Save me, oh, save me, from the candid friend! View quote
George Canning
I do not like candid pictures. They are so unattractive. View quote
Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
Something you see in the book is my tendency to self-bully. It started when I was a gay black kid growing up in the suburbs. I wasn't bullied by individuals; kids weren't shoving me into lockers or calling me slurs to my face. Shame-electrified by racism and homophobia-was enforced by the broader culture though, and in response, I started bullying myself. I started saying cruel things about myself to myself. While I've generally grown out of self-hate, an ease with being tough and candid about myself to myself is an integral aspect of my writing... View quote
Saeed Jones
Yes books are valuable. But not reading of books will take the place of a daily, candid, honest examination of what one has recently done, and what one is about to do - of a steady looking at one's self in the face (disconcerting though the sight may be). (Arnold Bennett)
If you question any candid person who is no longer young, he is very likely to tell you that, having tasted life in this world, he has no wish to begin again as a new boy' in another. View quote
Bertrand Russell
No one who has read official documents needs to be told how easy it is to conceal the essential truth under the apparently candid and all- disclosing phrases of a voluminous and particularizing report .... View quote
Woodrow Wilson
Tristam,” the old man said softly. "If I may be completely candid, you are the poorest liar. Lack of experience, no doubt-which is to your credit. View quote
Sean Russell
To be candid, some people have given positive thinking a bad name. I can't stand to hear some gung-ho individual say that with positive thinking you can just do 'anything.' If you think about that one for a moment, you recognize the absurdity of it. View quote
Zig Ziglar