Top 19 Selective Truth Quotes
#1. I'll tell you the truth - I went to a women's college, Barnard, the most selective college for women in America today. If there's one thing I came out of Barnard with, because it was a women's college and a great institution of higher education, it was fearlessness.
Anna Quindlen
#3. Satire's nature is to be one-sided, contemptuous of ambiguity, and so unfairly selective as to find in the purity of ridicule an inarguable moral truth.
E.L. Doctorow
#4. Well, you not the first by a long shot. An integrated army is integrated misery. You all go fight, come back, they treat you like dogs. Change that. They treat dogs better.
Toni Morrison
#5. Always plan for the worst, child, that way all your surprises are pleasant ones.
Robert Jordan
#6. She wasn't here to gawk. She was an infiltrator, a sneak, an ugly. And she had a mission.
Scott Westerfeld
#7. I learned that I never really know the true story of my guests' lives, that I have to content myself with knowing that when I'm interviewing somebody, I'm getting a combination of fact and truth and self-mythology and self-delusion and selective memory and faulty memory.
Terry Gross
#8. Anyway, the way political history is passed down is influenced and spoiled by the closeness of the writers to the political figures that they're writing about. It's a sad state of affairs, but there's probably more veracity of reporting in my work than there is in the newspapers.
Raymond Pettibon
#10. I needed only to allow myself to know what I already knew.
Aspen Matis
#11. Do we have good writers, producers and actors in the U.K.? Yes we do.
Eric Fellner
#12. I think all of us who kind of live within the sport recognize that Davis Cup certainly could be a little more visible if perhaps there were some adjustments made to it, and it was made a little bit more easy to understand for the fans, if there's a little bit more of a start and finish line.
Jim Courier
#13. Thus set up, pen in hand, for the sake of greater truth, I would turn Portugal into a fiction. That's what fiction is about, isn't it, the selective transforming of reality? The twisting of it to bring out its essence? What need did I have to go to Portugal? The
Yann Martel
#14. There is no secret ingredient or hidden formula responsible for the success of the best Japanese companies.
Akio Morita
#15. Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.
Wole Soyinka
#16. A good wife is someone who thinks she has done everything right: raising the kids, being there for the husband, being home, trying to do it all.
Julianna Margulies
#17. Who says there have been no female prophet on earth, what about your mother.
M.F. Moonzajer
#18. I'm actually one of the few kids in my grade, especially girls, who didn't end up going to college, just because I already knew what I wanted to do. I had already been actively working in music before I graduated.
Alex Winston
#19. I am an author, and like many in my profession, I am also a traveling salesman, going all over in an attempt to persuade people to spend twenty-five dollars on a hardcover book by me.
Ian Frazier
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