Ugly Truth Quotes

• The coverage of Central America in recent months points up one of the ugly truths about the American press: the better the news, the less of it you get. As the war began to turn against the Communist guerillas in El Salvador, there was a palpable dip in the attention paid to it.

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  Fred Barnes

  War   Media   America  

  3037

• Chumps prefer a beautiful lie to an ugly truth.

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  Iceberg Slim

  Beautiful   Lying   Ugly  

  Iceberg Slim (2011). “Trick Baby”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

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• I'd rather hear an ugly truth, rather than an obscure lie.

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  Ana Monnar

  Lying   Ugly   Obscure  

  2142

• Ben Skinner's brains and courage take us into the belly of the beast and expose the ugly truth of modern slavery. Instead of sensation, A Crime So Monstrous gives us desperately needed insight and analysis. This is an important book, the first deep look into America's confused relationship with human trafficking and slavery today. Skinner's balanced dissection of our government's haphazard policies will be controversial, but it can also be the foundation for a new anti-slavery agenda, one that ends the political games being played with the lives of slaves.

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  Kevin Bales

  Confused   Book   Games  

  4297

• But romantic vision can also lead one away from certain very hard, ugly truths about life that are important to know.

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  Donna Tartt

  Romantic   Life Is Hard   Vision  

  3899

• I had become conscious of my physicality, aware of my presence and open to the ugly truths of the world. At the age of thirteen, I realised that there was a danger in innocence and beauty, and I could not live with both.

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  Tracey Emin

  Age   World   Ugly  

  985

• The whole concept of this band is to present the ugly truth about society - warts and all, and let the chips fall where they may.

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  Marilyn Manson

  Fall   Band   Ugly  

  huH Magazine, October 1996.

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• But here's the ugly truth: nature doesn't care about democracy, or who's right, or what's fair. And because of the slow-change aspect of climate, we can't wait until the worst effects are upon us to make a decision -- by then, it would be far, far too late. The scenario we may be faced with is one where doing something for the wrong reasons, run by the wrong people, may still save more lives than holding out for a more appealing option.

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  Jamais Cascio

  Running   People   Decision  

  1794

• I prefer an ugly truth to a pretty lie. If someone is telling me the truth that is when I will give my heart.

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  Shakira

  Beauty   Lying   Heart  

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My thesis in terms of all my art is finding the beauty in the ugly truth. Just find the beauty in realism and what's there.

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  Nikki Jean

  Art   Ugly   Realism  

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