Missy Elliott Quotes

It's a little gross to put yourself in every song. I mean, how interesting do people really think you are?

It is Hillary's lot in life not to be able to fake it well.

People know when you're frontin'.

A lot of rappers lie about who and what they are.

I don't like people being something that they ain't, and we got a lot of that in rap right now.

What I believe is not what I say I believe; what I believe is what I do.

I'm trying to maintain a level of realness that my fans can appreciate.

If Trump remains honest and seems like a person who's authentic, he's going to go a long way.

If the story had been about anyone else, it would been dismissed as laaf, that Afghan tendency to exaggerate ---sadly, almost a national affliction; if someone bragged that his son was a doctor, chances were the kid had once passed a biology test in high school.

I don't want to be pandered to, so I try not to pander.

You are only pretentious if you are not sincere.

I'm an entertainer; I try to give the public what it wants while I'm on the screen, and I'm completely sincere about it. If I don't happen to be a laughing boy off the screen, that doesn't make me a hypocrite or a phony.

I am repelled by those who voice the word 'nature', without having any trace of it in their hearts.

In both metaphysics and art, honesty is the best policy. Keep it clean.

I love every-day senses, every-day wit and entertainment; a man who is only good on holidays, is good for very little.

I'm the same on stage as I am off stage. A lot of people who I admire - Bruce Springsteen, Jackson Browne - are not that different either. You hope that if you met them that they'd be as nice and well-rounded as they appear.

When I open my mouth and sing, the truth comes out. When I write, the truth comes out. I can't lie. That, I think, is one of the strongest elements of my music. When people talk about my writing as though I'm doing it from an accountant's perspective, it really pisses me off.

Other people's devotions embarrassed me, perhaps because, like other people's kisses, they rarely looked genuine when viewed too closely.

We had better appear what we are, than affect to appear what we are not.

There is no such thing as bragging. You're either lying or telling the truth.

Weirdly enough, I don't like to pretend. I try to use things in me, and translate them into the situation and the characters, so it always needs to run through my own veins.

Better is the wrong with sincerity, rather than the right with falsehood.

The first virtue of all really great men is that they are sincere. They eradicate hypocrisy from their hearts.

I'd much rather be a one-hit wonder than a phony.

If the show of any thing be good for any thing, I am sure sincerity is better; for why does any man dissemble, or seem to be that which he is not, but because he thinks it good to have such a quality as he pretends to?