Authenticity Check Quotes

If I were to sign it now, I'd be committing forgery. I'd be putting my 1943 signature on a canvas painted in 1922.

How do you know your Colossus is the genuine article in the first place? I read his mind. I matched his DNA. I smelled him. I also did that.

It's human nature to want to think the best of others, but if you listen carefully, people will always tell you who they are.

The facts are simply that my brother was born in the United States at the Kapiolani Hospital for Women and Children in 1961. His birth certificate has been authenticated by a number of sources.

Ladies and gentleman of Florida, this is the real Jeff Ament...take a very good look because there's an imposter running around...if someone comes up to you and says he's Jeff Ament and says he wants to take your pot or wants to take you to a strip club, it's probably not him.

Don't tell me what you believe in. I'll observe how you behave and I will make my own determination.

It has always seemed to me that a being coming from another world, with a message of infinite importance to mankind, should at least have verified that message by his own signature. Is it not wonderful that not one word was written by Christ?

Real recognize real, I suppose.

To mark all that I say in conversation, merely to beget in others, a good opinion of myself, and examine it.

If the price is very cheap then it's almost certainly a fake.

It'll be nice not to have to use my fake IDs anymore.

The fact that you can forge a twenty dollar bill doesn't prove that all twenty dollar bills are forgeries.

I've been pretty good at reading people. If you rockin' with me cause you're just a solid individual, then we're rockin'. But if you got a motive or something, I am going to probably see right through that.

A signature always reveals a man's character - and sometimes even his name.

Reputation is a hall-mark: it can remove doubt from pure silver, and it can also make the plated article pass for pure.

Did ole Hank really do it this way?

We are well aware that he spent many hours recently tape recording various messages... we need to do a little more analysis of what was actually said to see if that indeed was in fact Saddam Hussein.

The blogosphere is real, and it can be really harsh on fakes... so, if you're a phoney, you're going to get your bell rung.

When I'm watching somebody act, it's a behavior editorial function - I look at someone act, and I might say, 'I don't believe him when he says that.' I don't know why I don't believe him, probably because the people that I've met, they don't act like that when they say stuff like that and mean it.

Each year, tens of millions of museumgoers walk through the entrance of the Getty, or the Metropolitan or the Prado or the Hermitage, and never consider the possibility of having to arbitrate for themselves the authenticity of what they have come to see.

The performances had to be live. When you play it back, you can see if the hands aren't really doing the right thing, and then the whole magic falls apart.

Knowing the identity of the leaker helps you analyze the likelihood that the material is real.

It would be absurd for me or any other editor to review the authenticity or accuracy of stories that are nominated for prizes.

When you play a character you have to ask yourself, 'Can I make sense of what's happening here? Is this authentic?'

Without approval and without scorn, but carefully studying the sentences word by word, one should trace them in the Discourses and verify them by the Discipline. If they are neither traceable in the Discourses nor verifiable by the Discipline, one must conclude thus: 'Certainly, this is not the Blessed One's utterance; this has been misunderstood by that bhikkhu - or by that community, or by those elders, or by that elder.' In that way, bhikkhus, you should reject it.