I don't want to tell President Obama how to make a speech. He's a much better speech maker than I am. But I think always to tell the truth in a sometimes blatant way, even though it might be temporarily unpopular, is the best approach.
Begin with praise and honest appreciation.
Set up as an ideal the facing of reality as honestly and as cheerfully as possible.
I sense people respond more to the honest approach to making music instead of the manufactured approach.
I'm a person who has always believed that you tell people the truth, and they'll make reasonable decisions. Truth is powerful.
We have never done anything in a cynical fake way
I am a straightforward man.
The only way that you can ever continue to have a career and have success and have hits is if you are honest to yourself in the same way that you were in the beginning.
If someone needs help, I don't do tea and sympathy, but I'm honest and practical - that's how I was brought up.
In the zero-sum budget game, every dollar spent on this problem [illegal immigration] must be taken from somewhere else....No, we should not tolerate people immigrating illegally. But we need to treat this issue honestly and fairly.
I'm not much of a salesman. I prefer the soft sell and the honest approach.
People in the industry know that FTII students have a different and an honest approach towards work. The place gave me a voice and the ability to see things from a different perspective.
