#straightforward

My upbringing was very straightforward suburban working class upbringing. ↗

— Billy Bragg

#straightforward #suburban #upbringing #very #working

The Bush administration also was not straightforward about the intelligence it had, releasing tenuous information that fit its goal of attacking Iraq. I feel deceived. ↗

— Ken Lucas

#administration #also #attacking #bush #bush administration

Hypocrites get offended by the truth. ↗

— Jess C. Scott

#freedom-of-speech #freedom-of-thought #honest #honesty #hypocrite

First of all, we were never not speaking. It's gotten so blown out of proportion. It was a very straightforward difference of opinion. I think because we were so private and refused to talk about it, these stories just got out of control. ↗

— Julie Nixon Eisenhower

#because #blown #control #difference #first

But with nonfiction, the task is very straightforward: Do the research, tell the story. ↗

— Laura Hillenbrand

#research #story #straightforward #task #tell

We are ashamed to seem evasive in the presence of a straightforward man, cowardly in the presence of a brave one, gross in the eyes of a refined one, and so on. We always imagine, and in imagining share, the judgments of the other mind. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

#ashamed #brave #cowardly #evasive #eyes

What I learned from Lennon was something that did stay with me my whole career, which is to be very straightforward. I actually love talking about taking pictures, and I think that helps everyone. ↗

— Annie Leibovitz

#actually #career #did #everyone #helps

Doo-wop is special music to me because it's so straightforward and melody-driven and captures emotions. ↗

— Bruno Mars

#captures #emotions #me #music #special

I've discovered as I've grown up that life is far more complicated than you think it is when you're a kid. It isn't just a straightforward fairytale. ↗

— Rachel McAdams

#discovered #fairytale #far #grown #i

Songs like the Buck Owens tune, for example, are very simple and straightforward, and recording it really gave me a chance to get into and get a sense of Buck's personality, a feel for that whole Bakersfield sound. ↗

— Juice Newton

#chance #example #feel #for example #gave