In fact cycling has always been 'saved' by judicial investigations and not by the anti-doping controls we put in place. That's the harsh truth. We have relied on them to clean the sport up.
I believe that one key to success is to accept truth, no matter how it's spoken.
Remember, I come from such an excessively overdone, red-carpet place called Hollywood. So I'm used to people blowing up their success in ways that are far above and beyond the truth.
The remedy for speech that is false is speech that is true. This is the ordinary course in a free society. The response to the unreasoned is the rational; to the uninformed, the enlightened; to the straight-out lie, the simple truth.
Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.
While there are few records of Viking women participating in battle, they certainly held positions of high status in society as human sorceresses known as 'volvas.'
When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
What I do with my kids is I tell them I love them every day, but also I tell them the truth.
Here's the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don't find it anywhere else.
I write to music, and Nina Simone is always on my playlist to write to. I mean, she's inspiring. She's truthful and real and raw.
'Men have forgotten this truth,' said the fox. 'But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.'
Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared.
Welcome to Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.
I am not convinced the truth can make men free, but I believe it a beginning.
In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.
Women are not making it to the top of any profession in the world. But when I say, 'The blunt truth is that men run the world,' people say, 'Really?' That, to me, is the problem.
So we've moved from an era when women's biology was women's destiny to today, which is an era in which men's biology is men's destiny.
My wife's income allowed me to do what I really loved. I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.
Is there discrimination against women? Yes. There's no denying that the old boys' network is alive and well. But there's also discrimination against men.
You could make a case that women addicted men to their sexuality and then withdrew their sexuality until we provided them with a source of income.
I began to feel that the drama of the truth that is in the moment and in the past is richer and more interesting than the drama of Hollywood movies. So I began looking at documentary films.