“Trust cannot be commanded and yet it is also correct that the only one who earns trust is the one who is prepared to grant trust.”
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“The hardest thing is that you can't trust people now. You just can't.”
“It's not fun facing a ball going 97 mph, trust me.”
“It takes years for me to trust I know that about myself. A lot of it is because I am so private, and so reluctant to make myself vulnerable.”
“We have to compete in a universe of 200 networks, so we have to carve out our own niche, and to me, that niche is just basic shoe-leather journalism with some good journalists at the helm you can trust as presenters.”
“It's not my job to try and alter the director's style - he's in charge, and I'll always give him my trust.”
“The slogan was 'Don't trust anyone over thirty'. Sixty years later the slogan became, 'Don't trust anyone over ninety'.”
“When you are a character actor they trust you will go in and give them a full character and leave.”
“It's time to stop the raid on the Social Security trust fund and start allowing Americans to invest their Social Security taxes in personal savings accounts.”
“I wish my parents hadn't made me feel that how I looked was linked to how much they loved me. But I do also see how hard it must be to see your child pile on the pounds and trust they'll find their own way back to a healthy weight.”
“I believe in singularity in relationships because you've got to have trust on both sides.”
“The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human. Meander if you want to get to town.”
“You can't trust very many people.”
“It's interesting, because I tend to trust a man with big ears.”
“I also learned to be more confident, to trust my instincts more.”
“When I'm on stage, it's a little world I've created where I'm sort of the thing, so I have total control over everything that happens. When we're improvising, I'm with someone I totally trust. I know things are going to work out. I don't have those guarantees in life. There are no consequences on stage.”
“And as I've gotten deeper into the process of making films and television and such, I think I have more trust in the fact that you really never know what you're going to find after the twenty-fifth take.”
“We've outsourced our memories to digital devices, and the result is that we no longer trust our memories. We see every small forgotten thing as evidence that they're failing us.”
“When there's writing that you really trust, it's very freeing as an artist.”
“The way I look at it, everything is a trade. You acquire some money, so then you've got no financial burdens, but everyone wants your money and so who can you trust? Or you've got no money and you can trust anyone, but then you've got the worry to pay bills. Which is worse?”
“Now I can do no more. We must trust to the Great Disposer of all events and the justice of our cause. I thank God for this opportunity of doing my duty.”
“But trust me, if I lived in the '80s, I would definitely be the one going to the record stores.”
“I'm not really much of a shopper. I have to say that I'd definitely prefer good sex. What makes good sex? Oh my god. I think you need to feel free and you have to really trust the other person. And you have to have that strange, mysterious chemical connection.”
“We have been given the trust and goodwill of New Zealanders. I do not take that trust for granted, and I never will.”