The fact is, every thinker, every philosopher, the moment he is forced to abandon his one-sided intellectual occupation by practical necessity, immediately returns to the general point of view of mankind.
‐‐ Ernst Mach
The fact is, feminism is not what it used to be.
‐‐ Janine di Giovanni
The fact is fiction is always a representation of life, sometimes the lives of famous people.
‐‐ Varley O'Connor
The fact is, for all the critics' talk about me as a realist, I'm making everything up - everything. It is all about imagining with me.
‐‐ Richard Bausch
The fact is fossil fuel carbon will stay in the surface climate system for millennia.
‐‐ James Hansen
The fact is, funnily enough, that the people who seem to be most committed to causes also seem to be least invested in anyone actually talking to each other.
‐‐ Abigail Disney
The fact is I am growing old too fast, alas! I feel it, and yet work I will, and may God grant me life to see the last plate of my mammoth work finished.
‐‐ John James Audubon
The fact is, I am in my third marriage and I do not believe in divorce. But I was half the problem, I guarantee you. More than half the problem. I couldn't negotiate with the other women.
‐‐ James Brolin
The fact is I am not having sex. But I feel absolutely ripe for the, what would you say? plucking?
‐‐ Angelina Jolie
The fact is, I can vote for anybody; independents, Republicans, Democrats. But I'm a registered Democrat in the District of Columbia.
‐‐ Ron Suskind
The fact is, I diet every day of my life. I have to work at it. But I diet so I can pig out.
‐‐ Jack Nicklaus
The fact is I don't drive just to get from A to B. I enjoy feeling the car's reactions, becoming part of it.
‐‐ Enzo Ferrari
The fact is I like Mumbai less and less. My son says, 'Baba, let's go for a drive', and I tell him, 'Where's the fun of a drive in this place?' You get caught in a million traffic jams, and you spend time cooped in your car with all that mad cacophony around you.
‐‐ Om Puri
The fact is, I loved being English. I was very happy to be turned into an English schoolboy.
‐‐ Tom Stoppard
The fact is I'm an opportunist. I'll take materials around me, materials on my table, and work with them as I'm searching for an idea that works.
‐‐ Frank Gehry
The fact is I'm choosy, but mainly about a man's character. He has to be interesting, funny and clever. I don't even mind if he's not very good-looking.
‐‐ Agyness Deyn
The fact is, I'm gay, always have been, always will be, and I couldn't be any more happy, comfortable with myself, and proud.
‐‐ Anderson Cooper
The fact is I'm not making a film in order to draw pictures or make images about Iran.
‐‐ Asghar Farhadi
The fact is, I'm opposed to coalitions.
‐‐ Justin Trudeau
The fact is, I made $400 a week and only for 26 weeks a year. I never had any money.
‐‐ Danny Bonaduce
The fact is, I never wanted to be a movie star.
‐‐ Piper Laurie
The fact is I still have quite a few good years in front of me. I still improve.
‐‐ Caroline Wozniacki
The fact is, I've always felt more British than Irish. Maybe it was the way I was brought up, I don't know, but I have always felt more of a connection with the U.K. than with Ireland.
‐‐ Rory McIlroy
The fact is I've been in Massachusetts for the last two weeks, and it seems over the last few days that the price is increasing by the hour at the pump, so there needs to be an aggressive investigation.
‐‐ Marty Meehan
The fact is, I've been releasing records longer than I've been releasing films, or at least exactly as long.
‐‐ Riz Ahmed
The fact is, I was never too bright in school. I ain't ashamed of it, though. I mean, how much do school principals make a month?
‐‐ Muhammad Ali
The fact is, if a young man is naturally indolent, the spur of necessity will drive him but a very little way, while the having enough to live upon is often the means of preserving his self-respect.
‐‐ James Payn
The fact is, if our primary legislative goals are to repeal and replace the health spending bill; to end the bailouts; cut spending; and shrink the size and scope of government, the only way to do all these things it is to put someone in the White House who won't veto any of these things.
‐‐ Mitch McConnell
The fact is, in Mike Huckabee's case, he can say, 'I was a preacher, I'm a Christian, and so I believe that life begins at conception, ends at natural death.'
‐‐ Kellyanne Conway
The fact is, in the minds of many, Trayvon Martin received the appropriate punishment for a true crime: He was black, male and dared to walk outside. In life, young Trayvon was just a teenager; in death, he has been transformed into a scary, lurking, suspicious, prone-to-violence spook.
‐‐ Henry Rollins
The fact is inner-city black districts are not the same as suburban Republican districts. That's a fact. And people need to go and learn about the whole country.
‐‐ Newt Gingrich
The fact is, it's hard to release movies.
‐‐ Campbell Scott
The fact is: It's true what they say about the United States. It is a land of opportunity. It is too various to get bored with it.
‐‐ Christopher Hitchens
The fact is, it was a big show. We were a part of that show. Everybody watches for different reasons. There were some people who were tuning in that day to see what was going on with other characters.
‐‐ Matthew Ashford
The fact is, Japan's whaling is illegal, so just because there is a natural disaster in Japan is no reason for us to stop opposing their illegal activities in the Southern Ocean.
‐‐ Paul Watson
The fact is Jerry Weintraub, the handsome, bearish movie producer, the man with the long career, who worked with Arthur Godfrey and Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra and George Clooney, is a great storyteller - he's this as much as he's anything else. He takes time telling stories, too.
‐‐ Rich Cohen
The fact is, Joe Isuzu is very successful at selling cars.
‐‐ Jerry Della Femina
The fact is, Latinos now own their own lives and I believe they can afford to look back without judgment.
‐‐ Ednita Nazario
The fact is, most journalists I know are not particularly political. They move around a lot.
‐‐ Ron Suskind
The fact is, my friends, most Americans don't want more government. They want less government.
‐‐ Mike Huckabee
The fact is, my parents loved me, and I wanted to be worthy of their love. I wanted to make them proud.
‐‐ Michael Bergin
The fact is... our doors have not exactly been knocked down by companies willing to defend Microsoft's business practices.
‐‐ Orrin Hatch
The fact is, our men and women in uniform, the bravest in the world, did everything they could to protect this country from a terror threat and to protect others from the terror threat that was Saddam Hussein. And nobody can deny that we are in a better place because Saddam Hussein is dead.
‐‐ Cory Gardner
The fact is popular art dates. It grows quaint. How many people feel strongly about Gilbert and Sullivan today compared to those who felt strongly in 1890?
‐‐ Stephen Sondheim
The fact is, presidential politics has become a game of inches.
‐‐ Steven Weber
The fact is, psychiatric help is not widely available to CIA agents - and as in the military, there is a stigma attached to admitting post-traumatic stress.
‐‐ Michael Hastings
The fact is Qatar, Etihad, Emirates, Singapore, Garuda, all of the three Chinese airlines, Air New Zealand - the fact is that international aviation relies very much upon agreements between nation-states, and it is not an area in which you have free market operations.
‐‐ Anthony Albanese
The fact is safe co-sleeping is not difficult. The notion of babies being smothered is simply not true. And the benefits of sleeping together are profound.
‐‐ Mayim Bialik
The fact is Scottish Labour has lost its way.
‐‐ Nicola Sturgeon
The fact is, society is made more hospitable by every individual who acts as if 'do unto others' really was a rule.
‐‐ Gary Hamel