“Always say what you mean and mean what you say. Express how you feel and don’t ever apologize for being real.”

— Ralph Smart

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“Never apologize for what you feel. It’s like saying sorry for being real.”

Lil Wayne (1982) American rapper, singer, record executive and businessman

“Say what you mean and mean what you say,
before the wall of water washes you away…”

Moby (1965) Activist, American musician, DJ and photographer

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“Saying what you really feel isn't being rude. It's called being real.”

Ralph Smart

“No public man in these islands ever believes that the Bible means what it says: he is always convinced that it says what he means.”

George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright

Our Theatres In The Nineties (1930)
1930s

“You are beautiful,” he whispered to me. “If you say so.” “Do ye not believe me? Have I ever lied to you?” “That’s not what I mean. I mean—if you say it, then it’s true. You make it true.”

Diana Gabaldon book The Fiery Cross

Source: The Fiery Cross

“I'm an educator. You do what you have to do to get what you are saying across, and if that means being funny, that's what I do.”

Bill Nye (1955) American science educator, comedian, television host, actor, writer, scientist and former mechanical engineer

[NewsBank, 'The Science Guy' returns to tackle issues for older audience, Journal Gazette, Mattoon, Illinois, June 8, 2005, Associated Press]

“You've got to say what you mean and mean what you say… Doubt in your voice is an open door people will shove right through.”

Deb Caletti (1963) American writer

Source: The Six Rules of Maybe

“Poetry begins in trivial metaphors, pretty metaphors, "grace" metaphors, and goes on to the profoundest thinking that we have. Poetry provides the one permissible way of saying one thing and meaning another. People say, "Why don’t you say what you mean?"”

Robert Frost (1874–1963) American poet

We never do that, do we, being all of us too much poets. We like to talk in parables and in hints and in indirections — whether from diffidence or some other instinct.
" Education by Poetry http://www.en.utexas.edu/amlit/amlitprivate/scans/edbypo.html", speech delivered at Amherst College and subsequently revised for publication in the Amherst Graduates’ Quarterly (February 1931)
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“I heard what you were saying. You - you know nothing of my work. You mean my whole fallacy is wrong. How you ever got to teach a course in anything is totally amazing.”

Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980) Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar-- a professor of English literature, a literary critic, and a …

Cameo appearance as himself in Woody Allen's 1977 film Annie Hall
1970s

“Always say what you mean and mean what you say. Express how you feel and don’t ever apologize for being real.”

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