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• I taught myself how to play the guitar, I taught myself how to play the drums, and I kind of fake doing both of them. But drumming comes more natural to me, and it just feels better.

  Dave Grohl

  Feel Better, Guitar, Play

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• Spiritual life can certainly follow the pattern one sees in the fake martial arts, with most teachers making nebulous and magical claims that never get tested, while their students derange themselves with weird ideas, empty rituals, and other affectations.

  Sam Harris

  Spiritual, Teacher, Art

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• I'm naturally shy, so the social media thing is new to me. I haven't really figured out how my voice sounds on social media, you know? I don't want to tweet everyday just for the sake of tweeting. I want to make sure whatever I do there is honest. Social media can very quickly get fake, and I don't want to be that guy.

  Hunter Hayes

  Media, Voice, Guy

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• Creating fake facts does require a measure of haphazard research, insofar as they need to not just be possible, but also interesting.

  John Hodgman

  Creating, Interesting, Doe

  "The Exchange: John Hodgman". Interview with Thessaly La Force, www.newyorker.com. November 11, 2008.

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• If anybody dared say wrestling was fake, you'd punch 'em. And you never used the word show. If you used the word show it was an insult.

  Hulk Hogan

  Wrestling, Ems, Insult

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• I used to live in a gap jumper, tracksuit bottoms and a fake flower in my hair. Shocking.

  Jessie J

  Flower, Hair, Gaps

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You can watch a little bit of war from your nice living room - 30 seconds of what's going on in Syria - and when you've had enough, switch over to some celebrity programme. We live our life through screens and images in this way, and we don't know what is real or fake anymore. It doesn't matter.

  Alison Jackson

  Real, War, Nice

  "Alison Jackson On Obama, Assange And Why 'Reality' Doesn't Really Matter". Interview with Sam Parker, www.huffingtonpost.co.uk. October 26, 2012.

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• You can't fake this music. You might be a great singer or a great musician but, in the need, that's got nothing to do with it. It's how you connect to the songs and to the history behind them.

  Etta James

  Song, Musical, Singers

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• I've always had a burning desire to help people and make a difference in the world. I didn't know how I could do that in modelling when it can be such a fake world. But my dad told me I could make a difference by being true to myself and teaching people what I've learnt about spirituality, health and nutrition.

  Miranda Kerr

  Dad, Teaching, Fake World

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• I can't look in the mirror and look at fake things. I just can't. I'd rather age.

  Heidi Klum

  Birthday, Mirrors, Age

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• I don't think that you can fake warmth. You can fake lust, jealousy, anger; those are all quite easy. But actual, genuine warmth? I don't think you can fake it.

  Keira Knightley

  Jealousy, Fake People, Anger

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• With modelling, you provide an image that is fake; with acting you have to provide an image that's real.

  Olga Kurylenko

  Real, Acting, Modelling

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• …maybe the whole Internet will simply become like Facebook: falsely jolly, fake-friendly, self-promoting, slickly disingenuous….” - Zadie Smith

  Zadie Smith

  Self, Friendly, Internet

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• Me: "If you want me to be a teenager, don't send me to Support Group. Buy me a fake ID so I can go to clubs, drink vodka, and take pot." Mom: "You don't take pot, for starters." Me: "See, that's the kind of thing I'd know if you got me a fake ID.

  John Green

  Mom, Teenager, Support

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.214, Penguin

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• I was a terrible believer in things,but I was also a terrible nonbeliever in things. I was as searching as I was skeptical. I didn't know where to put my faith,or if there was such a place,or even what the word faith meant, in all of it's complexity. Everything seemed to be possibly potent and possibly fake.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Terrible, Complexity, Skeptical

  Cheryl Strayed (2012). “Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found”, p.120, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• If there's one thing I believe more than I believe anything else, it's that you can't fake the core. The truth that lives there will eventually win out. It's a god we must obey, a force that brings us all inevitably to our knees.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Believe, Winning, Knees

  Cheryl Strayed (2012). “Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar”, p.174, Vintage

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• Fake confidence on the outside often trumps truthful turmoil on the inside.

  Rob Lowe

  Truthful, Trump, Turmoil

  Rob Lowe (2011). “Stories I Only Tell My Friends: An Autobiography”, p.58, Macmillan

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• Sleepy pulled the car to a stop in front of this paved entranceway, which was flanked on either side by these enormous palm trees, kind of like the Polynesian Resort at Disney World. In fact, the whole place had kind of a Disney feel to it. You know, really big, and kind of modern and fake.

  Meg Cabot

  Car, Tree, World

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• Before Keto could notice, Hedge pointed towards the top of the amphitheater. It looked like he might be screaming, Gods of Olympus, what is that? Keto turned. Coach Hedge promptly took off his fake foot and ninja-kicked her in the back of the head with his goat hoof.

  Rick Riordan

  Feet, Olympus, Goats

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• Remembering now all those farewells (fake farewells, worked-up farewells), Irena thinks: a person who messes up her goodbyes shouldn’t expect much from her re-unions.

  Milan Kundera

  Goodbye, Farewell, Thinking

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• Oh. Yeah. That does make sense.” Shaylin hesitated. “But I don’t know which dorm room is hers.” “Third floor, number thirty-six. When they shared a brain, they used to say it stood for their chest size. I said it was their combined IQ.” “Of course you did,” Shaylin said. “See, you do understand me!” Aphrodite said with fake enthusiasm.

  P. C. Cast

  Numbers, Brain, Doe

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• I got the feeling Poseidon really didn't know what to think of me. He didn't know whether he was happy to have me as a son or not. In a strange way, I was glad that Poseidon was so distant. If he'd tried to apologize, or told me he love me, or even smiled. it would've felt fake. Like human dad, making some lame excuse for not being around. I could live with that. After all, I wasn't sure about him yet, either.

  Rick Riordan

  Dad, Son, Thinking

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• Oompa-Loompa Land?” He shook his head. “No way. Orange people give me the creeps. I don’t even like fake tans. I’d never be their king.

  Larissa Ione

  Kings, Land, Orange

  Larissa Ione (2012). “Rogue Rider: Number 4 in series”, p.100, Hachette UK

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• Maybe you feel pressure to be positive because so many people rely on your good, fake-positive energy? If that's the case, screw everybody else. You're not a bottle of Valium.

  Augusten Burroughs

  People, Positive Energy, Being Positive

  Augusten Burroughs (2012). “This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.”, p.17, Macmillan

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• When you don't know what you're doing, fake it.

  Jill Shalvis

  Funny Inspirational, Funny Motivational, Top Management

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