Phony Quotes - Page 5

• The first time I went to West Virginia I was surprised by how poor it was. It was like north India, there's kids running around in bare feet. The white working class has been disenfranchised as well. It's been disenfranchised by the liberal-left as well as the conservative-right. You really have to get people right across America and Britain and Europe and the world as a whole concentrating on the economic issues that affect them, because when you don't have that, you have all these phony, racist and cultural wars, and sexist wars.

  Irvine Welsh

  Running, War, Kids

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• You watch these phony networks, and dishonest networks, who are 100 percent about Hillary Clinton. She's got nothing going. The only thing she's got going is the media.

  Donald Trump

  Media, Watches, Clinton

  Source: time.com

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• I am so spoiled. I cannot watch a show where it gets interrupted for ads. I have to TiVo it and skip through the ads, because the culture of advertising is so false and phony that I just... ugh, you know?

  Alan Ball

  Watches, Culture, Ugh

  "True Blood creator Alan Ball on season two: sink your teeth into this". Interview with Rebecca Nicholson, www.theguardian.com. February 26, 2010.

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• Donald Trump is a phony, a fraud.His promises are as worthless as a degree from Trump University.

  Mitt Romney

  Promise, Degrees, Trump

  Twitter post from Mar 03, 2016

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• Making music clips, I have a responsibility to depict the artist in a way that suits them, and feels comfortable with how they want to present their music. From there I usually try to tell a story visually that complements the music, that lets the music be the hero element of the project. I just try to do something that feels sincere and creative and a little bit home-brewed so it doesn't feel too plastic or phony.

  Adria Petty

  Hero, Home, Responsibility

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Just saw the phony ad by [Ted] Cruz. Totally false. More dirty tricks. He got caught in so many lies. Is this man crazy?

  Donald Trump

  Lying, Crazy, Dirty

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• If you don't know how to hold a board, you're going to look phony. That's was the biggest pressure for me was to have that respect and to look up to that.

  John Robinson

  Respect, Boards, Looks

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• I see many people trying to write well about the wilderness, and essentially failing. To me there are basically two aspects of a failed outdoor story. One is the phony epiphany on the mountain top.

  Tim Cahill

  Writing, Two, People

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The cell phone has transformed public places into giant phone-a-thons in which callers exist within narcissistic cocoons of private conversations. Like faxes, computer modems and other modern gadgets that have clogged out lives with phony urgency, cell phones represent the 20th Century's escalation of imaginary need. We didn't need cell phones until we had them. Clearly, cell phones cause not only a breakdown of courtesy, but the atrophy of basic skills.

  Mary Schmich

  Phones, Cells, Skills

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• I'm an entertainer; I try to give the public what it wants while I'm on the screen, and I'm completely sincere about it. If I don't happen to be a laughing boy off the screen, that doesn't make me a hypocrite or a phony.

  Johnny Carson

  Hypocrite, Boys, Giving

  Source: www.alex-haley.com

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• I would like to get married, actually. I've done everything else in my life now except that, but where do I find the real thing? The non-phony? In Los Angeles? I am not so sure.

  Aviv Nevo

  Real, Done, Married

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• I'm not a great one for chatting people up, because it's phony. I don't want people to feel at ease. You want a bit of edge. There are quite long, agonized silences. I love it. Something strange might happen. I mean, taking photographs is a very nasty thing to do. It's very cruel.

  Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon

  Mean, Long, People

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• Corporate polluters, their phony think tanks and political toadies like to marginalize environmentalists as tree huggers, or radicals. But there is nothing radical about clean air or water.

  Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

  Thinking, Air, Water

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• From Dickens's cockneys to Salinger's phonies, from Kerouac's beatniks to Cheech and Chong's freaks, and on to hip hop's homies, dialect has always been used as a way for generations to distinguish themselves.

  Christopher Moore

  Hip Hop, Dialect, Way

  "OMFG, Horatio!" by Christopher Moore, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 23, 2010.

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• Honestly, you got to take care of the people that take care of you. I know that sounds like cliche, or borderline phony, but that's the case. The reason I've had the fans that I have is because I've been consistent over the years and kept coming back and doing the same runs. I'm never going to stop doing the cities I've gone through. I'm only going to add.

  Gabriel Iglesias

  Running, Years, Cities

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• That radicalism (of the '70s) was phony, really, because it was out of guilt. I'd always felt guilty that I made money, so I had to give it away or lose it. I don't mean I was a hypocrite. When I believe, I believe right down to the roots.

  John Lennon

  Believe, Hypocrite, Mean

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• Said I'll make it big when, everybody know me
  Well, I made it big and, everybody phony

  Mac Miller

  Rap, Made, Bigs

  Song: Thoughts From A Balcony, Album: Macadelic, 2012

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• Bradford Dillman sounded like a distinguished, phony theatrical name, so I kept it.

  Bradford Dillman

  Names, Bradford, Distinguished

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• Catfish Hunter was a man among men. He was a genuine person. There was nothing phony about him. I learned a lot from him, both on and off the baseball field.

  Vida Blue

  Baseball, Men, Genuine Person

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• We used to be a serious country. When we got attacked at Pearl Harbor, we took on Imperial Japan, Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany. We beat all three in less than four years. We're about to enter the seventh year of this phony war against ... [terrorist groups], and we're losing.

  Newt Gingrich

  Country, War, Japan

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• I didn't come to Hollywood. Hollywood came to me. A lot of people wish they could say the things I say. Everyone out here is so phony, it's sickening.

  Mr. T

  People, Wish, Hollywood

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• The battle for freedom and liberty really never is over, and there are really low points in it, but I'm not giving up, and I'm not gonna engage in phony pep talks, either.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Giving Up, Battle, Liberty

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• That Hollywood thing, where everybody hugs and kisses everybody else-I always stiffen. It's an assumed familiarity. It's phony.

  Jennifer Tilly

  Kissing, Hug, Hollywood

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• The Republicans released their 'Pledge to America.' It's 21 pages of phony charts and bad ideas. Sarah Palin got a copy, and she said, 'How am I supposed to fit all this crap on my hand?

  Bill Maher

  Hands, Ideas, America

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• When someone disagrees with me, I do not have to immediately start revising what I just said. People don't want me to always agree with them. They can sense this is phony. They can sense I am trying to control them: I am agreeing with them to make them like me. They feel; "I don't want to exist to like you. I DON'T exist to like you."

  Hugh Prather

  People, Justice, Trying

  Hugh Prather (2009). “Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person”, p.105, Bantam

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