Fake Quotes - Page 13

• Even in a fake democracy, people ought to get what they want once in a while.

  George Carlin

  People, Democracy, Want

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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• American exceptionalism? Exceptional at what? Waging wars against innocent people for fake reasons? Exceptional at what? Being addicted to pharmaceutical drugs that have people's minds wasted? Exceptional at what? Eating more junk food and becoming the most obese nation on Earth?

  Gerald Celente

  War, People, Drug

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• Elections in L.A. are so different. Here you've got politicians with phony smiles making false promises to voters with fake boobs and bad toupees.

  Jay Leno

  Promise, Different, Politics

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• I think fake boobs have done great things for real boobs. I think people finally appreciate real boobs. People like real boobs. I do. I also enjoy the fact that they are life-nourishers.

  Sarah Silverman

  Real, Thinking, People

  "Sarah Silverman talks boobs, and answers our 11 questions". Interview with Marah Eakin, tv.avclub.com. September 23, 2014.

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• I'm not a big reality show fan, because I just think it's too fake.

  Billy Eichner

  Reality, Thinking, Fans

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• Beware of a man with manners.

  Eudora Welty

  Fake People, Men, Manners

  Eudora Welty (1956). “The Golden Apples”, p.14, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Birthday, Fake People, Believe

  Jean Baudrillard (1990). “Cool Memories”, p.215, Verso

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• The third time you say a thing it sounds like a lie.

  Harrison Ford

  Fake People, Lying, Sound

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• A man nearly always loves for other reasons than he thinks. A lover is apt to be as full of secrets from himself as is the object of his love from him.

  Ben Hecht

  Fake People, Men, Thinking

  Ben Hecht (1954). “A child of the century”, Signet

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• TV is a fickle business. I'm only good for the length of my contract.

  Tom Brokaw

  Fake People, Fickle, Television

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• I've missed London so much for its fashion. No disrespect to the girls in Manchester, but some really do look like clones - there's a lot of hair extensions and fake tans. You're free to experiment down here.

  Kaya Scodelario

  Girl, Fashion, Hair

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• When I was seventeen
  I drank some very good beer
  I drank some very good beer I purchased
  With a fake ID
  My name was Brian McGee
  I stayed up listening to Queen
  When I was seventeen

  Homer

  Queens, Beer, Names

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• In primary school, every day and especially on Fridays, I was supposed to say, 'I am Turkish, and I am righteous and hardworking,' But all those things did not actually turn us into Turks. This system is somehow creating fake personalities.

  Osman Baydemir

  Friday, School, Creating

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• Fake tan is really difficult to get right. When I was younger, I'd always do it wrong. I'd leave it on and forget to wash it off. So I embrace being pale. I like getting a tan, but I also think that if you're going to do it, it has to be gradual. I just work the pale thing now.

  Georgia May Jagger

  Thinking, Forget, Embrace

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• I just love animals, and I'm an advocate for animals rights, and my family has rescued dogs from all over the world. I don't believe in animal testing. If you see me in fur, it's always fake. Sometimes you see me wearing skulls, but those are all from roadkill

  Kesha

  Dog, Believe, Animal

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• You need to be a little crazy to change the world, and you can’t really fake it.

  Peter Diamandis

  Crazy, Needs, World

  Peter H. Diamandis, Steven Kotler (2012). “Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think”, p.233, Simon and Schuster

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• You can't fake authenticity.

  Mark Schaefer

  Marketing, Helpful, Authenticity

  Mark Schaefer (2014). “The Tao of Twitter, Revised and Expanded New Edition: Changing Your Life and Business 140 Characters at a Time”, p.77, McGraw Hill Professional

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• With Los Angeles, it's kind of a love-hate thing. Sometimes I think it's marvelous, and sometimes I think it's a dump. It's so fake and I can't deal with how fake it is.

  Joe Elliott

  Hate, Thinking, Kind

  "How to travel like a rock star". Interview with Doug Miller, www.nbcnews.com. January 23, 2008.

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• The art of life is to show your hand. There is no diplomacy like candor. You may lose by it now and then, but it will be a loss well gained if you do. Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception.

  E. V. Lucas

  Life, Art, Loss

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• Fake it, you will make it. But you have to believe it.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Inspirational, Believe, Bhajans

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• There's not much that I'm closed off about, and the universe gave me all that so I could help people feel like they don't have to be something they're not or feel like they have to fake happy. There's nothing worse than being fake happy.

  Miley Cyrus

  People, Helping, Feels

  "Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman: the Two Sides of Miley Cyrus". Interview with Tavi Gevinson, www.elle.com. April 30, 2014.

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• Rule No. 1 is you can't be fake. If you're fake, you become a gimmick and you're selling a gimmick; a little gimmick is cool, this is entertainment. But when you base your stuff on mostly real stuff, you never run out of it because every day is a different adventure.

  Nas

  Running, Real, Adventure

  "Q&A: With 4 nods, rapper Nas aims for Grammy gold". Interview with Mesfin Fekadu, www.sandiegouniontribune.com. January 9, 2013.

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• The emphasis on original, individual work in the past years has done a great deal to produce a crop of eccentric fakes and has carried art away from the stream of tradition. Tradition is our heritage of knowledge and experience. We can't get along without it.

  John French Sloan

  Art, Past, Years

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• Parenting is the greatest of hum-a-few-bars-and-I'll-fake-it skills.

  Stephen King

  Skills, Bars, Parenthood

  Stephen King (2008). “Duma Key: A Novel”, p.189, Simon and Schuster

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• People who don't know anything tend to make up fake rules, the real rules being considerably more difficult to learn.

  Aaron Sorkin

  Real, People, Difficult

  "The West Wing Scriptbook". Book by Aaron Sorkin, 2003.

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