Fake Quotes - Page 9

• 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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• Kaoru: Grownups are so tiresome. They fake their smiles all day long and they try to force us to do the same. It's no fun at all.

  Bisco Hatori

  Fun, Long, Trying

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• It's easy to smile just to make other people feel better. But when a person fakes happy, it has edges. Regular people may not see, but the people who count, they can see the edges and the lines where your smile ends and the real you, the sadness (me) or the anger (Grandma) begins.

  Heidi W. Durrow

  Real, Grandma, Sadness

  Heidi W. Durrow (2011). “The Girl Who Fell from the Sky”, p.29, Algonquin Books

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• Okay, gang," I said, "according to blueprints, there's an elevator access panel on the east side of the building. We may get a little dirty, but—" "I thought we'd just go through the doors," Liz said, flashing three beautifully engraved invitations and some wonderfully authentic fake IDs. The tickets were $20,000 each. The Secret Service had been vetting the guest list for weeks, so Bex and I stopped beneath a streetlamp and studied Liz. "Do I even want to know where you got those?" I asked. Liz seemed to ponder it, and then she said, "No.

  Ally Carter

  Dirty, Doors, Secret

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• Amusement touched the corner of his lips. "Animals love me." "Oh, I'm sure they do," Scarlet said, beaming with fake encouragement. She shut the door before muttering, "What farm animals don't love a wolf?

  Marissa Meyer

  Encouragement, Animal, Doors

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• In our daily lives, where we're bombarded by the fake and the trivial, reading serves as a way to stop, shut out the noise of the world, and try to grab hold of something real, no matter how small.

  Maureen Corrigan

  Real, Reading, Bombarded By

  Maureen Corrigan (2007). “Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books”, p.13, Vintage

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• I cursed him then, not because his tears were fake, but because they were real. I cursed him for showing me, with every tear and every smile and every sincere emotion he had, that I was the real freak.

  Dan Wells

  Real, Tears, Freak

  Dan Wells (2010). “I Am Not A Serial Killer”, p.211, Macmillan

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• Sometimes, all it takes to save people from a terrible fate is one person willing to do something about it. Even if that "something" is a fake bathroom break.

  Veronica Roth

  Fate, People, Bathroom

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• Angeline's been hanging out with that dhampir. I just saw them walking off together. Is something going on with them?" "Which dhampir?" I asked. "The one with the fake British accent." "I don't think it's fake." "Well, whatever." Even I could read the jealousy in Trey's features. "What's up with them?" "Pretty sure there's nothing." "Then why are they always together?" Because she's trying to get over you, I thought.

  Richelle Mead

  Thinking, Over You, Trying

  Richelle Mead (2013). “The Fiery Heart: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.119, Penguin

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• This is a long tough road we have to travel. The men that can do things are going to be sought out just as surely as the sun rises in the morning. Fake reputations, habits of glib and clever speech, and glittering surface performance are going to be discovered.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Morning, Clever, Men

  Letter to Vernon Prichard on August 27, 1942. "The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower". Book edited by Alfred Dupont Chandler, p. 505, 1970.

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• Activism is something that no one can fake. You get angry. You cry. But you never throw in your towel, because that anger is what is propelling you to further action.

  Leymah Gbowee

  Women, Towels, Action

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• I'll tell you this: you cannot escape the impact of emotion, whether it's in a big theater or a tiny one. If you have it, it inflates you — correction, 'inflates' is not a good word. If you have it, it infects you and the audience. If you don't have it — don't bother; just say the lines as truthfully as you are capable of doing. You can't fake emotion. It immediately exposes the fact that you ain't got it.

  Sanford Meisner

  Theatre, Acting, Doing You

  "Sanford Meisner on Acting".

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• I love living. I think that's infectious, it's something you can't fake.

  Will Smith

  Thinking

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• Without fake tan I have the skin tones of a dead jellyfish.

  Jenny Eclair

  Skin Tone, Skins, Jellyfish

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• When I talk to people who believe in this global warming crap... it's fake science. They may have educations and degrees that say they are scientists, but they're not. They're political hacks and leftists.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Believe, People, Political

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• Don't fake it till you make it. Fake it till you become it.

  Amy Cuddy

  Motivation, Inspiration, Psychology

  Amy Cuddy (2015). “Presence: Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your Biggest Challenges”, Hachette UK

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• She was clothed entirely in two large swatches of leather, the leather fake and shiny in a self-mocking way, absolutely correct for 1993, the first year when mocking the mainstream had become the mainstream.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Years, Two, Self

  Gary Shteyngart (2003). “Russian Debutante's Handbook”, p.45, Penguin

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• We have known for a long time that Prince Charles' empty sails are so rigged as to be swelled by any passing waft or breeze of crankiness and cant. He fell for the fake anthropologist Laurens van der Post. He was bowled over by the charms of homeopathic medicine. He has been believably reported as saying that plants do better if you talk to them in a soothing and encouraging way

  Christopher Hitchens

  Stupid, Medicine, Long

  Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Long Live Hitch: Three Classic Books in One Volume”, p.772, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• President Obama announced his re-election campaign, though it’s not really a surprise. He did all the things that make it official: He filed the paperwork, redesigned his website, and printed another fake birth certificate.

  Craig Ferguson

  President, Campaigns, Election

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• A bully hides his fears with fake bravado. That is the opposite of self-assertiveness.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Self, Opposites, Bully

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• The two things you can't fake are good food and good music

  Etta James

  Two, Good Food, Two Things

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• When a crisis occurs, I feel that one of my greatest responsibilities is to set a tone of calm no matter what the problems. Sometimes I have to fake confidence a lot. I also have to fake calm.

  Christine Vachon

  Responsibility, Matter, Tone

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• 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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• Confidence is key, if you don't have it, fake it!

  Lady Gaga

  Keys, Confidence Is Key, Ifs

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• I've decided that I am totally against jewelry. So I have all fake. There's no reason to have real diamonds. People think it's real anyway.

  Liza Minnelli

  Real, Thinking, People

  "Lunch with a legend" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. April 11, 2008.

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