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• Commercials were too phony for me. I just didn't like selling products I didn't believe in.

  River Phoenix

  Believe, Selling Products, Selling

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• I despise the phony, fancy-pants rhetoric of professors aping jargon-filled European locutions - which have blighted academic film criticism for over 30 years.

  Camille Paglia

  Years, Criticism, Jargon

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• States should pass laws making it illegal to own or trade wild animals; the phony 'educational' permits that many private owners have used to skirt those laws should be eliminated.

  Susan Orlean

  Educational, Animal, Law

  "Wild Animals Don’t Want to be Owned" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. October 20, 2011.

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• As a kid I decided that a Canadian accent doesn't sound tough. I thought guys should sound like Marlon Brando. So now I have a phony accent that I can't shake, so it's not phony anymore.

  Ryan Gosling

  Kids, Guy, Sound

  "October Release: Ryan Gosling & Michelle Williams". www.wmagazine.com. September 23, 2010.

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• As a young man... you don't know anything about yourself. And add on to that, you're on the cover of magazines. People are interviewing you about what you think. You feel like a real phony.

  Ethan Hawke

  Real, Men, Thinking

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• I mention my age because I find people in this country - women, not men, of course - women are so troubled by their age. There's a culture of youth, and it's a phony culture.

  Teresa Heinz

  Country, Men, People

  "The real running mates". Interview with Pablo Martinez Monsivais, usatoday30.usatoday.com. October 19, 2004.

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• The only thing worse than a coach or CEO who doesn't care about his people is one who pretends to care. People can spot a phony every time.

  Jimmy Johnson

  People, Care, Spots

  Jimmy Johnson, Ed Hinton (1994). “Turning the Thing Around: My Life in Football”, Hyperion

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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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• What’s so phony nowadays is all this familiarity. Pretending there isn’t any difference between people —well, like you were saying about minorities, this morning. If you and I are no different, what do we have to give each other? How can we ever be friends?

  Christopher Isherwood

  Morning, Differences, People

  Christopher Isherwood (1964). “A single man”

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• It's obsequious little nicety-nice girls like me who allow assholes to run the world: Miss Harlot O'Harlots, billionaire phony tree huggers, hypocrite drug-snorting, weed-puffing peace activists who fund the mass-murdering drug cartels and perpetuate crushing poverty in dirt-poor banana republics. It's my petty fear of personal rejection that allows so many true evils to exist. My cowardice enables atrocities.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Crush, Girl, Running

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• I was surrounded by phonies...They were coming in the goddam window.

  J. D. Salinger

  Window, Holden Caulfield

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• And yes, Holden would keep those kids from falling off the cliff, but WHO WOULDN'T? Does she think I would just fold my arms or give them a pat on the back before they sailed headfirst to the ground? We are all catchers, and it's sad that she doesn't see it. Instead she sees the PHONINESS, she deplores the world even after I point out that I am in it.

  David Levithan

  Fall, Kids, Thinking

  David Levithan (2008). “The Realm of Possibility”, p.61, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• It shouldn't come as any surprise that those who choose acting as a profession are phonies who live in a fantasy world. What is surprising is how many of them are blissfully unaware of it.

  Julie Burchill

  Acting, World, Fantasy

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• Just once I’d like to meet a fella who isn’t a phony. Somebody who doesn’t wanna buy me a fur so he can show me off to his boys.

  Libba Bray

  Boys, Fur, Show Me

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• One may be clogged with honey and unable to rise and fly.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  May, Honey

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2010). “The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)”, p.1420, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Because of jealousy you are in constant suffering; you become mean to others. And because of jealousy you start becoming phony, because you start pretending. You start pretending things that you don't have, you start pretending things which you CAN'T have, which are not natural to you. You become more and more artificial. Imitating others, competing with others, what else can you do? If somebody has something and you don't have it, and you don't have a natural possibility of having it, the only way is to have some cheap substitute for it.

  Rajneesh

  Jealousy, Mean, Suffering

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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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• 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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• Flaky devotionalism, bowing and scraping and sucking up to the teacher is very phony. It is counterproductive to enlightenment and spiritual development. What is necessary is mutual respect.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Teacher, Buddhist

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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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• The War Party has two wings: the Democrats and the Republicans. All others are outsiders, whose ability to storm the gates is 'legally' restricted by a nearly impassable series of bureaucratic obstacles designed to keep them out while still maintaining the 'democratic' illusion, i.e. the phony two-party system, which is in reality a single entity.

  Justin Raimondo

  War, Party, Reality

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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

  Fake, Promise, Different

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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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• I think we're in an age starved for genuine experiences, instead of cathartic phony experiences through the media, structured, engineered experiences. And those are the fast food, the masturbation of experience. They don't really exhaust any aspect of ourselves; they don't make us any stronger.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Thinking, Media, Age

  Source: www.charlierusso.com

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• A placebo is a phony cure that works. This is very hard for the medical profession to get their teeth around because they hate placebos, but scientifically, placebos work in about 30% of cases that are psychogenic diseases.

  Charles Jencks

  Hate, Medical Profession, Teeth

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