Phony Quotes - Page 6

• 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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• Teachers at all levels encourage the idea that you have to talk about things in order to understand them, because they wouldn't have jobs, otherwise. But it's phony, you know.

  Denise Levertov

  Teacher, Jobs, Teaching

  Denise Levertov, Jewel Spears Brooker (1998). “Conversations with Denise Levertov”, p.39, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• People respect you because they feel you've survived hard times and endured, and although you've become famous, you haven't become phony.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, Hard Times, People

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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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• Nowadays, the game is all bugged out,
  Phony, like back when Hammer tried to come thugged out.

  Daniel Dumile

  Rap, Games, Hip Hop

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• Pete (Rose) doesn't run with celebrities and he can't stand the phonies. His big buddy in LA ain't Sinatra, it's a funny old groundskeeper.

  Sparky Anderson

  Running, Rose, Bigs

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• The one to distrust is the person who never makes a mistake, never commits a blunder, never fails in what he tries to do. Either he is a phony, or he stays with the safe, the tried and the trivial.

  Peter Drucker

  Mistake, Safe, Distrust

  "Management".

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• I know a 'crime against nature' when I see one. It is usually a sign of crimes against nature that we cannot bear to see them at all, that we recoil and hide our eyes, and no one has ever cringed at the sight of a soybean factory. I also know phony arguments when I hear them--unbridled appetite passing itself off as altruism, and human arrogance in the guise of solemn 'duty.' We must, as C.S. Lewis advises, 'reject with detestation that covert propoganda for cruelty which tries to drive mercy out of the world by calling it names such as 'Humanitarianism' and 'Sentimentality.

  Matthew Scully

  Eye, Sight, Names

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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'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 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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• 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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• 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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• Phony gurus make themselves objects of adoration and worship. Real spiritual teachers aren't interested in adoration and worship. They like respect only because they realize respect will help the student.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Teacher, Real

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• There are phony teachers who profess all kinds of things, and I think you will figure out real fast who they are. They just don't feel right.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Real, Thinking

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• What I don't like today is, to put it coarsely, the phony Hasidism, the phony mysticism. Many students say, "Teach me mysticism." It's a joke.

  Elie Wiesel

  Today, Students, Teach

  "Elie Wiesel: Conversations". Book edited by Robert Franciosi, 2002.

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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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