quotes about Fake People
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I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher.
-- A. N. Wilson -
Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of things, than any whining Christian ever dyed with pretended resignation to the will of God.
-- Adam Smith -
A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.
-- Adlai E. StevensonSource : "Mark Souder: The Hypocrisy of the Hypocrite" by Diana Butler Bass, www.beliefnet.com. May 18, 2010.
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Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.
-- Adrienne Rich -
We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.
-- Al Gore -
Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.
-- Aleister Crowley -
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He (Marilyn Manson) has a woman's name and wears makeup. How original.
-- Alice Cooper -
You have to also provide a video for it, look a certain way and big hair... If you're a woman it's even more strange with fake fingernails and corsets and all this stuff that was big in the 80s.
-- Ann Wilson -
No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.
-- Anton Chekhov -
Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter.
-- Ayn Rand -
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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 HechtSource : Ben Hecht (1954). “A child of the century”, Signet
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Mostly, I think people are fake. Well, what do you expect? The fake world we live in conspires to make us all fakes.
-- Benjamin Alire SaenzSource : Benjamin Alire Sáenz (2013). “Last Night I Sang to the Monster”, p.15, Cinco Puntos Press
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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.
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Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.
-- Bertrand Russell -
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Good actors I've worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life.
-- Bette Davis -
I wrote about people who liked fake fireplaces in their parlor, who thought a brass horse with a clock embedded in its flank was wonderful.
-- Betty Smith -
Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing.
-- Bill CosbySource : Twitter post from Nov 05, 2009
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Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.
-- Billy Graham -
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You always admire what you really don't understand.
-- Blaise Pascal -
We must strive to move forward in life, by acknowledging the forces that are thrusted upon ourselves by means of fear, and relinquish them by our ways of hope.
-- Carrot Top -
Well, you know what they say in Hollywood - the most important thing is being sincere, even if you have to fake it.
-- Cesar Romero -
I must've got whacked on the head. He presented a totally false person for me to fall in love with.
-- Christie Brinkley -
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The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people.
-- Christopher MorleySource : Christopher Morley “Kitty Foyle”
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some soap opera, you know, real people pretending to be fake people with made-up problems being watched by real people to forget their real problems.
-- Chuck Palahniuk -
Everyone smiles with that invisible gun to their head.
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You can't pretend to be a Sharon Stone or a Marilyn Monroe. You really can't fake that.
-- Claire Bloom -
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Share your weaknesses. Share your hard moments. Share your real side. It'll either scare away every fake person in your life or it will inspire them to finally let go of that mirage called "perfection," which will open the doors to the most important relationships you'll ever be a part of.
-- Daniel Pearce -
Sincerity: if you can fake it, you've got it made.
-- Daniel Schorr -
It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.
-- David Hockney -
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There's something magical about spending a Sunday night watching real people at a deli, then watching fake people pretending to be real on TV, then engaging in (arguably) false interaction with (arguably) real people on the Internet. Never at any prior point in time has this been possible.
-- Diablo Cody -
Sugar Ray and talked about doing some articles together or writing a book together but dealing with Sugar Ray was a lot like fighting him. He would fake you in and then he'd drop you.
-- Dick Schaap -
Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music.
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Plastic surgeons are always making mountains out of molehills.
-- Dolly Parton -
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You can't fake creativity, competence, or sexual arousal.
-- Douglas Coupland -
I don't pretend to be an ordinary housewife.
-- Elizabeth Taylor -
It's like Samson and Delilah: watch your back, because trouble could be the person you're sleeping with.
-- Elizabeth Wurtzel -
It's a mental fake-out to myself. I make believe I'm making a new show so I forget the material I was working on and make up some fresh material.
-- Eric Bogosian -
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Eclecticism - every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
-- F. H. Bradley -
Most style is not honest enough.
-- F. L. LucasSource : F. L. Lucas (2012). “How to Write Powerful Prose: An essay by the author of 'Style'”, p.10, Harriman House Limited
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I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.
-- Fidel Castro -
No thieves, no traitors, no interventionists! This time the revolution is for real!
-- Fidel Castro -
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There have been at least three other cases in which federal agencies have succeeded in placing fake news reports on television during the Bush presidency. It was a really good tour. It seemed maybe about a week too long.
-- Frank Rich -
I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.
-- Garrison Keillor -
Some girls get swept up in the lifestyle-clubbing and partying with celebrities. You can't live your life like that, though. It's fake.
-- Gemma WardSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
-- George Burns -
Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper.
-- George Orwell -
Actually I am very glad that people can buy Armani - even if it's a fake. I like the fact that I'm so popular around the world.
-- Giorgio Armani -
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A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction.
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Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening.
-- Greta GarboSource : Raymond Daum, Raymond W. Daum, Greta Garbo (1992). “Walking with Garbo: conversations and recollections”, Perennial
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The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
-- Groucho MarxSource : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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They have been saying for a long time that Iraq made an effort to import active uranium, and my colleague demonstrated the other day that they came to the conclusion that it was a fake document that everybody is relying upon.
-- Hans Blix -
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The eating of burning brimstone is an entirely fake performance.
-- Harry Houdini -
Robert Frost had always said you mustn't think of the last line first, or it's only a fake poem, not a real one. I'm inclined to agree.
-- Howard Nemerov -
We should always be disposed to believe that that which appears white is really black, if the hierarchy of the Church so decides.
-- Ignatius Loyola -
Some people think that the truth can be hidden with a little cover-up and decoration. But as time goes by, what is true is revealed, and what is fake fades away.
-- Ismail Haniyeh -
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Usually it is uses of words, not words in themselves, that are properly called vague.
-- J. L. Austin -
Sentences are not as such either true or false.
-- J. L. Austin -
Great cultural changes begin in affectation and end in routine.
-- Jacques Barzun -
We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.
-- James A. Baldwin -
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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
-- Janis Joplin -
Fake relationships and fake people coming up to me and all of a sudden wanting to be my friend.
-- Jason Ritter -
Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance.
-- Jean Anouilh -
It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.
-- Jean Baudrillard -
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I hate victims who respect their executioners.
-- Jean-Paul Sartre -
What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.
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What's the whole point of being pretty on the outside when you're so ugly on the inside?
-- Jess C Scott -
I try not to fake anything.
-- Jessica ChastainSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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You can't fake it when you're alone with God, you know.
-- Jim BakkerSource : "The Best of Interviews With Jim Bakker and Tammy Faye Messner". “CNN Larry King Weekend”, www.cnn.com. June 24, 2001.
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Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.
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You got nothing to lose. You don't lose when you lose fake friends.
-- Joan JettSource : Twitter post from Aug 30, 2013
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Most important to any fake story is a plausible, realistic edge with a satirical twist that is topical.
-- Joey Skaggs -
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We all agree that manufacturers have a right to ensure that fake goods are not marketed in their names and that their own goods are not marketed under fake names.
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Liberty is the right of every man to be honest, to think and to speak without hypocrisy.
-- Jose MartiSource : "Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos" edited by Carlos Ripoll, 1994.
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After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.
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Gossip is called gossip because it's not always the truth.
-- Justin TimberlakeSource : "New Again: Justin Timberlake". Interview with Emma Brown and Rebecca Wallwork, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 19, 2013.
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I don't think that you can fake warmth. You can fake lust, jealousy, anger; those are all quite easy. But actual, genuine warmth? I don't think you can fake it.
-- Keira Knightley -
Not many people are true, fake as the lies they tell
-- Kid Cudi -
I couldn't believe they were saying I put a horrible fake plastic bosom over scars I was trying to heal and keep it in place with a tight bra, which could stop my blood flow, just so I could fit into my clothes.
-- Koo Stark -
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When I was 13 I had a fake Id that said that I was 19. I was getting in all the clubs.
-- Kurtis Blow -
Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves.
-- Larry King -
Oh the new album? You can just download it off Napster or Limewire.. I don't mind.
-- Lars Ulrich -
I haven't read anything but regurgitated rumors. Nothing new, and nothing true.
-- Layne Staley -
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The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it... try to fake three laughs in an hour - ha ha ha ha ha - they'll take you away, man. You can't.
-- Lenny Bruce -
If I dated as many people as they said I have, then I would be dead, because it's just not possible.
-- Lindsay Lohan -
It's my body. And I like my body. And I like my breasts. And no, they're not fake.
-- Lindsay Lohan -
I use fake tan myself with a self tanning spray.
-- Lisa Snowdon -
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And I'd like to give my love to everybody, and let them know that the grass may look greener on the other side, but believe me, it's just as hard to cut.
-- Little RichardSource : FaceBook post by Little Richard from Jan 03, 2016
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I'm foremost an actor. I feel embarrassed being compared to the guys who really work at it. I fake it, I make believe I know all about it, which is what you're supposed to do as an actor.
-- Lloyd Bridges -
It is a very honest world, our work. I think you cannot fake anything.
-- Luciano Pavarotti -
Oh, sometimes I think it is of no use to make friends. They only go out of your life after awhile and leave a hurt that is worse than the emptiness before they came.
-- Lucy Maud Montgomery -
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It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.
-- Mahatma Gandhi -
He, however, who begins with Metaphysics, will not only become confused in matters of religion, but will fall into complete infidelity.
-- Maimonides -
If one of two lovers is loyal, and the other jealous and false, how may their friendship last, for Love is slain!
-- Marie de FranceSource : Marie de France (2015). “Medieval Lays and Legends of Marie de France”, p.125, Xist Publishing
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Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
-- Mark Twain -