Disingenuous Quotes - Page 2

• It's hard to cover for someone who's disrespectful and ungrateful...To say, 'I didn't quit the band' is just not true. It's disingenuous.

  Mark Hoppus

  Ungrateful, Band, Quitting

  "Blink-182’s Hoppus, Barker Blast ‘Ungrateful, Disingenuous’ Tom DeLonge". Interview with Jason Newman, www.rollingstone.com. January 27, 2015.

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• There is some pressure when you are a woman doing what I do that you must support all other women unconditionally, no matter what they're projecting, or writing, or producing, or putting forth as their art. I think that's equally arbitrary and random and unfair, and kind of sexist. The secretly sexist way. I have really high standards for what I think is funny. I have that for everything, and I think it would be disingenuous of me to blanket-ly love everything a woman has produced simply to make a statement that we're all in this together.

  Mindy Kaling

  Art, Writing, Thinking

  Interview with Genevieve Koski, www.avclub.com. November 16, 2011.

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• I have to say, the Campus Crusade tactic struck me as disingenuous. They rented a hotel ballroom next to a nightclub and set up a fake "party" inside, complete with security guards and flashing lights. When you walked in, instead of drink specials and trance music, they gave you gospel tracts.

  Kevin Roose

  Party, Fake, Drink

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• We want the government to be controlled by all the people, not by the richest 1%. That's always been the first demand. That's a simple enough message, and I think it's pretty clear now, even though much of the media has been disingenuous in its coverage. We don't want the heads of the biggest industries to make all the decisions, because they're not for the people. They're for the corporations. Power to the people!

  Russell Simmons

  Thinking, Simple, People

  Source: aalbc.com

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• When I say the n-word, black people are clear that I'm on their side. And it's not disingenuous - I am on black people's side, clearly.

  Neal Brennan

  People, Black, Sides

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• These things, she felt, were not to be passed around like disingenuous party favors. She kept an honor code with her journals and her poems. 'Inside, inside,' she would whisper quietly to herself when she felt the urge to tell.

  Alice Sebold

  Party, Honor, Favors

  Alice Sebold (2002). “The Lovely Bones”, p.119, Hachette UK

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• Don't let anyone tell you otherwise - not our political opponents, and certainly not a disingenuous filmmaker, who would have us believe.

  John McCain

  Believe, Political, Opponents

  John McCain's Speech at the Republican National Convention in New York City, New York, www.washingtonpost.com. August 30, 2004.

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• I had the analysis of a million or so SNPs [single nucleotide polymorphisms] just to see what was there. That's partly because I was writing a book about DNA and personalized medicine and I thought it would be a little bit disingenuous to talk about what could be done without actually having the experiment done on yourself.

  Francis Collins

  Book, Writing, Dna

  Source: www.politico.com

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• It's disingenuous and wrong to say that the attorney general's expanded powers in the Patriot Act come with adequate oversight by the courts, ... In reality, the most troubling provisions in the law make judges little more than rubber stamps in Justice Department investigations.

  Anthony Romero

  Reality, Law, Justice

  "Ashcroft: Patriot Act respects rights, improves security", www.cnn.com. September 11, 2003.

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• I like to be open with journalists and I like to be honest. I hate being disingenuous because that's really uncomfortable for me; I don't excel at doing that.

  Megan Fox

  Hate, Honest, Uncomfortable

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• It's disingenuous to say that criticism doesn't get to you or you don't hear it or that you ignore it. When everybody says, 'That's crap. I hated that,' you hear it. But it's much, much worse when they're right: when you feel that it is an absolute piece of tosh. I made the film I wanted to make, so you just have to find a way of getting over it.

  Stephen Daldry

  Criticism, Pieces, Way

  "Stephen Daldry: 'Hollywood? I've never even been there...'". Interview with Tim Lewis, www.theguardian.com. February 10, 2013.

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• I come from very common stock, and I've always been uncomfortable with pretension and all the forms it can take, including disingenuous broadcasting.

  Tom Bodett

  Common, Broadcasting, Form

  "Actually, Motel 6 Doesn't Leave the Light on for You". Interview with Kimberly D. Williams, adage.com. August 30, 2007.

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• When my mother gets a prompt 'Do you want to download this?' she's going to say yes. It's disingenuous for Microsoft to give you all of these tools with which to hang yourself, and when you do, then say it's your fault.

  Bruce Schneier

  Mother, Giving, Tools

  "The Fox Is in Microsoft's Henhouse (and Salivating)" by Randall Stross, www.nytimes.com. December 19, 2004.

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• On my wedding day. I didn't want a natural, blushing-bride look - I had a full-on hairdo and red lips. I thought it would be disingenuous to do the whole virginal look, so even though I had the white dress, I had pink net underneath.

  Sophie Ellis Bextor

  Wedding, White, Dresses

  "The close-up". Interview with Imogen Fox, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2007.

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• It would be a lie to say that people are coming to adoption with joy at all times. Hope, perhaps, but it would be disingenuous to say that every part coming to an adoption isn't seriously grieving.

  Jennifer Gilmore

  Lying, Grieving, People

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• Candidate Obama was either exceptionally naive or willfully disingenuous when he vowed to change the way Washington works. The very promise of Hope and Change was rooted in uprooting the Washington modus operandi. But instead of rejecting it, he embraced it all - the secrecy, the closed doors, the political favors, the near-criminal negligence.

  Reince Priebus

  Doors, Political, Promise

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• To pretend like Hollywood is anything other than that is disingenuous. #OscarsSoWhite is trendy, but for women filmmakers and filmmakers of color, it's not a trend. This is our reality, and it's important that we do something to change it.

  Ava DuVernay

  Reality, Color, Important

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• We got on a moving train there. That's more of a financing arrangement on that [Dracula] film. It would be disingenuous to say we're producing it. So it was really about getting into business with our partner at Universal.

  Thomas Tull

  Moving, Would Be, Film

  Source: collider.com

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• I don't like the word "brand." When I see people creating a brand, it feels disingenuous.

  Laura Benanti

  Creating, People, Feels

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