Fake People Quotes - Page 9

• Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

  Billy Graham

  Honesty, Army, Water

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• An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.

  T. S. Eliot

  Life, Peace, Political

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• The crusade against Communism was even more imaginary than the specter of Communism.

  A. J. P. Taylor

  Communism, Crusades, Imaginary

  Origins of the Second World War (1962) ch. 2

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• False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.

  Richard Burton

  Friendship, Fake Friends, Wall

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• It is a very honest world, our work. I think you cannot fake anything.

  Luciano Pavarotti

  Thinking, World, Honest

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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

  Clubs, Said, People

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• I just don't want to end up on something that bores the hell out of me. Otherwise, I'll fake a knee injury and get out of there.

  Sasha Alexander

  Knee Injuries, Want, Knees

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• I use fake tan myself with a self tanning spray.

  Lisa Snowdon

  Self, Use, Tanning

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• It is Hillary's lot in life not to be able to fake it well...

  Rich Lowry

  Able, Wells, People

  "Hillary the Calculator" by Rich Lowry, www.realclearpolitics.com. January 24, 2007.

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• My fake Japanese was smooth enough to earn me the title of 'The Emperor of Pleasing Graciousness' in that country.

  Wolfman Jack

  Country, Titles, Enough

  Wolfman Jack, Byron Laursen (2011). “Have Mercy!: Confessions of the Original Rock 'n' Roll Animal - Wolfman Jack”, p.371, BookBaby

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• It's kind of beating a dead horse if you're talking about going out and saying wrestling's fake, or this or that. People don't want to hear that. They want to hear, they wanted to find an inside story.

  Owen Hart

  Horse, Wrestling, Talking

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• I'm only 24 so I like to think I'm still close enough to 17 to still remember what it was like. Besides, I could just fake it and get away with it... it's not like there are any teenagers that still read comics.

  Robert Kirkman

  Teenager, Thinking, Remember

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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 Hecht

  Men, Thinking, Secret

  Ben Hecht (1954). “A child of the century”, Signet

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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

  Stones, Sharon, People

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• No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.

  Anton Chekhov

  Psychology, Doe, Literature

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• We lie to one another every day, in the sweetest way, often unconsciously. We dress ourselves and compose ourselves in order to present ourselves to one another.

  John le Carre

  Lying, Reality, Order

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• If I didn't have fake nails, my fingers would be bloody stumps.

  Nikki Cox

  Nails, Would Be, Stumps

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• 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

  Horse, Wonderful, Embedded

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• I don't like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Echoes, Coquette, Littles

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• 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.

  Diogenes

  Music, Practice, Mouths

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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

  Wise, Peace, Heart

  Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Merton (2007). “Gandhi on Non-Violence”, p.51, New Directions Publishing

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• If one of two lovers is loyal, and the other jealous and false, how may their friendship last, for Love is slain!

  Marie de France

  Love, Loyalty, Jealous

  Marie de France (2015). “Medieval Lays and Legends of Marie de France”, p.125, Xist Publishing

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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.

  Graham Greene

  Distance, Writing, Reality

  Graham Greene (1993). “Mornings in the dark: the Graham Greene film reader”, Carcanet Press Ltd.

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• Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance.

  Jean Anouilh

  Inspiration, Giving, Farce

  Jean Anouilh (1960). “Becket or the Honor of God”

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• I don't want to imitate life in movies; I want to represent it. And in that representation, you use the colors you feel, and sometimes they are fake colors. But always it's to show one emotion.

  Pedro Almodovar

  Color, Use, Want

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