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• I'm sitting in my home office wearing a bathrobe. The same way I'm not going to start wearing ties, I'm also not going to buy into the fake politeness, the lying, the office politics and backstabbing, the passive aggressiveness, and the buzzwords.

  Linus Torvalds

  Lying, Home, Ties

  "King Of Geeks Linus Torvalds Defends His Right To Code In His Bathrobe And Curse At Other Developers". www.forbes.com. July 16, 2013.

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• Guy Pearce played Mike in 'Neighbors'. I would fake illness to stay off school and watch the one P.M. show, and I would also watch it again when it was repeated at 5:25 P.M. Obsessed.

  Kate Winslet

  School, Guy, Watches

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• I don't take modern hip-hop as real. It's entertaining, it's fake, like James Bond.

  Emmanuel Jal

  Real, Hip Hop, Hips

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• One of the great things about being a writer/journalist is that my boss loves me to go out and do features on being someone else. I did a feature on Kate Middleton, where I went to an incredible fancy state home in the countryside, put on a wedding dress and posed for engagement pictures with a fake Prince William.

  Caitlin Moran

  Home, Boss, Dresses

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• Women can fake an orgasm, but men can fake an entire relationship.

  Sharon Stone

  Men

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• Here's my theory about meetings and life: the three things you can't fake are erections, competence and creativity.

  Douglas Coupland

  Creativity, Three, Theory

  Douglas Coupland (2008). “JPod”, p.151, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• According to Gur's theory of boredom, everything that happens in the world today is because of boredom: love, war, inventions, fake fireplaces - ninety-five percent of all that is pure boredom.

  Etgar Keret

  War, Boredom, World

  Etgar Keret (2006). “The Nimrod Flipout: Stories”, p.55, Macmillan

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• Women fake orgasms and men fake finances.

  Suze Orman

  Sex, Women, Finance

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• What makes big boobs and perkiness so attractive to boys? I mean, really. Two round, mounds of fat and a fake smile. Yeah, winning attributes.

  Gena Showalter

  Life, Hilarious, Mean

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• Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.

  Anne Carson

  Love Is, Distrust, Good Place

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• He gave her a bright fake smile; so much of life was a putting off of unhappiness for another time. Nothing was ever lost by delay. He had a dim idea that perhaps if one delayed long enough, things were taken out of one's hands altogether by death.

  Graham Greene

  Taken, Hands, Ideas

  'The Heart of the Matter' (1948) bk. 1, pt. 1, ch. 1

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• I’m an animal activist. Many people say that I’m a hypocrite, because I eat burgers and stuff like that but I won’t wear fur. But I’m not a hypocrite. I just only wear fake fur.

  Paris Hilton

  Hypocrite, Animal, People

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• If you have a beautiful face you don’t need fake boobs to get anyone’s attention

  Paris Hilton

  Beauty, Beautiful, Needs

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• You cannot fake effort; talent is great, but perseverance is necessary.

  Amy Bloom

  Perseverance, Effort, Talent

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• Only the fakes survive.

  John Lydon

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• His hand closed automatically around the fake Horcrux but in spite of everything, in spite of the dark and twisting path he saw stretching ahead for himself, in spite of the final meeting with Voldemort he knew must come whether in a month in a year or in ten, he felt his heart lift at the thought that there was still one last golden day of peace left to enjoy with Ron and Hermione.

  J. K. Rowling

  Heart, Dark, Golden Days

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• One foot in front of the other, counting tiles on the floor so I don't have to focus the blur of painted smiles, fake faces.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Feet, Focus, Tiles

  Ellen Hopkins (2008). “Impulse”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• I just thought of a great theory that explains everything. When I went to that party, I was abducted by aliens. They have created a fake Earth and fake high school to study me and my reactions. This certainly explains cafeteria food.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Party, School, Earth

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.42, Macmillan

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• Lena was an introvert. She knew she had trouble connecting with people. She always felt like her looks were fake bait, seeming to offer a bridge to people, which she couldn't easily cross.

  Ann Brashares

  Bridges, People, Bait

  Ann Brashares (2012). “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Complete Collection”, p.45, Delacorte Press

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• I used rebellion as a way to hide out. We use criticism as a fake participation.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Criticism, Use, Way

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Choke”, p.111, Random House

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• The tears I gratified him with were fake ones. Ones that set off my green eyes the way diamonds set off emeralds. And it worked. If you dazzled a man with green eyes, he will be so hypnotized that he won’t notice there is someone inside the eyes spying on him. – Vida Winters Page 268

  Diane Setterfield

  Eye, Winter, Men

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• You ever notice how long it takes for things to happen when you know they're supposed to happen? My fake Walkman has a built-in alarm, and I set it for two in the morning and wear the headphones to bed, but before you can wake up you have to fall asleep, and I never DO fall asleep because I keep waiting for the alarm to go off.

  Rodman Philbrick

  Morning, Fall, Two

  Rodman Philbrick (2015). “Freak the Mighty”, p.44, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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• It's easy to run to others. It's so hard to stand on one's own record. You can fake virtue for an audience. You can't fake it in your own eyes. Your ego is your strictest judge. They run from it. They spend their lives running. It's easier to donate a few thousand to charity and think oneself noble than to base self-respect on personal standards of personal achievement. It's simple to seek substitutes for competence--such easy substitutes: love, charm, kindness, charity. But there is no substitute for competence.

  Ayn Rand

  Running, Kindness, Eye

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.781, Penguin

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• They're fake bullets, so why do I feel like Im bleeding out?

  Jodi Picoult

  Bullets, Bleeding, Feels

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• That's what so many people didn't understand about life. The real world is the one within the walls of homes; the outside world, of careers and politics and money and fame, that was the fake world, where nothing lasted, and things were real only to the extent they harmed or helped people inside their homes.

  Orson Scott Card

  Wall, Real, Home

  Orson Scott Card (2010). “Hidden Empire”, p.38, Macmillan

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