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• Mitt Romney - he had a Rock Hudson thing going, shoeblack hair and a well-hung resume, but even for a shameless, position-shifting phony he seemed a trifle insincere.

  James Wolcott

  Hair, Rocks, Shifting

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• I see no purpose in Bad Coffee, Bad Wine, or Insincere friends.

  Edward L. Morse

  Friends, Coffee, Wine

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• It is said that insincere apologies can be detected while heart-felt apologies melt away all grievances, anger and hatred. Felt with all my heart I'm sooo sorry Apologies Sorry Soz so so So Sorry

  John Walter Bratton

  Sorry, Heart, Apology

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• We will not adopt the fantastic hypocrisy of modern conservatism which preaches the values of families and communities, while conducting a direct assault on them through reduced wages and conditions and job security.

  Paul Keating

  Jobs, Hypocrite, Duplicity

  Campaign Launch Speech in Melbourne, pmtranscripts.pmc.gov.au. February 14, 1996.

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• A sincere friend conceals all your deformities, deceives and convince others that you are extremely perfect, the insincere will tell the truth of destruction, leave you open for others to glare and laugh.

  Michael Bassey

  Perfect, Laughing, Telling The Truth

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• There is something insincere about a man or woman who repeatedly tells God how much he or she loves Him while refusing to obey Him.

  Andy Stanley

  Men

  Andy Stanley (2009). “Louder Than Words: The Power of Uncompromised Living”, p.136, Multnomah

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• An insincere critic of a sincere person never wins.

  Criss Jami

  Funny, Hater, Winning

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.42, Criss Jami

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• My whole life, when I was growing up, not one race has ever accepted me, ... So I never felt connected or attached to any race specifically. I had a very American upbringing, I feel American, and I don't speak Spanish. So, to say that I'm a Latin actress, OK, but it's not fitting; it would be insincere.

  Jessica Alba

  Growing Up, Latin, Race

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• I don't like to think of myself as an insincere person but if I say I love you and I don't mean it then what else am I? Will I cherish you, adore you, make way for you, make myself better for you, look at you and always see you, tell you the truth? And if love is not those things then what things?

  Jeanette

  Love You, Mean, Love Is

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• Humor is the most honest of emotions. Applause for a speech can be insincere, but with humor, if the audience doesn't like it there's no faking it.

  Robert Orben

  Speech, Emotion, Honest

  "A Little Night Humor" by Leslie Berger, The Washington Post, C1, January 28, 1982.

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• The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself. Check yourself against this list of obstacles to a pleasing personality: interrupting others; sarcasm; vanity; being a poor listener; insincere flattery; finding fault; challenging others without good cause; giving unsolicited advice; complaining; attitude of superiority; envy of others' success; poor posture and dress.

  Harold Geneen

  Attitude, Sarcasm, Vanity

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• I prefer reading novels. Short stories are too much like daggers. And now that I'm done with my collection I'm more interested in different forms of writing and other kinds of narrative art. I'm working on a screenplay. But when I was working on Eileen, I definitely felt like I was taking a piss. Like, here I am, typing on my computer, writing the "novel." It wasn't that it was insincere, but there was a kind of farcical feeling I had when I was writing.

  Ottessa Moshfegh

  Art, Reading, Writing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• We love a good, hyped sound, but when it starts to sound insincere, that's when I lose interest. I hope that our music, even if it sounds polished, doesn't sound insincere.

  Nate Ruess

  Sound, Interest, Polished

  "Fun.'s Nate Ruess". Interview with Drew Fortune, www.avclub.com. April 13, 2012.

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• If we are not stupid or insincere when we say that the good or ill of man lies within his own will, and that all beside is nothing to us, why are we still troubled?

  Epictetus

  Lying, Stupid, Men

  Epictetus (1866). “The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments”, p.70

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• A faith that does not result in activity of any kind is a dead faith; it is empty, worthless, insincere.

  Derek Prince

  Doe, Kind, Empty

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• All stories are true,” Skarpi said. “But this one really happened, if that’s what you mean.” He took another slow drink, then smiled again, his bright eyes dancing. “More or less. You have to be a bit of a liar to tell a story the right way. Too much truth confuses the facts. Too much honesty makes you sound insincere.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Honesty, Liars, Mean

  "The Name of the Wind". Book by Patrick Rothfuss, Chapter 26, "Lanre Turned" (p. 203), 2007.

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• Too much truth confuses the facts. Too much honesty makes you sound insincere.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Honesty, Sound, Too Much

  "The Name of the Wind". Book by Patrick Rothfuss, www.wired.com. March 27, 2007.

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• When a cat flatters ... he is not insincere: you may safely take it for real kindness.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Kindness, Real, Cat

  Walter Savage Landor (1933). “Classical conversations: being imaginary conversations among Greek, Roman and Modern personages of classic consequence in the history of human culture”

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• One can say this in general of men: they are ungrateful, disloyal, insincere and deceitful, timid of danger and avid of profit...Love is a bond of obligation that these miserable creatures break whenever it suits them to do so; but fear holds them fast by a dread of punishment that never passes.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Love Is, Men, Avid

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• That we occasionally violate our own stated moral code does not imply that we are insincere in espousing that code.

  Neal Stephenson

  Doe, Moral, Code

  Neal Stephenson (2003). “The Diamond Age”, p.191, Spectra

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• It's not insincere to say you're happy if your determined to make it true and live in that consciousness.

  Goswami Kriyananda

  Happiness, Determined, Consciousness

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• Everyone says he's sincere, but everyone isn't sincere. If everyone was sincere who says he's sincere there wouldn't be half so many insincere ones in the world and there would be lots, lots, lots more really sincere ones!

  Tennessee Williams

  Would Be, Half, World

  Tennessee Williams (2008). “Camino Real”, p.94, New Directions Publishing

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• I try to ONLY ridicule people who's efforts are sincere. Very little trouble has been caused in the world by insincere efforts. An occasional seduction maybe. There were very few insincere Stalinists or Nazis.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  People, Effort, Political

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• People have called me fake, but personally, I don't think I'm fake because I'm so insincere.

  Zach Braff

  Thinking, People, Fake

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• I daily examine myself on three points: In planning for others, have I failed in conscientiousness? In intercourse with friends, have I been insincere? And have I failed to practice what I have been taught?

  Confucius

  Practice, Three, Taught

  Confucius (2012). “The Analects”, p.16, Courier Corporation

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