Phony Quotes

• Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you're not giving it all you've got.

  Larry Bird

  Leadership, Basketball, Believe

  Larry Bird (1990). “Drive: The Story of My Life”, Bantam Books

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• Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath.

  Oscar Levant

  Inspirational, Art, Real

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• It's like you always have to put on a happy face, be the phony baloney, and I'm so not that. I never was that; I'll never be that. That is part of the business that I don't like.

  Chloe Sevigny

  Outsiders, Faces, Like You

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Are there memories left that are safe from the clutches of phony anniversaries?

  Pope Paul VI

  Anniversary, Memories, Safe

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• The older you get, the easier it is to spot the phonies. And I just think, how unpleasant for them.

  Carrie Fisher

  Thinking, Easier, Spots

  "What I've Learned: Carrie Fisher" by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he.

  Solomon

  Bible, Fake People, Heart

  "Book of Proverbs". 23:7,

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• Advertising design, in persuading people to buy things they don`t need, with money they don`t have, in order to impress others who don`t care, is probably the phoniest field in existence today.

  Victor Papanek

  Order, People, Design

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• Most of the founders of this country had day jobs for years. They were not career politicians. ... We need leaders with experience in the real world, not experience in the phony world of politics.

  Thomas Sowell

  Country, Jobs, Real

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• Kids can spot a phony a mile away.

  Fred Rogers

  Kids, Miles, Spots

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• People striving for approval from others become phony.

  Ichiro Suzuki

  Approval Of Others, People, Strive

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• A man can take only so much. Even a phony man like me.

  Jeff Lindsay

  Men, Like Me

  Jeff Lindsay (2005). “Darkly Dreaming Dexter”, p.106, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• These messages that we are sending our kids and the kind of lives people lead today so superficial it seems, just a lot of phony stuff. What does it mean when you really stop and think about it's kind of stupid.

  Goose Gossage

  Stupid, Mean, Kids

  Interview with Chris Yandek, www.cyinterview.com. May 4, 2007.

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• Al Gore couldn't be more phony if he were a professional Al Gore impersonator

  Dennis Miller

  Politics, Als, Impersonators

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• Instead of learned young people we have donkeys with University degrees. Instead of future leaders we have mollusks with expensive blue jeans and phony revolutionaries with ski masks. And do you know what? Maybe this is another reason why our Moslem invaders have such an easy game.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Blue, University Degrees, Games

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• On the last day, God will not acquit us because our good works were good enough, but he will look for evidence that our good confession was not phony. It’s in this sense that we must be holy.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Looks, Lasts, Good Enough

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• It's one of those places that are supposed to be very sophisticated and all, and the phonies are coming in the window.

  J. D. Salinger

  Window, Sophisticated, Supposed To Be

  J. D. SALINGER (1951). “THE CATCHER IN THE RYE”

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• Just be honest with who you are. Don't pretend to be something you're not. Don't be a phony. Walk your talk. That's how God works, so doing it is emulating how Source works.

  Wayne Dyer

  Honest, Being Honest, Who You Are

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• Understanding comes hard to persons of high rank who are accustomed to phony lifestyles that involve no daily work.

  Kenzaburo Oe

  Understanding, Lifestyle, Daily Work

  "A Personal Matter". Book by by Kenzaburo Oe, 1964.

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• Don't support the phonies, SUPPORT THE REAL

  Tupac Shakur

  Real, Support

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• Happy," I muttered, trying to pin the word down. But it is one of those words, like Love, that I have never quite understood. Most people who deal in words don’t have much faith in them and I am no exception – especially the big ones like Happy and Love and Honest and Strong. They are too elusive and far to relative when you compare them to sharp, mean little words like Punk and Cheap and Phony. I feel at home with these, because they’re scrawny and easy to pin, but the big ones are tough and it takes either a priest or a fool to use them with any confidence.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Strong, Mean, Home

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “The Rum Diary: Film Tie-in Edition”, p.57, A&C Black

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• Be daring enough to be different,
  humble enough to make mistakes,
  wild enough to be burnt in the fire of love,
  real enough to make others see how phony you are.

  Brennan Manning

  Real, Mistake, Humble

  Brennan Manning (2008). “The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out”, p.110, Multnomah

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• We're phonies if we're not exactly who we are.

  Dolly Parton

  Who We Are, Ifs

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Never, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they're phonies.

  Bette Davis

  Mean, Wine, White

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• Style is the thing that's always a bit phony, and at the same time you cannot write without style.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Writing, Style, Bits

  Elizabeth Bowen (1938). “The death of the heart”, Viking Pr

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• You just don't invade another country on phony pretext in order to assert your interests!

  John F. Kerry

  Country, Order, Interest

  "America Is in No Position to Lecture Russia About Imperialism" by Sheldon Richman, reason.com. March 16, 2014.

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