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• Unlike so many Dylan-writer-wannabes and phony 'encyclopedia' compilers, Sean Wilentz makes me feel he was in the room when he chronicles events that I participated in. Finally a breath of fresh words founded in hardcore, intelligent research.

  Al Kooper

  Intelligent, Research, Rooms

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• I plot as I go. Many novelists write an outline that has almost as many pages as their ultimate book. Others knock out a brief synopsis... Do what is comfortable. If you have to plot out every move your characters make, so be it. Just make sure there is a plausible purpose behind their machinations. A good reader can smell a phony plot a block away.

  Clive Cussler

  Block, Moving, Book

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• All the women in the world want a phony rock star who plays guitar.

  John Mellencamp

  Stars, Rocks, Guitar

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• I grew up when people seemed actually to be hurting themselves for their art. Of course, some of it was phony.

  Barry Hannah

  Art, Hurt, People

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• See the man on the TV with a phony smile. Bring you up, bring you down, he can turn your head around.

  Van Morrison

  Art, Men, Media

  Van Morrison (2014). “Lit Up Inside: Selected Lyrics”, p.185, Faber & Faber

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• For fantasy is true, of course. It isn't factual, but it is true. Children know that. Adults know it too, and that is precisely why many of them are afraid of fantasy. They know that its truth challenges, even threatens, all that is false, all that is phony, unnecessary, and trivial in the life they have let themselves be forced into living. They are afraid of dragons, because they are afraid of freedom.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Children, Dragons, Challenges

  Ursula K. Le Guin, Susan Wood (1980). “The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction”, p.44, Ultramarine Publishing

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• Mostly you don't want to make people feel bad because they carry that with them for the rest of their lives. I've found that. I hurt people on Celebrity Fit Club by being too honest. People loved it, but I was serious. I just hate phony baloneys. I can't do it anymore. I told them no. My tongue is too sharp. It was brutal.

  Jackee Harry

  Hurt, Hate, People

  "Jackée Harry on 227, Ladybugs, and why she wants to be the next Maggie Smith". Interview with Marah Eakin, tv.avclub.com. February 26, 2016.

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• I do not think that the government, under the guise of some phony, alarmist, pseudo-scientific rhetoric, should attempt to control the evolution of consciousness. After all, if these things truly are consciousness-expanding, it doesn't take too much intelligence to realize that it is the absence of consciousness that is causing our flirtation with extinction and planetary disaster.

  Terence McKenna

  Thinking, Government, Extinction

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• I discovered at the age of six that everything was a phony, worked with mirrors. Since then, I've always wanted to be a magician.

  Orson Welles

  Mirrors, Age, Six

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• The padded outfits, the bad scripts, the phony-looking sets... he dealt with it all. He had to. He was Superman.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Scripts, Outfits

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• I think [audiences are] more aware now of the contradictions in mainstream culture, the phony piety that permeates society, the inhumane hypocrisy.

  Paul Krassner

  Thinking, Mainstream Culture, Hypocrisy

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• People that can't stand to listen to the blues, they've got to be phonies.

  Etta James

  People

  "Etta James Dies at 73; Voice Behind ‘At Last’" by Peter Keepnews, www.nytimes.com. January 20, 2012.

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• With all of the hysteria, all of the fear, all of the phony science, could it be that man-made global warming is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people? It sure sounds like it.

  James Inhofe

  Men, Hysteria, People

  "Politics Reasserts Itself in the Debate Over Climate Change and Its Hazards" by Andrew C. Revkin, www.nytimes.com. August 05, 2003.

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• But although in theory physicists realize that their conclusions are ... not certainly true, this ... does not really sink into their consciousness. Nearly all the time ... they ... act as if Science were indisputably True, and what's more, as if only science were true.... Any information obtained otherwise than by the scientific method, although it may be true, the scientists will call "unscientific," using this word as a smear word, by bringing in the connotation from its original [Greek] meaning, to imply that the information is false, or at any rate slightly phony.

  Anthony Standen

  Science, Greek, Doe

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• The moment you sense someone is making something because they think people are gonna buy it or like it, it's just so phony! The public has a nose for phony like nobody else.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Thinking, People, Noses

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• So what? A lobbyist cheated Indian tribes out of $25 million then laundered their money through phony Christian charities trying to stop other Indian tribes from getting casinos [on screen: 'Thou Shalt Not Compete'] and bribe congressmen in the process. Know what I call that? I call that business as usual in Washington. [on screen: 'Screwing Indians']

  Stephen Colbert

  Christian, Trying, Charity

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• I think once you start putting phony figures into financial statements, you get in a lot of trouble. And we've seen so much of that in the last 20 years.

  Warren Buffett

  Thinking, Years, Lasts

  "Warren Buffett: I Haven't Seen As Much Economic Fear In My Adult Lifetime". Interview With Charlie Rose, www.cnbc.com. October 1, 2008.

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• One of Obama's most impressive attributes is his quiet confidence: Voters sense that he is comfortable in his own skin, a dedicated father and friend who won't waste time with the phony rituals of Washington.

  Ron Fournier

  Father, Skins, Voters

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• School is about learning to wait your turn, however long it takes to come, if ever. And how to submit with a show of enthusiasm to the judgment of strangers, even if they are wrong, even if your enthusiasm is phony.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Learning, School, Long

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• There are questions of real power and then there are questions of phony authority. You have to break through the phony authority to begin to fight the real questions of power.

  Karen Nussbaum

  Peace, Real, Fighting

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• It's a phony issue. To pretend the death penalty is going to end crime in the United States is to fool people, to promote public ignorance.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Ignorance, Issues, People

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• America always put forth this phony melting pot theory, but it's a reality now. They couldn't accomplish the melting pot economically; they couldn't accomplish it politically, or through education and science. But America has become a consumer society, and I see young people in the cities - of all colors and races - hanging out together over consumerism.

  Russell Means

  Reality, Color, Cities

  Source: progressive.org

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• I think to close half of Magic Kingdom for the purpose of a White House invitation town hall meeting on a phony main street on behalf of a phony president just strikes me as weird.

  Newt Gingrich

  Thinking, Magic Kingdom, White

  "Gingrich on Obama's Disney Speech: Which Cabinet Post Will Goofy Get?". Newt Gingrich's speech to a crowd of about 500 people in the theater at Magnolia Hall, www.foxnews.com. January 19, 2012.

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• It shouldn't come as any surprise that those who choose acting as a profession are phonies who live in a fantasy world. What is surprising is how many of them are blissfully unaware of it.

  Julie Burchill

  Acting, World, Fantasy

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• I know a 'crime against nature' when I see one. It is usually a sign of crimes against nature that we cannot bear to see them at all, that we recoil and hide our eyes, and no one has ever cringed at the sight of a soybean factory. I also know phony arguments when I hear them--unbridled appetite passing itself off as altruism, and human arrogance in the guise of solemn 'duty.' We must, as C.S. Lewis advises, 'reject with detestation that covert propoganda for cruelty which tries to drive mercy out of the world by calling it names such as 'Humanitarianism' and 'Sentimentality.

  Matthew Scully

  Eye, Sight, Names

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