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• When you accept yourself completely you do not have to maintain a phony front, drive yourself to ''achieve'' or feel insecure if people tune-in to you and what you are doing.

  Ken Keyes Jr.

  Honesty, Insecure, People

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• I am not surprised that the president of the United States called this a phony scandal. I'm not surprised Secretary Clinton asked, "What difference does it make?" I'm not even surprised that Jay Carney said Benghazi happened a long time ago. I'm just surprised at how many people bought it.

  Trey Gowdy

  Trust, Bad Ass, Usa

  "Gowdy: Why Does the Media Not Care About Benghazi?". www.realclearpolitics.com. May 18, 2014.

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• Writer's block is a phony, made up, BS excuse for not doing your work.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Block, Writing, Excuse

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. January 6, 2014.

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• Joe: You don't want me, Sugar. I'm a liar and a phony. A saxophone player. One of those no-goodniks you keep running away from. Sugar: I know, every time. Joe: Sugar, do yourself a favor. Go back to where the millionaires are, the sweet end of the lollipop, not the cole slaw in the face, the old socks and the squeezed-out tube of toothpaste. Sugar: That's right. Pour it on. Talk me out of it. (She grabs him to kiss him.)

  Marilyn Monroe

  Running, Sweet, Liars

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• Don't underestimate the value people place on authenticity. Politicians listen to the focus groups and say the things they think people want to hear. But after 30 years of reading consumers, I know that they can smell phonies.

  Rochelle B Lazarus

  Reading, Thinking, Years

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• They're a symbol of the whole town, pretending to fight, love, weep and laugh all the time - and they're phonies, all of them. And I head the list...their phony hearts were dripping with the milk of human kindness.

  Ben Hecht

  Kindness, Heart, Fighting

  "Nothing Sacred", 1937.

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• Cuz phony faggots I froze, it's a fact, I flip fast on foes with fabulous fantastic flows.

  Big L

  Cuz, Fabulous, Flow

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• Man prides himself on being the only animal who can modify his nature, yet when he chooses to do so he is called a phony.

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Pride, Animal, Men

  Anton Szandor LaVey (2000). “The Devil's Notebook”, p.143, Feral House

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• We don't need a head of state who guts our defenses and draws phony red lines with a pink crayon.

  Oliver North

  Needs, Defense, Lines

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• If somebody doesn't have enough judgment to be able to look at plastic surgery and realize how phony it is, then they can't be helped.

  Brian Austin Green

  Looks, Able, Realizing

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• We should self-examine and talk about things like our own white privilege and these phony senses of being an artist.

  Geoff Rickly

  Artist, Self, White Privilege

  "United Nations". Interview with Ian Cohen, pitchfork.com. July 2, 2014.

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• Astrology is the sheerest hokum. This pseudoscience has been around since the day of the Chaldeans and Babylonians. It is as phony as numerology, phrenology, palmistry, alchemy, the reading of tea leaves, and the practice of divination by the entrails of a goat. No serious person will buy the notion that our lives are influenced individually by the movement of distant planets. This is the sawdust blarney of the carnival midway.

  James J. Kilpatrick

  Reading, Serious Person, Practice

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• Our current drug crisis is a tragedy born of a phony system of classification. For reasons that are little more than accidents of history, we have divided a group of nonfood substances into two categories: items purchasable for supposed pleasure (such as alcohol), and illicit drugs.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Two, Alcohol, Drug

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• It never felt real to me. I never felt I had complete ownership over Bond. Because you'd have these stupid one-liners - which I loathed - and I always felt phony doing them.

  Pierce Brosnan

  Real, Stupid, Doing Me

  "Pierce Brosnan Out as James Bond, 007". www.foxnews.com. August 17, 2005.

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• Our offices must always be headed by the kind of men who command respect. Not phonies, zeros or bastards.

  David Ogilvy

  Men, Office, Kind

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• But phony, Hemingway was not, and poseur he was not. He did not shoot lions and leopards because he was searching for the answer to life. He shot lions and leopards because he bloody well liked to hunt and shoot, and killing was the best punctuation mark at the end of the intricate and fascinating process of hunting.

  Robert Ruark

  Hunting, Punctuation Marks, Leopards

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• Reject the phony Patients' Bill of Rights....We don't have to continue down the path of socialized medical care, especially in America where free markets have provided so much for so many.

  Ron Paul

  Rights, America, Care

  "REPORT: Limbaugh conservatives continue 75-year-old "socialized medicine" smear". www.mediamatters.org. March 5, 2009.

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• The America of Obama's dreams is not the one of self-reliance and entrepreneurship to which he paid phony lip service at the beginning of his speech. It is an America in which the government, rather than the private sector, creates wealth and leads ignorant, helpless people by the nose from cradle to grave, from preschool to the academy, with the caveat that if they succeed too much, they will make themselves enemies of the state and targets for punitive action. Obama's new American dreams is an American nightmare.

  David Limbaugh

  Dream, America, Government

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• I attended Catholic school. We received a great education from the nuns. ... Also, guilt. Guilt and a feeling of never being satisfied with what you've done. And a sense that you are inadequate and a big phony. All useful for a writer. I'm always being edited by my inner nun.

  George Saunders

  School, Catholic, Feelings

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• The most peaceful thing in the world is plowing a field. Chances are you’ll do your best thinking that way. And that’s why I’ve always thought and said, farmers are the smartest people in the world, they don’t go for high hats and they can spot a phony a mile off.

  Harry S. Truman

  Thinking, People, Peaceful

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• According to a new report, more than 700 fake Obamacare websites have been created. Security experts say it's simple to identify the phony sites because they are easy to log on to.

  Jay Leno

  Simple, Obamacare, Fake

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• On a nationwide basis, I would guess that the various churches would have to pay annually an amount at least equal to the national debt. But it's impossible for me to make an exact estimate, because the churches hide their wealth in every way they can - deliberate falsification as to the value of property, registering it under phony names in order to obscure the fact that the Church owns the property.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Order, Names, Church

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