Shallow Person Quotes

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  Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.

  Garrison Keillor

  Inspirational, Life, Adversity

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• Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.

  Barbara Walters

  New Year, Party, Literature

  "How to Talk With Practically Anybody About Practically Anything". Book by Barbara Walters, 1970.

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• Cartooning is preaching. And I think we have a right to do some preaching. I hate shallow humor. I hate shallow religious humor, I hate shallow sports humor, I hate shallowness of any kind.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Sports, Religious, Hate

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• Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Time, Silence, Speech

  'Critical and Miscellaneous Essays' (1838) 'Sir Walter Scott'.

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• It's hard to tell a shallow person that they should care more about the feelings of the awkward and the alienated.

  John Flansburgh

  Awkward, Feelings, Care

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• I'm not happy all the time, and I wouldn't want to be because that would make me a shallow person. But I do try to find the good in everybody.

  Dolly Parton

  Trying, Want, Not Happy

  "Dolly Parton: 'I may look fake but I'm real where it counts'". Interview with Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. August 21, 2011.

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• You know, ogres only sound stupid. Most are pretty smart." "And it's a shallow person who judges anyone by the way they sound. I'm so shallow I'm surprised I don't reflect myself.

  Tamora Pierce

  Smart, Stupid, Judging

  Tamora Pierce (2007). “First Test: Book 1 of the Protector of the Small Quartet”, p.118, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• Ah, well, being conflicted means you can live a shallow life without copping to be a shallow person.

  Gillian Flynn

  Mean, Well Being, Wells

  Gillian Flynn (2012). “The Novels of Gillian Flynn: Sharp Objects, Dark Places”, p.131, Broadway Books

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• Deep down I'm a very shallow person.

  Charles Haughey

  Shallow, Persons, Deep Down

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• When you realize you would consider not having a child just so you could take an occasional snooze and be available to see Batman Retires the same weekend it comes out, you have to take a good hard look at yourself and acknowledge, I am a shallow, shallow person.

  Paul Reiser

  Children, Weekend, Looks

  Paul Reiser (2012). “Babyhood”, p.12, Harper Collins

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• I don't understand why it's more socially acceptable to say that you are a shallow person than to just say this is not something you want to do. Especially because it's a really hard job. It's a really important job. And why the hell should you do a really hard, important job that you don't want to do? That has extremely high stakes? That just blows my mind.

  Meghan Daum

  Jobs, Blow, Mind

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I am going to get political on you. Because I am the most shallow person in the world, my mission is to see men's formal wear change a little bit. It is too rigid! Everybody looks like a penguin!

  Steven Cojocaru

  Men, Political, Looks

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• My great fear is that I'm the ultimate shallow person. I think about this kind of thing a lot, and about this phenomenon in our culture where people identify themselves with their interests. I've been trying not to think about it too much. It used to really upset me when people called me "witch house."

  Grimes

  Thinking, People, House

  Interview with Carrie Battan, pitchfork.com. February 16, 2012.

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