Shallow Quotes - Page 10

• The theme of corporate stories (and millions drink them in every day) seldom varies: to be happy you must consume, to be special you must conform. Absurd, obviously, yet our identities have become so fragile, so elusive, that we seem content to let advertisers provide us with their version of who we are, to let them recreate us in their image: a cookie-cutter image based on market research, shallow sociology, and insidious lies.

  Tom Robbins

  Lying, Special You, Identity

  "(Revisiting) The Syntax of Sorcery: An Interview with Tom Robbins". Interview with Tony Vigorito, realitysandwich.com. May 9, 2014.

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• A war for a great principle ennobles a nation. A war for commercial supremacy, upon some shallow pretext, is despicable, and more than aught else demonstrates to what immeasurable depths of baseness men and nations can descend.

  Albert Pike

  War, Men, Principles

  Albert Pike (2013). “Morals and Dogma”, p.64, Simon and Schuster

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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

  Shallow Person, Awkward, Feelings

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• The absolute things, the last things, the overlapping things, are the truly philosophic concerns; all superior minds feel seriously about them, and the mind with the shortest views is simply the mind of the more shallow man.

  William James

  Philosophical, Men, Views

  William James (2016). “William James: Essays and Lectures”, p.52, Routledge

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• Display is like shallow water, where you can see the muddy bottom.

  Alphonse Karr

  Water, Bottom, Muddy

  "Tools Of Speech" by Maturin M. Ballou, (p. 111), 1886.

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• the pyramids were built for pharaohs on the happy theory that they could take their stuff with them. Versailles was built for kings on the theory that they should live surrounded by the finest stuff. The Mall of America is built on the premise that we should all be able to afford this stuff. It may be a shallow culture, but it's by-God democratic. Sneer if you dare; this is something new in world history.

  Molly Ivins

  Kings, Shopping, Pyramids

  Molly Ivins (2010). “You Got to Dance with Them What Brung You”, p.94, Vintage

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• People think I'm as shallow and superficial as I look, and it's a surprise when they find out, sure enough, I am.

  Dolly Parton

  Thinking, People, Looks

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• Seriousness is the refuge of the shallow. There are events and personal experiences that call forth seriousness but they are fewer than most of us think.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Humor, Thinking, Events

  Rita Mae Brown (2011). “Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual”, p.17, Bantam

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• Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures Whilst the landscape round it measures, Russet lawns and fallows grey, Where the nibbling flocks do stray, Mountains on whose barren breast The labouring clouds do often rest; Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks, and rivers wide.

  John Milton

  Eye, Rivers, Clouds

  c.1631 L'Allegro, l.69-76.

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• I was absorbing a sorry truth of show business - rejection is the norm and acceptance the oddity. I was learning to cut the tops off my highs and stay with the lows where the rejections and letdowns would be shallow.

  Joan Rivers

  Sorry, Cutting, Acceptance

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• A man is a fool who sits looking backward from himself in the past. Ah, what shallow, vain conceit there is in man! Forget the things that are behind. That is not where you live. Your roots are not there. They are in the present; and you should reach up into the other life.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Past, Men, Roots

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• One well-cultivated talent, deepened and enlarged, is worth one hundred shallow faculties.

  William Matthews

  Talent, Hundred, Faculty

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• Honestly, I'm a shallow performer. I just go with the text and feel my way around it. There's not a whole lot of shaping.

  George Wendt

  Way, Honestly, Feels

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• On the surface, it's really easy to dismiss certain characters, but sometimes you find that the most interesting parts are disappointingly shallow. It's your job as an actress to pull that person apart, and work out why they act the way that they do.

  Jessica Brown Findlay

  Jobs, Character, Work Out

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

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• Men are shallow - we don't remember things like women do. Or we don't bring it up and blurt it out at inappropriate moments. When bridges are trying to be built, we don't detonate them.

  Steve Lillywhite

  Men, Bridges, Trying

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• I mean, is 'fat' really the worst thing a human being can be? Is 'fat' worse than 'vindictive', 'jealous', 'shallow', 'vain', 'boring' or 'cruel'? Not to me I'd rather [my daughters] were independent, interesting, idealistic, kind, opinionated, original, funny - a thousand things, before 'thin'. Let my girls be Hermiones, rather than Pansy Parkinsons.

  J. K. Rowling

  Girl, Daughter, Mean

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• Shallow believers prefer a shallow God.

  Toni Morrison

  Believer

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• The shallow teapot does the most spouting, and boils dry most quickly!

  Elizabeth Foreman Lewis

  Doe, Dry, Teapots

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• No one is shallow and vulgar forever; sooner or later the whole species likes to be profound.

  Carol Bly

  Profound, Forever, Likes

  Carol Bly (2000). “My Lord Bag of Rice: New and Selected Stories”, p.51, Milkweed Editions

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• They who on meare curiositie (where no urgent necessitie requireth) try whether their children may not as birds be nourished without sucking, offend contrary to this dutie of breast feeding and reflect that meanes which God hath ordained as best; and so oppose their shallow wits to his unsearchable wisdom.

  William Gouge

  Children, Bird, Trying

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• There is a part of me that is not fulfilled by acting. It is a self-involved life; it can feel shallow, but not very often.

  Kelly Reilly

  Self, Acting, Feels

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I can't imagine being sixty years of age and playing music I wrote when I was in my twenties. I would rather sail the sea of consequence to new lands. Laps around the shallow end of the pool, not for me.

  Henry Rollins

  Years, Sea, Land

  Source: www.commdiginews.com

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• People see fashion as superficial and shallow, but it's actually not. As an industry it can really change how things happen and change trade for countries that really need it.

  Ali Hewson

  Country, Fashion, People

  "Ali Hewson makes fashion in the name of love". Interview with Jeanne Beker, www.theglobeandmail.com. April 9, 2011.

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• Were not one thing, as human beings, so any character that is written uni-dimensional, thats just a shallow character with shallow writing and shallow acting.

  Kari Matchett

  Writing, Character, Acting

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• There is nothing more dangerous than a shallow thinking compassionate person

  Garrett Hardin

  Thinking, Dangerous, Compassionate

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