Shallow Quotes - Page 16

• You meet these people who are confident all the time. They annoy me. And I wonder if it's because I'm envious or if it's because they're shallow.

  Guy Pearce

  People, Wonder, Annoying

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

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• Glasses are for the brave. I do not need to pretend that I am sighted. People who need glasses and don't wear them are slightly less treacherous than people who don't need them and do-like every shallow Hollywood star who wants to be taken seriously.

  Greg Proops

  Stars, Taken, Glasses

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• Women are, in general, less shallow visually. If their man gains 10, 20 pounds, they don't care as much. But I've been with women over the years when my weight fluctuated, and they're definitely more interested physically when I am in really great shape.

  Hank Azaria

  Men, Years, Weight

  "One-Man Show". Interview with Mickey Rapkin, www.elle.com. March 14, 2012.

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• The Scriptures are shallow enough for a babe to come and drink without fear of drowning and deep enough for theologians to swim in without ever reaching the bottom.

  St. Jerome

  Swim, Scripture, Drink

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• It's almost embarrassing to go back into my liberal background because it was about as shallow a belief system as humanly possible.

  Andrew Breitbart

  Belief, Embarrassing, Backgrounds

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• For the shallow delights of matrimony and opera I have no courage.

  Johannes Brahms

  Delight, Opera, Matrimony

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• It seems to be the special peculiarity of human beings that they reflect: they think about thinking and know that they know. This, like other feedback systems, may lead to vicious circles and confusions if improperly managed, but self-awareness makes human experience resonant. It imparts that simultaneous "echo" to all that we think and feel as the box of a violin reverberates with the sound of the strings. It gives depth and volume to what would otherwise be shallow and flat.

  Alan Watts

  Thinking, Echoes, Self

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• I suddenly think the job of acting is a difficult one. It's not as flip, irrelevant and shallow a calling as I thought it was in the Eighties.

  Rowan Atkinson

  Jobs, Thinking, Acting

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• There is too much disagreement for disagreement's sake. In a time of persistent challenges that still call into question our most sacred aspirations as a country, we cannot afford shallow callous divisiveness in our public debate.

  Cory Booker

  Country, Challenges, Sake

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• I'm having a bad day. I am not size six. My legs are not skinny as sticks, and dammit, someone's got to pay. I'm afraid that I can't satisfy myself and that my happiness depends on someone else. I feel weak, so you're gonna take the fall. You're so shallow.

  Jewel

  Sad, Fall, Bad Day

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• Calling George Bush shallow is like calling a dwarf short.

  Molly Ivins

  Dwarves, Understanding, Calling

  Molly Ivins (2010). “Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She?”, p.149, Vintage

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• For nine miles along a submerged ridge, the corals rise in lumpy hillocks that spread out 100 yards or more, resembling heaped scoops of rainbow sherbet and Neapolitan ice cream. The mounds, some 100 feet tall, sprout delicate treelike gorgonians that sift currents for a plankton meal. Fish, worms and other creatures dart or crawl in every crevice. This description could apply to thousands of coral reefs in shallow, sun-streaked tropical waters from Australia to the Bahamas. But this is the Sula Ridge, 1,000 feet down in frigid darkness on the continental shelf 100 miles off Norway's coast.

  James Dwight Dana

  Nature, Ice, Feet

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• Poem for Liu Ya-tzu I cannot forget how in Canton we drank tea and in Chungking went over our poems when leaves were yellowing. Thirty-one years ago and now we come back at last to the ancient capital Peking. In this season of falling flowers I read your beautiful poems. Be careful not to be torn inside. Open your vision to the world. Don't say that waters of Kumming Lake are too shallow. We can watch fish better here than in the Fuchun River in the south.

  Mao Zedong

  Beautiful, Flower, Fall

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• It sounds deeply shallow, but for brief spells every member of the public can be fascinating.

  Graham Norton

  Sound, Members, Fascinating

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• Many a man, brought up in the glib profession of some shallow form of Christianity, who comes through reading Astronomy to realize for the first time how majestically indifferent most reality is to man, and who perhaps abandons his religion on that account, may at that moment be having his first genuinely religious experience.

  C. S. Lewis

  Religious, Reading, Reality

  C. S. Lewis (1996). “Miracles: A Preliminary Study”, Touchstone Books

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• Is your perception of 'I Heard It Through the Grapevine' so shallow that it's violated by dancing raisins?

  Pete Townshend

  Dancing, Perception, Raisins

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• Was it possible I'd labeled him incorrectly? Shallow jocksdidn't overcome adversity and accomplish the things Leif had. I'd labeled him, not even knowing him. Just because girls went gaga over him andevery boy wanted to be him didn't make him a jerk. The only jerk in the room happened to be the judgmental, elitist female. Me.

  Abbi Glines

  Girl, Adversity, Boys

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• Wouldn't it be wonderful if you could spare them from all suffering? No, it wouldn't. They would not evolve as human beings and would remain shallow, identified with the external form of things. Suffering drives you deeper. The paradox is that suffering is caused by identification with form and erodes identification with form. A lot of it is caused by the ego, although eventually suffering destroys the ego-but not until you suffer consciously.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Ego, Suffering, Purpose

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• It is true that despite occasional gleams of Churchillian eloquence he [Gen. Douglas MacArthur] usually spoke poorly. He was far more effective in conversations a deux. But those who dismiss him as shallow because his rhetoric was fustian err.

  William Manchester

  Gleam, Public Speaking, Macarthur

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• Self-knowledge is a dangerous thing, tending to make man shallow or insane.

  Karl Shapiro

  Men, Self, Insane

  Karl Shapiro (1964). “the Bourgeois Poet”

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• It seems to me shallow and arrogant for any man in these times to claim he is completely self-made, that he owes all his success to his own unaided efforts. Many hands and hearts and minds generally contribute to anyone's notable achievements.

  Walt Disney

  Success, Heart, Greatness

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• I remember in Shallow Grave I remember a few times when we'd only have to do one take. But when you did have to do more than one, you'd build on the one you'd done.

  Ewan McGregor

  Done, Remember, Graves

  Interview with Adrian Wootton, www.theguardian.com. October 23, 2002.

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• The mass of men lead lives of shallow happiness; the superior man exults in his gloom.

  Garrison Keillor

  Happiness, Men, Mass

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• Any analysis of 'sin' or 'evil' or 'demonic influence' or 'negative thinking' or 'systemic evil' or 'antisocial behavior' that fails to see the lack of self-dignity as the core of the problem will prove to be too shallow.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Thinking, Self, Evil

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• Thoughts are slippery fish in a cold shallow stream.If you are intent on capturing a worthwhile one, you need to stand very still, focus very hard on somewhere outside yourself, and then simply ignore it until it gets so close that it tickles your ankles.Then, pounce.

  Vera Nazarian

  Focus, Needs, Ankles

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