Shallow Quotes - Page 20

• Women are, in general, less shallow visually. If their man gains 10, 20 pounds, they don't care as much.

  Hank Azaria

  Men, Care, Gains

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

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• Commercial music is music that a lot of people connect to at the same time, but that doesn't mean it has to be something shallow or without personality.

  Robyn

  Mean, Commercial Music, People

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. February 25, 2008.

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• It's such a nice change to get to play a wretched, shallow, mergers-and-acquisitions woman. My true colors come out.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Nice, Color, Play

  "New Again: Sigourney Weaver". Interview with Christopher Durang, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 9, 2012.

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• All my own experience of life teaches me the contempt of cunning, not the fear. The phrase "profound cunning," has always seemed to me a contradiction in terms. I never knew a cunning mind which was not either shallow, or on some point diseased.

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Profound, Mind, Phrases

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• Whether it's pool or Ping Pong, I can't stand to have my kids beat me. Especially Ping Pong! And when they beat me, they just needle the devil out of me. That's fine. I'd rather have that than let them win a shallow victory.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Kids, Winning, Victory

  GOLF Magazine Interview, www.golf.com. July 18, 2009.

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• While we bemoan the decline of literacy, computers discount words in favor of pictures and pictures in favor of video. While we fret about the decreasing cogency of public debate, computers dismiss linear argument and promote fast, shallow romps across the information landscape. While we worry about basic skills, we allow into the classroom software that will do a student's arithmetic or correct his spelling.

  David Gelernter

  Skills, Worry, Video

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• There are a bunch of different ways to look at the fashion industry. Is it shallow to work in fashion? Yes, it can be. But does fashion transform a woman who might feel like nothing and unimportant to glamorous and gorgeous? Yes, it does. Does it employ a huge sector of America? Yes, it does.

  Kelly Cutrone

  Fashion, America, Doe

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• In friendship, bond not with a shallow man.

  Ueda Akinari

  Men

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• If Christians cannot communicate as thinking beings, they are reduced to encountering one another only at the shallow level of gossip and small talk. Hence the perhaps peculiarly modern problem - the loneliness of the thinking Christian.

  Harry Blamires

  Christian, Loneliness, Thinking

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• Though nihilism has been relentlessly criticized for overemphasizing the dark side of human experience, it might be equally true that this overemphasis represents a needed counterbalance to shallow optimism and arrogant confidence in human power. Nihilism reminds us that we are not gods, and that despite all of the accomplishments and wonders of civilization, humans cannot alter the fact that they possess only a finite amount of mastery and control over their own destinies.

  John Marmysz

  Dark, Destiny, Civilization

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• Just as any moron can destroy a priceless Ming vase, so the shallow and ill-educated people who run our schools can undermine and destroy from within a great civilization that took centuries of dedicated effort to create and maintain.

  Thomas Sowell

  Running, School, Civilization

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• The reason why women effect so little and are so shallow is because their aims are low, marriage is the prize for which they strive; if foiled in that they rarely rise above disappointment.

  Sarah Moore Grimke

  Disappointment, Littles, Reason Why

  "The Female Experience". Book by Gerda Lerner (Chapter 87), 1977.

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• Yesterdays depth is feeling very shallow, I wanna go deeper, deeper still.

  Misty Edwards

  Yesterday, Feelings, Depth

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• Fame is an illusive thing - here today, gone tomorrow. The fickle, shallow mob raises its heroes to the pinnacle of approval today and hurls them into oblivion tomorrow at the slightest whim; cheers today, hisses tomorrow; utter forgetfulness in a few months.

  Henry Miller

  Cheer, Hero, Gone

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• Happiness is not the shallow state of feeling pleased and chipper all the time. Happiness is the state of a human being that has achieved cross-level coherence within herself, and between herself and the people, challenges, and institutions around her. Happiness comes from between.

  Jonathan Haidt

  People, Challenges, Feelings

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• To love one person productively means to be related to his human core, to him as representing mankind. Love for one individual, in so far as it is divorced from love for man, can refer only to the superficial and to the accidental; of necessity it remains shallow.

  Erich Fromm

  Mean, Men, Individual

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics”, p.101, Routledge

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• A particularly fine head on a man usually means that he is stupid; particularly deep philosophers are usually shallow thinkers; in literature, talents not much above the average are usually regarded by their contemporaries as geniuses.

  Robert Musil

  Stupid, Mean, Men

  Robert Musil (2015). “The Man Without Qualities: Picador Classic”, p.767, Pan Macmillan

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• Part of my function as a writer is to dream awake. And that usually happens. If I sit down to write in the morning, in the beginning of that writing session and the ending of that session, I'm aware that I'm writing. I'm aware of my surroundings. It's like shallow sleep on both ends, when you go to bed and when you wake up. But in the middle, the world is gone and I'm able to see better.

  Stephen King

  Dream, Morning, Writing

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• It occurs to me that John McCain is as intellectually shallow as our current President....Bush goes bumbling along, grinning and spewing moronic one-liners, as though nobody understands what a colossal failure he has been....I fear to the depth of my being that John McCain is just like him.

  Jack Cafferty

  President, Depth, One Liner

  "Current Wisdom", spectator.org. August 19, 2008.

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• Home. When it rains, you can smell the leaves in the forest and the sand. It's all so small and mild, the landscape surrounding the lake, so manageable. The leaves and the sand are so close, it's as if you might, if you wanted, pull them on over your head. And the lake always laps at the shore so gently, licking the hand you dip into it like a young dog, and the water is soft and shallow.

  Jenny Erpenbeck

  Dog, Rain, Home

  Jenny Erpenbeck (2011). “Visitation”, p.34, Granta Books

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• The streams of religion run deep or shallow, according as the banks of the Sabbath are kept up or neglected.

  Matthew Henry

  Running, Sabbath, Neglected

  Matthew Henry (1850*). “The Miscellaneous Writings of the Revd. Matthew Henry: Consisting of Sermons, Tracts and Biographical Sketches of Eminent Christians and Ministers. To which is Added the Sermon Preached on the Author's Death”, p.199

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• Life can be very deep, but I'm trying to stay at the shallow end.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Trying, Ends, Very Deep

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• Deep down I'm a very shallow person.

  Charles Haughey

  Shallow Person, Persons, Deep Down

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• After listening to modern tirades against the great creeds of the Church, one receives a shock when one turns to the Westminster Confession... and discovers that in doing so one has turned from shallow modern phrases to a "dead orthodoxy" that is pulsating with life in every word. In such orthodoxy there is life enough to set the whole world aglow with Christian love.

  John Gresham Machen

  Christian, Listening, Church

  John Gresham Machen (1923). “Christianity and Liberalism”, p.46, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Most contemporary fiction sucks. It's intellectually dishonest, often morally dishonest. It's cheap and easy. It pretends to be deep but is really quite shallow.

  Dale Peck

  Contemporary Fiction, Easy, Fiction

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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