Shallow Quotes - Page 9

• This generation has come into the world fatally late for some enterprises. Go where we will on the surface of things, men have been there before us.... But the lives of men, though more extended laterally in their range, are still as shallow as ever.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, This Generation, Pioneers

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.244, Courier Corporation

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• One must never comment as an actor, never show that a character is shallow or vindictive, but let that be conveyed. I mean, none of us thinks of ourselves as being vindictive or shallow - perhaps we should.

  Vanessa Redgrave

  Character, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When shallow critics denounce the profit motive inherent in our system of private enterprise, they ignore the fact that it is an economic support of every human right we possess and without it, all rights would disappear.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Rights, Support, Facts

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• I am ashamed to see what a shallow village tale our so-called History is. How many times must we say Rome, and Paris, and Constantinople! What does Rome know of rat and lizard? What are Olympiads and Consulates to these neighboring systems of being? Nay, what food or experience or succor have they for the Esquimaux seal-hunter, or the Kanaka in his canoe, for the fisherman, the stevedore, the porter?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Rome, Paris, Doe

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• My dad used to say makeup was a shallow girl's sport, but it's not. It's armor.

  Courtney Summers

  Girl, Sports, Dad

  Courtney Summers (2015). “All the Rage”, p.63, Pan Macmillan

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• Modeling is a very hard job. I know that sounds like a really shallow thing to say, but you have people pulling on your hair all day, telling you what to do, fitting you, telling you to bend over, hitting you, taking your shoes off, throwing you up against a wall - it's a lot. You have to really be able to handle yourself and bring something. It's not just enough to have a cute body and jump up in the air and go, "wow!"

  Kelly Cutrone

  Cute, Jobs, Wall

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I would say my being disheartened has more to do with American culture than anything else. We are becoming a very shallow culture. My goodness, the celebrity ethos has taken over completely. Turn on the television and you see that over and over. There's very little substance. And so, everything gets shorter. Everything is entertainment oriented. Our churches reflect that. A thirty-five minute sermon without a Power Point or video clips is rare these days. That's not true in other countries so much.

  Philip Yancey

  Country, Taken, Ethos

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• I think the mission for the writer is to tell stories in a compelling way about the stuff that cannot be talked about, that cannot be gotten at with shallow media.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Thinking, Media, Stories

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. September 1, 2010.

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• I'm not crazy impressed with New York. I mean, I don't buy into that whole thing: Everyone in New York is all sophisticated, and they're into art and sophisticated things, and everyone in L.A. is just shallow entertainment people. I think people are just shallow across the board.

  Aaron McGruder

  Art, Crazy, Mean

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I wanted to be an actor from a young age, but actually becoming one and seen the ugly side of the world does feel different and sometimes unwelcome. There are shallow, vapid, untalented people zombieing the streets of Hollywood, adding decadence and immorality to an already extravagant business.

  Fran Kranz

  Becoming One, People, Age

  "Interview with Fran Kranz, Star, CBS’s Welcome to the Captain". Interview with Alex Remington, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 5, 2008.

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• I've never played a character that is just beautiful, but sometimes you can read scripts that sound so shallow, like women are objects. I've never done something like that, though.

  Eva Green

  Beautiful, Character, Sound

  "Eva Green Talks Bond, Burton, and Her Decision to Work with Roman Polanski". Interview with Mehera Bonner, www.marieclaire.com. September 29, 2016.

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• The thing I don't like about L.A. is that it's very industry-focused. That's not bad for kids. It's not hedonistic or anything, not any more shallow than anybody in the Midwest. It's not that.

  Eddie Jemison

  Kids, Midwest, Hedonistic

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I would like to write my next book about what happened to critical intelligence in America and how it's been undermined by these really shallow ideas about human life and nature.

  Peter Breggin

  Book, Writing, Ideas

  Source: whale.to

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• I am not a communist first and an individualist second. I am an individualist first, and I don't mean this in the shallow, purely egotistical sense of self-interest and everyone else be damned. I mean this in the true sense of enlightenment, recovery of personality, and the full development of personality.

  Murray Bookchin

  Recovery, Mean, Self

  Interview with Jeff Riggenbach, reason.com. October 1979.

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• Many men I come across see women in an antagonistic way, and it's always the basis for a bad relationship. What I mean by that is men who come with pre-conceived notions that women are trying to tie them down, or hold them back, or that women are shallow, or that women are only attracted to money, or whatever it is.

  Matthew Hussey

  Mean, Bad Relationship, Men

  "Interview With Rising Star Matthew Hussey, Bestselling Author of Get The Guy and International Love Guru". Interview with Nicole Bryl, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 24, 2013.

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• You can achieve a shallow local maximum with A/B testing - but you'll never win hearts and minds.

  Jeff Atwood

  Heart, Winning, Mind

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• More young people are volunteering than ever before. More people are including service to others on their busy lives' to do list. The promise of America is embedded deep in our DNA, calling us to a much less shallow search for happiness and meaning.

  Arianna Huffington

  Dna, America, People

  "Arianna Huffington on Redefining Success, Creating Balance and Making Good Decisions". Interview with Gina Murdock, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• In the 20th century, artists did a great disservice to fairies. They painted fairies in a way that was shallow and trite. So when people see my stuff, they suddenly realize the depth of fairies.

  Brian Froud

  Artist, People, Depth

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• People try to look for deep meanings in my work. I want to say, 'They're just cartoons, folks. You laugh or you don't.' Gee, I sound shallow. But I don't react to current events or other stimuli. I don't read or watch TV to get ideas. My work is basically sitting down at the drawing table and getting silly.

  Gary Larson

  Silly, Ideas, Drawing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think it's a very shallow thought to think creative people can't do business. I am as proud of the fact that our magazine has a commercial success as I am that we're a critical success. I want people to realize that I'm very strategic in how I run Bazaar.

  Glenda Bailey

  Running, Thinking, People

  Source: wwd.com

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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, Shallow Person, People

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

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• I think it's something that you learn to deal with the more experienced you become. When I first presented live news, which was 12 years ago, I was very inexperienced and probably didn't deal with the pressure as well. I used to breathe very shallow when I was presenting and you could hear it in my voice and see it in my face.

  Jill Douglas

  Thinking, Years, Voice

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• Our culture is set up on a feud mentality, or a "Housewives" mentality, that women just fight. And it's such a shallow way to exist as far as our evolution is concerned, and our culture is concerned. It's fun to watch women fight, in a storytelling way, but in the world, women shouldn't be seen as a threat to other women.

  Laura Linney

  Fun, Fighting, Culture

  Source: www.elle.com

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• The reality is that living digitally rewires our brains for perpetual motion, shallow surface thinking, and compulsive/addictive behaviors. Because our world is only going to become more tech-driven with each passing day, unless we find ways to counterbalance these detrimental effects, we'll remain spiritual babes, drinking milk for the rest of our lives instead of the solid food God has for us.

  Tricia Rhodes

  Spiritual, Drinking, Reality

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• I have been to Turkey almost every summer holiday of my life and pretty much only on summer holidays, which makes me a very shallow Turk indeed.

  Joseph O'Neill

  Summer, Holiday, Turkeys

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