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“Learn your instrument. Be honest. Don't do anything phony. There is so much crap floating around. There is plenty of room for a bit of honest writing.”

Writing Bits Rooms Honest Instruments Plenty Being Honest Crap Floating Phony

Author:Christine McVie

“A placebo is a phony cure that works. This is very hard for the medical profession to get their teeth around because they hate placebos, but scientifically, placebos work in about 30% of cases that are psychogenic diseases.”

Hard Hate Cases Disease Profession Medical Teeth Cures Phony Medical Profession Placebo

Author:Charles Jencks

“You get in a lot of trouble when you start putting fictitious numbers on value. I think to just say, we're going to say a dollar of cash is worth $2 all of a sudden, it isn't worth $2. It's worth a dollar today. And I think once you start putting phony figures into financial statements, you get in a lot of trouble.”

Thinking Today Values Numbers Trouble Figures Dollars Financial Statements Cash Phony Financial Statements

Author:Howard Warren Buffett

“You know your inside, and you know the others' outside: that creates jealousy. They know your outside, and they know their inside: that creates jealousy. Nobody else knows your inside. There you know you are nothing, worthless. And the others on the outside look so smiling. Their smiles may be phony, but how can you know that they are phony? Maybe their hearts are also smiling. You know your smile is phony, because your heart is not smiling at all, it may be crying and weeping.”

Knows Looks Heart May Cry Jealousy Worthless Weeping Phony Your Smile

Author:Rajneesh

“You just have to do the thing that you feel is true to your vision, and then the audience will make the decision. But as soon as you feel like you're creating a product to just cater to what you think they want, it never works. It always feels phony. And the audience can tell immediately.”

Thinking Want Feels Decision Vision Audience Products Like You Creating Working It Phony

Author:Rob Zombie

“Kids are so smart these days. They sense when there's a phony bologna out there. Especially in music, when they see something that's being marketed to them, they'll call it out. They'll be like, "This chick is bullshit."”

Kids Smart These Days Bullshit Chicks Phony Bologna

Author:Katy Perry

“The hell with "love" anyway, and with every other phony, time-wasting, half-assed emotion in the world.”

World Emotion Half Hell Wasting Time Phony

Author:Richard Yates

“Contemporary politics is all about phony energy, about running around slamming doors for the sake of it-or, more to the point, opening them and tossing through a huge sack of taxpayer dollars.”

Running Energy Doors Huge Dollars Sake Contemporary Opening Taxpayers Phony Slamming Doors

Author:Mark Steyn

“It's a Barnum and Bailey world, Just as phony as it can be...”

World Phony

Author:Yip Harburg

“As a young man... you don't know anything about yourself. And add on to that, you're on the cover of magazines. People are interviewing you about what you think. You feel like a real phony.”

People Thinking Knows Men Feels Real Young Add Magazines Young Man About Yourself Phony

Author:Ethan Hawke

“From Dickens's cockneys to Salinger's phonies, from Kerouac's beatniks to Cheech and Chong's freaks, and on to hip hop's homies, dialect has always been used as a way for generations to distinguish themselves.”

Way Used Generations Hip Hop Hips Hops Freak Phony Dickens Dialect Beatnik Salinger Cockneys Homies

Author:Christopher Moore

“Corporate polluters, their phony think tanks and political toadies like to marginalize environmentalists as tree huggers, or radicals. But there is nothing radical about clean air or water.”

Thinking Political Water Air Tree Clean Environmental Radical Corporate Pollution Tanks Phony Environmentalist Clean Air Toady

Author:Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

“I'm an entertainer; I try to give the public what it wants while I'm on the screen, and I'm completely sincere about it. If I don't happen to be a laughing boy off the screen, that doesn't make me a hypocrite or a phony.”

Ifs Want Giving Trying Happens Boys Laughing Screens Sincere Hypocrite Entertainers Phony

Author:Johnny Carson

“I mention my age because I find people in this country - women, not men, of course - women are so troubled by their age. There's a culture of youth, and it's a phony culture.”

People Men Country Age Culture Courses Youth Phony

Author:Teresa Heinz

“I see many people trying to write well about the wilderness, and essentially failing. To me there are basically two aspects of a failed outdoor story. One is the phony epiphany on the mountain top.”

People Writing Trying Wells Two Stories Failing Mountain Aspect Wilderness Epiphany Phony Mountain Top

Author:Tim Cahill

“The organization of American society is an interlocking system of semi-monopolies notoriously venal, an electorate notoriously unenlightened, misled by mass media notoriously phony.”

Media Mass Organization Monopoly Phony American Society Mass Media Misled Electorate

Book:The Community of Scholars, 1962

Source: The Community of Scholars, 1962

“If you don't know how to hold a board, you're going to look phony. That's was the biggest pressure for me was to have that respect and to look up to that.”

Ifs Knows Looks Know How Respect Pressure Boards Look Up Phony

Author:John Robinson

“Making music clips, I have a responsibility to depict the artist in a way that suits them, and feels comfortable with how they want to present their music. From there I usually try to tell a story visually that complements the music, that lets the music be the hero element of the project. I just try to do something that feels sincere and creative and a little bit home-brewed so it doesn't feel too plastic or phony.”

Way Want Feels Trying Littles Stories Home Artist Bits Responsibility Creative Hero Elements Comfortable Projects Little Bit Music Is Suits Sincere Plastic Phony Complement Clip

Author:Adria Petty

“The cell phone has transformed public places into giant phone-a-thons in which callers exist within narcissistic cocoons of private conversations. Like faxes, computer modems and other modern gadgets that have clogged out lives with phony urgency, cell phones represent the 20th Century's escalation of imaginary need. We didn't need cell phones until we had them. Clearly, cell phones cause not only a breakdown of courtesy, but the atrophy of basic skills.”

“High tax rates in the upper income brackets allow politicians to win votes with class warfare rhetoric, painting their opponents as defenders of the rich. Meanwhile, the same politicians can win donations from the rich by creating tax loopholes that can keep the rich from actually paying those higher tax rates - or perhaps any taxes at all. What is worse than class warfare is phony class warfare. Slippery talk about 'fairness' is at the heart of this fraud by politicians seeking to squander more of the nation's resources.”

“It's full of phonies, and all you do is study so that you can learn enough to be smart enough to be able to buy a goddam Cadillac some day, and you have to keep making believe you give a damn if the football team loses, and all you do is talk about girls and liquor and sex all day, and everybody sticks together in these dirty little goddam cliques.”

Source: THE CATCHER IN THE RYE

“We don't need a head of state who guts our defenses and draws phony red lines with a pink crayon.”

Needs States Lines Draws Red Defense Guts Phony Crayon Head Of State Red Lines

Author:Oliver North

“I would like to get married, actually. I've done everything else in my life now except that, but where do I find the real thing? The non-phony? In Los Angeles? I am not so sure.”

Real Done Married Los Angeles Real Things Phony

Author:Aviv Nevo

“It's a phony issue. To pretend the death penalty is going to end crime in the United States is to fool people, to promote public ignorance.”

People Ends States United United States Issues Crime Ignorance Fool Penalties Death Penalty Phony

Author:Rudy Giuliani

“They're a symbol of the whole town, pretending to fight, love, weep and laugh all the time - and they're phonies, all of them. And I head the list...their phony hearts were dripping with the milk of human kindness.”

Humans Heart Whole Fighting Kindness Laughing Towns Lists Symbols Pretending Milk Phony Dripping Human Kindness

Author:Ben Hecht

“Don't underestimate the value people place on authenticity. Politicians listen to the focus groups and say the things they think people want to hear. But after 30 years of reading consumers, I know that they can smell phonies.”

People Thinking Knows Want Years Values Reading Focus Groups Politician Smell Authenticity Consumers Underestimate Phony Focus Groups

Author:Rochelle B Lazarus

“We should self-examine and talk about things like our own white privilege and these phony senses of being an artist.”

Should Self Artist White Privilege Senses Being An Artist Phony White Privilege

Author:Geoff Rickly

“The older you get, the easier it is to spot the phonies. And I just think, how unpleasant for them.”

Thinking Easier Spots Phony

Author:Carrie Fisher

“Astrology is the sheerest hokum. This pseudoscience has been around since the day of the Chaldeans and Babylonians. It is as phony as numerology, phrenology, palmistry, alchemy, the reading of tea leaves, and the practice of divination by the entrails of a goat. No serious person will buy the notion that our lives are influenced individually by the movement of distant planets. This is the sawdust blarney of the carnival midway.”

“Kids can spot a phony a mile away.”

Kids Miles Spots Phony Miles Away

Author:Fred Rogers

“According to a new report, more than 700 fake Obamacare websites have been created. Security experts say it's simple to identify the phony sites because they are easy to log on to.”

Has Beens Easy Simple Security Fake Experts Reports Site Website Obamacare Phony

Author:Jay Leno

“I attended Catholic school. We received a great education from the nuns. ... Also, guilt. Guilt and a feeling of never being satisfied with what you've done. And a sense that you are inadequate and a big phony. All useful for a writer. I'm always being edited by my inner nun.”

Done Feelings Bigs School Catholic Guilt Satisfied Inadequate Nun Phony Great Education Edited Catholic School

Author:George Saunders

“The America of Obama's dreams is not the one of self-reliance and entrepreneurship to which he paid phony lip service at the beginning of his speech. It is an America in which the government, rather than the private sector, creates wealth and leads ignorant, helpless people by the nose from cradle to grave, from preschool to the academy, with the caveat that if they succeed too much, they will make themselves enemies of the state and targets for punitive action. Obama's new American dreams is an American nightmare.”

“I do not think that the government, under the guise of some phony, alarmist, pseudo-scientific rhetoric, should attempt to control the evolution of consciousness. After all, if these things truly are consciousness-expanding, it doesn't take too much intelligence to realize that it is the absence of consciousness that is causing our flirtation with extinction and planetary disaster.”

Ifs Thinking Should Government Realizing Consciousness Too Much Evolution Absence Disaster Rhetoric Expanding Extinction Phony Guise Pseudo Flirtation Alarmists Consciousness Expanding

Author:Terence McKenna

“I discovered at the age of six that everything was a phony, worked with mirrors. Since then, I've always wanted to be a magician.”

Age Wanted Six Mirrors Magician Phony

Author:Orson Welles

“The padded outfits, the bad scripts, the phony-looking sets... he dealt with it all. He had to. He was Superman.”

Scripts Phony Outfits

Author:Jerry Seinfeld

“Honestly, you got to take care of the people that take care of you. I know that sounds like cliche, or borderline phony, but that's the case. The reason I've had the fans that I have is because I've been consistent over the years and kept coming back and doing the same runs. I'm never going to stop doing the cities I've gone through. I'm only going to add.”

People Knows Years Reason Care Running Sound Cities Cases Gone Fans Add Take Care Honestly Consistent Coming Back Cliche Phony Borderline

Author:Gabriel Iglesias

“I'm not a great one for chatting people up, because it's phony. I don't want people to feel at ease. You want a bit of edge. There are quite long, agonized silences. I love it. Something strange might happen. I mean, taking photographs is a very nasty thing to do. It's very cruel.”

People Want Feels Mean Long Might Happens Bits Silence Strange Photograph Edges Ease Things To Do Nasty Phony Great Ones Chatting

Author:Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon

“That radicalism (of the '70s) was phony, really, because it was out of guilt. I'd always felt guilty that I made money, so I had to give it away or lose it. I don't mean I was a hypocrite. When I believe, I believe right down to the roots.”

Giving Believe Mean Made I Believe Felt Loses Roots Guilt Guilty Hypocrite Phony Radicalism

Author:John Lennon

“I didn't come to Hollywood. Hollywood came to me. A lot of people wish they could say the things I say. Everyone out here is so phony, it's sickening.”

People Wish Hollywood Phony

Author:Mr. T

“Bradford Dillman sounded like a distinguished, phony theatrical name, so I kept it.”

Names Distinguished Theatrical Phony Bradford

Author:Bradford Dillman

“Catfish Hunter was a man among men. He was a genuine person. There was nothing phony about him. I learned a lot from him, both on and off the baseball field.”

Men Persons Fields Baseball Genuine Hunters And Off Phony Catfish Baseball Field Genuine Person

Author:Vida Blue

“We used to be a serious country. When we got attacked at Pearl Harbor, we took on Imperial Japan, Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany. We beat all three in less than four years. We're about to enter the seventh year of this phony war against ... [terrorist groups], and we're losing.”

Years War Country Used Three Four Groups Serious Losing Beats Terrorist Used To Be Germany Japan Four Years Nazi Pearls Harbors Fascists Phony Nazi Germany Terrorist Groups

Author:Newt Gingrich

“The only thing worse than a coach or CEO who doesn't care about his people is one who pretends to care. People can spot a phony every time.”

People Care Coaches Spots Ceo Phony

Book:Turning the Thing Around: My Life in Football

Source: Turning the Thing Around: My Life in Football

“Mostly you don't want to make people feel bad because they carry that with them for the rest of their lives. I've found that. I hurt people on Celebrity Fit Club by being too honest. People loved it, but I was serious. I just hate phony baloneys. I can't do it anymore. I told them no. My tongue is too sharp. It was brutal.”

People Want Feels I Can Hate Found Hurt Honest Serious Fit Clubs Tongue Brutal Phony Honest People Baloney

Author:Jackee Harry

“Donald Trump is a phony, a fraud.His promises are as worthless as a degree from Trump University.”

Trump Promise Degrees University Fraud Worthless Phony

Author:Mitt Romney

“Flexibility. Oh, that's pretty clearly saying that what Donald Trump said to The New York Times is very different than what he's saying to the American people. He is not the real deal. He is a phony.”

People Said Different Real Deals New York Trump Flexibility New York Times Phony

Author:Mitt Romney

“We're phonies if we're not exactly who we are.”

Ifs Who We Are Phony

Author:Dolly Parton

“But although in theory physicists realize that their conclusions are ... not certainly true, this ... does not really sink into their consciousness. Nearly all the time ... they ... act as if Science were indisputably True, and what's more, as if only science were true.... Any information obtained otherwise than by the scientific method, although it may be true, the scientists will call "unscientific," using this word as a smear word, by bringing in the connotation from its original [Greek] meaning, to imply that the information is false, or at any rate slightly phony.”

Ifs May Doe Science Realizing Consciousness Information Theory Scientist Originals Method Rate Conclusion Being True Greek Physicist Phony Scientific Method Connotation

Author:Anthony Standen

“These messages that we are sending our kids and the kind of lives people lead today so superficial it seems, just a lot of phony stuff. What does it mean when you really stop and think about it's kind of stupid.”

People Thinking Kind Mean Doe Seems Kids Today Stuff Stupid Messages Superficial Phony

Author:Goose Gossage

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