“ A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues. ”
- Theodore Roosevelt- Copy
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“ All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the pathetic fallacy. ”
- John Ruskin- Copy
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“ The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. All sin is easy after that. ”
- Pearl Bailey- Copy
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“ Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be. ”
- Kurt Vonnegut- Copy
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“ Away, and mock the time with fairest show; False face must hide what the false heart doth khow. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ He'd run around, pretend like he was boxing everybody,... Everyone kind of laughed at how he was. But the main thing I would say about him, he was so focused on it. ”
- John Powell- Copy
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“ We must be compelled to hold this doctrine to be false, and the old and new law called the Old and New Testament, to be impositions, fables and forgeries. ”
- Thomas Paine- Copy
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“ The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even — if you will — eccentricity. That is, something that can't be feigned, faked, imitated; something even a seasoned imposter couldn't be happy with. ”
- Joseph Brodsky- Copy
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“ My husband gave me a necklace. It's fake. I requested fake. Maybe I'm paranoid, but in this day and age, I don't want something around my neck that's worth more than my head. ”
- Rita Rudner- Copy
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“ Integrity is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake your consciousness, just as honesty is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake existence. ”
- Ayn Rand- Copy
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“ Fake feeling good… You're going to have to learn to fake cheerfulness. Believe it or not, eventually that effort will pay off: you'll actually start feeling happier. ”
- Jean Bach- Copy
- 555
“ So cheat your landlord if you can and must, but do not try to shortchange the Muse. It cannot be done. You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal. ”
- William S. Burroughs- Copy
- 447
“ The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it… try to fake three laughs in an hour — ha ha ha ha ha — they'll take you away, man. You can't. ”
- Lenny Bruce- Copy
- 422
“ The sumptuous age of stars and images is reduced to a few artificial tornado effects, pathetic fake buildings, and childish tricks which the crowd pretends to be taken in by to avoid feeling too disappointed. Ghost towns, ghost people. The whole place has the same air of obsolescence about it as Sunset or Hollywood Boulevard. ”
- Jean Baudrillard- Copy
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“ The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made. ”
- Jean Giraudoux- Copy
- 3.1K
“ You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well. ”
- Carrie Fisher- Copy
- 725
“ Memory is like an orgasm. It's a lot better if you don't have to fake it. ”
- Seymoure Cray- Copy
- 1.5K
“ Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but that mark of a fake messiah. ”
- Richard Bach- Copy
- 1.6K
“ Honesty: the most important thing in life. Unless you really know how to fake it, you'll never make it. ”
- Bernard Rosenberg- Copy
- 2K
“ This is the challenge of writing. You have to be very emotionally engaged in what you're doing, or it comes out flat. You can't fake your way through this. ”
- Real Live Preacher- Copy
- 541
“ If you have a beautiful face you don't need big fake boobs to get anyone's attention. ”
- Paris Hilton- Copy
- 1.6K
“ Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made. ”
- George Burns- Copy
- 2.4K
“ You've got to be honest; if you can fake that, you've got it made. ”
- George Burns- Copy
- 1.1K
“ After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life. ”
- Joseph Brodsky- Copy
- 3K
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