States should pass laws making it illegal to own or trade wild animals; the phony 'educational' permits that many private owners have… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
It's like you always have to put on a happy face, be the phony baloney, and I'm so not that. I never… — Chloe Sevigny Copy Share Image
My grandmothers are Irish-American and German-American; my grandfather is from the Caribbean. My father is African-American. My family looked funny. I just… — Sarah Jones Copy Share Image
I think once you start putting phony figures into financial statements, you get in a lot of trouble. And we've seen so… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
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… — Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon Copy Share Image
I'm me. I can't put on airs. I'm not a phony. I know the way I am hurts me more times than… — Tony Dorsett Copy Share Image
Contemporary politics is all about phony energy, about running around slamming doors for the sake of it-or, more to the point, opening… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
School is about learning to wait your turn, however long it takes to come, if ever. And how to submit with a… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
But phony, Hemingway was not, and poseur he was not. He did not shoot lions and leopards because he was searching for… — Robert Ruark Copy Share Image
In order to be a leader a man must have followers. And to have followers, a man must have their confidence. Hence,… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Reality TV now doesn't feel reality TV when it started. The line between reality and fiction is blurred. So many of these… — Portia de Rossi Copy Share Image
Because of jealousy you are in constant suffering; you become mean to others. And because of jealousy you start becoming phony, because… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
For fantasy is true, of course. It isn't factual, but it is true. Children know that. Adults know it too, and that… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I see many people trying to write well about the wilderness, and essentially failing. To me there are basically two aspects of… — Tim Cahill Copy Share Image
Elections in L.A. are so different. Here you've got politicians with phony smiles making false promises to voters with fake boobs and… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
Liberals are hopping mad because Rush Limbaugh referred to phony soldiers as "phony soldiers." They claim he was accusing all Democrats in… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
The abuse of power manifests with phony spiritual teachers and phony gurus who tell you how to run your life and what… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Just be honest with who you are. Don't pretend to be something you're not. Don't be a phony. Walk your talk. That's… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
I didn't come to Hollywood. Hollywood came to me. A lot of people wish they could say the things I say. Everyone… — Mr. T Copy Share Image
“If you can't be real and firm with others about who you are, you will be doomed to a phony, plastic bullshit… — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
Most artists I know consider themselves to be phonies, along with the feeling that there's something that you're doing is essential, essential… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
One of the interpreters hired by CBS for the Dan Rather/Saddam Hussein interview adopted a phony Arabic accent. You know, maybe CBS… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
Phony gurus make themselves objects of adoration and worship. Real spiritual teachers aren't interested in adoration and worship. They like respect only… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I am so spoiled. I cannot watch a show where it gets interrupted for ads. I have to TiVo it and skip… — Alan Ball Copy Share Image
I didn't have to fit into a mold. You make the mold. People can smell a rat. If you're doing thing for… — Anthony Evans Copy Share Image
The most peaceful thing in the world is plowing a field. Chances are you’ll do your best thinking that way. And that’s… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The moment you sense someone is making something because they think people are gonna buy it or like it, it's just so… — Zooey Deschanel Copy Share Image
What we need is a rebirth of satire, of dissent, of irreverence, of an uncompromising insistence that phoniness is phony and platitudes… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
“There was a young man named Brody,” he said, bobbing his head up and down at me. “Who didn’t have one single… — Marcus Emerson Copy Share Image
I mention my age because I find people in this country - women, not men, of course - women are so troubled… — Teresa Heinz Copy Share Image
Instead of learned young people we have donkeys with University degrees. Instead of future leaders we have mollusks with expensive blue jeans… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
I think [audiences are] more aware now of the contradictions in mainstream culture, the phony piety that permeates society, the inhumane hypocrisy. — Paul Krassner Copy Share Image
A placebo is a phony cure that works. This is very hard for the medical profession to get their teeth around because… — Charles Jencks Copy Share Image
I attended Catholic school. We received a great education from the nuns. ... Also, guilt. Guilt and a feeling of never being… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
One of Obama's most impressive attributes is his quiet confidence: Voters sense that he is comfortable in his own skin, a dedicated… — Ron Fournier Copy Share Image
If a man's associates find him guilty of being phony, if they find that he lacks forthright integrity, he will fail. His… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Corporate polluters, their phony think tanks and political toadies like to marginalize environmentalists as tree huggers, or radicals. But there is nothing… — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr Copy Share Image
Managers who don't lead are quite discouraging, but leaders who don't manage don't know what's going on. It's a phony separation that… — Henry Mintzberg Copy Share Image
“It's way too easy to see the real face of a person. They're amiable and full of pretense when they want something… — Donna Lynn Hope Copy Share Image
Turning the Internet over to the U.N. or some other phony international organization would be a disaster, and I am not willing… — John Doolittle Copy Share Image