The moment you sense someone is making something because they think people are gonna buy it or like it, it's just so phony! The public has a nose for phony like nobody else.
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Related People like it when others are gossiping. When you hear a story about someone's demise or some b... MADONNA CICCONE You don't find interesting stuff because you don't search enough, ... every book has it's own lesson... DEYTH BANGER As a kid I decided that a Canadian accent doesn't sound tough. I thought guys should sound like ... RYAN GOSLING Everybody has their thing they like or don't like to see. It's all in your head. That's ... RIHANNA The king may rule the kingdom, but it's the queen who moves the board. D.M. TIMNEY If something's gonna make you happy, and you know it's gonna make you happy, and it's wh... BRETT YOUNG You get to the point where you're like, 'I'm just doing me, and if people don't like... BEBE REXHA What I like about graduation speeches is that they're an opportunity for someone to make sense o... BRUCE ERIC KAPLAN It is what it is, it is what you make it. JAMES DURBIN It's wonderful to be appreciated for being quirky, and to see Zooey Deschanel and the quirky, in... MAYIM BIALIK It is a lie. ARTHUR MILLER Managers who don't lead are quite discouraging, but leaders who don't manage don't know ... HENRY MINTZBERG You know, I don't think my music is important, I don't think it's changing the world, I ... SUFJAN STEVENS If you don't like something, talk about something else that's great and maybe someone else w... ELIZABETH OLSEN Why do you think the fans like us - why they prefer our street raps over all that phony stuff out th... EAZY-E Because of social media, a lot of people think they can be, like, a rapper or a singer or a musician... SKY FERREIRA I didn't come to Hollywood. Hollywood came to me. A lot of people wish they could say the things... MR. T Posing on the red carpet feels like you're selling something that has nothing to do with you. If... CAREY MULLIGAN It ends or it doesn't. That’s what you say. That’s how you get through it. The tu... CAITLYN SIEHL If I could play the ukulele like Zooey Deschanel, I would find my own personal M. Ward, and we would... ANNA KENDRICK I cry when I think of you....... Doesn't that seem like the sweetest thing in the whole world; to he... KAYLA RAE There is something very unsettling about being with someone when they die. People say it's peace... GEORGE CLOONEY The papers, you know, they're always gonna just make stuff up. They think it's in the public... JAKE BUGG People need realness, reality. People can sense when someone is being pretentious or fake. It's ... AFROJACK People always say there's no such thing as bad publicity, and you always think they're right... RACHEL JOHNSON People think it's suspect and self-indulgent to make art, and I don't think that's true.... DANA SPIOTTA If it's about what I like, I like opera as a music and deathstep and dubstep. DEYTH BANGER When people think of someone being prolific, it's like, 'He's got a vault with 5,000 son... MAC DEMARCO How many reality shows can you watch? They're so obviously phony. ERIC BRAEDEN I am so spoiled. I cannot watch a show where it gets interrupted for ads. I have to TiVo it and skip... ALAN BALL A man can define many things beautifully in his life, but his character is one beautiful thing that ... ANUJ SOMANY People want to create something bigger for themselves, and making up drama that isn't there give... ALESSIA CARA As a young man... you don't know anything about yourself. And add on to that, you're on the ... ETHAN HAWKE Friendship is two-sided. It isn't a friend just because someone's doing something nice for y... JOHN WOODEN Will you let me go for Christ's sake? Will you take that phony dream and burn it before something ha... ARTHUR MILLER I think because people are passing - people that we are aware of are passing at - I don't say a ... SHEMAR MOORE It's almost like you see too much, because when it happens for real, everything flies at you so ... STEVE YZERMAN To you everything thats happening in the world appears phony, to be something other than what it rea... J. D. SALINGER Johannesburg is weird, because half of it is like Los Angeles. It feels like just wealthy parts of L... NEILL BLOMKAMP Commercials were too phony for me. I just didn't like selling products I didn't believe in. RIVER PHOENIX Human beings evolved opposable thumbs for a reason. The sense of reward you get from making somethin... MARK FRAUENFELDER The battle for freedom and liberty really never is over, and there are really low points in it, but ... RUSH LIMBAUGH For me personally, I think I just enjoy movies about werewolves or vampires because it's not lik... AGNES BRUCKNER What I don't like so much is people who - how do you say this? - who make judgments over the gen... JOHN DE MOL, JR. Trying to change the name of it is a phony exercise. HOWARD HAMPTON I'm making music for the people. If y'all love the music, y'all gonna buy the music. THE NOTORIOUS B.I.G. It is what it is, and it ain't nothin' else... Everything is clearly, openly, plainly delive... DAN FLAVIN When I came here, I didn't know anybody, ... I wanted to see what true Buffalonians are like. And so... J.P. LOSMAN I never like it when a celebrity goes on Twitter and says, 'This isn't true!' It is what... HARRY STYLES When you go to Best Buy and see a DVD of your movie, you think it's amazing. But then there'... ADAM GREEN It's like being involved in a detective story, looking for that thing that nobody else has found... ERIK LARSON If someone else isn't making it happen for you, make it happen yourself. LAUREN MILLER Whether you like modern incarnations of what country radio hits are, or you like what I'm doing,... CHRIS STAPLETON For someone making a pilot, assuming the talent is there and you can maneuver the system properly, i... ALEX GRAVES It's like everybody is shooting something, and everybody's a filmmaker; everybody can shoot ... DANA BRUNETTI He knew he was sounding a little Holden Caulfield-esque calling everyone a phony, but he really did ... SARAH MLYNOWSKI I love hidden things. When you buy something with quality, you like the inside to be as beautiful as... MINDY GROSSMAN Anytime I audition for something, it's always a question of whether or not the people I'm au... ADAM PALLY I never really thought of it. I mean I get asked the question all the time. If someone comes to a sh... MATISYAHU MILLER I think people are isolated because of the nature of human consciousness, and they like it when they... JAMES TAYLOR I write what I think is funny and I write from a sense of popping a balloon or a sense of injustice,... DENIS LEARY I just always loved stand-up. It's like magic. You say something, and a whole room full of peopl... DAVE CHAPPELLE The average person can look at someone in public life and say they have it all, but they might be st... IVANKA TRUMP Everyday people all over the world take advantage of life, they abuse it and dice with it.Life is so... GARY F EVANS... I am Happy and satisfied with what I am.
10000 will take me wrong, 1000 will go against me, 100 will... NEHA KOTHARI If our mind was an ocean then every now and then we would have the perfect storm happening in it.Gar... GARY F EVANS... I guess now music is so saturated and so microwaved. It's, like, 15 minutes in the microwave and... YOUNG JEEZY People have no tolerance. They think all bugs are bad. It's the American way. If you don't l... CARL OLSON I speak the truth. Not everyone who says they are ready to hear it really are. MONIKA ZANDS Photography is like a moment, an instant. You need a half-second to get the photo. So it's good ... PATRICK DEMARCHELIER It's hard to believe the life that 'Someone Like You' has taken on. It's proof that ... DAVID NAIL It's funny because there's a part of me that, if something is popular, I sort of become a de... AJ LEE Well, you know, in any political campaign, you're gonna have people on one side that are gonna s... BOB SCHIEFFER I'm always gonna be crazy about dishes in the sink. Crazy! Because it's a sign of disrespect... LARA LOGAN It's gonna be a lot of zeroes in that contract. You gonna think it's alphabet soup or someth... DEION SANDERS You'll hear 'Hippie,' or, 'Get a haircut.' I like it. I think it's funny bec... JACOB DEGROM I'm just happy I'm not a phony. MIKE TYSON Anytime you do something in this arena, whether it's public records or ethics, it's not like... KATE BROWN 'Watchmen' is like the music you feel is written just for you. 'That's my song, no o... ZACK SNYDER I should go into advertising or public relations because if there is someone or something I like, I ... KATIE KIESLER NELSON About 80 percent of the photos on Flickr are public and searchable by everyone. In one sense, it'... STEWART BUTTERFIELD It's a really nice way to cut your teeth, doing live shows. It's like going to the gym becau... JESSICA WILLIAMS So--what's it like, being a vampire?" "Aline!" Isabelle looked appalled. "You can't just ... CASSANDRA CLARE I think to close half of Magic Kingdom for the purpose of a White House invitation town hall meeting... NEWT GINGRICH I like Muhammad a lot, because he's like us more than anybody else. Jesus is just so exalted, an... DEEPAK CHOPRA If something excites you, go for it. CHAD HURLEY Some people create with words or with music or with a brush and paints. I like to make something bea... STEVE PREFONTAINE Any musician - I would say 99% of musicians - needs some help along the way. Most people, even if th... WASHED OUT Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is. MICHAEL KEATON It'a okay to take some break from the crucible steep of stairs that you want to try to achieve, as l... LAURE96 Nowadays, it's hard to find the best horror and to be interesting and to be afraid of it! DEYTH BANGER When people tell me they are going to go scrapbooking, I say, 'Why don't you make it yoursel... AMY SEDARIS Performance is there, and if you are not there in that moment it happened, it just stays in the memo... MARINA ABRAMOVIC When it starts to seem like you have popped into bed with a specific party, it makes it difficult fo... RACHEL MADDOW I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is. TED TURNER I think 'The Sopranos' probably solidifies the misconception that people have about New Jers... FRANK VINCENT I don't think many people understand what racism is. The intellectuals use it like toilet paper;... MARK FUHRMAN Public hangings are teaching moments. Every company has to do it. A teaching moment is worth a thous... JACK WELCH I think social media is good for promotion, stuff like that, but people are so negative. People are ... RAFAEL DOS ANJOS I think most people think of ballerinas as kind of either as a fairytale, far-away thing that's ... MISTY COPELAND
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