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  • 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.

  • I think once you start putting phony figures into financial statements, you get in a lot of trouble. And we've seen so much of that in the last 20 years.

    Thinking   Years   Lasts  
    "Warren Buffett: I Haven't Seen As Much Economic Fear In My Adult Lifetime". Interview With Charlie Rose, www.cnbc.com. October 1, 2008.
  • Some records with drum machines on them sound phony and plastic. It all depends on how you use the tools.

    Sound   Tools   Machines  
    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Style is the thing that's always a bit phony, and at the same time you cannot write without style.

    Writing   Style   Phony  
    Elizabeth Bowen (1938). “The death of the heart”, Viking Pr
  • Our offices must always be headed by the kind of men who command respect. Not phonies, zeros or bastards.

    Men   Office   Kind  
  • It is only when you open your veins and bleed onto the page a little that you establish contact with your reader. If you do not believe in the characters or the story you are doing at that moment with all your mind, strength, and will, if you don't feel joy and excitement while writing it, then you're wasting good white paper, even if it sells, because there are other ways in which a writer can bring in the rent money besides writing bad or phony stories.

  • It's like you always have to put on a happy face, be the phony baloney, and I'm so not that. I never was that; I'll never be that. That is part of the business that I don't like.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • As a kid I decided that a Canadian accent doesn't sound tough. I thought guys should sound like Marlon Brando. So now I have a phony accent that I can't shake, so it's not phony anymore.

    Kids   Guy   Sound  
    "October Release: Ryan Gosling & Michelle Williams". www.wmagazine.com. September 23, 2010.
  • 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  
  • People striving for approval from others become phony.

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

    Half   World   Emotion  
  • 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.

    Girl   Football   Sex  
    J. D. SALINGER (1951). “THE CATCHER IN THE RYE”
  • 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.

    Stupid   Mean   Kids  
    Interview with Chris Yandek, www.cyinterview.com. May 4, 2007.
  • That Hollywood thing, where everybody hugs and kisses everybody else-I always stiffen. It's an assumed familiarity. It's phony.

    Kissing   Hug   Hollywood  
  • Reality TV now doesn't feel reality TV when it started. The line between reality and fiction is blurred. So many of these people are phony or shallow, in their own right. If you've ever watched any of The Real Housewives, or those types of shows, they're all performing. Even though they're real people, they're performing.

    Real   People   Fiction  
    Source: collider.com
  • Most of the founders of this country had day jobs for years. They were not career politicians. ... We need leaders with experience in the real world, not experience in the phony world of politics.

    Country   Jobs   Real  
  • The War Party has two wings: the Democrats and the Republicans. All others are outsiders, whose ability to storm the gates is 'legally' restricted by a nearly impassable series of bureaucratic obstacles designed to keep them out while still maintaining the 'democratic' illusion, i.e. the phony two-party system, which is in reality a single entity.

    War   Party   Reality  
  • Bradford Dillman sounded like a distinguished, phony theatrical name, so I kept it.

    Names   Phony   Bradford  
  • It never felt real to me. I never felt I had complete ownership over Bond. Because you'd have these stupid one-liners - which I loathed - and I always felt phony doing them.

    Real   Stupid   Doing Me  
    "Pierce Brosnan Out as James Bond, 007". www.foxnews.com. August 17, 2005.
  • I’ll keep it short and sweet. Family, religion, friendship. These are the three demons you must slay if you wish to succeed in business. When opportunity knocks, you don’t want to be driving to a maternity hospital or sitting in some phony-baloney church. Or synagogue.

  • 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.

    Hurt   Hate   People  
    "Jackée Harry on 227, Ladybugs, and why she wants to be the next Maggie Smith". Interview with Marah Eakin, tv.avclub.com. February 26, 2016.
  • I plot as I go. Many novelists write an outline that has almost as many pages as their ultimate book. Others knock out a brief synopsis... Do what is comfortable. If you have to plot out every move your characters make, so be it. Just make sure there is a plausible purpose behind their machinations. A good reader can smell a phony plot a block away.

    Block   Moving   Book  
  • 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.

    Hypocrite   Boys   Giving  
    Source: www.alex-haley.com
  • Nowadays, the game is all bugged out, Phony, like back when Hammer tried to come thugged out.

    Rap   Games   Hip Hop  
  • But phony, Hemingway was not, and poseur he was not. He did not shoot lions and leopards because he was searching for the answer to life. He shot lions and leopards because he bloody well liked to hunt and shoot, and killing was the best punctuation mark at the end of the intricate and fascinating process of hunting.

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

    World   Phony  
    "Song: It's Only a Paper Moon". 1933.
  • 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.

    New York   Real   People  
    Source: www.realclearpolitics.com
  • Don't support the phonies, SUPPORT THE REAL

    Real   Support   Phony  
  • 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   Doors   Energy  
  • 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.

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