Etta James
Singer
"People that can't stand to listen to the blues, they've got to be phonies."
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Phony
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J. D. Salinger
Novelist, Short Story Writer
"Grand. There's a word I really hate. It's a phony. I could puke every time I hear it."
Tupac Shakur
Rapper, Actor, Activist
"Don't support the phonies, SUPPORT THE REAL"
Dennis Miller
Comedian
"Al Gore couldn't be more phony if he were a professional Al Gore impersonator"
Dolly Parton
Singer, Songwriter, Actress
"We're phonies if we're not exactly who we are."
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"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 how God works, so doing it is emulating how Source works."
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"It's one of those places that are supposed to be very sophisticated and all, and the phonies are coming in the window."
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"I was surrounded by phonies...They were coming in the goddam window."
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"The one to distrust is the person who never makes a mistake, never commits a blunder, never fails in what he tries to do. Either he is a phony, or he stays with the safe, the tried and the trivial."
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"What I don't like today is, to put it coarsely, the phony Hasidism, the phony mysticism. Many students say, "Teach me mysticism." It's a joke."
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"Said I'll make it big when, everybody know me Well, I made it big and, everybody phony"
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"I cursed [Larry Merchant] out once, and I told him that he was a phony."
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