{"quotes":[{"text":"In fact the 'mask' theme has come up several times in my background reading. Richard Sennett, for example, in 'The Corrosion of Character: The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism', and Robert Jackall, in 'Moral Mazes: The World of Corporate managers', refer repeatedly to the 'masks' that corporate functionaries are required to wear, like actors in an ancient Greek drama. According to Jackall, corporate managers stress the need to exercise iron self-control and to mask all emotion and intention behind bland, smiling, and agreeable public faces. Kimberly seems to have perfected the requisite phoniness and even as I dislike her, my whole aim is to be welcomed into the same corporate culture that she seems to have mastered, meaning that I need to 'get in the face' of my revulsion and overcome it. But until I reach that transcendent point, I seem to be stuck in an emotional space left over from my midteen years: I hate you; please love me.","author":"Barbara Ehrenreich","tags":["capitalism","corporate-culture","corporate-world","drama","fake","faking","mask","masks","moral","morality","phony","self-control","smile","smiling","theatre"],"id":93745,"author_id":"Barbara+Ehrenreich"},{"text":"It's way too easy to see the real face of a person. They're amiable and full of pretense when they want something from you, but the minute you don't give in, back away or put yourself first (like they do) is the minute they show you who they really are.","author":"Donna Lynn Hope","tags":["people","phony","selfishness","users"],"id":129165,"author_id":"Donna+Lynn+Hope"},{"text":"I'd rather be befriended as an aimless lost soul than be befriended for adornment, gain or goal.","author":"Donna Lynn Hope","tags":["befriend","befriended","fake","friendship","genuine","lost-soul","motive","motives","phony"],"id":163716,"author_id":"Donna+Lynn+Hope"},{"text":"What simple andordinary lives we live,underneath the shadowsof projection screenartists.","author":"Phil Volatile","tags":["fake-it-til-you-make-it","houdini-knew","lies","ordinary-lives","phony","smoke-and-mirrors"],"id":210680,"author_id":"Phil+Volatile"},{"text":"Those who claim to be intelligent and you as fool, forget the basic anatomy, a fool does not figure out the result, whereas the so called intellect wrestles himself to get the result, now tell me who is at peace?","author":"Ramana Pemmaraju","tags":["fool","intellect","phony","society","society-denial","society-thinking"],"id":228998,"author_id":"Ramana+Pemmaraju"},{"text":"If you can't be real and firm with others about who you are, you will be doomed to a phony, plastic bullshit existence, where you only live for others.","author":"Bryant McGill","tags":["existence","firmness","life","phony","reality","teaching"],"id":237498,"author_id":"Bryant+McGill"},{"text":"Religious faith is by nature the most fundamental set of beliefs that one can have. It is how a believer views the world, and is how the believer judges himself as well as the other people, things, and events in that world. It colors everything about them. It is for this reason that people who adopt a faith out of convenience appear so phony, and why it is simply not possible for an individual to have a 'religion d'jour.","author":"Mike Klepper","tags":["believers","changing-religion","faith","phony","religion"],"id":243123,"author_id":"Mike+Klepper"},{"text":"It is a harsh reality that some of the most important and respectable jobs which deserve high salaries might be better off with low salaries. A politician, or a minister, or a teacher is sure to be working sincerely and selflessly for the good of the people when through and through there is little monetary reward guaranteed. This is how the charlatans are weeded out of the field.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["career","charlatan","coach","con-artist","educator","fake","false-prophet","field","goal","grandstanding","greed","honest","job","love","materialism","meaning","mentor","minister","money","motivation","occupation","pay","phony","planting","politician","preacher","purity","purpose","real","reality","riches","salary","scam","selfishness","selflessness","service","sincerity","teacher","wealth","weeds","work"],"id":246473,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"A man can take only so much. Even a phony man like me.","author":"Jeff Lindsay","tags":["man","phony"],"id":251853,"author_id":"Jeff+Lindsay"},{"text":"If it weren't my life, I wouldn't have believed it. I hated everyone, for they were so phony. I don't give a damn about my bad reputation.","author":"Yuvika Mathur","tags":["believe","hate","hope","life","love","people","phony","reputation"],"id":271120,"author_id":"Yuvika+Mathur"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":12,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}