Sham Quotes

"Our country is founded on a sham: our forefathers were slave-owning rich white guys who wanted it their way. So when I see the American flag, I go, `Oh my God, you`re insulting me.` That you can have a gay parade on Christopher Street in New York, with naked men and women on a float cheering, `We`re here, we`re queer!` -- that`s what makes my heart swell. Not the flag, but a gay naked man or woman burning the flag. I get choked up with pride."

I still think people will find out that I`m really not very talented. I`m really not very good. It`s all just been a big sham.

Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends.

Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.

Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers.

Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. It tells people to go out and stick their noses in other people`s business.

(On Bob Fosse) Fosse, I think, came to a high point in his life, with an Oscar, a Tony and an Emmy, and asked himself, "Do they think I`m really that good? They don`t know I`m really a sham, a hoax, a phony, a lousy human being, not much of a friend to anybody and a flop ... they don`t know I`m covered with flop sweat". That`s an expression Bob uses a lot -- flop sweat.

Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.

It`s all a sham: I have seen, and I know firsthand, indeed from my own pen, how the organized Right has sabotaged not only journalism but also democracy and truth.

Kerry`s sham economic indicator says that our economy was better under Jimmy Carter than under Ronald Reagan, a deception few Ohioans are likely to believe.

The indictment states that a joint venture was created and that this joint venture was in fact a sham.

If you cannot learn to love real art at least learn to hate sham art.

If you cannot learn to love real art; at least learn to hate sham art and reject it... because these are but the outward symbols of the poison that lies within them.

Sham Harga had run a succesful eatery for many years by always smiling, never extending credit, and realizing that most of his customers wanted meals properly balanced between the four food groups: sugar, starch, grease, and burnt crunchy bits.

An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery.