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Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.
Oscar Wilde
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Is your perception of 'I Heard It Through the Grapevine' so shallow that it's violated by dancing raisins?
Pete Townshend
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Choke me in the shallow water before I get too deep.
Edie Brickell
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But, in fairness to them, too, the popular song per se is really a pretty shallow medium to perform in.
Mel Torme
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It's almost embarrassing to go back into my liberal background because it was about as shallow a belief system as humanly possible.
Andrew Breitbart
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You can’t be good to others if you’re not strict with yourself. The more shallow you are with yourself, the harsher you are with others. The more profound you are with yourself, the more generous you are with others
Tariq Ramadan
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All our lives we sweat and save, Building for a shallow grave.
Jim Morrison
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It is because we have such shallow views of God's love that we have such defective views of God's dealings. We blindly interpret the symbols of His providence, because we so imperfectly read the engravings of His heart.
Octavius Winslow
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Through shallow intellect, the mind becomes shallow, and one eats the fly, along with the sweets.
Guru Nanak
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The Bible is shallow enough for a new believer to wade in, but deep enough for a theologian to drown in.
Steven J Lawson
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As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
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Deep down, I happen to be very shallow.
Pat Paulsen
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When you attain the control of the internal direction of your attention, you will no longer stand in shallow water but will launch out into the deep of life.
Neville Goddard
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There is one thing infinitely more pathetic than to have lost the woman one is in love with, and that is to have won her and found out how shallow she is!
Oscar Wilde
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For the shallow delights of matrimony and opera I have no courage.
Johannes Brahms
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Americans have decided to be stupid and shallow since 1980.
Joni Mitchell
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Some days, I'm as shallow as a baking pan, but I still stretch miles in all directions.
Rives
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There is nothing more dangerous than a shallow thinking compassionate person
Garrett Hardin
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Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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I work for a company that makes deceptively shallow serving dishes for Chinese restaurants.
Woody Allen
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The mass of men lead lives of shallow happiness; the superior man exults in his gloom.
Garrison Keillor
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The shallow end of hope is usually the deep end of grace.
Bob Goff
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Hemingway never grew out of adolescence. His scope and depth stayed shallow because he had no idea what women are for.
Rex Stout
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Once, this whole world had been hidden beneath a shallow sea.
Kim Edwards
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A short attention span makes all of your perceptions and relationships shallow and unsatisfying.
Eckhart Tolle
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Everybody wants to be famous, but nobody wants to put the work in!!
Kevin Hart
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His jest will savour but of shallow wit, When thousands weep, more than did laugh at it.
William Shakespeare
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Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on. The loves and sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plenitude.
Oscar Wilde
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Perfection is shallow, unreal, and fatally uninteresting.
Anne Lamott
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One well-cultivated talent, deepened and enlarged, is worth one hundred shallow faculties.
William Matthews
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Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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I would say emotionally we've all turned into these sort of toxic, shallow, angry, polarized demons screaming at each other from across echo chambers. My whole thing is that I'm trying to get underneath the anger into the truth that's underneath it.
Moshe Kasher
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Consensus is usually made possible by vague language and shallow commitments.
Mason Cooley
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I have a really shallow idea about what Australia is.
Michael Bierut
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It's always better to be deep rather than shallow. And I'm deep.
L.A. Paul
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I'm a deep thinker when it comes to shallow no brainers.
Dane Cook
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Experience has shown us that virtue puts down only shallow roots in those who are there for just a short time
Vincent de Paul
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You can keep a bunch of crabs in a shallow container, and none of them will escape. Because as soon as one of 'em tries to climb out, the others pull him back in." -Hardy
Lisa Kleypas
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Display is like shallow water, where you can see the muddy bottom.
Alphonse Karr
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I am ashamed to see what a shallow village tale our so-called history is.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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that which is eternal within the moment only becomes shallow if spread out in time.
Rabindranath Tagore
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My gift and my curse is that I really want to be loved. What drives me to make music is love - whether it's shallow or deep or whatever. I want to do things that make people love me.
Robin Thicke
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There is a part of me that is not fulfilled by acting. It is a self-involved life; it can feel shallow, but not very often.
Kelly Reilly
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The thing I don't like about L.A. is that it's very industry-focused. That's not bad for kids. It's not hedonistic or anything, not any more shallow than anybody in the Midwest. It's not that.
Eddie Jemison