Red Herrings Quotes

• Life is full of a thousand red herrings, and it takes the history of a civilisation to work out which are the red herrings and which aren't.

  Peter Greenaway

  Work Out, Red, Life Is

  Peter Greenaway, Vernon W. Gras (2000). “Peter Greenaway: Interviews”, p.17, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Approach your lives as if they were novels, with their own heroes, villains, red herrings, and triumphs.

  Mary Higgins Clark

  Hero, Triumph, Red

  "Remembering the big day: when grad met Dad" by Joshunda Sanders, www.sfgate.com. June 8, 2003.

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• I think the whole human-induced greenhouse gas thing is a red herring... . I see climate change as due to the ocean circulation pattern. I see this as a major cause of climate change... . These are natural processes. We shouldn't blame them on humans and CO2.

  William M. Gray

  Ocean, Thinking, Climate

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• La parte más difícil de cualquier novela policíaca es la trama. Todo empieza de forma bastante sencilla, pero pronto nos encontramos con una multitud de personajes, hilos, temas y pistas falsas, y tenemos que intentar controlar estos elementos rebeldes y entrelazarlos en un patrón.

  Ian Rankin

  Character, Crime Novels, Trying

  "Paperback Q&A: Ian Rankin on The Impossible Dead". www.theguardian.com. 22 de mayo de 2012.

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• She is nether fish nor flesh, nor good red herring.

  John Heywood

  Flesh, Red, Fishes

  "Proverbs". Book by John Heywood, 1546.

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• Any great movie in the old days has a red herring. Hitchcock was so good at that.

  Robert Knepper

  Red, Hitchcock, Old Days

  Fuente: collider.com

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• Gay marriage is a complete red herring to distract everyone from the economy and the war and health care and education.

  David O. Russell

  War, Gay, Care

  Fuente: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• I'm kind of like a combination of a red herring and a fake-out.

  Robert Englund

  Fake, Red, Kind

  Source: classic-horror.com

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• Neither fish, flesh nor good red herring.

  Desconocido

  Fish Tanks, Flesh, Red

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• You can never really tell, it's kind of a red herring until you see the project I think. You just know if you like working with someone or not, and he does have a real sweetness about him, I think.

  Mary-Louise Parker

  Real, Thinking, Red

  Fuente: collider.com

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• Así es Estados Unidos: una cultura de la pista falsa, siempre asustada por las cosas equivocadas. El hecho es que hay un montón de espeluznantes hombres de mediana edad ahí fuera deseando a tus hijos. Trabajan para la MTV, la industria farmacéutica, McDonald's, Marlboro y K Street.

  Bill Maher

  Niños, Hombres, Mcdonalds

  "Real Time con Bill Maher",

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• It's the way I feel about acting. That we are given clues by a writer about someone's essence or persona and it's our job to try to figure out which of those clues are true, which of clues we decide to follow and which of those clues we think are red herrings, or only in the way another character thinks of that character.

  Kevin Spacey

  Trabajo, Carácter, Pensamiento

  "Kevin Spacey, Michael Shannon, Director Liza Johnson Kibitz ‘Elvis and Nixon’". Interview with Carole Di Tosti, blogcritics.org. August 8, 2016.

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• No soy vegetariana. No me malinterpreten: me gustan los animales. Y no creo que esté bien industrializar su producción y producirlos como si fueran llaves inglesas. Pero no hay forma de tratar bien a los animales cuando se matan 10.000 millones al año. La bondad puede ser una pista falsa. Reduzcamos el número de animales que matamos para comer y luego nos preocuparemos de ser amables con los que quedan.

  Mark Bittman

  Kindness, Nice, Thinking

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• Delaying and withholding tactics, red herrings, partial and doubtful outcomes are stock in trade for fiction writers, especially crime writers.

  Garry Disher

  Red, Fiction, Tactics

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• We are trying to get marijuana reclassified medically.  If we do that, we'll be using the issue as a red herring to give marijuana a good name.

  Keith Stroup

  Marijuana, Names, Issues

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• Damn'd neuters, in their middle way of steering, Are neither fish, nor flesh, nor good red herring.

  John Dryden

  Flesh, Red, Way

  John Dryden (1755). “The Duke of Guise. A tragedy. Acted by their Majesties Servants. Written by Mr. Dryden, and Mr. Lee”, p.267

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• Such letters...from the FDA, are, filled with objectively demonstrable lies, practiced deceptions and deviousness, red herrings, directed misinformation, misdirected information, etc. ...Once FDA-NCI-AMA-ACS...concedes that Laetrile anti-tumor efficacy was indeed even once observed...a permanent crack in bureaucratic armor has taken place.

  Decano Burk

  Lying, Taken, Dark

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• Me da un poco de vergüenza ser una celebridad. No entiendo que se quiera leer sobre los trapos sucios de los demás. Creo que la celebridad es la mayor pista falsa que la sociedad se ha puesto a sí misma.

  Jude Law

  Dirty, Naughty, Thinking

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• Ah, Evelyn and Vivian, I love you both, I love you for your sad lives, the empty misery of your coming home at dawn. You too are alone, but you are not like Arturo Bandini, who is neither fish, fowl nor good red herring. So have your champagne, because I love you both, and you too, Vivian, even if your mouth looks like it had been dug out with raw fingernails and your old child's eyes swim in blood written like mad sonnets.

  John Fante

  Children, Love You, Home

  John Fante (2002). “Ask The Dust”, p.89, Canongate Books

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• When I was nine years old, I wrote a short story called 'How to Build a Snowman,' from which no practical snowperson-crafting techniques could be gleaned. The story was an assignment for class and it featured a series of careful but meaningless instructions. Of course, the building of the snowman was a red herring.

  Sloane Crosley

  Years, Class, Technique

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• The Arabs could have peace tomorrow if sufficient numbers of Palestinians were not content to be used as cannon fodder in fruitless assaults on Israel, even as the surrounding Arab powers distract the Arab masses with the red herring of Israel while retarding their countries with their repression and corruption.

  Conrad Black

  Country, Israel, Numbers

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