Pretend Quotes
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When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
Hermann Hesse
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Everyone is broken a little, I think, and the most broken of all are those who pretend they are not.
Roy H. Williams
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People are always spewing this horseshit about how age doesn't matter. Well, it does matter! I'm thirty-five, and I'm happy to be thirty-five. I can't pretend I'm still a snot-nosed 21-year-old.
Lars Ulrich Metallica
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I used to pretend that I was Tom attacking Jerry, who was drawn on the ball
Monica Seles
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All I know is real life. I don't know how to act. I don't know how to pretend.
Sasha Lane
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I want to be tolerant of other people's beliefs. I have wonderful friends who are religious, and I don't want to say that they're dimwits. They should certainly be able to pursue what works for them. I'm just saying that it doesn't work for me and I don't want to pretend that it does.
George Meyer
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No man of honor, as the word is usually understood, did ever pretend that his honor obliged him to be chaste or temperate, to pay his creditors, to be useful to his country, to do good to mankind, to endeavor to be wise or learned, to regard his word, his promise, or his oath.
Jonathan Swift
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Pretend to be mad and talk a lot. Then — and this is the important bit — do nothing at all until you absolutely have to and then make sure everyone dies.
Jasper Fforde
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Most people love you for who you pretend to be.
Jim Morrison The Doors
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Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
George Washington
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Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is "soap-on-a-rope."
Bill Cosby
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I'm tough when I have to be, tender when I should be. When you find a really tough guy, he's not a predator. He doesn't have to prove himself. Guys who have to pretend to be tough, they ain't. I'm tough.
Mr. T
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Do let's pretend that I'm a hungry hyena, and you're a bone!
Lewis Carroll
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You had to hide everything from men. They preferred not to know, they preferred to pretend that what happened at the hands of the boss miraculously didn’t happen to the women important to them and that—this was the idea they had grown up with—they had to protect her.
Elena Ferrante
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I've had to spend an awful lot of my life trying to pretend I'm not posh. Although once I open my mouth, I rather let things out the bag.
Celia Imrie
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I cannot even pretend to feel as much interest in boys as in girls.
Lewis Carroll
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I will put up with any mockery rather than pretend that I am satisfied when I am hungry.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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You have to pretend that your life is a financial pleasure even when your autographs are bouncing.
Kinky Friedman
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I'm not a cheerleader. I'm not trying to pretend to be sweet and then come out and be bad. This is who I am.
Amanda Lee Williford
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I pretend not to teach, but to inquire.
John Locke Nazareth
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I think that high school themes are replayed over and over throughout your life, and you try to pretend that it's a phase and that once you're out of high school it's over, but I don't think that's true.
Michael J. Willett
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In any case, the most lively young people become the best old people, not those who pretend to be as wise as grandfathers while they are still at school.
Hermann Hesse
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We pretend that no one's a racist anymore, but it's easier to talk about pornography in polite company than racial integration.
Bob Herbert
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I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am.
Thomas Carlyle