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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Nobody has the right to act on their own in the name of the United Nations and even less to pretend to be the judge of the entire world
Igor Ivanov
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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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I used to pretend that I was Tom attacking Jerry, who was drawn on the ball
Monica Seles
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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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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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It is no disgrace not to be able to do everything; but to undertake, or pretend to do, what you are not made for, is not only shameful, but extremely troublesome and vexatious.
Plutarch
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Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
George Washington
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Most people love you for who you pretend to be.
Jim Morrison The Doors
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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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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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I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am.
Thomas Carlyle
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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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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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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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Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is "soap-on-a-rope."
Bill Cosby
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We cannot pretend we do not have problems; we cannot pretend things are not wrong in our country. A lot of things are wrong.
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
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I cannot even pretend to feel as much interest in boys as in girls.
Lewis Carroll
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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'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 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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Everyone wanted to be rich and beautiful, but the truly rich and beautiful had to pretend they were just the same as everyone else.
Liane Moriarty