Pretend Quotes

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We should never pretend to know what we don't know, we should not feel ashamed to ask and learn from people below, and we should… — Mao Zedong
I was the eldest daughter with these four beautiful younger sisters with ringlets and pretty faces, and I used to dress them up in Victorian… — Sadie Frost
We are what we pretend to be. — Kurt Vonnegut
Evolutionary biologists have been able to pretend to know how complex biological systems originated only because they treated them as black boxes. Now that biochemists… — Phillip E. Johnson
Unless a person decides that `Whatever the cost, I want just to be myself. Condemned, unaccepted, losing respectability - everything is okay but I cannot… — Rajneesh
You can't pretend to be a Sharon Stone or a Marilyn Monroe. You really can't fake that. — Claire Bloom
You can be 24 and continue to live like you're at college, or even continue to live like you're in high school. Or you can… — Ezra Koenig
Nuclear apocalypse-who do you need? Actors are probably not top of the list. What can I do for you? I can pretend to be somebody… — Christian Bale
â€Ž When a person is born we rejoice, and when they're married we jubilate, but when they die we try to pretend nothing has happened. — Margaret Mead
I consider it a public duty to answer falsifications with facts. I will not pretend that I find this an unpleasant duty. I am an… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
People always tend to chose what is best for them. They pretend to be unselfish, all so that they can feel good about themselves. Even… — Cheon Eunbi
The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no… — Freya Stark
The biogeographic evidence for evolution is now so powerful that I have never seen a creationist book, article, or lecture that has tried to refute… — Jerry A. Coyne
People with healthy self-esteem do not need to create pretend identities. — Bell Hooks
And indeed nothing but the most determined scepticism, along with a great degree of indolence, can justify this aversion to metaphysics. For if truth be… — David Hume
Figure-flingers and star-gazers pretend to foretell the fortunes of kingdoms, and have no foresight in what concerns themselves. — Roger L'Estrange
I'm never critical or judgmental about whether or not a movie is any good. The way I look at it, if several hundred people got… — George Carlin
The tougher the times, the more clarity you gain about the difference between what really matters and what you only pretend to care about. — Po Bronson
Why does everyone have to pretend to be stupid and not know long words? — Martin Freeman
Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a nightmare in which… — Octavio Paz

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