Pretend Quotes
1734 quotes by 1217 authors
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To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don't succeed, at least pretend to.
— Moliere
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The functional freedom that anybody can buy a gun and go out and murder a lot of people at a McDonald's is prevalent, yes. But…
— J. G. Ballard
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The imagined memories had to have as much weight as the real, or we had to at least pretend they did to such a degree…
— Dinaw Mengestu
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Care like hell! Sit around the bars and drink, and pose, and pretend, all you want to, but in reality, deep down underneath, care like…
— Lincoln Steffens
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I pretend I'm not hurt, I walk about the world like I'm having fun.
— Lana Del Rey
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If you're losing, just be a man, be a man and lose as a man. Don't pretend that you are injured and then you start…
— Marat Safin
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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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Sometimes I stand in store windows and pretend to be a mannequin. People are like 'hey, that mannequin looks alot like thom yorke' Then I…
— Thom Yorke
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IFÂ YOU PRETEND THE CHARACTERS CANT SPEAK, AND WRITEÂ AÂ SILENT MOVIE, YOU WILLÂ BEÂ WRITING GREAT DRAMA.
— David Mamet
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I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one. . . . But from what I see I am…
— Theodore Parker
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America is a nation of liars, and for that reason science fiction has a special claim to be our national literature, as the art form…
— Thomas M. Disch
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Traditions are imploding and exploding everywhere - everything is coming together, for better or worse, and we can no longer pretend were all living in…
— Philip Glass
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I try never to wear my own clothes, I pretend I'm someone else
— David Byrne
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What I'm dealing with is sound. I don't pretend to be dealing with music. I'm just dealing with sound elements, textures and sounds.
— Bill Laswell
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It was unfair that people could pretend to be one thing when they were really something else. That they would get you on their side…
— Lauren Oliver
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We have to look at our history and realize that if they pretend to be our friend it's because they've got something up their sleeve,
— Christine O'Donnell
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The upheavals of adolescence silenced 'A Christmas Carol' for a few years. I became a firebrand atheist. Christmas - humbug! Too commercial! Then I became…
— Whitley Strieber
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Spend time cultivating your deepest desires, no matter how impractical or impossible they seem. It's perfectly OK to want the impossible. It's not OK to…
— Steve Pavlina
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Whatever call a man may pretend to have, if he has not been called to holiness, he certainly has not been called to the ministry.
— Charles Spurgeon
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What all this tells me is that a large proportion of the people in positions of power across Australia - politicians and media pundits included…
— Clementine Ford
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