Pretending Quotes
811 quotes by 582 authors
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Ronald Reagan was an anti-government, union-busting, race baiting, anti-abortion, anti-gay, anti-intellectual, who cut rich people's taxes in half, had a incurable case of the military-industrial…
— Bill Maher
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Without repentance, there is no real progress or improvement in life. Pretending there is no sin does not lessen its burden and pain. Suffering for…
— D. Todd Christofferson
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A faith that can only exist in the light of victory and certainty is one which really affirms the self while pretending to affirm Christ,…
— Peter Rollins
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Then how come everyone's making like everything that isn't important is very important, all the while they're so busy pretending what's really important isn't important…
— Janne Teller
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I'm right here. This is who I really am. I'm not pretending.
— Orson Scott Card
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The key to mostly anything is pretending your first time *isn't*.
— Jonathan Lethem
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Doubt comes to the door in darkness, pretending to be alone and in need of your compassionate ear. But if you let him in, he'll…
— Julia Cameron
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Women are the more important members of relationships. Women are the survivors, the nurturers and the bosses, despite men pretending it's a male dominated society.
— Ray Martin
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Hypocrisy means deliberately pretending. None of us lives up to his ideals; none of us is all that he would like to be or all…
— Warren W. Wiersbe
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If we remove ourselves from the world, we are pretending that we can follow our own individual enlightenment and let the rest of the world…
— Satish Kumar
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I'd rather live my life knowing that I'm not perfect than spend my whole life pretending to be.
— Will Smith
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I haven't put on a baseball uniform since about age 12. It's like I'm wearing a Halloween costume. I'm pretending to be a ballplayer.
— Ken Fox
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We cannot get to our knowledge because the world is too loud. And we tend to make it louder as we cry out in pain,…
— Marianne Williamson
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But I think the only thing that annoys me about that is if I suddenly find someone on commercial radio or something like that, mimicking…
— Richie Benaud
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Any community that gets its laughs by pretending to be idiots will eventually be flooded by actual idiots who mistakenly believe that they're in good…
— Rene Descartes
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A monster is a person who has stopped pretending.
— Colson Whitehead
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If you can truly believe what you are pretending to do is really happening, then your audience will believe it, too.
— Unknown Author
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The social scientist is in a difficult, if not impossible position. On the one hand there is the temptation to see all of society as…
— Richard Lewontin
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I think someone should have had the decency to tell me the luncheon was free. To make someone run out with potato salad in his…
— Jack Handey
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Empress of the Universe would be way too much work. I'd have to wear fancy clothes, probably including lady shoes with pointed toes, and could…
— Elizabeth Moon
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