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Now the only thing I miss about sex is the cigarette afterward. Next to the first one in the morning, it's the best one of all. It tasted so good that even if I had been frigid I would have pretended otherwise just to be able to smoke it.

Florence King

He pretended to care for the people of Iraq after he and other presidents before him have killed by the use of weapons, including depleted uranium, and by the blockade which is now more than 12 years old, more than 1 million and 700,000 innocent Iraqis out of a population of 25 million citizens.

Saddam Hussein

Whites they pretended to ignore, as they busily lived mirror-image white lives.

Gail Lumet Buckley

I actually pretended to be a journalist, ... John's publicist was very nice, but he did say, 'John is too busy and, by the way, what publication are you from, Miss?' -- I've never told John any of this.

Madeleine Stowe

They pretended to be a couple of surfer dudes.

Wes Modes

To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.

Jacques Derrida

The difference between burlesque and the newspapers is that the former never pretended to be performing a public service by exposure.

I. F. Stone

The essence of all jokes, of all comedy, seems to be an honest or well intended halfness; a non performance of that which is pretended to be performed, at the same time that one is giving loud pledges of performance. The balking of the intellect, is comedy and it announces itself in the pleasant spasms we call laughter.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

This kind of prelude was succeeded by the concerto itself which he executed with a degree of spirit and firmness that no one has ever pretended to equal.

John Hawkins

Customers pretended to be going on holiday on preview day, to try to get the discount in advance, but you could tell they were lying.

Matthew Murphy

There was a lot of tabloid journalism about my supposed sex addiction. Bullshit. It's all bullshit. I mean, come on, I never pretended to be a saint. But give me a break.

Michael Douglas

I was in the Nixon White House during Watergate, and we pretended that we were all about business as usual. And we had a president who was talking to the portraits. It was not business as usual, but you have to say it.

David R. Gergen

I thought it was a joke, I pretended to go along with it, just to scare Chicago. Then my agent said, 'Bobby, these guys are serious.'

Bobby Hull

An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.

John Gay

The pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes, or holds them of no account in the estimate of his origin and place in the created world.

Adam Sedgwick

He pretended to be a police officer that time. He seems to do what he has to, to get what he wants.

Cathy Murphy

He pretended that nothing was wrong and everything would be worked out. But we knew he was not himself. Eventually, there was nothing we could say on the phone except, 'Yes David, O.K., yes.

Ancle Hsu

He fell on top of me, so I pretended to be dead. That's how I survived -- that's how I survived that night. The rest of the story is just a long story.

Grace Mukasekuru

He never pretended to know about art or theater, but he knew the arts were important for the community, so he supported his wife and the arts.

Bob Barton

I was 11 and always watched TV and cartoons and I would always kind of point at the cartoons and say, "I want to do that." And a friend of mine got me an interview with their agent and that was it. I just kind of started pretending for a job. That was it. I pretended for a living.

Breckin Meyer

In 2006, the veil of competency that they pretended to have, the illusion of security they ran on, is no longer there. This is an election where the message is 'stand and deliver,' and they've not been able to stand and deliver.

Robert Zimmerman