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The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

Socrates

Brotherhood is not so wild a dream as those, who profit by postponing it, pretend.

Eric Sevareid

One way to compensate for a tiny brain is to pretend to be dead.

Scott Adams

To know that you do not know is the best.To pretend to know when you do not know is a disease.

Lao tzu

Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.

Bill Cosby

When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.

Hermann Hesse

There's something liberating about not pretending. Dare to embarrass yourself. Risk.

Drew Barrymore

I am not an angel and do not pretend to be. That is not one of my roles. But I am not the devil either. I am a woman and a serious artist, and I would like so to be judged.

Maria Callas

The only good in pretending is the fun we get out of fooling ourselves that we fool somebody.

Booth Tarkington

When I was younger, in middle school, Arizona was the team. It was 'Arizona, Arizona, Arizona.' Me and my buddies would be in the backyard pretending to be Arizona. It's going to be a fun game.

Jon Brockman

I just want to ask people to hold on and pretend these boys might be their own children.

Joe Cheshire

Your Englishman, confronted by something abnormal will always pretend that it isn't there. If, however, you force him to look into it, he'll at once pretend that he sees the object not for what it is but for something that he would like it to be.

James Agate

A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar -- you pretend it's not there.

Daryl Hannah

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

Sometimes you have got to be careful what you wish for. But the U.S. will just put its blinders on and pretend it doesn't get subsidies.

David Pritchard

I don't pretend to tell people how to live their lives other than to do the right thing and work hard. Everything else should take care of itself.

Dave Anderson

When I was sixteen I was pretending to be Charlie Musselwhite. I had a long raincoat on, my hair slicked back, and the shades.

Dan Aykroyd

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

Jacques Derrida

Everyone wants to pretend their cock is big and metal is the medium, but ultimately it's about the songs.

Ville Valo

The saddest day in the world will be the one when she stops pretending.

Jodi Picoult

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 one is surprised.

Freya Stark

If there is one thing worse than being an ugly duckling in a house of swans, it's having the swans pretend there's no difference.

Teena Booth

Why does everyone have to pretend to be stupid and not know long words?

Martin Freeman

Sir, the pretending to extraordinary revelations and gifts of the Holy Ghost is a horrid thing, a very horrid thing.

Joseph Butler

I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.

Roy Lichtenstein

An awful lot of gay pop stars pretend to be straight. I'm going to start a movement of straight pop stars pretending to be gay.

Robbie Williams

I felt like if I could I would get up and run as fast and far as I could. Just ... pretend like it didn't happen.

Garrett Ginglen

The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept.

D. H. Lawrence

I would always fall down the big main staircase in our house. My favorite thing in the world was to pretend to be horribly killed at the top of it, and to fall dramatically down to the bottom of it.

David Hyde Pierce

The neutrals and not-so-neutrals of the Third World to air their petty disputes and pretend to be involved in humanitarian causes.

Javier Perez De Cuellar

We may not be the tallest, but we pretend like we're 6-2.

Briana Dunlap

You will one day be so proud of all your children, don't impede their progress now by pretending that being gay is a crime or a disease or 'a rebellious act'. It isn't. It's just like being born with red hair or dimples. They are what they are.

Rosaleen Dickson

To pretend to describe the excellence, the greatness or duration of the happiness of heaven by the most artful composition of words would be but to darken and cloud it; to talk of raptures and ecstasies, joy and singing, is but to set forth very low.

Jonathan Edwards

Tonight I'll dust myself off, tonight I'll suck my gut in, I'll face the night and I'll pretend I got something to believe in.

Jon Bon Jovi

The consensus all along was that Gail Busbey has the background, the information and experience to be able to accomplish the needs of this job, ... Let's not pretend we don't add things on at the work sessions.

Billy Jackson

In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented.

Northrop Frye

He'll put toys in his mouth and pretend like they're cigarettes, so I really don't want him to smoke.

Casey Roberts

This is not a mass protest. We don't pretend to represent anyone. We just want to denounce the huge trade barriers that are detrimental to everyone.

Julian Morris

We have lower incomes in the state, which is one reason. And it's a lot harder to pretend to be someone from Belt than it is to be someone from a bigger urban area like New York City.

Cort Jensen

I've always thought that we, as human beings, would be naive and arrogant to pretend that we're the only life form in the galaxy.

Johnathan Frakes

That is not the way we represent ourselves because we believe in the rule of law. I feel this is an attempt by somebody to discredit the Minutemen by threatening an elected official while pretending to be part of this group.

Tim Bueler

I have always wanted to act ever since I was a little girl. I would put a blanket under my shirt and pretend that I was pregnant. Then, I would go through childbirth.

Dakota Fanning

If you're creative, if you can think independently, if you can articulate passion, if you can override the fear of being wrong, then your company needs you now more than it ever did. And now your company can no longer afford to pretend that isn't the case.

Hugh Macleod

When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and stuffed animals, pretend like they're real dogs.

Dakota Fanning

We have learned from the Katrina experience. Shame on us if we didn't. But for anyone to pretend that we have all the answers, while still involved in the initial response, would be both foolish and premature.

Paul Mchale

When we got there we were given the TV treatment. They put the shine-proof makeup on us, and during the breaks we would joke around and pretend we were news anchors.

Christine Mockert

I don't think there will be any kind of long-term impact. There will be some symbolism. We will pretend to give some aid, they will express their gratitude. That's about it.

Ajai Sahni

Here I am in one of those press dinners ... I got to pretend I like being here.

Steve Bridges

We've got to develop a plan on what we'll do when the mill closes. We can't bury our head in the sand and pretend like it's not going to happen.

Richard Hartley

Sex is harmful to young adolescents -- to pretend otherwise is foolish.

Steve Alexander

I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about..

Arthur C. Clarke

The thing with pretending you're in a good mood is that sometimes you can.

Charles De Lint

It's been a twisted tale in the last couple days that I don't pretend to fully understand.

Roger Gibbins

I am woman, hear me roar, in numbers too big to ignore, and I know too much to go back and pretend.

Helen Reddy

It helps to a degree. But as I've told my kids, 'pretend it's not there, because there's no guaranteeing people are going to stop,'.

Steve Lewis

Software as a service is something Microsoft wanted to pretend wasn't ever going to happen.

Bruce Richardson

They'd take us out and put lights on us and pretend it was a summer day but it was really cold.

Nicolette Taylor

Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending.

Jim Henson

The Englishman can get along with sex quite perfectly so long as he can pretend that it isn't sex but something else.

James Agate

We may pretend that we're basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves otherwise.

Terry Hands

I found that what happened 150 years ago was happening again with Americans entering other countries and exploiting them but pretending they were doing a favour. It was this contemporary feel that attracted me.

Aamir Khan

They hug it. Pretend to lick it, that's a common one.

Katie Kirby

How can you forget the last two weeks of deliberations and pretend they never happened. That, obviously, is an impossibility.

Albert Alschuler

I wanted my own little airliner in the backyard, ... I'd have my girlfriends use their Brownie uniforms to be the flight attendants, and I was the captain and they would have to pretend they were serving people.

John Travolta

It's no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently or if your favorite films wouldn't even speak to each other if they met at a party.

Nick Hornby

We do not pretend to be a worldwide player, but we want to be a top player wherever we are.

Thierry Desmarest

She belongs to a race of delightful women, who never do any harm, whom everybody calls good, and who are very severe on those who do not pretend to be good.

Gilbert Parker

The only thing we could do is acknowledge it or pretend it wasn't there. But what could we do that would be more powerful than what the Health Department already does?

Gary Gordon

It would be a waste of time for him to come before this committee and pretend this bill had a chance of passing.

Paul Schurick

It it not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute.

Lillian Hellman

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.

Kurt Vonnegut

What might we know about these chemicals 20 years from now? ... We can't continue to pretend that as long as we don't know about any risks, we don't have a problem.

Barbara Brenner

Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be.

Kurt Vonnegut

Summer bachelors, like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.

Nora Ephron

The American people are tired of liars and people who pretend to be something they're not.

Hillary Clinton

The Net used to be 50 percent men and 50 percent men pretending to be women.

Marc Andreessen

He didn't pretend. He was what he was. It wasn't on the surface, it was deep in his heart.

Terry Novak

All of that pretend play is flooding them with language concepts. The more you talk to them, the faster they learn.

Susan Peed

It would be over-egging our own capabilities to pretend we had instantaneous appreciation of what was happening.

Tim O'toole

In no way are we pretending that we're going to raise all of the money for all of the kids. And the trip is not required.

Brian Stevens

So you do have your work cut out for you, ... I'm not going to pretend this is going to be easy here in this county. But other counties have managed to defeat these kinds of initiatives.

Bob Stallman

He outworks everybody so that his course is carefully prepared, ... Anything he says in public is extremely carefully prepared. Like a champion athlete, he makes it look so easy, pretending you can do it yourself.

Charles Ellis

We're not strikeout pitchers and we're not pretending to be. We preach location, and when Darcy is at her best she's hitting her spots.

Tom Harmon

Actually, I'm not interested in Zen that much, as a philosophy, nor in joining any movements. I don't pretend to understand it. I just find it comforting. And very similar to jazz. Like jazz, you can't explain it to anyone without losing the experience. It's got to be experienced, because it's feeling, not words.

Bill Evans

Media absolutely is important, but let's not pretend it's the only thing.

Sarah Brown

It is always self-defeating to pretend to a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history.

Renata Adler

We're burying our head in the sand if we try to pretend people don't have those attitudes and think and say those things.

Peggy Howell

My goal is to be friends with Elvis fans; not to make them my fans, but to make them my friends and know that I respect Elvis for what he was. I'm just pretending to be Elvis a little bit.

Mike Albert

Gracie has quite the imagination. She loves Harry Potter and she told me that she's pretending that she's flying around on a broomstick.

Cheryl Marengo

It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

He grew up in bluegrass, in that field. Remember in the 1980s, country became Kenny Rogers, and that kind of lush sound, but Marty said, 'I will stay who I am, and not pretend to be anybody else.' He is who he is.

Randy Allen

It is definitely possible on the Mac and on any platform to create an application and try to pretend that it is something that its not. That's the definition of Trojans. There are Trojans in the world, I have yet to see a successful one on the Mac, but there are such things in the world as Trojans.

Philip Schiller

That's a tough one. I'm not going to pretend that's not an issue. But as with any ticket they buy, tickets are non-refundable.

Bill Rapp

I got the call when I was getting into my car. I can't (pretend); I cried like a baby. I cried as soon as I got in the car. Then I called my mom. When you realize you're never going to see somebody again, it hits you. We'll never see him again.

Al Harrington

Whoever you pretend to be, you must face yourself eventually.

Al Stewart

I guess what bothers me so much about what I now see going on in both Washington and in Texas is an effort to keep people from finding out about the mistakes of lawmakers and then when they're uncovered, an effort to fool people and pretend there was nothing wrong.

Chris Bell

In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not.

Marya Mannes

If legislation doesn't protect habitat, how then can the government pretend that it will protect the species themselves?

Marc Johnson

When you come to my show you get the real thing. I don't pretend to be Sinatra — I just happen to sound like him.

Paul Elia

If we pass reforms that either pretend they're not here or pretend they'll go away, we're fooling ourselves.

Cecilia Munoz

One of the reasons I disclosed my condition is because it is much easier to live with MS than to pretend you don't have it. If I could convince everyone of that, my job here is done.

Jonathan Katz

I choose to do unattractive people, because then I can pretend they think they're attractive.

Amy Sedaris

If some peoples pretend that history or geography gives them the right to subjugate other races, nations, or peoples, there can be no peace.

Ludwig Von Mises

You don't do students a favor by pretending there are controversies in the scientific community where there are none.

Kevin Padian

No one can pretend that simply re-opening our export channels will undo all the damage which has been done.

Ben Gill

I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.

Sir Winston Churchill

You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.

Sacha Guitry

I don't eat it, because of the cholesterol effect. I've never eaten much in the way of cheese ever. However, I don't mind pretending that I like it.

Peter Sallis

The Bush Administration should cease pretending that China's involvement in Iranian nuclear weapons negotiations has been constructive and publicly question China's motives.

John Tkacik

Monty and I have both put pressure on ourselves to be the best we can be. But those guys are legends around here for a reason--they've made legendary plays, ... You have two different guys trying to play those roles on the team, but we can't pretend to be those guys. We have to be Monty and Chad.

Chad Brown

The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous. But neither, in my experience, do we ever reach a plane of detachment regarding our parents, however wise and old we may become. To pretend otherwise is to cheat.

John Lecarre

None of us knew how the Faithfulls had become the Maple-Browns, ... Pamela and Jim spoke about them as family, and we had to pretend we knew who they were talking about. Now we know them all . This is a family drama. They are real people, they have real passions and intrigues. Major Australian events were going on around them.

Carol Cooper

I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.

Clarence Darrow

Sometimes people pretend to like movies more than they actually do. But this film wasn't really THAT good. What it tried to do was great, sensational. But what it actually accomplished wasn't so great. You can't really buy the love story.

Richard Walter

We have to stop pretending the situation is not critical. There is a body of literature out there that speaks to the education of the African-American child. It's not included in this plan.

Carolyn Phillips

That's what real love amounts to- letting a person be what he really is. Most people love you for who you pretend to be. To keep their love, you keep pretending- performing. You get to love your pretence. It's true, we're locked in an image, an act-.

Jim Morrison

Understand the causes of terror? Yes, we should try, but let there be no moral ambiguity about this: nothing could ever justify the events of September 11 and it is to turn justice on its head to pretend it could.

Tony Blair

I'm not pretending to be anything but a crime victim who went to law school and tried a lot of cases.

Nancy Grace

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

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

Referees should only pretend to fall for the bait, but make sure the result doesn't favor those offering the bribe.

Fanny Amun

I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment, to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure –- that is all agnosticism means.

Clarence Darrow

If you stay on the island, you can almost pretend it didn't happen.

Margaret Jones

We were the flyers who went up in the air in stunts. We would always 'pretend shoot' each other down from the stunt.

Samantha Poplin

Add a drop of lavender to milk, leave town with an orange, and pretend you're laughing at it.

Bill Bailey

If the model proposed by Darwin is held to be inadequate, one should look for another model. But it is not correct methodology to stray from the field of science pretending to do science.

Fiorenzo Facchini

Once you place the order, they pretend to be you.

Attorney General Terry Goddard

I just pretend it's the first inning. Then I don't get all worked up.

Tasha Beamer

You still got to go out there and pretend it's zero-zero. I think the team needed this a little more than I did.

David Kopp

I have an elbow that bends the wrong way, and I'd do things like stand in an elevator and the doors would close, and I'd pretend that my arm had got caught in it, and then I'd scream, 'Ow, ow, put it back!'

Geena Davis

Julianne: See, George likes to pretend that he's gay.Michael: Oh...and why would you do that?George: Oh I find it attracts women.Julianne: Indeed! Worked for me!

My Best Friend's Wedding

I like The Geek, a rag-doll pretending to be human. The Prez, an adolescent in the White House, just like the current occupant.

Joe Simon

It's not only to sit by the fire and pretend you're a king, but also to see the people who make it work. They showed us all the bells and whistles.

Josh Lewis

You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you fear you are an interchangeable cog.

Douglas Coupland

If the law is bad, then the city should have the guts to go ahead and change it instead of pretending it isn't there.

Bob Ulrich

They've already been married and I think many people find it degrading to pretend that their marriage doesn't exist, ... They shouldn't have to forfeit their marriage license at the Connecticut border.

Mary Bonauto

I don't pretend anything anymore. I don't have time, desire or energy to calculate anymore.

Thomas Kretschmann

The fundamental impulse of the movement is neither masturbatory nor concretely lesbian -- although it of course offers warm house to both these possibilities; it is an impulse to maidenhood -- to that condition in which a woman might pretend to a false fear or loathing of the penis in order to escape from any responsibility for the pleasure and well-being of the man who possesses it.

Midge Decter

Whereas in the United States we pretend this isn't a biological issue. We just struggle through. We pay for that.

Mark Rosekind

Pretend like it's the weekend, ... We could pretend it all the time.

Jack Johnson

Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance.

Sun Tzu

Is try to spend three or four days here and I pretend that I'm going to screenings, but actually I ski all day and crash parties at night.

William H. Macy

I had two sisters, and we would love to get dressed up and pretend that we were chic, sophisticated ladies. And I think that was a great sort of preparation, in a way.

Suzanne Farrell

Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.

Oliver Herford

Everyone knows we get paid a lot of money, so why pretend otherwise?

Catherine Zeta Jones

A lot of it this year I'm watching, paying attention. I don't want to come in here and pretend I know the best way to do something, but I have a thick notebook for '06.

Jonathan Gruber

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

If I'm able to run 49 seconds, I'll be really blessed. 'Cause it is really hard on the body. I'm not gonna even pretend that I can be at that level, 'cause I'm not gonna hurt myself doing this. I'm gonna make it fun.

Edwin Moses