Pretend Quotes
On the gap between appearances and what's real underneath.
Several lines draw a line between honest limitation and outright pretending, including the idea that institutions do better admitting what they aren't. Read related thoughts in our Know quotes.
I pretend I'm one of the royal family when I'm in a hotel and that the hotel belongs to me - it is a palace.
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The word 'equality' shows up too much in our founding documents for anyone to pretend it's not the American way.
We pretend that the debate about genetically modified crops is a debate about science when the reality is, actually, that the science is very clear. It is really a debate about values.
I'm a baseball fan, but I'm not qualified to make baseball decisions, and I don't want to pretend to be.
At first, being a storyteller, it was fun to dress up and fun to sing songs and pretend to be very dramatic - all of that stuff was just fun early on.
I don't pretend that I can read minds. I don't believe anybody can read minds. In other words, I don't believe in psychics.
Because we're actors we can pretend and fake it, but I'd rather the intimate investment was authentic.
For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods...
Realistic novels simply pretend that the rules of their invented worlds are identical to the rules of actual life, but that's a ruse.
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