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.
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I get to pretend I'm flying into space, and hang out with my friends. That's what I do for a living.
You can't really pretend something is rosier than it is and expect people to buy it.
To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.
When I was a kid, I used to pretend I was Han Solo all the time. Running around with my fingers pretending they were a blaster.
To be able to pretend to be something that I'm frankly not is very liberating and exciting.
He would be a very absurd legislator who should pretend to set bounds to his country's welfare, lest it should perish by knowing no bounds.
I would pretend to be the French lieutenant's woman. I was always a romantic. I still am, actually.
I was never a left-winger, actually. I was a pretend left-winger because it was more interesting than being a right-winger.
Whatever one thinks of the justifiability of drone attacks, it's one of the least 'brave' or courageous modes of warfare ever invented. It's one thing to call it just, but to pretend it's 'brave' is Orwellian in the extreme.
The whole business is built on ego, vanity, self-satisfaction, and it's total crap to pretend it's not.
I'd perform in the mirror; I'd pretend to do interviews. I'd practice my autograph for hours.
There are Anarchists in other parts of the world who are unable to, comprehend the position of the Spanish Anarchists. I do not pretend to censor these Anarchists.
Gentlemen and ladies are sure of their ground. They pretend to nothing that they are not.
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