Pretending Quotes - Page 24

• The song "No Fairy Tale" tells my story. Going through the hard things leads to a richer life than just trying to make everything perfect, or worse, pretending things are good when they don't feel right. I've done that more than enough times.

  Lisa Loeb

  Song, Perfect, Trying

  "Interview with Grammy-Nominated Singer/Songwriter Lisa Loeb". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• True religion is not about possessing the truth. No religion does that. It is rather an invitation into a journey that leads one toward the mystery of God. Idolatry is religion pretending that it has all the answers.

  John Shelby Spong

  Journey, Religion, Doe

  "Q&A on The Parliament of the World's Religions". Weekly mailing, September 5, 2007.

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• Feeling confident - or pretending that you feel confident - is necessary to reach for opportunities. It's a cliché, but opportunities are rarely offered; they're seized.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Opportunity, Careers, Feelings

  Sheryl Sandberg (2014). “Lean In for Graduates”, p.43, Knopf

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• The finest thing about a hobby is that you can't do any pretending about it. You either like it or you don't.

  Dorothy Draper

  Hobbies, Finest

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• I'm really good at pretending.

  Sophie McShera

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• As a kid, you run around the house pretending to be a superhero, and now to be doing it as a job, I feel very lucky.

  Chris Hemsworth

  Running, Jobs, Kids

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• Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Nice, Acting, Selling

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I started being a songwriter pretending I could do it, and it turned out I could.

  James Taylor

  Writing Songs, Songwriting, Singer-songwriters

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Humans — who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals — have had an understandable penchant for pretending animals do not feel pain. A sharp distinction between humans and 'animals' is essential if we are to bend them to our will, make them work for us, wear them, eat them — without any disquieting tinges of guilt or regret. It is unseemly of us, who often behave so unfeelingly toward other animals, to contend that only humans can suffer. The behavior of other animals renders such pretensions specious. They are just too much like us.

  Carl Sagan

  Pain, Regret, Compassion

  "Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors". Book by Ann Druyan and Carl Sagan, 1992.

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• some soap opera, you know, real people pretending to be fake people with made-up problems being watched by real people to forget their real problems.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Fake People, Real, Opera

  Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

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• Kill every enemy twice, Wilky said. Better than gettin' shot by a soldier pretending to be dead.

  Joseph Bruchac

  Soldier, Enemy, Shots

  Joseph Bruchac (2006). “Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two”, p.81, Penguin

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• Half the trouble in life is caused by pretending there isn't any.

  Edith Wharton

  Half, Mirth, Life Is

  Edith Wharton (2013). “House of Mirth and the Age of Innocence”, p.210, Simon and Schuster

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• I was tired of pretending that I was someone else just to get along with people, just for the sake of having friendships.

  Kurt Cobain

  Tired, People, Sake

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• To understand pretending is to conquer all barriers of time and space.

  William Joyce

  Space, Conquer, Barriers

  "Nicholas St. North and the Battle of the Nightmare King".

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• Some people have a foolish way of not minding, or pretending not to mind, what they eat. For my part, I mind my belly very studiously, and very carefully; for I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything else.

  Samuel Johnson

  Food, Healing, Weight Loss

  In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 1, p. 467 (5 August 1763)

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• There was a time when I believed in the story and the scheme of salvation, so far as I could understand it, just as I believed there was a Devil... Suddenly the light broke through to me and I knew this God was a lie... For indeed it is a silly story, and each generation nowadays swallows it with greater difficulty... Why do people go on pretending about this Christianity?

  H. G. Wells

  Lying, Silly, Light

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• Many people never grow up. They stay all their lives with a passionate need for external authority and guidance, pretending not to trust their own judgment.

  Alan Watts

  Growing Up, People, Needs

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• Pretending to know everything closes the door to finding out what's really there.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Doors, Findings, Knows

  "Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey/ Unafraid of the Dark". Documentary, June 2014.

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• We all pretend for a while or for a lifetime. But pretending is not living...I believe that God meant for life to take our breath away, sometimes because of the sheer joy of it all and sometimes because of the severe pain. To choose living over pretending means that we will know both.

  Angela Thomas

  Pain, Believe, Mean

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  Don't give to anyone the power to put you down. Haters are losers pretending to be winners.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Hater, Wisdom

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Oct 04, 2011

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• Like a child standing in a beautiful park with his eyes shut tight, there's no need to imagine trees, flowers, deer, birds, and sky; we merely need to open our eyes and realize what is already here, who we already are - as soon as we stop pretending we're small or unholy.

  Bo Lozoff

  Beautiful, Children, Flower

  Bo Lozoff (2001). “It's a Meaningful Life: It Just Takes Practice”, p.128, Penguin

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• We are the universe pretending to be individuals.

  Deepak Chopra

  Individualism, Individual, Universe

  "Deepak Chopra Discusses 'How to Know God'". "Larry King Live", transcripts.cnn.com. May 17, 2000.

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• Anybody pretending to be anything other than who you really are-you will never, ever reach your personal potential.

  Oprah Winfrey

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• Some people ask: "Why the word feminist? Why not just say you are a believer in human rights, or something like that?" Because that would be dishonest. Feminism is, of course, part of human rights in general-but to choose to use the vague expression human rights is to deny the specific and particular problem of gender. It would be a way of pretending that it was not women who have, for centuries, been excluded. It would be a way of denying that the problem of gender targets women.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Women, Rights, Expression

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2014). “We Should All Be Feminists”, p.41, Vintage

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• There is more freedom confessing our weaknesses and shortcomings than in pretending we have it all together

  LeCrae

  Together, Weakness, Confessing

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