Pretending Quotes - Page 8

• The most annoying thing I found was all the people pretending to be me on MySpace and Facebook. I'm not a member of either, but apparently there is an 'official' Nikki Sanderson MySpace page, complete with rants about how terrible identity fraud is, which is ironic.

  Nikki Sanderson

  People, Ironic, Identity

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• Obama liberals, in their incalculable arrogance, believe they are smart enough to defy everything we know about human nature, economics and history by insisting on separating financial efforts from rewards and pretending this can bring prosperity.

  David Limbaugh

  Smart, Believe, Effort

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• I like playing heavy metal music and pretending I'm a vampire in front of the mirror.

  Luke Mably

  Mirrors, Vampire, Heavy Metal

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• Living a lie - pretending everything is fine when we are
  actually discontented - is hard work and, in the long run, even bad for our health. We pay a high price
  for compromising on this honesty - and neglecting ourselves. Finding our inner passion, our mission
  in life, and connecting with who we really are, our spiritual being or our higher self - this is the key to success and fulfilment. Our 'soul' purpose is our sole purpose in life.

  Kristiane Backer

  Running, Spiritual, Honesty

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• Women have to stop pretending the choices we make, particularly if we have a platform, don't affect others. We have to be held accountable.

  Keli Goff

  Choices, Platforms, Ifs

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• The really authentic thing about humor is that anyone can pretend to be serious. Anyone who's ever had a job - in fact, we're pretending to be serious now, more or less.

  Billy Collins

  Jobs, Facts, Serious

  "Poet Billy Collins discusses humor, authenticity and ‘Aimless Love’". Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. October 29, 2013.

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• My Emmy competition is awfully good. My stomach is already in knots. The problem is that I don't drink, so I can't calm myself that way. I wish I could be better at pretending I don't care.

  Jim Parsons

  Competition, Wish, Care

  Source: deadline.com

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• You must not count much upon what I can do or learn in New York.... Everything there disappoints me but the crowd; rather, I was disappointed with the rest before I came. I have no eyes for their churches, and what else they find to brag of. Though I know but little about Boston, yet what attracts me, in a quiet way, seems much meaner and more pretending than there,--libraries, pictures, and faces in the street. You don't know where any respectability inhabits.

  Henry David Thoreau

  New York, Eye, Boston

  Henry David Thoreau (2017). “HENRY DAVID THOREAU – The Man, The Philosopher & The Trailblazer (Illustrated): Biographies, Memoirs, Autobiographical Books & Personal Letters (Including Walden, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, The Maine Woods, Cape Cod, A Yankee in Canada…)”, p.1231, e-artnow

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• Some people try to deal with money by pretending it doesn't matter, but financial pressure is something that affects us all every day of our lives.

  Tony Robbins

  People, Trying, Matter

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.531, Simon and Schuster

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• I just watched the news. Seeing crazy people doing crazy stuff to other people and pretending that they're the good guys really helped.

  Casper Crump

  Crazy, People, Guy

  Source: collider.com

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• My memoir is about my time in film and the decision to leave Hollywood, grow up, and stop pretending.

  Lisa Jakub

  Growing Up, Decision, Hollywood

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• I'm more interested in the idea of role-playing in general than the idea of role-playing in art. I like the childlike quality of making pretend or the optimistic idea of pretending something's happening when it's not.

  Laurel Nakadate

  Art, Optimistic, Ideas

  Interview with Scott Indrisek, believermag.com. October 1, 2006.

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• Growing up in Nashville, especially in a music business family, means growing up with knowledge that seems like common sense until later in life when you realize people spend thousands of dollars a semester trying to learn or pretending to learn while looking for some intern job on music row.

  Caitlin Rose

  Jobs, Growing Up, Mean

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• Even bright people are going to have limited, really valuable insights in a very competitive world when they're fighting against other very bright, hardworking people. And it makes sense to load up on the very few good insights you have instead of pretending to know everything about everything at all times.

  Charlie Munger

  Fighting, People, World

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• I think the hardest thing about the part is the responsibility that you feel playing something that is so real and resonant in our times. There are people coming home right now with those stories, and I'm just an actress pretending to be that person. You hope that you can shed some light on somebody's predicament.

  Linda Cardellini

  Real, Responsibility, Home

  "Linda Cardellini’s Return". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 10, 2012.

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• I don't really consider myself to be a comedian. I mean, it's not like I'm sitting around writing jokes or anything. I just like dressing up and pretending to be other people.

  Amy Sedaris

  Writing, Mean, Dressing Up

  Interview with Will Harris, www.bullz-eye.com. January 7, 2009.

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• My memoir is being published by Beaufort Books and will be available fall of 2015. Its about my unusual life as a child actor and how I made the unpopular choice to leave Hollywood, grow up, and stop pretending.

  Lisa Jakub

  Children, Growing Up, Book

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• Why had we let it go? Why had we both been condemned...to an exile among dreary strangers who had made us give up all desire for rest, for friendship, for the sound of human voices? Could I now reclaim a single hour spent talking to my brother, Philip, and give it to Ken Daggart? Who made it our duty to accept, as the only reward for our work, the gray torture of pretending love for those who roused nothing but contempt?

  Ayn Rand

  Brother, Giving Up, Talking

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• The Democratic Party will never desert the freedoms of our people under the guise of pretending to protect them.

  Emanuel Celler

  Party, Hymns, People

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• Being present means being completely aware of all that is. It means you’re not in denial, you’re not pretending, and you’re not avoiding.

  Debbie Ford

  Mean, Denial, Avoiding

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• Intertwingularity is not generally acknowledged - people keep pretending they can make things deeply hierarchical, categorizable and sequential when they can't. Everything is deeply intertwingled.

  Ted Nelson

  People, Emptiness

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• I'm tired of saying, "How wonderful you are!" to fool men who haven't got one-half the sense I've got, and I'm tired of pretending I don't know anything, so men can tell me things and feel important while they're doing it.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Tired, Men, Important

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.51, Hamilton Books

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• The serious person becomes handicapped, he creates barriers. He cannot dance, he cannot sing, he cannot celebrate. The very dimension of celebration disappears from his life. He becomes desert-like. And if you are a desert, you can go on thinking and pretending that you are religious but you are not.

  Rajneesh

  Religious, Thinking, Serious Person

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• There was no use pretending, no magic left to hear, all the music gave me was a craving for lite beer.

  Tom Petty

  Beer, Rock And Roll, Magic

  Song: Money Becomes King, Album: The Last DJ

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• The longer I'm alive, the more I realize how little I know. Pretending that you know everything about every topic, and being very vocal about it? That's an instant turnoff.

  Jennifer Morrison

  Alive, Littles, Topics

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

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