Pretending Quotes - Page 18

• Even as I'm shoveling up my hooter, I realize the sad truth. Coke bores me, It bores us all. We're jaded cunts, in a scene we hate, a city we hate, pretending that we're at the center of the universe, trashing ourselves with crap drugs to stave off the feeling that real life is happening somewhere else, aware that all we're doing is feeding that paranoia and disenchantment, yet somehow we're too apathetic to stop. Cause, sadly, there's nothing else of interest to stop for.

  Irvine Welsh

  Hate, Real, Somewhere Else

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• The Navy is a master plan designed by geniuses for execution by idiots. If you're not an idiot, but find yourself in the Navy, you can only operate well by pretending to be one.

  Herman Wouk

  Finding Yourself, Navy, Genius

  Herman Wouk (1980). “The Caine mutiny”, Pocket

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• Hope is a merciless tormentor. It's the sound of trickling water to parched lips. The prospect of love to the unlovable. A miracle cure to the parents of a dying child. It holds up victory over the inevitable and beckons us to crawl further over slicing shards, all the while pulling back, remaining just out of reach. It makes agony out of mere pain by pretending a different outcome could have been. It laughs at mankind's embrace of it after millennia of disappointment.

  Robert Liparulo

  Children, Pain, Disappointment

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• Remember that it is not enough to have everything around you beautiful, remember that there must also be change and flux, because it is through change that we pretend that we can make decisions, and keep our pride, and go on pretending that both change and choice exist.

  Marian Engel

  Beautiful, Pride, Choices

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• It's a miracle was the last track recorded for the album, we based it on the rhythm from the middle of 'Late Home Tonight, where there's Graham Broad playing lots and lots of drums with me shouting in the background, pretending to be a mad Arab leader.

  Roger Waters

  Home, Mad, Track

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• The social scientist is in a difficult, if not impossible position. On the one hand there is the temptation to see all of society as one's autobiography writ large, surely not the path to general truth. On the other hand, there is the attempt to be general and objective by pretending that one knows nothing about the experience of being human, forcing the investigator to pretend that people usually know and tell the truth about important issues, when we all know from our own lives how impossible that is.

  Richard Lewontin

  Hands, Issues, People

  "Sex, Lies, and Social Science". The New York Review of Books, www.nybooks.com. April 20, 1995.

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• If you can truly believe what you are pretending to do is really happening, then your audience will believe it, too.

  Richard Osterlind

  Believe, Magic, Audience

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• But I think the only thing that annoys me about that is if I suddenly find someone on commercial radio or something like that, mimicking my voice or actions and trying to promote a product and pretending it's me doing it.

  Richie Benaud

  Thinking, Voice, Annoyed

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

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• We cannot get to our knowledge because the world is too loud. And we tend to make it louder as we cry out in pain, pretending we are singing.

  Marianne Williamson

  Pain, Singing, World

  Marianne Williamson (2013). “A Woman's Worth”, p.32, Ballantine Books

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• 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

  Baseball, Halloween, Age

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• If we remove ourselves from the world, we are pretending that we can follow our own individual enlightenment and let the rest of the world go to hell, so to speak.

  Satish Kumar

  Enlightenment, World, Speak

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• Hypocrisy means deliberately pretending. None of us lives up to his ideals; none of us is all that he would like to be or all that he could be in Christ. But that is not hypocrisy. Falling short of our ideals is not hypocrisy. Pretending we have reached our ideals when we have not - that is hypocrisy.

  Warren W. Wiersbe

  Fall, Hypocrite, Mean

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• A faith that can only exist in the light of victory and certainty is one which really affirms the self while pretending to affirm Christ, for it only follows Jesus in the belief that Jesus has conquered death. Yet a faith that can look at the horror of the cross and still say ‘yes’ is one that says ‘no’ to the self in saying ‘yes’ to Christ.

  Peter Rollins

  Jesus, Light, Self

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• Sometimes I suspect that we build our traps ourselves, then we back into them, pretending amazement the while.

  Neil Gaiman

  Cages, Way, Sometimes

  "The Wake (The Sandman, Book 10)". Book sub-series by Neil Gaiman, August 1995 – March 1996.

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• Hate me for who I am, I don't care. At least I'm not pretending to be someone I'm not.

  Kristen Stewart

  Funny, Hater, Who I Am

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• Are we just pretending to be unhappy so that we can add drama to our lives, so that we seem more substantial?

  Jeff Daniels

  Drama, Unhappy, Add

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• Acting was my classroom in many ways and I always believed and I still do that acting is not just about pretending to be someone else, it's also about discovering yourself and reaching deeper inside yourself.

  Kristen Stewart

  Acting, Way, Classroom

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• I always approach comedy roles pretending they aren't funny.

  Brendan Fraser

  Roles, Comedy, Approach

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It was the perfect moment to tell her. This is my last year. But I couldn’t say it. Not yet. I wanted another minute, another hour, another night of pretending this wasn’t the end.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Night, Years, Perfect

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)”, p.120, Scholastic Inc.

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• I'm tired of pretending I'm not special.

  Charlie Sheen

  Tired, Special, I'm Tired

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

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• Hey @justinbieber, how much are you paying your friend for pretending that it was HIS cocaine, and taking the fall for you?

  Jared Padalecki

  Fall, Hey, Cocaine

  Twitter post from Jan 14, 2014

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• Smoke You stand infront of me, pretending to be solid, but you are nothing more than smoke and mirors. You said you'd never leave, that you would care for us forever, but now you claim you cannot stay? That you've been called away. When you go, who will i turn to when it all crashes down? Tell me who. Then tell me, how I can believe anone again, if all your promises have been lies.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Lying, Believe, Forever

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• He often felt that too many people lived their lives acting and pretending,wearing masks and losing themselves in the process.

  Nicholas Sparks

  People, Acting, Wearing A Mask

  FaceBook post by Nicholas Sparks from May 22, 2012

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• From the night Buddy Willard kissed me and said I must go out with a lot of boys, he made me feel I was much more sexy and experienced than he was and that everything he did like hugging and kissing and petting was simply what I made him feel like doing out of the blue, he couldn’t help it and didn’t know how it came about. Now I saw he had only been pretending all this time to be so innocent.

  Sylvia Plath

  Sexy, Kissing, Boys

  Sylvia Plath (2008). “The Bell Jar”, p.53, Faber & Faber

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• I'm from really humble beginnings. I've never been this Hollywood diva, but you get caught up in what you're pretending to be.

  Heidi Montag

  Humble, Hollywood, Caught

  "Heidi Montag: Reality show and plastic surgery infamy like a 'lifelong sentence'", www.foxnews.com. August 3, 2012.

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