Pretending Quotes - Page 2

• I got attention by being funny at school, pretending to be retarded, and jumping around with a deformed hand.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Funny, School, Hands

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• That’s what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is....Most people love you for who you pretend to be....To keep their love, you keep pretending - performing. You get to love your pretense...It’s true, we’re locked in an image, an act...

  Jim Morrison

  Real, Love You, Self Worth

  "Jim Morrison: Ten Years Gone". "Creem Magazine" Interview with Lizzie James, 1981.

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• Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.

  Bill Cosby

  Funny, Fathers Day, Dad

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• That’s what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is....Most people love you for who you pretend to be....To keep their love, you keep pretending - performing. You get to love your pretense...It’s true, we’re locked in an image, an act - and the sad thing is, people get so used to their image - they grow attached to their masks. They love their chains. They forget all about who they really are. And if you try to remind them, they hate you for it - they feel like you’re trying to steal their most precious possession.

  Jim Morrison

  Love, Self Esteem, Hate

  "Jim Morrison: Ten Years Gone". "Creem Magazine" Interview with Lizzie James, 1981.

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• I hate crowds of people pretending to be happy on one night of the year, where they get drunk and obnoxious by the end of the night.

  Kenny Hickey

  Hate, Night, Years

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• Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.

  Oliver Herford

  Art, Humility, Modesty

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• For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he.

  Solomon

  Bible, Fake People, Heart

  "Book of Proverbs". 23:7,

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• If a man has an apartment stacked to the ceiling with newspapers, we call him crazy. If a woman has a trailer house full of cats, we call her nuts. But when people pathologically hoard so much cash that they impoverish the entire nation, we put them on the cover of Fortune magazine and pretend that they are role models.

  Lester B. Pearson

  Money, Crazy, Cat

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• When I first started running, I was so embarrassed I'd walk when cars passed me. I'd pretend I was looking at the flowers!

  Joan Benoit

  Funny, Sports, Running

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  I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been.

  William Golding

  Strong Women, Thinking, Novelists

  YouTube Chanel "AbecedariusRex"/ "Golding's Introduction to Lord of the Flies", www.youtube.com. May 22, 2010.

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• My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Leadership, Sarcastic

  "Mitch All Together". Live album by Mitch Hedberg, December 9, 2003.

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• The next time you find yourself alone in a dark alley facing the undeniables of life, don't cover them with a blanket, or ignore them with a nervous grin. Don't turn up the TV and pretend they aren't there. Instead, stand still, whisper his name, and listen. He is nearer than you think.

  Max Lucado

  Inspirational, Life, Faith

  Max Lucado (2013). “God Came Near: God's Perfect Gift”, p.80, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• People pretend not to like grapes when the vines are too high for them to reach

  Marguerite de Navarre

  Kids, Hard Work, People

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• You can get lost, pretending to be someone you're not.

  Karen Hawkins

  Lost

  Karen Hawkins (2011). “A Most Dangerous Profession”, p.151, Simon and Schuster

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• Everybody wants to lie to himself, pretending that there's something else besides only the normal life you're living in.

  Gaspar Noe

  Lying, Want, Normal

  Source: www.freepatentsonline.com

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• Everyone in a position of authority is hysterical, and everyone else is pretending to be asleep.

  Samuel R. Delany

  Hysterical, Authority, Position

  Samuel R. Delany (1977). “Triton”, Macmillan Reference USA

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• We are born knowing how to be just. And we die knowing we spent a lifetime pretending we didn't.

  Susan Meissner

  Knowing, Lifetime, Born

  Susan Meissner (2010). “The Shape of Mercy: A Novel”, p.45, WaterBrook

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• People are sad. People are broke. People are worried about money, people are worried that they're not enough and not amounting to anything and they don't feel good about themselves. People have rough times, and everybody's pretending it's not true, and we need to break that veneer.

  Eve Ensler

  People, Feel Good, Needs

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. May 22, 2013.

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• Wisdom consists partly in not pretending anymore, in discarding artifice.

  Julian Barnes

  Artifice

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• My brokenness is a better bridge for people than my pretend wholeness ever was.

  Sheila Walsh

  Bridges, People, Deep Thought

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• A lily or a rose never pretends, and its beauty is that it is what it is.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Rose, Lilies, It Is What It Is

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1970). “Think on these things”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand, we are obliged to act accordingly.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Bible, Christian, Biblical

  "The Irresistible Revolution: Living As an Ordinary Radical". Book by Shane Claiborne, 2006.

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• An awful lot of gay pop stars pretend to be straight. I'm going to start a movement of straight pop stars pretending to be gay.

  Robbie Williams

  Stars, Gay, Movement

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• To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you’re not, pretend you are.

  Muhammad Ali

  Motivational, Positive, Success

  FaceBook post by Muhammad Ali from Oct 31, 2012

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• I've seen and met angels wearing the disguise of ordinary people living ordinary lives.

  Tracy Chapman

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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