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• [Paul Scheer] was kind of pretending to not be as sick as he was. And then we almost pulled into this spa when I finally called it and said, "I'm very ill. We need to go home." And he said, "I am, too." He said that he wasn't going to do his treatments, he was going to - by the way, these are great problems to have - he was going to lie in the men's relaxation room in between throwing up. I was like, "This is insane. We're sick, and we need to just acknowledge it. And it sucks that it happened on my birthday, but let's get back into bed."

  June Diane Raphael

  Lying, Home, Men

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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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• Certainly I've lived my whole life through my imagination. But the world of imagination is there for all of us--a sense of play, of pretending, of wonder. It's there with us as we live.

  Jim Henson

  Play, Imagination, World

  Jim Henson (2007). “Wisdom from It's Not Easy Being Green: And Other Things to Consider”, p.49, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• I'm really good at pretending.

  Sophie McShera

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• I never tell one client that I cannot attend his sales convention because I have a previous engagement with another client; successful polygamy depends upon pretending to each spouse that she is the only pebble on your beach.

  David Ogilvy

  Beach, Humorous, Successful

  David Ogilvy (1963). “Confessions of an advertising man”, Holiday House

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• So from then on, he looked at all his choices and said, What would a good person do, and then did it. But he has now learned something very important about human nature. If you spend your whole life pretending to be good, then you are indistinguishable from a good person. Relentless hypocrisy eventually becomes the truth.

  Orson Scott Card

  Hypocrisy, Choices, Important

  "Ender in Exile". Book by Orson Scott Card, November 11, 2008.

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• No one can remain married today because they are not married to the one they love, they are married to their sacrifice, and pretending to love is too damned painful. Love and build, love and work, love and fight. Always love first. Anything placed before love will fail.

  Sister Souljah

  Fighting, Sacrifice, Love Is

  Sister Souljah (2011). “Midnight and the Meaning of Love”, p.400, Simon and Schuster

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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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• The world should be worried about those who go around the planet with a can of gasoline in one hand and a box of matches in the other, pretending to sell fire insurance.

  Rodrigue Tremblay

  War, Fire, Hands

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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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• 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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• 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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• Science is the key to our future, and if you don’t believe in science, then you’re holding everybody back. And it’s fine if you as an adult want to run around pretending or claiming that you don’t believe in evolution, but if we educate a generation of people who don’t believe in science, that’s a recipe for disaster. We talk about the Internet. That comes from science. Weather forecasting. That comes from science. The main idea in all of biology is evolution. To not teach it to our young people is wrong.

  Bill Nye

  Running, Believe, Keys

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  The best way to not get your heart broken, is pretending you don't have one.

  Charlie Sheen

  Love, Heart, Broken

  FaceBook post by Charlie Sheen from Oct 29, 2016

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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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• 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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• The art of good decision making is looking forward to and celebrating the tradeoffs, not pretending they don't exist.

  Seth Godin

  Art, Decision, Looking Forward

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• It's correct that I'm a bad loser. Why should I lie? If I was good at losing I wouldn't be in Formula 1. I think it's more honest to act how you really feel than pretending to be the smiling boy who actually isn't in the mood to smile.

  Sebastian Vettel

  Lying, Boys, Thinking

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

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• The difference between listening and pretending to listen, I discovered, is enormous. One is fluid, the other is rigid. One is alive, the other is stuffed. Eventually, I found a radical way of thinking about listening. Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you. When I’m willing to let them change me, something happens between us that’s more interesting than a pair of dueling monologues.

  Alan Alda

  Real, Thinking, Differences

  "Alan Alda ... on Celebrity and Its Discontents". "The Open Mind" with Richard Heffner, www.thirteen.org. January 22, 2007.

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• Forgiving and being reconciled to our enemies or our loved ones are not about pretending that things are other than they are. It is not about patting one another on the back and turning a blind eye to the wrong. True reconciliation exposes the awfulness, the abuse, the hurt, the truth. It could even sometimes make things worse. It is a risky undertaking but in the end it is worthwhile, because in the end only an honest confrontation with reality can bring real healing. Superficial reconciliation can bring only superficial healing.

  Desmond Tutu

  Hurt, Real, Healing

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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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• Without repentance, there is no real progress or improvement in life. Pretending there is no sin does not lessen its burden and pain. Suffering for sin does not by itself change anything for the better. Only repentance leads to the sunlit uplands ofa better life.

  D. Todd Christofferson

  Pain, Real, Suffering

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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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