Always keep that happy attitude. Pretend that you are holding a beautiful fragrant bouquet. Votes: 3
Earl NightingalePretend long enough that you belong, and eventually even you will believe it." - Gallen Votes: 3
Mercedes LackeyFake it until you make it. Pretend to be somebody until that somebody turns into you. Votes: 3
Steven TylerSome Will Hate You Pretend They Love You Now Then Behind They Try To Eliminate You Votes: 3
Bob MarleyPretend to be poor in reality and you'll notice a decrease in your friends list and request. Votes: 3
Michael Bassey JohnsonPretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions. Votes: 3
William JamesI don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about. Votes: 1
Arthur C. ClarkeNever pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command. Votes: 1
Alan WattsIf you pretend everything's fine long enough, everything eventually becomes fine. Votes: 0
Lisa KleypasJust tell yourself a story that'll satisfy you and pretend he told it. Votes: 0
Catherynne M. ValenteHospitals, like airports and supermarkets, only pretend to be open nights and weekends. Votes: 0
Molly HaskellNobody really understands gold prices and I don't pretend to understand them either, Votes: 0
Ben BernankeTo put an arrogant 'famous' writer in his place: pretend to be illiterate. Votes: 0
Mokokoma MokhonoanaPedantry is properly the over-rating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to. Votes: 0
Jonathan SwiftSince these mysteries exceed my grasp, I shall pretend to have organized them. Votes: 0
Jean CocteauImagine fantasy and pretend as neither fantastical nor pretended.....and then believe it. Votes: 0
Richelle E. GoodrichChemistry's a tricky thing, and if I'm not feeling it, I'm not gonna pretend. Votes: 0
Faith SullivanTo pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend. Votes: 0
Jacques DerridaThe nudes of art are not so distant from pornography as prudish pedants pretend. Votes: 0
Mason CooleyThe higher the rank the less pretence, because there is less to pretend to. Votes: 0
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron LyttonIt is the essence of dignity to pretend to desire what you cannot prevent. Votes: 0
Orson Scott CardWriters who pretend that everything they're doing is completely new are full of it. Votes: 0
Justin CroninI don't want to pretend like I'm some intellectual person who understands Flannery O'Connor. Votes: 0
Sara ZarrPerhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be. Votes: 0
Orson Scott CardYou can't take away knowledge, and it's dangerous to pretend you never had it. Votes: 0
Cynthia HeimelMy brokenness is a better bridge for people than my pretend wholeness ever was. Votes: 0
Sheila Walsh...and whenever I had menstral cramps, I could just pretend that Voldemort was close. Votes: 0
Jenny LawsonNobody's perfect, and to try to pretend you're perfect is an exhausting fool's errand. Votes: 0
Rosemary MahoneySummer bachelors, like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be. Votes: 0
Nora EphronIt was tough attempting to be social with people who'd rather pretend you didn't exist. Votes: 0
Heather BrewerThe surest way to lose truth is to pretend that one already wholly possesses it. Votes: 0
Gordon W. AllportBrotherhood is not so wild a dream as those, who profit by postponing it, pretend Votes: 0
Eric SevareidLeave it up to hipster nerds to pretend to hate something that they actually want Votes: 0
Tucker MaxWith voice-over, you have to pretend like you're three, except you can talk and read. Votes: 0
Molly QuinnNo matter what time your guests arrive, pretend they're early, so naturally you're not ready. Votes: 0
Phyllis DillerMany filmmakers pretend that they never see anything, which has always seemed odd to me. Votes: 0
Jacques RivetteBrotherhood is not so wild a dream as those, who profit by postponing it, pretend. Votes: 0
Eric SevareidThe laws of conscience, which we pretend to be derived from nature, proceed from Custom. Votes: 0
Michel de MontaigneSometimes it's easier to pretend that you don't care, than to admit it's killing you. Votes: 0
Wiz KhalifaI choose to do unattractive people, because then I can pretend they think they're attractive. Votes: 0
Amy SedarisNurture your own confidence and make it real; don't pretend to be someone you're not. Votes: 0
Tom HiddlestonWith voice-over, you have to pretend like youre three, except you can talk and read. Votes: 0
Molly QuinnI don't pretend anything anymore. I don't have time, desire or energy to calculate anymore. Votes: 0
Thomas KretschmannSome adults would rather pretend that bad things dont exist than to talk about them. Votes: 0
Laurie Halse AndersonIf you pretend that business is beyond morality, that's the kind of morality you get. Votes: 0
Anita RoddickDo we ignore the needyto spite the greedy?Or share and defenddespite those who pretend? Votes: 0
Richelle E. GoodrichI think I was always a drama queen. I really, really, really loved playing pretend. Votes: 0
Kathryn HahnWhat humbugs we are, who pretend to live for beauty, and never see the dawn! Votes: 0
Logan Pearsall SmithDon't pretend to be what you are not. Don't refuse to be what you are. Votes: 0
Sri Nisargadatta MaharajDon't pretend to be a great master and don't try to show off your strength. Votes: 0
Gichin FunakoshiBe brave. Even if you're not pretend to be. No one can tell the difference. Votes: 0
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.We must never pretend appreciation, but if we feel it, then we must express it Votes: 0
Deepak ChopraYou can't look at people being crucified. Even if you know it is just pretend. Votes: 0
Penelope WiltonBut we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us. Votes: 0
Alan WattsThe American people are tired of liars and people who pretend to be something they're not. Votes: 0
Hillary ClintonThe real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend! Votes: 0
Edith WhartonQuacks pretend to cure other men's disorders, but fail to find a remedy for their own. Votes: 0
Marcus Tullius CiceroYou'll tell yourself anything you have to, to pretend that you're still the one in control. Votes: 0
Jodi PicoultThe Church does not pretend to be scientists. It teaches based upon what science tells it. Votes: 0
Wellington MaraLife must go on, even if it's no joke...just pretend to believe in the future. Votes: 0
Louis-Ferdinand CelineDo not help your jailers to pretend that their jail is your natural state of existence. Votes: 0
Ayn RandYou want to make him interested in you? Then pretend to be embarrassed in his presence- Votes: 0
Friedrich NietzscheI don't pretend to be objective. There is no such thing as being an objective journalist. Votes: 0
Jeremy ScahillI do not pretend that language is science. It isan instrument for the attainment of science. Votes: 0
Thomas JeffersonThat's what friends should do. cherish the good and pretend not to notice the harmless rest. Votes: 0
Beth HoffmanOne can't love man without hating most of the creatures who pretend to bear his name. Votes: 0
Ayn RandIt's hard to believe that you're really here, so I just pretend that you're not here. Votes: 0
Edie BrickellWhen I was at Upright Citizens Brigade, I would pretend to be a sad, drunk rapper. Votes: 0
Bobby MoynihanPeople pretend not to like grapes when the vines are too high for them to reach Votes: 0
Marguerite de NavarreWe understand how dangerous a mask can be. We all become what we pretend to be. Votes: 0
Patrick RothfussLet's not pretend that mental phenomena can be mapped on to the characteristics of billiard balls. Votes: 0
Gregory BatesonIf I'm going to eat fast food, I'm going to McDonald's. I don't need to pretend. Votes: 0
Chrissy TeigenWe are never so ridiculous through what we are as through what we pretend to be. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldI don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am. Votes: 0
Thomas CarlyleI don't pretend to know everything; I just only speak on matters I know I'll win. Votes: 0
Criss JamiLet's all pretend to be someone else, and then perhaps we'll find out who we are. Votes: 0
John le CarreDon't tell your problems to people because no one cares anyway , but in fact they pretend ! Votes: 0
Ahmad DwidarKant was a rational theologian. He did not pretend to be a biblical or revealed theologian. Votes: 0
Allen W. WoodWhere all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all. Votes: 0
Edward AbbeyAfter making music for twenty-six years I can't pretend I don't know anything about it anymore. Votes: 0
Blixa BargeldYou can't really pretend something is rosier than it is and expect people to buy it. Votes: 0
James Van Der BeekI want to pretend there's such a thing as requited love. As the endurance of love. Votes: 0
Lorrie MooreI know you're a fool, Jim Hardy, but for heaven's sake pretend you're not for five minutes. Votes: 0
Lucy Maud MontgomeryMost people have seen worse things in private than they pretend to be shocked at in public. Votes: 0
E. W. HoweJace likes to pretend that everyone isnât talking about him, even when he knows they are. Votes: 0
Cassandra ClareThose who pretend to know what they don't, will be thought ignorant of even what they know. Votes: 0
ThiruvalluvarI don't know if they're really like everybody else, or if they're able to pretend they are. Votes: 0
Madeleine L'EngleThere's no such thing as being cool. People who pretend to be cool have more emotional layers. Votes: 0
Lee Yoon-kiTo pretend you don't feel a certain strangeness after living in England for 40 years is a fallacy. Votes: 0
Trevor McDonaldYou have to pretend that your life is a financial pleasure even when your autographs are bouncing. Votes: 0
Kinky FriedmanWe often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear. Votes: 0
Charles Caleb ColtonTo be able to pretend to be something that I'm frankly not is very liberating and exciting. Votes: 0
Hugh LaurieI loved being outside. We'd hold lightning bugs in our fingers and pretend they were diamond rings. Votes: 0
Loretta LynnYou can't pretend to be a Sharon Stone or a Marilyn Monroe. You really can't fake that. Votes: 0
Claire BloomAdvice to Young Poets Never pretend to be a unicorn by sticking a plunger on your head. Votes: 0
Martin EspadaI can't pretend that I'm just a friend... 'cause I'm thinkin' maybe we were meant to be. Votes: 0
Janno GibbsI think a lot of comedians sometimes pretend to find the job more taxing than it is. Votes: 0
Dani LevyThere are actual monsters in the world, but when my kids ask I pretend like there aren't. Votes: 0
Simon RichI am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of. Votes: 0
Clarence DarrowI played pretend games as a kid, army, whatever, but I never wanted to be an actor. Votes: 0
Ray LiottaIdle to pretend that we have lost paradise. We never had it; it is still to make. Votes: 0
Susan ErtzThe ability to play pretend is something that everyone has access to; you see little kids doing it. Votes: 0
Bryce Dallas HowardIF YOU PRETEND THE CHARACTERS CANT SPEAK, AND WRITE A SILENT MOVIE, YOU WILL BE WRITING GREAT DRAMA. Votes: 0
David MametListen, I would love to win an Emmy at some stage or another. I can't pretend not to. Votes: 0
Cat DeeleyTo be a mother you must be strong. Even if you don't feel it, you have to pretend. Votes: 0
Sade AduI will not pretend that if I had to choose between communism and Nazism I would choose communism. Votes: 0
Winston ChurchillI do not pretend to write much of a letter. You know under what circumstances I am writing. Votes: 0
Joshua ChamberlainNothing can be more true, than that the greatest Boasters have the least of what they pretend to. Votes: 0
Eliza Haywoodwhen there's an elephant in the room, you can't pretend it isn't there and just discuss the ants. Votes: 0
Ellen WittlingerOne of the big dangers is to pretend that you can follow a predictable process when you can't. Votes: 0
Martin FowlerI would pretend to be the French lieutenant's woman. I was always a romantic. I still am, actually. Votes: 0
Helena Bonham CarterWe really can't forecast all that well, and yet we pretend that we can, but we really can't. Votes: 0
Alan GreenspanIt's fun to pretend you're good at something you know you wouldn't be good at in real life. Votes: 0
Ben WhishawI can't pretend to be a teenager, but I feel like I never really stopped being a teenager. Votes: 0
Gayle FormanI believe in civility. But it is not a requirement of civility to pretend there is no war. Votes: 0
J. BudziszewskiThe more clearly one sees this world; the more one is obliged to pretend it does not exist. Votes: 0
John IrvingI do not pretend to write much of a letter. You know under what circumstances I am writing. Votes: 0
JoshuaTell people the truth, they laugh. The truth is so tragic they have to pretend it's a joke. Votes: 0
Lucille KallenI'm not going to pretend I'm someone I'm not. I'm not going to put on a pre-fab identity. Votes: 0
Tim KinsellaTo be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you're not, pretend you are. Votes: 0
Muhammad AliI don't pretend that I can predict the future value of the growth rate or rate of return. Votes: 0
Thomas PikettyMen pretend they don't like to be nagged, but they love it, really. It makes them feel wanted. Votes: 0
Denise Van OutenI will put up with any mockery rather than pretend that I am satisfied when I am hungry. Votes: 0
Fyodor DostoevskyPeople have to live by rules in the world. Why do we pretend in school that they don't? Votes: 0
Marva CollinsIn Russia, I pretend to be a lot of princesses and wait for prince. That was my dream. Votes: 0
Anna NetrebkoWar is a lot of things and it's useless to pretend that exciting isn't one of them. (pg. 144) Votes: 0
Sebastian JungerJust believe in yourself. Even if you don't, pretend that you do and, at some point, you will. Votes: 0
Venus WilliamsAdd a drop of lavender to milk, leave town with an orange, and pretend you're laughing at it. Votes: 0
Bill BaileyI love people who are very honest and very open and don't pretend to be anything they're not. Votes: 0
Cat DeeleyLot of folks like to mock dumb history, and pretend it's just a few idiots. Isn't. It's the country. Votes: 0
Ta-Nehisi CoatesIf you want to be the best, be the best, if you are not the best, pretend you are Votes: 0
Muhhamad AliImagine, pretend, and play so you can become anyone you want to be. You don't need to be afraid. Votes: 0
Carolyn Byers RuchIf you want to get lost in the jungle rhythm, get down on the ground and pretend you're swimming. Votes: 0
Neil YoungI'd much rather pretend I'm somewhere else, and any time I open the pages of a book, that happens. Votes: 0
Jodi PicoultSoldiers don't complain...I am not going to do it; I will pretend this is part of a war. Votes: 0
Frances Hodgson BurnettWhy pretend to be something you're not? If you have to be someone, be someone no one else is. Votes: 0
Terry BrooksNow all that's left of me, is what I pretend to be. So together, but so broken up inside. Votes: 0
Kelly ClarksonI don't try to pretend to be what I'm not. I don't feel I need to do anything outrageous. Votes: 0
Pixie LottI like melancholy. I like to pretend that I'm alone in the world and I'm just sort of abandoned. Votes: 0
Jamaica KincaidIf you're gonna pretend to be something, then you have to at least live up to what it is. Votes: 0
Marilyn MansonEveryone was going to play their part honestly, and not try and pretend to be good or bad guys. Votes: 0
Stephen HopkinsI could pretend, at least, and if I pretended long enough, maybe I could make it into a reality. Votes: 0
Maureen JohnsonWell, I'm not going to sit here and pretend that I haven't been a rogue most of my life. Votes: 0
Jack NicholsonTo forget, or pretend to do so, to return a borrowed article, is the meanest sort of petty theft. Votes: 0
Samuel JohnsonMusic means freedom to me. But in acting you can pretend to be someone else and I like that. Votes: 0
Robert PattinsonPlenty of clever children have to pretend to be not clever or else they get bullied by the thick. Votes: 0
Tom BakerIf your face is swollen from the severe beatings of life, smile and pretend to be a fat man. Votes: 0
Chris CleaveAnd God 'sits in the heavens and laughs' at the proud who pretend to be more than they are. Votes: 0
Gabriel FackreI do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means. Votes: 0
Clarence DarrowHe says we need to live in the real world, where war and death are a reality, not pretend. Votes: 0
Pittacus LoreHow could I possibly try to pretend the sunlight doesn't exist, now that it's taken so much of me? Votes: 0
Jackson PearceI used to pretend that I was just passing through this family on my way to my real one. Votes: 0
Jodi PicoultIt is not only possible to be the person you pretend to be, but there is less effort involved. Votes: 0
Robert BreaultLittle girls are like old cats. If they don't like you nothing on Earth will make them pretend to. Votes: 0
David MitchellI work on a laptop specifically so I can work in cafes and pretend I'm part of the human world. Votes: 0
Jonathan LethemI'm a performer. I've just been one since I was a little girl. I used to pretend all the time. Votes: 0
Jamie Lee CurtisDandyism is a lie which reveals the truth, and the truth is that we are what we pretend to be. Votes: 0
Sebastian HorsleyIt's like, everything really is two ways, the way we all pretend it is and the way it really is Votes: 0
Jeff LindsayA lot of my audience are in their 50s. But they want me to pretend to continue to be pretending. Votes: 0
Patti SmithHow could I pretend to be someone else when I was already failing at being the person I already was? Votes: 0
Catherine Gilbert MurdockEveryone is broken a little, I think, and the most broken of all are those who pretend they are not. Votes: 0
Roy H. WilliamsNot one of us can lie or pretend. We're all fixed in good faith in a certain concept of ourselves. Votes: 0
Luigi PirandelloI don't pretend to be able to do TV diagnosis, but I think the guy [Donald Trump] has a problem. Votes: 0
Jill SteinA lot of my audience are in their 50s. But they want me to pretend to continue to be pretending. Votes: 0
Pete TownshendWe all pretend to be very strong, and then in a fraction, you can just break down, at least for me. Votes: 0
Isabelle HuppertI get to pretend I'm flying into space, and hang out with my friends. That's what I do for a living. Votes: 0
Jeri RyanI'm not going to pretend that I am the best thing in their life and they have to be totally loyal. Votes: 0
Graham CoxonI am a stranger. You do not need to lie to me or pretend. Only with friends do you need masks.. Votes: 0
David GemmellI know what it is to be hungry, and it is very hard when one cannot even pretend it away. -Sara Votes: 0
Frances Hodgson BurnettI am woman, hear me roar, in numbers too big to ignore, and I know too much to go back and pretend. Votes: 0
Helen ReddyI hate violence. When I hold a gun, I feel death in my hands, but it's fun to pretend in the movies. Votes: 0
Javier BardemThe best way to clean up a son's room is to close the door and pretend it's not part of the house. Votes: 0
Art BuchwaldI think it would be shocking for me to pretend not to have any past. And also, it would be a lie. Votes: 0
Carla BruniTo know that you do not know is the best. To pretend to know when you do not know is a disease. Votes: 0
LaoziHow do I act so well? What I do is I pretend to be the person I'm portraying in the film or play. Votes: 0
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