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Tag Name "Pretend" (902)

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Margaret Meade is always running around saying that marijuana's just like bread and water! Well, bread and water are poison, and marijuana's a poison. Now, if you like poison, why shouldn't you have it? But don't try to pretend that it's innocuous.
James Purdy
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Caution in handling generally accepted opinions that claim to explain whole trends of history is especially important for the historian of modern times, because the last century has produced an abundance of ideologies that pretend to be keys to history but are actually nothing but desperate efforts to escape responsibility.
Hannah Arendt
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I tweet too much. I can't even pretend it's because I'm talking to fans.
Kevin Biegel
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As a kid growing up in the back streets of Dublin I used to pretend I was playing in the World Cup with my mates out on the streets, and now I will be doing it for real.
Robbie Keane
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But they are not going to take on Big Oil because Big Oil is very generous at campaign time, and this is all about the elections. They want to pretend that they are doing something meaningful.
Peter DeFazio
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The whole world, myself included, seem to have one thing in common we're just a crowd of people who don't really fit in anywhere attempting to convince one another that we do. I guess I'll put my sunglasses on and pretend, like everyone else, that I too belong here.
Andrew McMahon
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Learn to shrink yourself to the size of the company you are in. Take their tone, whatever it may be, and excell in it if you canbut never pretend to give the tone. A free conversation will no more bear a dictator than a free government will.
Lord Chesterfield
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To hell with news! I'm no longer interested in news. I'm interested in causes. We don't print the truth. We don't pretend to print the truth. We print what people tell us. It's up to the public to decide what's true.
Ben Bradlee
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If you're demanding a rodeo jester be thrown in the dungeons for mocking the king, don't pretend you support a free country.
Steve Stockman
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I'm too young for a man, but I'm too old for a boy. So, can't we just pretend, that I'm older than I really am, but then, only little girls pretend.
Tori Amos
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I could pretend, at least, and if I pretended long enough, maybe I could make it into a reality.
Maureen Johnson
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I love any scene where there's a physical confrontation. It reminds me that I'm in show business and I play pretend for a living.
Bob Odenkirk
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A tip: if you're invited to your friend's country club to go the lost and found bin and pretend that you left something there. Next thing you know, you have a fabulous sweater.
Lisa Birnbach
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Your primary tools, as an actor, are observation and imagination. You can pretty much get everything you need from that, and you do. It brings back that element of pretend.
Stephen Lang
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I could go and make commercials left and right and pretend like I am a celebrity, but that is not me.
Marat Safin
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Rare is the human being, immature or mature, who has never felt an impulse to pretend he is some one or something else.
George P. Baker
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And you pretend it doesn't bother you, When you just want to explode.
Bob Seger
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Science is a way to call the bluff of those who only pretend to knowledge. It is a bulwark against mysticism, against superstition, against religion misapplied to where it has no business being.
Carl Sagan
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I want to pretend there's such a thing as requited love. As the endurance of love.
Lorrie Moore
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Doctors are mostly impostors. The older a doctor is and the more venerated he is, the more he must pretend to know everything. Of course, they grow worse with time. Always look for a doctor who is hated by the best doctors. Always seek out a bright young doctor before he comes down with nonsense.
Thornton Wilder
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It is no disgrace not to be able to do everything but to undertake, or pretend to do, what you are not made for, is not only shameful, but extremely troublesome and vexatious.
Plutarch
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Nobody really understands gold prices and I don't pretend to understand them either.
Ben Bernanke
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You can't take away knowledge, and it's dangerous to pretend you never had it.
Cynthia Heimel
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Summer bachelors, like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.
Nora Ephron
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