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Tag Name "Pretending" (370)

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And they have a display of bananas, which are not bananas but called plantains and are more like a potato pretending to be a banana.
Lauren Child
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Human humour often consists of pretending to wish something does not really wish.
Katherine Applegate
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Truth cannot be sacrificed at the altar of pretended tolerance. Real tolerance is deference to all ideas, not indifference to the truth.
Ravi Zacharias
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Pretending the past doesn't exist is as bad as living in it.
Nora Roberts
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When they saw you kneeling, crying words you mean. Opening their eyeballs, eyeballs, pretending that your Al Green, Al Green.
Adam Ant
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What? Are you still pretending you are separate from the Beloved?
Rumi
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You take the flotsam, I tell her, I'll take the jetsam. You always get the jetsam,she says pretending to pout. Do you ever think if poeple heard our conversations they'd lock us up? All the time.
Wendy Mass
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You get paid and you get venerated and worshipped for pretending to be somebody else.
Ian Astbury
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I realized that I wanted to play characters and do traditional theatre. I wanted to make believe again. I like putting on a costume and pretending to be someone else for a few hours, and I have a great respect for playwrights.
Lusia Strus
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There's a saying that you can't awaken somebody who's pretending to be asleep.
Willie Parker
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Understanding the past requires pretending that you don't know the present.
Paul Fussell
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Suicide is kinda dumb to me. If I wanna kill myself I will. It's not hard to die, I could do it like right now. But why is everybody pretending like everything's ok, Everything's not ok. We are more connected than we've ever been, But I feel more alone than I've ever been.
Donald Glover
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I've never gone on Facebook and am not sure I understand it. The same goes for Twitter. I have someone sending tweets and pretending to be me, but I don't know why.
David Sedaris
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I'm sorry and ashamed to report that I'm not actually a Jew. I was pretending to be a Jew to minimize the holocaust.
Andy Kindler
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Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.
Bill Cosby
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Well as much as I'm sure the people next door who are pretending they aren't looking at me would like to hear what I have to say, I'd rather say it to just you.
Elizabeth Scott
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Intertwingularity is not generally acknowledged - people keep pretending they can make things deeply hierarchical, categorizable and sequential when they can't. Everything is deeply intertwingled.
Ted Nelson
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My wife told me one of the sweetest things one could hear: 'I am not jealous. But I am truly sad for all the actresses who embrace you and kiss you while acting, for with them, you are only pretending.'
Joseph Cotten
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Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature has made them.
Bertrand Russell
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You gain power by pretending to be weak. By contrast, you make people feel strong. You save people by letting them save you.
Chuck Palahniuk
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I spent part of my college years in a Marxist commune. I was not a Marxist. I wasn't even pretending to be one. I was a Marxist-in-law.
Jane Smiley
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If you re not speaking your own truth, you will never be able to be all you are meant to be. You cannot be pretending to be somebody else.
Oprah Winfrey
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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
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Wisdom consists partly in not pretending anymore, in discarding artifice.
Julian Barnes
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