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  • Real security is contemplating death, not pretending it doesn't exist.

    "What security means to me". TEDGlobal, www.ted.com. July, 2005.
  • Acting is not pretending or lying. It's finding a side of yourself that's the character and ignoring your other sides. And there's a side of me that wonders what's wrong with being completely honest.

  • When I was sixteen I was pretending to be Charlie Musselwhite. I had a long raincoat on, my hair slicked back, and the shades.

    Hair   Long   Shade  
  • Persecution means an attempt to drive out, attempt to subjugate, and there are various ways that that can be done. Sarah Palin's opponents and her critics would like to see her leave the public square by insulting, degrading, demeaning, abusing and ridiculing her, and - by pretending that she has nothing to say.

    "Without Further Ado, Sarah Palin Returns". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. November 20, 2009.
  • 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.

    Running   Jobs   Kids  
  • Pretending to know everything closes the door to finding out what's really there.

    "Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey/ Unafraid of the Dark". Documentary, June 2014.
  • Do not try to drive pain away by pretending it is not real. If you seek serenity in oneness, pain will vanish of its own accord.

    Pain   Real   Oneness  
  • Crocodiles are easy. They try to kill and eat you. People are harder. Sometimes they pretend to be your friend first.

    "My Steve". Book by Terri Irwin, 2012.
  • Humility doesn't mean hiding in the corner and pretending you are not strong. Humility means to be what you are.

    Strong   Mean   Humility  
  • I go from locker to locker, pretending the guys are here. You know, give them a little bit of a pep talk. It must be working, because we haven't lost a game yet.

    Hockey   Nhl   Games  
  • My music is a mix of everything, mostly my own life. I just write about things that mean something and that I can write about. There's no point in pretending.

  • A terrible cold world of ice and death had replaced the living world we had always known. Outside there was only the deadly cold, the frozen vacuum of an ice age, life reduced to mineral crystals. [. . .] I drove at great speed, as if escaping, pretending we could escape. Although I knew there was no escape from the ice, from the ever-diminishing remnant of time that encapsuled us.

    Escaping   Ice   Age  
  • The finest thing about a hobby is that you can't do any pretending about it. You either like it or you don't.

  • What was frustrating about Armageddon was the time I spent not doing anything. It was a big special effects film, and I wasn't crazy about pretending I was in outer space. It feels ridiculous.

    Crazy   Space   Special  
  • Myron reached for the phone and dialed Win's number. After the eighth ring he began to hang up when a weak, distant voice coughed. "Hello?" Win?" Yeah." You okay?" Hello?" Win?" Yeah." What took you so long to answer the phone?" Hello?" Win?" Who is this?" Myron." Myron Bolitar?" How many other Myrons do you know?" Myron Bolitar?" No, Myron Rockefeller." Something's wrong," Win said. What?" Terribly wrong." What are you talking about?" Some asshole is calling me at seven in the morning pretending to be my best friend." Sorry, I forgot the time.

    Morning   Sorry   Winning  
    Harlan Coben (2013). “The Myron Bolitar Series 7-Book Bundle: Deal Breaker, Drop Shot, Fade Away, Back Spin, One False Move, The Final Detail, Darkest Fear”, p.88, Dell
  • EVERY national church or religion has established itself by pretending some special mission from God, communicated to certain individuals. The Jews have their Moses; the Christians their Jesus Christ, their apostles and saints; and the Turks their Mahomet; as if the way to God was not open to every man alike.

    Christian   Jesus   Men  
    Thomas Paine (2016). “THE AGE OF REASON - Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology (Including “The Life of Thomas Paine”): Deistic Critique of Bible and Christian Church”, p.6, e-artnow
  • I'm not angry, I'm not an angry person, but I do sometimes like playing with the perception of anger, as in pretending that I'm more angry than I actually am, and sometimes it works quite well.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Just as Bowie, Zeppelin, etc., became rock stars by remaking themselves in the image of the California girls, the Go-Gos became rock stars by pretending to be the Buzzcocks and the Sex Pistols. Jane Wiedlin always said her biggest influence was growing up in L.A. as a Bowie girl.

    Girl   Sex   Stars  
  • I'm not pretending to be an academic, or to have this down to a science. It's strictly my taste. But there is a connection between everything I play and the sets I put together.

    Source: www.avclub.com
  • Hate me for who I am, I don't care. At least I'm not pretending to be someone I'm not.

    Funny   Hater   Who I Am  
  • He often felt that too many people lived their lives acting and pretending,wearing masks and losing themselves in the process.

    FaceBook post by Nicholas Sparks from May 22, 2012
  • Oooh!" Bill squealed. "Very rococo." "So, I'm really doing this? I'm just going to go down there and pretend--" (Luce) "No pretending." Bill shook his head. "Own it. Own that cleavage, girl, you know you want to.

    Girl   Want   Bills  
    Lauren Kate (2011). “The Fallen Sequence: An Omnibus Edition”, p.902, Delacorte Press
  • 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.

  • Actors are pretending for you, but they're not lying. They are not putting on a guise instead of themselves. They are finding things inside that they have experienced.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • One victim lives in tragedy, another victim stops to stare, and still another walks on by pretending not to see

    Love   Life   Family  
  • Anybody pretending to be anything other than who you really are-you will never, ever reach your personal potential.

  • If I have renounced the search of truth, if I have come into the port of some pretending dogmatism, some new church, some Schelling or Cousin, I have died to all use of these new events that are born out of prolific time into multitude of life every hour. I am as bankrupt to whom brilliant opportunities offer in vain. He has just foreclosed his freedom, tied his hands, locked himself up and given the key to another to keep.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.191, Harvard University Press
  • We might say that psychoanalysis revealed to us the complex penalties of denying the truth of man's condition, what we might call the costs of pretending not to be mad.

    Men   Mad   Cost  
    Ernest Becker (1997). “The Denial of Death”, p.29, Simon and Schuster
  • It is exhausting to be running around pretending to be scared at night - It sounds so wussy actory.

    Running   Night   Sound  
    Source: collider.com
  • Part of the appeal of the fantastic is taking ridiculous ideas very seriously and pretending they're not absurd.

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