One of the most stupid things to do is to pretend you are smart. When you pretend to be smart, you are at the height of stupidity.
To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you’re not, pretend you are.
I think I've had to work my entire life at reacting to bad news, 'cause my first tendency whenever bad news comes is to pretend like it's not that bad somehow. And, you know, if you can do that with your parents being executed, you can do that with almost anything.
What man can pretend to know the riddle of a woman's mind?
Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to get where you're going.
You give up on what you need to be doing because you forget that you're worth it. This is why most people aren't leading exemplary lives. . . You have to believe in yourself so much that you're willing to do what's uncomfortable, time-consuming, inconvenient, and on occasion seemingly impossible. When you don't believe in yourself this much, pretend.
North Korea threatened to attack if Sony Pictures released The Interview, forcing us all to pretend that we wanted to see it.
Romance was a game, like bridge, in which you said things instead of playing cards. Like bridge you had to pretend you were playing for money or playing for some stakes.
I work on a laptop specifically so I can work in cafes and pretend I'm part of the human world.
When I was a kid, I wanted to be a boy. I really had gender issues. I really thought I was supposed to be a boy. I used to sneak into my dad's room and put on a suit, drink a cocktail, and pretend to smoke a cigarette.
Pretend and real are all real to a psychopath.
I like my job. That's become very clear to me. I know how to pretend to do things that I otherwise didn't know how to do.
In sports, as in love, one can never pretend.
I don't understand what's going on, but i'll just pretend that I do.
People like beauty and purity. They pretend that's what it's all about.
You should be careful about who you pretend to be, because who you pretend to be - is actually who you are!
You're obliged to pretend respect for people and institutions you think absurd. You live attached in a cowardly fashion to moral and social conventions you despise, condemn, and know lack all foundation.
I kind of realize that I have a tendency to choose the kind of films I watched when I was a kid and would go home and pretend with my friends that we were in those movies after we saw them.
If human beings pretend to be God, then forget about democracy. If they understand that no human being can represent God, then sure.
I do not pretend to start with precise questions. I do not think you can start with anything precise. You have to achieve such precision as you can, as you go along.