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Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be.

Quote by Kurt Vonnegut about people

What is so vastly original and new and different about The Pretenders? You know, she sounds like Sandie Shaw circa 1964, the band sounds like a million bands, so what.

Quote by Lester Bangs

The moment at which two people, approaching from opposite ends of a long passageway, recognize each other and immediately pretend they haven t. This is to avoid the ghastly embarrassment of having to continue recognizing each other the whole...

Quote by Douglas Adams about end, haven, moment, people

One way to compensate for a tiny brain is to pretend to be dead.

Quote by Scott Adams about brain

I question myself every day. That's what I still find motivating about this. I don't have the answers, I don't pretend that I do just because I won the match. Just keep fighting and maybe something good happens.

Quote by Andre Agassi about question, day, good, good luck

People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.

Quote by Bette Davis about nation, people

I have an elbow that bends the wrong way, and I'd do things like stand in an elevator and the doors would close, and I'd pretend that my arm had got caught in it, and then I'd scream, 'Ow, ow, put it back! '

Quote by Geena Davis about bad, things

I don't pretend to be captain weird. I just do what I do.

Quote by Johnny Depp

I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.

Quote by Winston Churchill

Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that...

Quote by Winston Churchill about democracy, sin, time, perfection, world

If he who employs coercion against me could mould me to his purposes by argument, no doubt he would. He pretends to punish me because his argument is strong; but he really punishes me because his argument is weak.

Quote by William Godwin about doubt

Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.

Quote by Katharine Hepburn about time

If the boss doesn't understand your work they will either ignore it, pretend they did it, or Freak out.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about heads, work

You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch I will kill you if you pretend to like it.

Quote by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis about experience

My playground was the theatre. I'd sit and watch my mother pretend for a living. As a young girl, that's pretty seductive.

Quote by Gwyneth Paltrow about theatre, mother

She belongs to a race of delightful women, who never do any harm, whom everybody calls good, and who are very severe on those who do not pretend to be good.

Quote by Gilbert Parker about mistery, good, good luck

To love the entire life a man or a woman means to pretend thatthe flame of the ame candle can burn the entire life.

Quote by Lev Nicolai Tolstoi about love, life, woman, man

Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite.

Quote by Jean Kerr about people, being, man

There are two ways of being happy, one is to pretend that are a fool and the second is to be a genuine fool.

Quote by Enrique Jardiel Poncela about happiness, being

People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's simply necessary to love.

Quote by Claude Monet about art, magic, love, people