#pretend

Now all of a sudden I'm so less interested in pretending to be a lot of other people, and much more interested in being me. ↗

— Jamie Lee Curtis

#i #interested #less #lot #me

Traditions are imploding and exploding everywhere - everything is coming together, for better or worse, and we can no longer pretend we're all living in different worlds because we're on different continents. ↗

— Philip Glass

#better #coming #continents #different #different worlds

This kind of prelude was succeeded by the concerto itself which he executed with a degree of spirit and firmness that no one has ever pretended to equal. ↗

— John Hawkins

#degree #equal #ever #executed #firmness

Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them. ↗

— David Hume

#never #obey #office #only #other

There is a quality even meaner than outright ugliness or disorder, and this meaner quality is the dishonest mask of pretended order, achieved by ignoring or suppressing the real order that is struggling to exist and to be served. ↗

— Jane Jacobs

#dishonest #disorder #even #exist #ignoring

Tonight I'll dust myself off, tonight I'll suck my gut in, I'll face the night and I'll pretend I got something to believe in. ↗

— Jon Bon Jovi

#dust #face #got #gut #i

I have a hard enough time speaking for myself - I don't pretend I can be a spokesman for anybody. I have no interest in playing that role. ↗

— Mathieu Kassovitz

#enough #hard #i #i can #interest

Iran stands behind a substantial number of terrorist actions against us, together with Hizballah and the Islamic Jihad. It pretends to care for the Palestinians. ↗

— Moshe Katsav

#against #behind #care #iran #islamic

A lot of my audience are in their 50s. But they want me to pretend to continue to be pretending. ↗

— Pete Townshend

#continue #lot #me #pretend #pretending

You can't pretend that everybody likes Versace. It would be boring. It's better to create a reaction than to create no reaction. That's dangerous. ↗

— Donatella Versace

#boring #create #dangerous #everybody #likes