You've got to be a certain type of person to be a professional fighter. I prefer to do it for pretend.
It is a real tragedy for a nation when three groups of it's people, namely politicians, religious leaders and charity workes, just pretend to be generous.
Power feminism is just another scam in which women get to play patriarchs and pretend that the power we seek and gain liberates us.
The more I like me, the less I want to pretend to be other people.
I like to pretend that each book is my first one and last one, because it takes a tremendous amount of energy to do a book.
One way to compensate for a tiny brain is to pretend to be dead.
Now all that's left of me, is what I pretend to be. So together, but so broken up inside.
Let's pretend that we're human beings and that we're actually alive.
Be wise among the wise, but pretend to be dull among fools.
My characters are usually composites. I wish I could pretend that I make up all of these characters, but no. I steal from people. But people will say to me, "Oh, that's me!" and I'm thinking, no, that's not you!
Sometimes I'll get a bunch of my friends to pretend they're my fans and then I'll walk out on the street and I'll have them mob me just so I can prepare.
In L. A. , the waiters think they're stars. Everybody's always trying to pretend that they see stars every day, so there tends to be a false blas' about celebrity sightings in L. A. In some ways, that's a good thing, because it allows you to walk around.
I thought what I'd do was I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes.
No, it's not that they're bad. It's that they're obliged to pretend they're good. They've been brought up to deceive and be cunning, to protect themselves from our society. I don't want to be like that.
We are never so ridiculous through what we are as through what we pretend to be.
Sober strip clubs are horrible. When you are sober you see the matrix code behind a strip club. You're paying girls to pretend to like you until you run out of money so they can walk away.
We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.
I don't pretend to be a digital savant or even a digital apprentice.
We like to pretend the core ideas of the faith are more palatable or workable within our modern rationalistic approach to Scripture than the stuff we want to call "too weird" because of our own intellectual sensibilities. The truth is they are not. So we come up with interpretations to eliminate the weirdness of the biblical worldview that makes us uncomfortable. Problem solved!
Always be suspicious of those who pretend to know it all, claim their way is the best way and are willing to force their way on the rest of us.