I've always been a Pretenders. I'm very excited about this.
Like Leibniz's possible worlds, most men are only equally entitled pretenders to existence. There are few existences.
Stand-up comedy and comedy in general is the ultimate form of free speech, because you get to poke holes in all the pretentious bubbles politicians and pundits and popes and pretenders try to float over our heads.
The only great English midfielder in my career was Paul Scholes. He had elegance in him. Others were pretenders.
The real leaders intend to do definitely that good task for which a pretender has provoked them by saying that it can't be done, but the good number of pretenders tend to do only that job for which a real leader has cautioned them by showing the things that should not be done.
There have been a lotta tough guys. There have been pretenders. And there have been contenders. But there is only one king.
Arguments, like men, are often pretenders.
Bring on all the pretenders!
There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
On the spectrum of imagination, there are people who are more imaginative than others - I guess some kids are hardcore pretenders and have imaginary friends for years and other kids play and they have fun, but it's not quite as specific like that.
A negative and toxic person never feels teased with the genuine presence of the pretenders in his network and he always feels pleased with the absence of the genuine leader in his circle.
Just because it's a relationship, and it's based on soppy stuff, it doesn't mean you can't make intellectual decisions about it. Sometimes you just have to, otherwise you'll never get anywhere. That's where I've been going wrong. I've been letting the weather and my stomach muscles and a great chord change in a Pretenders single make up my mind for me, and I want to do it for myself.
