“I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be until finally I became that person. Or he became me.”
Cary Grant
“Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, ''Make me feel important.'' Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.”
Mary Kay Ash
“All mortals tend to turn into the things they are pretending to be.”
C.S. Lewis
“To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.”
Jacques Derrida
“There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation.”
Walter Lippmann
“[Pretending is indeed the Washington game. Pretend independence, for instance. Recall House Speaker Sam Rayburn's attributed standard greeting to new Democrat members of Congress, per:] Remember, to get along, go along. ... There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.”
Will Rogers
“We cannot have a situation where the DPRK pretends to abandon its nuclear programs and we pretend to believe them,”
Christopher Hill
