“I don't pretend to be captain weird. I just do what I do.”
Johnny Depp
“All mortals tend to turn into the things they are pretending to be.”
C.S. Lewis
“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
“To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.”
Jacques Derrida
“[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
“I don't pretend to be perfect; I've made mistakes just like everybody else. When I have, I've owned up to the mistakes and moved forward.”
Chris Bell
