Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature made them.

Bertrand Russell

Great Stupid Clever Democracy

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Live without pretending, Love without depending, Listen without defending, Speak without offending.

Drake

Live Love Listen Speak

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I got attention by being funny at school, pretending to be retarded, and jumping around with a deformed hand.

Leonardo DiCaprio

Around Attention Being Being Funny

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Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.

Katharine Hepburn

Acting Childish Else Nice

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I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don't hurt me, because it is me. If it was not me, if I was pretending to be someone else, then this could unbalance my world, but I know who I am.

Paulo Coelho

Am Because Could Critics

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I'm not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I'm doing.

Barbara Kingsolver

Not Pretending Be Ingenious

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You're pretending this isn't your life. You think it's going to happen some other time. When you're dead you'll realise you were alive now.

Caryl Churchill

You Pretending Like Life

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Half the trouble in life is caused by pretending there isn't any.

Edith Wharton

Half Trouble Life Pretending

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Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

J. K. Rowling

About Anything Away Because

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â€œIf we start being honest about our mental health, instead of pretending they donâ€™t exist, then maybe weâ€™ll be the change we desire, and perhaps make the world a better place than we found it.

Nse Ikpe-Etim

Mental health Pretending Exist Desire

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It's a blue album, but it's not a blues album. I'm not pretending all of a sudden now I'm blues.

Neil Young

Album Blue Blues Now

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

Pete Townshend

Audience Continue Lot Me

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It is not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute.

Lillian Hellman

Been Even Good Lives

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An awful lot of gay pop stars pretend to be straight. I'm going to start a movement of straight pop stars pretending to be gay.

Robbie Williams

Awful AwfulLot Gay Going

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An actor needs something to stabilize his personality, something to nail down what he really is, not what he is currently pretending to be.

Humphrey Bogart

Actor Need Stabilize Personality

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I started being a songwriter pretending I could do it, and it turned out I could.

James Taylor

Being Could Out Pretending

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Only a fool takes pride in pretending that a skill he doesnâ€™t possess is worthless.

Bernard Cornwell

Fool Takes pride Pretending Skill

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Sometimes losing a pet is more painful than losing a human because in the case of the pet, you were not pretending to love it.

Amy Sedaris

Sometimes losing Pet More painful A human

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The best way to not get your heart broken, is pretending you don't have one.

Charlie Sheen

Best way Your heart broken Pretending Have one

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When you've been pretending to be a democratic leader for nearly 40 years, even dancing feels like just going through the motions.

Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo

Been pretending Democratic leader Dancing feet The motions

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If you keep pretending you're in that book, it will make you not want to live in the life you're in.

Cornelia Funke

Keep pretending That book To live The life

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There's something liberating about not pretending. Dare to embarrass yourself. Risk.

Drew Barrymore

Something liberating Not pretending Embarrass Your risk

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Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.

John Fowles

Duty Pretending Trivial Critical

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Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature made them.

Bertrand Russell

Live without pretending, Love without depending, Listen without defending, Speak without offending.

Drake

I got attention by being funny at school, pretending to be retarded, and jumping around with a deformed hand.

Leonardo DiCaprio

Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.

Katharine Hepburn

I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don't hurt me, because it is me. If it was not me, if I was pretending to be someone else, then this could unbalance my world, but I know who I am.

Paulo Coelho

I'm not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I'm doing.

Barbara Kingsolver

You're pretending this isn't your life. You think it's going to happen some other time. When you're dead you'll realise you were alive now.

Caryl Churchill

Half the trouble in life is caused by pretending there isn't any.

Edith Wharton

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

J. K. Rowling

â€œIf we start being honest about our mental health, instead of pretending they donâ€™t exist, then maybe weâ€™ll be the change we desire, and perhaps make the world a better place than we found it.

Nse Ikpe-Etim

It's a blue album, but it's not a blues album. I'm not pretending all of a sudden now I'm blues.

Neil Young

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

Pete Townshend

It is not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute.

Lillian Hellman

An awful lot of gay pop stars pretend to be straight. I'm going to start a movement of straight pop stars pretending to be gay.

Robbie Williams

An actor needs something to stabilize his personality, something to nail down what he really is, not what he is currently pretending to be.

Humphrey Bogart

James Taylor

Only a fool takes pride in pretending that a skill he doesnâ€™t possess is worthless.

Bernard Cornwell

Sometimes losing a pet is more painful than losing a human because in the case of the pet, you were not pretending to love it.

Amy Sedaris

The best way to not get your heart broken, is pretending you don't have one.

Charlie Sheen

When you've been pretending to be a democratic leader for nearly 40 years, even dancing feels like just going through the motions.

Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo

If you keep pretending you're in that book, it will make you not want to live in the life you're in.

Cornelia Funke

There's something liberating about not pretending. Dare to embarrass yourself. Risk.

Drew Barrymore

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.

John Fowles

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