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The surest way to lose truth is to pretend that one already wholly possesses it.
Gordon W. Allport
Truth
Truth Is
Lose
Way
Possesses
Pretend
Surest
Surest Way
Wholly
I do think, however, that there's a very diverse point of view in the African-American community. There's a lot of different voices that need to be heard. I don't claim and pretend to know the thoughts and opinions and ideas of all African-Americans.
J. C. Watts
Thoughts
Community
Think
Claim
Pretend
Diverse
Point
Voices
Point Of View
Ideas
Know
Opinions
However
Heard
Lot
Very
Different
African-American
African-American Community
View
Need
We spend to pretend that we're upper class. And when the dust clears - when bankruptcy hits or a family member bails us out of our stupidity - there's nothing left over. Nothing for the kids' college tuition, no investment to grow our wealth, no rainy-day fund if someone loses her job.
J. D. Vance
Family
Class
Wealth
Stupidity
Job
College
Dust
Nothing
Our
Spend
Kids
Member
Out
Pretend
Someone
Investment
Over
Clears
Loses
Left
Hits
Family Member
Upper
Upper-Class
Tuition
Bankruptcy
Us
Grow
Fund
Her
Well, I'm not going to sit here and pretend that I haven't been a rogue most of my life.
Jack Nicholson
Life
My Life
Sit
Pretend
Most
Well
Been
Rogue
Going
Here
You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it.
Jackie Kennedy
You
Experience
Will
First
Lunch
Pretend
About
Like
Greek
Your
I do not pretend to write much of a letter. You know under what circumstances I am writing.
Joshua Chamberlain
You
Writing
Circumstances
Pretend
Write
Know
Am
Much
Letter
Steampunk is not a group of children in a classroom, sitting quietly while the teacher reads a story; it's the kids at recess, playing a wild, endless game of pretend.
Kaja Foglio
Teacher
Game
Group
Wild
Kids
Pretend
Classroom
Reads
Quietly
Sitting
Endless
Children
Story
While
Playing
Recess
Nobody is going to pretend that I am younger than I am. Apart from anything else, it is in the papers all the damn time - every time I have a birthday.
Laurence Olivier
Time
Birthday
Every
Damn
Every Time
Else
Papers
Pretend
Nobody
Am
Than
Going
Anything
Anything Else
Apart
Younger
We who follow the Honorable Elijah Muhammad feel that when you try and pass integration laws here in America, forcing white people to pretend that they are accepting black people, what you are doing is making white people act in a hypocritical way.
Malcolm X
You
People
Try
Black
Forcing
White
Honorable
Way
Pretend
Follow
Laws
Hypocritical
Feel
Accepting
Pass
Making
Doing
Integration
America
Act
Muhammad
Who
Here
A French Republican is a Republican who beats up on conservatives and is constantly praising the Democrats and contributing to the massive spending in this country while they go home and pretend otherwise.
Mark Levin
Home
Country
Conservatives
Otherwise
Spending
Pretend
Constantly
Beats
Massive
French
Democrats
Praising
Go
Go Home
Up
Contributing
While
Republican
Who
I think the whole mission of being here on Earth is to accept what you have, and my journey was to accept my own life and not pretend anything else. I think that's what we all struggle with.
Michael Nyqvist
Life
Journey
You
Struggle
My Journey
Own
Think
Else
Earth
Pretend
My Own
Mission
Accept
Being
Anything
Anything Else
Whole
Here
I don't want to pretend to be a prophet or a saint. I'm very conscious of my limitations. I know my flaws. But I don't like lying.
Norman Finkelstein
Lying
Pretend
Prophet
Like
Know
Limitations
Saint
Very
Want
Flaws
Conscious
I'm in no way suggesting that my opinion matters more than anyone else's, of course, but the only thing that bothers me is apathy. People that sit out of the process and complain about it, or pretend that politics isn't a part of their everyday lives.
Olivia Wilde
Politics
Me
People
Matters
Sit
Complain
Else
Everyday
Everyday Lives
Way
Out
Pretend
About
More
Only
Bothers
Part
Course
Opinion
Than
The Only Thing
Anyone
Process
Apathy
Lives
Thing
Suggesting
A lot of my audience are in their 50s. But they want me to pretend to continue to be pretending.
Pete Townshend
Me
Pretending
Pretend
Audience
Continue
Lot
Want
I don't pretend there aren't biological differences, but I don't believe the desire for leadership is hardwired biology, not the desire to win or excel. I believe that it's socialization, that we're socializing our daughters to nurture and our boys to lead.
Sheryl Sandberg
Leadership
Win
Nurture
Differences
Believe
Biology
Our
Pretend
Excel
Daughters
Lead
Boy
Socialization
Socializing
Biological
Hardwired
Desire
Al Qaeda is still a threat. We cannot pretend somehow that because Barack Hussein Obama got elected as president, suddenly everything is going to be OK.
Barack Obama
President
Everything
OK
We Cannot
Obama
Pretend
Threat
Hussein
Somehow
Qaeda
Because
Got
Still
Going
Cannot
Barack
Elected
Suddenly
Al
Al-Qaeda
When I was in school with my friends and stuff, you always used to put yourself in the situation of footballers of the time and pretend to be them.
Aaron Ramsey
Time
You
Yourself
School
Situation
Pretend
Put
Footballers
Stuff
Always
Friends
Them
Used
I used to pretend to be Ryan Giggs.
Aaron Ramsey
Pretend
Used
My favorite thing to do as a kid was pretend I was in the opening credits of a sitcom. As the theme song would play, I'd look up at the imaginary camera and smile as my name would flash on the screen.
Adam F. Goldberg
Smile
Song
Kid
Favorite
Favorite Thing
Pretend
Would
Name
Opening
Look
Camera
Up
Sitcom
Flash
Screen
Theme
Theme Song
Play
Thing
Credits
Imaginary
Before I go on stage I pretend that everyone loves me.
Adam Levine
Me
Before
Stage
Everyone
Pretend
Go
Loves
In drama you can either pretend everything is OK, or you can show the world as it really is in the hope that it gets better.
Aidan Gillen
Hope
You
World
Better
Drama
Everything
OK
Pretend
Gets
Either
Really
Show
I can't even pretend to play golf.
Alan Arkin
Pretend
Golf
Even
Play
Play Golf
We really can't forecast all that well, and yet we pretend that we can, but we really can't.
Alan Greenspan
Pretend
Well
Forecast
Really
I want to get good enough so I can play in Mia Hamm's golf tournament for her foundation and have an event of my own someday. I'm so competitive, I don't want to go and just pretend I'm a good golfer.
Ali Krieger
Good
Own
Enough
Pretend
Someday
My Own
Tournament
Go
Get
Just
Want
Golf
Golf Tournament
Golfer
Event
Foundation
Play
Her
Competitive
To try and to pretend that there's no difference between where we come from is so dumb.
Allison Williams
Try
Pretend
No Difference
Between
Come
Dumb
Difference
Where
The economic and political roots of the conflicts are too strong for us to pretend to create a lasting state of harmonious understanding between men.
Alva Myrdal
Strong
Political
Men
Understanding
Too
Lasting
Harmonious
State
Pretend
Economic
Between
Conflicts
Us
Create
Roots
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