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Pretension is a poor joke that you play on yourself. Snap out of it. Recognise your strengths, work on your weaknesses. Real achievement is liking what you see in the mirror every morning.
Virat Kohli
Work
Morning
You
Achievement
Yourself
Mirror
Joke
Every
Recognise
Out
Weaknesses
Pretension
See
Liking
Real
Snap
Poor
Your
Play
Strengths
Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.
Margot Fonteyn
Life
Art
Great
People
Mediocrity
Way
Alike
Find
Pretension
Sort
Any
Artists
Themselves
Who
I love everything about Philadelphia, and its food is like the city itself: real-deal, hearty, and without pretension. We've always had an underdog vibe as a city, but that just makes us try harder, and I love our scrappiness and scruffiness.
Lisa Scottoline
Love
Food
Try
Our
Everything
City
Pretension
About
Had
Underdog
Like
Without
Makes
Always
Itself
Hearty
Vibe
Just
Us
Harder
Philadelphia
I come from very common stock, and I've always been uncomfortable with pretension and all the forms it can take, including disingenuous broadcasting.
Tom Bodett
Broadcasting
Pretension
Uncomfortable
Take
Come
Always
Been
Stock
Very
Common
Disingenuous
Forms
Including
In every commercial state, notwithstanding any pretension to equal rights, the exaltation of a few must depress the many.
Adam Ferguson
Rights
Few
Every
State
Must
Pretension
Exaltation
Equal
Equal Rights
Commercial
Any
Depress
Notwithstanding
Many
I have no pretension that I belong in D.C. I mean, I have to be cautious on how we do our restaurant.
Daniel Boulud
Our
Restaurant
Pretension
How
Cautious
Mean
Belong
I'm responsible for starting a whole new school of pretension.
David Bowie
School
Responsible
Pretension
New
Whole
Starting
Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth.
E. T. Bell
Truth
Science
Pretension
Absolute
Absolute Truth
Makes
Eternal
We are in a position of financial and social power, and we could be agents of change in our society. Without pretension, I believe we could be a nice little gardener who takes care of the garden, and hopefully our neighbor will do the same. Then, maybe we'll achieve a better world.
Guy Laliberte
Finance
Change
Garden
World
Financial
Better
Achieve
Care
Will
Power
Better World
Nice
Believe
Society
Our
Neighbor
Hopefully
Pretension
Could
Takes
Without
Same
Maybe
Little
Social
Then
Agents
Who
Gardener
Position
Rock n' roll doesn't change. All the idiocies and pretension continue.
Harry Shearer
Change
Pretension
Rock
Rock-N-Roll
Continue
Roll
Inside, Penlee House is without pretension. It is a space that knows its limitations and its strengths - and makes the most of them.
Jim Crace
Space
Inside
Pretension
Most
House
Knows
Without
Limitations
Makes
Them
Strengths
Music is primal: when it's done without pretension, you can really feel the shape of someone's soul.
Lizz Wright
Music
You
Soul
Pretension
Someone
Shape
Primal
Feel
Without
Done
Really
Arkansas, the state Bill Clinton loves and that loves him back, is a place with just no pretension at all.
Molly Ivins
State
Back
Pretension
Arkansas
Him
Clinton
Just
Place
Loves
Bill
Bill Clinton
I don't think couture will die. But it should have no pretension that it will conquer the world. It's not something that will disappear because all you need is a thread and a needle to start making something couture.
Olivier Theyskens
You
World
Will
Think
Thread
Pretension
Something
Disappear
Because
Making
Couture
Die
Should
Conquer
Start
Need
Needle
Americans are generally very self-sufficient and I think generally averse to pretension, just as I am.
Tom Bodett
Think
Pretension
Generally
Am
Self-Sufficient
Very
American
Just
Averse
The Tories have long since abdicated any pretension of principled global leadership.
Emily Thornberry
Leadership
Long
Tories
Pretension
Since
Global
Principled
Any
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