Top 21 We Are What We Pretend To Be Quotes
#1. We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
Kurt Vonnegut
#3. Dandyism is a lie which reveals the truth, and the truth is that we are what we pretend to be.
Sebastian Horsley
#5. I think we simply all like to project ourselves into somebody else - somebody who is better-looking, richer, smarter. It's comforting. It's escapism, and that, of course, is what the movies are supposed to be all about. Ultimately, I think it's just part of human nature to pretend.
Richard D. Zanuck
#6. Well, it's like this: if you're forced into having sex with someone you dislike, you make your mind blank - you pretend to be somewhere else, you tend to forget your body, you hate your body. That's what we do here. We are constantly pretending to be somewhere else - we either plan it or dream it.
Azar Nafisi
#7. We pretend to be what we are not because we are afraid of being rejected.
Miguel Ruiz
#8. We Greeks are a moody people. Suicide makes sense to us. Putting up Christmas lights after your own daughter does it - that makes no sense. What my yia yia could never understand about America was why everyone pretended to be happy all the time.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#9. HAN: 'Tis said that sometimes those who knew us in
Our youth did know us best. From them we have
No secrets and cannot pretend to be
Another thing that what we are. They keep
Our living honest, for they know who we
Have been.
Ian Doescher
#10. What twisted people we are. How simple we seem, or at least pretend to be in front of others, and how twisted we are deep down. How paltry we are and how spectacularly we contort ourselves before our own eyes, and the eyes of others ... And all for what? To hide what? To make people believe what?
Roberto Bolano
#11. We are born perfect, and we will die perfect. The problem is that we create that character in our story that we pretend to be, or that we want to be, and we cannot hide that from ourselves. We know that we are pretending to be what we are not in the name of perfection.
Miguel Angel Ruiz
#12. People like us are dead to society unless we're pretentious, tell people what they want to hear, take off our clothes, or pretend to be like them.
Donna Lynn Hope
#13. My husband acts and I have such respect for those that do it well, that I wouldn't even try to pretend I can act.
Leeza Gibbons
#14. Before I go on stage I pretend that everyone loves me.
Adam Levine
#15. Sometimes I have to pretend I feel brave before I actually do. Sometimes I never make it past the pretending part. But those days are getting fewer and further between.
Nicole Williams
#16. I want to stumble across something on the sidewalk and pretend she dropped it: a flower petal, a scarf. And then I want to set it on fire.
Tiffanie DeBartolo
#17. [On refusing to be silenced:] I do not pretend to be John the Baptist rebuking the Pharisees. I do not claim to be Nathan upbraiding David. I aspire only to be Balaam's ass, castigating his master.
Katharina Zell
#18. I'm going to do whatever the world tells me to. I'm going to act like I'm in a goddamn Bob Dylan song and blow in the direction of the wind. I'm going to pretend my future's wide open, and that anything can happen.
Nicola Yoon
#19. I can't pretend that I don't subscribe to Internet music culture in that I discover new music and old music simultaneously.
Alan Palomo
#20. A place where we'd be forced to interact. A place where we'd stop having to pretend that my mother didn't leave way too much space in our house after she died. Rachel
Colleen Hoover
#21. Winter testing is essential but there comes a point where you have had enough of all the rehearsals and the pretend racing. You just want to get down to the real action.
Damon Hill
