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Style equals pretense.
Piety is the tinfoil of pretense.
pretense is the oil that lubricates society.
Sometimes I pose, but sometimes I pose as posing.
I don't make any pretense about being normal. I'm not.
Give your heart to everybody you meet. The rest is pretense.
He who has a mind to do mischief will always find a pretense.
Good food is good food. It doesn't have to come with pretense.
People defend nothing more violently than the pretenses they live by.
Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none.
There are pretenses which are very sincere, and marriage is their school.
(Sarah Palin's) greatest hypocrisy is in her pretense that she is a woman.
Home is the place where you are most thoroughly yourself, with no pretenses.
To copy beauty forfeits all pretense to fame; to copy faults is want of sense.
The name and pretense of virtue is as serviceable to self-interest as are real vices.
The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.
Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying.
Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense.
I think making a pretense of civility toward Eric Alterman is like making a pretense of civility to a scorpion.
I love stories, and my life is principally concentrated on stories, but not with a pretense of scientific precision.
We labored under the pretense that nothing had changed when everything had, and I understood him, but i no longer knew him.
I've never been a fan of pretense or procrastination. After all, our state is defined by its independent, outspoken spirit.
I look for a girl without pretense who is sweet and intelligent - preferably brunette, but that's not completely important.
You must not under any pretense allow your mind to dwell on any thought that is not positive, constructive, optimistic, kind.
By the by, who ever knew a man who never read or wrote neither who hadn't got some small back parlour which he would call a study!
The older generation grew up on blow-dried anchors, plastic politicians, and an ocean of pretense. Realness seems unvarnished and unpolished to them.
Comics, at least in periodical form, exist almost entirely free of any pretense; the critical world of art hardly touches them, and they're 100% personal.
I made no pretense of doing balanced reporting about murder. I was appalled by defense attorneys who would do anything to win an acquittal for a guilty person.
People say to me, 'Ooh, L.A. is so plastic.' Sure, it's mountains to the right, oceans to the left and pretense in the middle, but who... has to hang out in the middle?
'A Talk to Teachers' showed me that a teacher's work should reject the false pretense of being apolitical and, instead, confront the problems that shape our students' lives.
I just don't feel like composing music for films because I find there is too much pretense in the industry and creativity has been replaced by the sole thought of making money.
In many ways, the very notion of school choice operates under a false pretense - an assumption that every child has the same set of choices to make and the same places to choose from.
It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse - the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon come to an end.
There was no pretense to objectivity; 'Time' had a partisan Republican point of view, and if it was one not shared by many of its gentrified Ivy Leaguers, few felt the compulsion to quit.
Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government.
The pretentiousness of literature really annoys me; the way a writer is held as this sort of magical person to be revered on the stage. Everything I do on tour is to try and destroy that pretense.
My father got to see the first 10 years of my career. He implored me to always appreciate people who are not operating under any sort of false pretense or who weren't caught up in their own success.
Frankly - and believe me, I say this without any pretense - when I see the road I've taken, I have to say that thanks to good luck, because without good luck one can do nothing, I've come out pretty well.
I didn't come from any kind of academic background, but I lived in a college town and I knew people who weren't without pretense. There was this idea in the town that if something was European it would be good.
The basic fault lines today are not between people with different beliefs but between people who hold these beliefs with an element of uncertainty and people who hold these beliefs with a pretense of certitude.
If our countries had war the one with the other, that was no cause that he should put us to death; with which they were out of heart that their cruel pretense failed them. For which God be forever-more praised.
I've lived with myself for a very long time, so I'm aware of what I look like. I'm under no false pretense that I'm a stunner, so if somebody comes up and says something about my physical appearance, it's okay.
I'd been in Sacramento a day and already noticed the pervasiveness of its homeless problem. The city seemed like California without the masks or pretense: a place where dreams were occasionally made but mostly torn apart.
Blackfoot was one of the ultimate live bands... there was no pretense, no gimmickry; it was sound, lights, and rock and roll. Our whole goal was to be terrifying... to strike fear and cause havoc in a closing band's minds.
Children, I always think, are just putting on a performance of being naive and not understanding anything. I have worked with children in films, and they're treated as adults and they just drop the pretense of being children.
Trump makes no pretense about being the commander in chief of all of the country, being president of all of the people, including the people who voted against him. He is, in effect, a tribal chieftain who has declared war on half of the country.
There is the bipartisan pretense that the FBI is the only government agency in Washington that is above reproach. Yet, this is the agency that collaborated with Lois Lerner and the IRS in an effort to criminally prosecute opponents of Barack Obama.
I ask every Communist individually to set an example, by deeds and without pretense, a real example worthy of a man and a Communist, in restoring order, starting normal life, in resuming work and production, and in laying the foundations of an ordered life.
There's something very noble about the bowling shoe. It has very little pretense, and it's kind of naughty. You have to share them with a bunch of other people, which is so kinky in a way that I like. What other shoes would you actively share with other people?
There's a lot of pretense out there. It can be exhausting. When people see something genuine, even if it's something as simple as two people actually being friends, actually enjoying what they're doing, or actually standing up for each other, that translates in a big way.