In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not.
We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.
I mean it's fine when you're a kid and someone runs into the playground and goes 'I've got this great game of pretend ' and you play... As an actor getting to play getting to use your imagination and be childish - it is weird but it's wonderful.
I am an actor and I live in the world of pretend in my working capacity. I live in the world of my imagination.
Poor David Hume is dying fast but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of things than any whining Christian ever dyed with pretended resignation to the will of God.
Flying back from New York the flight attendant said 'God I wished you were here yesterday we had a stroke on the plane. I said if I have a stroke on a plane I hope the pretend doctor isn't the one on the plane. I want a real doctor.
I hope that Facebook and other Internet technologies were able to help people just like we hope that we help them communicate and organize and do whatever they want to every single day but I don't pretend that if Facebook didn't exist that this wouldn't even be possible. Of course it would have.
You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.
It's a miracle was the last track recorded for the album we based it on the rhythm from the middle of 'Late Home Tonight where there's Graham Broad playing lots and lots of drums with me shouting in the background pretending to be a mad Arab leader.
Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to provisions against danger real or pretended from abroad.
It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger real or pretended from abroad.
It is always self-defeating to pretend to a generation younger than your own it simply erases your own experience in history.
A large part of acting is just pretending. You get to work with these other great make-believers all making believe as hard as they can.
I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am.
The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
If you like small government you need to work hard at having a strong national defense that is not so militant. Personal liberty is the purpose of government to protect liberty - not to run your personal life not to run the economy and not to pretend that we can tell the world how they ought to live.
I question myself every day. That's what I still find motivating about this. I don't have the answers I don't pretend that I do just because I won the match. Just keep fighting and maybe something good happens.