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I can't pretend to be enjoying this.
I can't pretend I'm enjoying going out there and playing this style.
- Tiffeny Milbrett
You can't ask every player to do the same thing.
That's why we have amazing midfielders,
defenders, forwards and keepers.
You can't ask them to be of the same mold.
- Tiffeny Milbrett
My philosophy about the game, for instance,
is that you have players out there who really do different things.
- Tiffeny Milbrett
I've known since I went to the national team when I
was very young that I was a different bird.
- Tiffeny Milbrett
I don't think the game should be perfect.
It's 95 percent mistakes out there -
you have to work with 10 players on your side and another 11 against you.
It's a crazy, chaotic game.
- Tiffeny Milbrett
I am somebody who...
- I'm not saying I'm perfect, but I need that freedom,
that ability to make mistakes out there.
Because there's a fine line between making a mistake or being brilliant.
- Tiffeny Milbrett
I'm not saying I didn't have ample time to recover,
ample time to get to my best, I felt this year I did fine.
When I stepped on the field for the national team,
I was ready and able to make an impact,
to score goals, to create chances.
- Tiffeny Milbrett
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But that in and of itself this past year was not a
factor in what I did for the national team every time I stepped out there,
or in training, or when I stepped out there in the WUSA.
- Tiffeny Milbrett
We are what we pretend to be,
so we must be careful what we pretend to be.
- Kurt Vonnegut
The greatest way to live with honor in this world
is to be what we pretend to be.
- Socrates
We should not pretend to understand the world
only by the intellect.
The judgment of the intellect
is only part of the truth.
- Carl Jung
We should not pretend to understand
the world only by the intellect;
we apprehend it just as much by feeling.
Therefore, the judgment of the intellect is,
at best, only the half of truth, and must, if it be honest,
also come to an understanding of its inadequacy.
- Carl Jung
I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colors.
I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and
am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.
- Winston Churchill
I wouldn't pretend to tell you we don't pay our lawyers well.
- Jay Alan Sekulow
My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them.
- Mitch Hedberg
I feel exuberant. I don't pretend.
- Bono
I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.
- Roy Lichtenstein
My playground was the theatre.
I'd sit and watch my mother pretend for a living.
As a young girl, that's pretty seductive.
- Gwyneth Paltrow
I loved being outside.
We'd hold lightning bugs in our fingers and pretend they were diamond rings.
- Loretta Lynn
Rare is the human being, immature or mature,
who has never felt an impulse to pretend he is some one or something else.
- George P. Baker
The whole business is built on ego, vanity,
self-satisfaction, and it's total crap to pretend it's not.
- George Michael
I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours.
I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely
sorry for the poor browns.
- Winston Churchill
Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade
in which you're not really interested in order to get where you're going.
- Christopher Morley
I pretend I'm one of the royal family when I'm in a
hotel and that the hotel belongs to me -
it is a palace.
- Martin Short
When you have spent an important part of your life playing Let's Pretend,
it's often easy to see symbolism where none exists.
- Gene Tierney
Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions,
and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.
- David Hume
I've never had to pretend to be having sex with somebody.
I'm like the queen of the foreplay dissolve.
- Julia Roberts
I am not an angel and do not pretend to be.
That is not one of my roles.
But I am not the devil either.
I am a woman and a serious artist, and I would like so to be judged.
- Maria Callas
The American people are tired of liars and people who
pretend to be something they're not.
- Hillary Clinton
I wanted to be left alone to live my life,
so it was very easy for people to pretend that they were me.
- Mohsen Makhmalbaf
I knew nothing about martial arts.
And I don't really like it!
But in the film, I not only had to pretend that I knew all about it,
I had to be the best at it.
That was very difficult.
- Ziyi Zhang
Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.
- Edgar Watson Howe
I trained as a theater actor and you had a bare stage and you had to pretend,
one prop and you are in the middle of 8th Ave.
and traffic is just going by.
- Benicio Del Toro
By vulgarity I mean that vice of civilization which
makes man ashamed of himself and his next of kin,
and pretend to be somebody else.
- Solomon Schechter
I wrote The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God in five hours,
but I had it all planned out.
It isn't poetry and it does not pretend to be,
but it does what it sets out to do.
- J. Milton Hayes
Why does everyone have to pretend to be stupid and not know long words?
- Martin Freeman
I don't pretend to be captain weird.
I just do what I do.
- Johnny Depp
It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered
from a disappointed passion.
Such wounds always leave a scar.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
An awful lot of gay pop stars pretend to be straight.
I'm going to start a movement of straight pop stars pretending to be gay.
- Robbie Williams
I go wild on a stage.
Some folks have measured us an image.
They pretend us to be saints.
And that image is much tougher to keep up with.
Because that's not who we are.
- Donnie Wahlberg
I ended up gettin' a little Gibson amp and a bass,
because of Gene Simmons of Kiss.
Myself and three other kids would pretend to be Kiss -
I liked Gene the best.
- Jason Newsted
I'm not a cheerleader.
I'm not trying to pretend to be sweet and then come out and be bad.
This is who I am.
- Willa Ford
The past is what you remember, imagine you remember,
convince yourself you remember, or pretend you remember.
- Harold Pinter
Everyone knows we get paid a lot of money,
so why pretend otherwise?
- Catherine Zeta-Jones
One way to compensate for a tiny brain is to pretend to be dead.
- Scott Adams
I am trying to make my accent so it won't bother anyone,
but I am not going to drive myself crazy trying to
pretend I am an American girl when I am from Colombia.
- Shakira
The sum and substance of female education in America,
as in England, is training women to consider marriage
as the sole object in life,
and to pretend that they do not think so.
- Harriet Martineau
I couldn't be in a relationship and behave like somebody
else or pretend I felt something I didn't feel.
And that includes saying things I thought might jeopardize the relationship.
- Kenny Loggins
There are Anarchists in other parts of the world who are unable to,
comprehend the position of the Spanish Anarchists.
I do not pretend to censor these Anarchists.
- Frederica Montseny
The thing is, is to raise your hand.
It's not to hide, and it's not to try and pretend or do anything like that.
You raise your hand, that's the best thing about it.
- Liza Minnelli
I don't pretend to be an ordinary housewife.
- Elizabeth Taylor
I was raised to pretend.
- Anne Heche
She belongs to a race of delightful women,
who never do any harm, whom everybody calls good,
and who are very severe on those who do not pretend to be good.
- Gilbert Parker
It's sometimes better to pretend I don't hear the sound
of somebody in the nearby woods with a shotgun.
- Dashiell Hammett
I'd love to be a saxophonist.
I don't know why, but I pretend I'm the saxophonist when I listen to music.
I have about as much chance playing the sax as I do learning how to fly.
- Richard Price
Some people continue to pretend that anchor people are reporters.
- Peter Jennings
To pretend, I actually do the thing:
I have therefore only pretended to pretend.
- Jacques Derrida
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.
- Fran Lebowitz
What I'm dealing with is sound.
I don't pretend to be dealing with music.
I'm just dealing with sound elements,
textures and sounds.
- Bill Laswell
Your mind can't always tell the difference between
pretend and reality if you pretend too long;
or if you go too deep and really believe in what you're doing.
- Annabella Sciorra
I pretend something scary is in front of me.
- Heather O'Rourke
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
A lot of my audience are in their 50s.
But they want me to pretend to continue to be pretending.
- Pete Townshend
It is always self-defeating to pretend to a generation younger than your own;
it simply erases your own experience in history.
- Renata Adler
Acting was something that just came along.
But I made good money, so it wasn't something I was
just going to put aside and pretend it didn't exist.
- Kurt Russell
The hardest job an actor can do is all this pretend,
all this screaming and being scared for your life.
- Kirsten Dunst
The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest.
That would seriously interfere with business.
- Clarence Darrow
Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign
around his or her neck that says,
"Make me feel important." Not only will you succeed in sales,
you will succeed in life.
- Mary Kay Ash
The Church does not pretend to be scientists.
It teaches based upon what science tells it.
- Wellington Mara
You have to put on more faces to pretend who you are.
- Nell Carter
Let's not pretend that all of a sudden,
this is some new system.
- Mark Shields
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