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He pretends to care about others, but the only thing he cares about is money and promoting the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) propaganda. And it makes me sick how he's using social justice to make money for his company. – Kanter Freedom	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It felt fitting for our show, when all of these legends go off the air, everything is meticulous. Of course, we would think of a bit with Jack Black where Jack Black pretends to get hurt and when shooting it, Jack Black gets hurt. – Conan OBriens late-night careerO'Brien jokes	Found on CNN 2 years ago
This offensive legislation pretends skin color has never mattered in our country. As far too many Americans know, race-based oppression, discrimination and inequality has been a fact of life since before the dawn of our nation, our children deserve to learn the full story and truth of our people — the victories and the struggles. Unfortunately, the controlling party is attempting to erase historical fact in favor [of] whitewashed falsehoods. – Raumesh Akbari	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It can't be trying to help the hedge funds at the same time it pretends to help individual investors. – Elizabeth Warren	Found on CNN 3 years ago
So he pretends that this medicine would save 90 % of people's lives. It is not the medicine. It's just the way the disease goes, the problem is that people are going to believe that. – Luiz Henrique Mandetta	Found on CNN 3 years ago
When these complaints come and Jim Jordan pretends now that Jim Jordan had no knowledge of it, that's betrayal in the highest level. – Former OSU wrestler Tito Vazquez	Found on CNN 4 years ago
The league kind of pretends that they're interested in (player safety and longevity), pretends that they care about it, makes all these rules, fines all these players, but then still proposes players play an extra game. – Richard Sherman	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
It's impossible to pay for Medicare for All without middle-class tax increases, to accomplish this sleight of hand, her proposal dramatically understates its cost, overstates its savings, inflates the revenue, and pretends that an employer payroll tax increase is something else. – Kate Bedingfield	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
If someone is used to considering Italy a dumping site for all the problems Europe pretends not to see, that's over. And this applies to the French and the Dutch. – Matteo Salvini	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Dear German government, I'm not reopening the ports ... if anything we're going to put ... (the migrants) in a car and take them to the German embassy, if someone is used to considering Italy a dumping site for all the problems Europe pretends not to see, that's over. And this applies to the French and the Dutch. – Matteo Salvini	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
A real actor can’t love anyone. Cause he/she only pretends to be lover. Cause he/she still in the role of a lover and doesn’t know how to love someone for the real. – Salman Aziz	added by sajib_k 5 years ago
Sloppy Steve was rarely in a one-on-one meeting with me and only pretends to have had influence to fool a few people with no access and no clue, whom Sloppy Steve helped write phony books. – Donald Trump	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
Steve was rarely in a one-on-one meeting with me and only pretends to have had influence to fool a few people with no access and no clue, whom he helped write phony books. – President Trump	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
Steve pretends to be at war with the media, which he calls the opposition party, yet he spent his time at Trump White House leaking false information to the media to make himself seem far more important than he was, it is the only thing he does well. – Steve Bannon	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
Rich Western Europeans, towards whom most of the Maldives’ tourism is geared, would not want to book expensive holidays in a country known for the production of jihad, if the tourism industry is damaged, the minuscule percentage of rich Maldivians who control it would suffer, and many of them bankroll the government. So the current regimen downplays the number of jihadists, pretends it is a problem that does not exist and labels anyone who speaks about it a traitor. – Azra Naseem	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
Instead of addressing the real issues to boost cohesion, (the government) pretends they come from abroad and wants to push them abroad. – Dominique Sopo	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Everyone pretends to follow official procedures but it's all a sham. – Haidar El Ali	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
No one pretends that refugee resettlement ends the war in Syria, but it's a tangible contribution to the lives of a significant number of people and a genuine action of solidarity with those neighboring states bearing the greatest strain. – David Miliband	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I'm less concerned about what faith the person has. I'm more concerned about the authenticity of their faith and how that plays out in their politics... I'm also concerned about a guy that believes he's a Christian and pretends to be and then says he is, but then does things that makes it very difficult for people to practice their Christian faith, i'm disappointed if someone says,' I'm a Christian,' but you invite the pope into your home and then you invite a whole bunch of people who are at odds with the Catholic Church policy. I think there's something very unseemly about that. – Mike Huckabee	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Let's be clear, the monitoring this proposes is an absolute joke. So anyone who pretends like that's somehow something that's extraordinary, it's not. This is some of the weakest monitoring. – Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker	Found on CNN 8 years ago
We know what it’s like when the government pretends everything is going to be okay in Iraq, until it’s not. – Dana Perino	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite. – Jean Kerr	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he _becomes_ polite. – Jean Kerr	added by anonymous 13 years ago
A flatterer is a friend who is your inferior, or pretends to be so. – Aristotle	added by anonymous 13 years ago

He pretends to care about others, but the only thing he cares about is money and promoting the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) propaganda. And it makes me sick how he's using social justice to make money for his company.

– Kanter Freedom

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It felt fitting for our show, when all of these legends go off the air, everything is meticulous. Of course, we would think of a bit with Jack Black where Jack Black pretends to get hurt and when shooting it, Jack Black gets hurt.

– Conan OBriens late-night careerO'Brien jokes

Found on CNN
2 years ago

This offensive legislation pretends skin color has never mattered in our country. As far too many Americans know, race-based oppression, discrimination and inequality has been a fact of life since before the dawn of our nation, our children deserve to learn the full story and truth of our people — the victories and the struggles. Unfortunately, the controlling party is attempting to erase historical fact in favor [of] whitewashed falsehoods.

– Raumesh Akbari

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It can't be trying to help the hedge funds at the same time it pretends to help individual investors.

– Elizabeth Warren

Found on CNN
3 years ago

So he pretends that this medicine would save 90 % of people's lives. It is not the medicine. It's just the way the disease goes, the problem is that people are going to believe that.

– Luiz Henrique Mandetta

Found on CNN
3 years ago

When these complaints come and Jim Jordan pretends now that Jim Jordan had no knowledge of it, that's betrayal in the highest level.

– Former OSU wrestler Tito Vazquez

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The league kind of pretends that they're interested in (player safety and longevity), pretends that they care about it, makes all these rules, fines all these players, but then still proposes players play an extra game.

– Richard Sherman

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

It's impossible to pay for Medicare for All without middle-class tax increases, to accomplish this sleight of hand, her proposal dramatically understates its cost, overstates its savings, inflates the revenue, and pretends that an employer payroll tax increase is something else.

– Kate Bedingfield

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

If someone is used to considering Italy a dumping site for all the problems Europe pretends not to see, that's over. And this applies to the French and the Dutch.

– Matteo Salvini

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Dear German government, I'm not reopening the ports ... if anything we're going to put ... (the migrants) in a car and take them to the German embassy, if someone is used to considering Italy a dumping site for all the problems Europe pretends not to see, that's over. And this applies to the French and the Dutch.

– Matteo Salvini

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

A real actor can’t love anyone. Cause he/she only pretends to be lover. Cause he/she still in the role of a lover and doesn’t know how to love someone for the real.

– Salman Aziz

added by sajib_k
5 years ago

Sloppy Steve was rarely in a one-on-one meeting with me and only pretends to have had influence to fool a few people with no access and no clue, whom Sloppy Steve helped write phony books.

– Donald Trump

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Steve was rarely in a one-on-one meeting with me and only pretends to have had influence to fool a few people with no access and no clue, whom he helped write phony books.

– President Trump

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Steve pretends to be at war with the media, which he calls the opposition party, yet he spent his time at Trump White House leaking false information to the media to make himself seem far more important than he was, it is the only thing he does well.

– Steve Bannon

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Rich Western Europeans, towards whom most of the Maldives’ tourism is geared, would not want to book expensive holidays in a country known for the production of jihad, if the tourism industry is damaged, the minuscule percentage of rich Maldivians who control it would suffer, and many of them bankroll the government. So the current regimen downplays the number of jihadists, pretends it is a problem that does not exist and labels anyone who speaks about it a traitor.

– Azra Naseem

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

Instead of addressing the real issues to boost cohesion, (the government) pretends they come from abroad and wants to push them abroad.

– Dominique Sopo

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Everyone pretends to follow official procedures but it's all a sham.

– Haidar El Ali

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

No one pretends that refugee resettlement ends the war in Syria, but it's a tangible contribution to the lives of a significant number of people and a genuine action of solidarity with those neighboring states bearing the greatest strain.

– David Miliband

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I'm less concerned about what faith the person has. I'm more concerned about the authenticity of their faith and how that plays out in their politics... I'm also concerned about a guy that believes he's a Christian and pretends to be and then says he is, but then does things that makes it very difficult for people to practice their Christian faith, i'm disappointed if someone says,' I'm a Christian,' but you invite the pope into your home and then you invite a whole bunch of people who are at odds with the Catholic Church policy. I think there's something very unseemly about that.

– Mike Huckabee

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Let's be clear, the monitoring this proposes is an absolute joke. So anyone who pretends like that's somehow something that's extraordinary, it's not. This is some of the weakest monitoring.

– Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker

Found on CNN
8 years ago

We know what it’s like when the government pretends everything is going to be okay in Iraq, until it’s not.

– Dana Perino

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite.

– Jean Kerr

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he _becomes_ polite.

– Jean Kerr

added by anonymous
13 years ago

A flatterer is a friend who is your inferior, or pretends to be so.

– Aristotle

added by anonymous
13 years ago

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