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Think it this way: next time someone gives you a document that you just simply don't understand, don't be shy, don't keep quiet, pretending that you are understanding everything.

Well, you can play the tracker for a fool, pretending to be at work when you're really on vacation.

We need to stop that, to stop pretending to be omniscient beings.

So one of the things that I say to men, and my colleagues and I always say this, is we need more men who have the courage and the strength to start standing up and saying some of this stuff, and standing with women and not against them and pretending that somehow this is a battle between the sexes and other kinds of nonsense.

So, for example, if you're a guy and you're in a group of guys playing poker, talking, hanging out, no women present, and another guy says something sexist or degrading or harassing about women, instead of laughing along or pretending you didn't hear it, we need men to say, "Hey, that's not funny.

This is a virus pretending to look like antivirus software, and it will go through and it will scan the system, have a look at what its popping up here.

She's some other woman pretending to be my mother."

It's some strange woman pretending to be my mother."

HP: (In Chinese) YR: Actually, the only way I feel comfortable wearing it is by pretending they are the robes of a kung fu warrior like Li Mu Bai from that film, "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon."

I wrote it because I was tired of pretending I was all right when I wasn't.

There’s no point pretending this is all easy to achieve.

I'm not pretending this is an exhaustive list, but these seven, I think, are pretty large habits that we can all fall into.

And while we're busy pretending not to see, we are not being aware of the ways in which racial difference is changing people's possibilities, that's keeping them from thriving, and sometimes it's causing them an early death.

Real security is contemplating death, not pretending it doesn't exist.

This is anti-social skill number two: start pretending they're real.

So my dad grew up answering the door for debt collectors and pretending his parents weren't home.

It's not by pretending that death doesn't exist that we keep the people, especially the little people that we love, safe.

You can ignore those words; they're used by people trying to say they're smart while pretending they're humble.

We kept looking at these two numbers, obsessing with them and pretending that our world could be reduced to a couple digits and a horse race, while the real stories, the ones that really mattered, were somewhere else.

Actually, she had not changed, she just got tired of pretending.

When it comes to poverty, we, the rich, should stop pretending we know best.

We can talk about challenges and struggles in an open way, rather than everybody pretending that they're fine until it's too late.

Think of all the wasted energy spent pretending, wishing you were someone different.

It means you've got to stop pretending you can do these two very disparate skill sets with the same 19-year-old.

I'd be this little boy, bouncing all over our living room, pretending to be my favorite wrestlers from TV.

But unlike most flowers, which attract a range of pollinators with sweet nectar, these masters of deception deploy other tactics– like pretending to be an insect’s mate, letting off alluring scents, and mimicking the appearance of other species.

Alright, so look, it's a great question if you are pretending to be psychic, because it's about the future, which means I can give you a yes or no on this.

I've been pretending to be a man that I'm not my entire life.

I've been pretending to be strong when I felt weak, confident when I felt insecure and tough when really I was hurting.

And if you imagine a kid pretending to be King Kong, or a race car driver, or a fireman, they don't all become race car drivers or firemen, you know.

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