Quotes with make-believe

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  • Bryant Gumbel Scott, as you and I both know, a popular move these days is to make a titillating charge and then have the media create the frenzy. Given Kenneth Starr's track record, should we suspect that he's trying to do with innuendo that which he has been unable to do with evidence?
    Bryant Gumbel
    American television journalist and sportscaster (1948 - )
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  • Aeschylus Search well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than good counsel.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Anne Wilson Schaef Security is an attempt to try to make the universe static so that we feel safe.
    Anne Wilson Schaef
    American clinical psychologist and author
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  • St. Augustine of Hippo Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
    St. Augustine of Hippo
    Roman African Christian theologian and philosopher (354 - 430)
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  • Tacitus Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.
    Tacitus
    Roman senator and historian (56 - 117)
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  • Isaac Asimov Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
    Isaac Asimov
    American writer (1920 - 1992)
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  • Richard Cecil Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.
    Richard Cecil
    British Evangelical Anglican priest (1748 - 1810)
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  • J. G. Ballard Selfish men make the best lovers. They're prepared to invest in the women's pleasures so that they can collect an even bigger dividend for themselves.
    Cocaine Nights (1996)
    J. G. Ballard
    British author (1930 - 2009)
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  • Christian Nevell Bovee Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.
    Christian Nevell Bovee
    American writer
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  • Bobby Vinton Session musicians kind of respected me because what I was talking about made sense. That all came from an education. Believe me, education does you more good. Maybe that's the reason I've been around so long.
    Bobby Vinton
    American singer and songwriter (1935 - )
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  • Bill Cosby Sex education may be a good idea in the schools, but I don't believe the kids should be given homework.
    Bill Cosby
    American actor, comedian, producer (1937 - )
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  • Marty Feldman Sex is two plus two making five, rather than four. Sex is the X ingredient that you can't define, and it's that X ingredient between two people that make both a man and a woman good in bed. It's all relative. There are no rules.
    Marty Feldman
    British actor and comedian (1934 - 1982)
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  • Sir James Matthew Barrie Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always try to be a little kinder than is necessary.
    Sir James Matthew Barrie
    British playwright (1860 - 1937)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Shallow people believe in luck and in circumstances; Strong people believe in cause and effect.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Marguerite Duras She represents the un-vowed aspiration of the male human being, his potential infidelity - and infidelity of a very special kind, which would lead him to the opposite of his wife, to the ''woman of wax'' whom he could model at will, make and unmake in any way he wished, even unto death.
    Marguerite Duras
    French author and filmmaker (1914 - 1996)
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  • Ada Leverson She thought that most women make a great mistake in allowing dress to be the master instead of the servant of their good looks; many women were, she considered, entirely crushed and made insignificant by the beauty of their clothes.
    Tenterhooks (1912)
    Ada Leverson
    British writer (1862 - 1933)
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  • George Eliot She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Victor Hugo Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Barry Sanders Shortly after the end of last season, I felt that I probably would not return for the 1999-2000 season. I also felt that I should take as much time as possible to sort through my feelings and make sure that my feelings were backed with conviction.
    Barry Sanders
    American football player (1968 - )
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  • Fran Lebowitz Should you be a teenager blessed with uncommon good looks, document this state of affairs by the taking of photographs. It is the only way anyone will ever believe you in years to come.
    Social Studies (1981)
    Fran Lebowitz
    American journalist (1950 - )
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