- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
Feign Quotes
On pretending not to know, and why it rarely holds up.
Several of these quotes challenge the idea of feigning innocence or ignorance, particularly around policy consequences that come back around. Others take a lighter angle, noting how adults sometimes feign disinterest in children's curiosity about science.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am not a 'defender' of the September 11 attacks, but simply pointing out that if U.S. foreign policy results in massive death and destruction abroad, we cannot feign innocence when some of that destruction is returned.
- Loss
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- Nov 07, 2020
With the exception of undertakers, athletes are the only professionals obliged to feign sorrow on a daily basis, pretending that every June baseball loss is a tragedy requiring library silence in the clubhouse.
- Not Interested
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- Nov 07, 2020
Something stopped me in school a little bit. Anything that I'm not interested in, I can't even feign interest.
- Grab
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- Nov 07, 2020
As adults feign disinterest in science - children can grab hold of it to distinguish themselves.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you think about it, we actors are kind of prostitutes. We get paid to feign attraction and love. Other people are paying to watch us kissing someone, touching someone, doing things people in a normal monogamous relationship would never do with anyone who's not their partner. It's really kind of gross.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020