Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be.


Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

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Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be. -Kurt Vonnegut.
KURT VONNEGUT
Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be.
KURT VONNEGUT
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.
KURT VONNEGUT
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
KURT VONNEGUT JR.
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
KURT VONNEGUT
We are all what we pretend to be, but, we had better be very careful what we pretend.
KURT VONNEGUT
We are all what we pretend to be, but, we had better be very careful what we pretend.
KURT VONNEGUT JR.
Human is what he decides to be.
ZAMAN ALI
Be careful who you pretend to be...people might actually start to believe it's who you really are.
PR FIRST LADY
You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
ANDREAS GRYPHIUS
You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
SACHA GUITRY
Sheep don’t need the shepherd to be what they are. The shepherd needs sheep to be what he is.
LJUPKA CVETANOVA
You can pretend to be serious; but you can't pretend to be witty
SACHA GUITRY
Don't pretend to be what you're not, instead, pretend to what you want to be, it is not pretence, it...
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To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be.
GOLDA MEIR
Be who you want to be not what others think you should be.
BILAL SAIF
Sometimes you have got to be careful what you wish for. But the U.S. will just put its blinders on a...
DAVID PRITCHARD
You can pretend to be serious; but you can't pretend to be witty.
SACHA GUITRY
It's better to be honest about your opinions than to pretend you don't have them.
CAMPBELL BROWN
You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you fear you are an interchangeable c...
DOUGLAS COUPLAND
You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you fear you are an interchangeable c...
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Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.
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If you pretend to be you, you will inevitably be unmasked.
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The author refers to a player's affected nonchalance and comments he is, "too young to realize you a...
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Pretend to be happy and eventually you will believe that you are.
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To be, or not to be, that is the question.
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You’ll never know who you are unless you shed who you pretend to be.
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If you don't know what you want, others will want you for what they know! You must know yourself!
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you know what the best kind of organic certification would be? make an unannounced visit to a farm a...
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To be a mother you must be strong. Even if you don't feel it, you have to pretend.
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Whoever you pretend to be, you must face yourself eventually.
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Once you place the order, they pretend to be you.
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To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
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SOURCE UNKNOWN
You have to be careful as a libertarian because you can sound very Republican.
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To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you're not, pretend you are.
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You will remain where you are...,until you change your mindset.
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You got to be careful of the company you keep.
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We all become what we pretend to be.
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To be rich simply means,to be able to meet people's need.
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when your heart touched mine,I knew then we were one.
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To be rich simply means to be beneficial to others.
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More than any woman I ever knew, she comforted.' -Mrs. Huxley about Emma
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That's silly,' said Martha. 'Friends should always tell each other the truth.
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Kindness is the essence of greatness and the fundamental characteristic of the noblest men and women...
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In this long eternal quest to be more like our Savior, may we try to be “perfect” men and women ...
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And we learned that you don't have to be famous or rich or physically healthy to be a leader. You ju...
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Be yourself, be who you can be.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA
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PATRICIA V. DAVIS
Know who you are and be who you are insofar as it is deem fit, for there is nothing so contemptuous ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
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GARY F EVANS...
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SOTONYE ANGA
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JONATHAN MILLER
Oi’m always noble, sir; it’s in my blood. ’As been ever since Oi ate that knight a few years b...
ELIZABETH HAYDON
Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ...
FEREIDOON YAZDI
Don't waste your tremendous voice writing messages in the sand.
LORIN MORGAN-RICHARDS
Focus on your work. Do what you're great at. Don't compare yourself to others and or waste time crit...
GERMANY KENT
Be what you are, but be careful in what you're doing.
SOLITUDE'S FRIEND
Have the courage to do what you're not ready to do.
RICHIE NORTON
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YAHOO SERIOUS
7 Rules to a Happy Life:

1. Be humble
2. Don’t worry
3. Don't settle for les...
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Be careful what you wear to bed, because you never know where you might wake up.
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You have to be careful what you do because the shoe may be on the other foot someday.
JODY GAGE
I've got to be honest, there's no pleasure when you're working.
DANA PLATO
This is your moment. You're meant to be here.
HERB BROOKS
Wherever you are, be all there.
CRAIG GROESCHEL
It is much harder to pretend than it is to simply be who you already are.
SUSAN MEISSNER
You shouldn’t have to pretend to be as excited as I am just to make me happy. If it comes to that,...
J.M. RICHARDS
You have to be careful how you're using the word boycott.
VERNON JORDAN
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DAMON LINDELOF
Be careful not to compromise what you want most for what you want now.
ZIG ZIGLAR
You have to be careful to react when you start to deviate from your course.
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Be careful what you ask for because you just might get it.
SOURCE UNKNOWN
No need to feel shame for what you are.
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The feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn't really going to do very much wi...
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As Bokonon says: 'peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from god.
KURT VONNEGUT JR.
Christ, back in Chicago, we don’t make bicycles any more. It’s all
human relations now. The...
KURT VONNEGUT JR.
Of course it is exhausting, having to reason all the time in a universe which wasn't meant to be rea...
KURT VONNEGUT JR.
Being American is to eat a lot of beef steak, and boy, we've got a lot more beef steak than any othe...
KURT VONNEGUT, JR.
Everything about life is a joke. Don't you know that?
KURT VONNEGUT JR.
Popular as he was as a graduation speaker, Vonnegut never graduated from college.
KURT VONNEGUT JR.
Men want a lot of pals—and they don’t want people to get mad at them.
KURT VONNEGUT JR.
One sort of optional thing you might do is to realize there are six seasons instead of four. The poe...
KURT VONNEGUT JR.
My cash cows, the slick magazines, were put out of business by TV.
KURT VONNEGUT
I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the ki...
KURT VONNEGUT
Oh, sure, we have another world war coming, and another great depression, but where are the leaders ...
KURT VONNEGUT
Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been...
KURT VONNEGUT
If you are an American, you must allow all ideas to circulate freely in your community, not merely y...
KURT VONNEGUT
There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look.
KURT VONNEGUT
I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.
KURT VONNEGUT
I let the dog out, or I let him in, and we talk some. I let him know I like him, and he lets me know...
KURT VONNEGUT
If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.
KURT VONNEGUT
I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different.
KURT VONNEGUT
Human beings will be happier - not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudic...
KURT VONNEGUT
What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thin...
KURT VONNEGUT
Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself. But mankind wasn't always so ...
KURT VONNEGUT
People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll h...
KURT VONNEGUT
If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can an...
KURT VONNEGUT
I get up at 7:30 and work four hours a day. Nine to twelve in the morning, five to six in the evenin...
KURT VONNEGUT
Thinking doesn't seem to help very much. The human brain is too high-powered to have many practical ...
KURT VONNEGUT
What war has always been is a puberty ceremony. It's a very rough one, but you went away a boy and c...
KURT VONNEGUT
The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don't acknowled...
KURT VONNEGUT
Being American is to eat a lot of beef steak, and boy, we've got a lot more beef steak than any othe...
KURT VONNEGUT
... this is a hard world to be ludicrous in, with so many human beings so reluctant to laugh, so inc...
KURT VONNEGUT
The feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn't really going to do very much wi...
KURT VONNEGUT
We are all what we pretend to be, but, we had better be very careful what we pretend.
KURT VONNEGUT
I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a ver...
KURT VONNEGUT
I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds o...
KURT VONNEGUT
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
KURT VONNEGUT
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than befo...
KURT VONNEGUT
People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order, so they'll have...
KURT VONNEGUT
There is no order in the world around us, we must adapt ourselves to the requirements of chaos inste...
KURT VONNEGUT
There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.
KURT VONNEGUT
I have been a soreheaded occupant of a file drawer labeled Science Fiction and I would like out, par...
KURT VONNEGUT
Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be.
KURT VONNEGUT
Artists use frauds to make human beings seem more wonderful than they really are. Dancers show us hu...
KURT VONNEGUT
There are plenty of good reasons for fighting, I said, but no good reason ever to have without reser...
KURT VONNEGUT
Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but...
KURT VONNEGUT
It was a thunderingly beautiful experience -- voluptuous, sexual, dangerous, and expensive as hell.
KURT VONNEGUT
We would be a lot safer if the Government would take its money out of science and put it into astrol...
KURT VONNEGUT
Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
KURT VONNEGUT
Still and all, why bother? Here's my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this messag...
KURT VONNEGUT
Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to rem...
KURT VONNEGUT
I have no degree in biochemistry, neither do I have one in mechanical engineering, as the Army saw f...
KURT VONNEGUT
True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the countr...
KURT VONNEGUT
What troubles me most about my lovely country is that its children are seldom taught that American f...
KURT VONNEGUT
Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since...
KURT VONNEGUT