We have this perceived illusion of what the fashion designer does. As an industry, we make it out that this one individual changes the entire face of the earth. I have never said 'me'; it's always 'we.' I am just the big salesman.
Jonathan Anderson
I AmMeFashionFaceIllusionEarth
Animation is about creating the illusion of life. And you can't create it if you don't have one.
Brad Bird
LifeYouIllusionCreateCreating
Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.
Arthur Koestler
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Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see.
Philip Guston
PaintingMagicYouIllusionSee
You are priests, not social or political leaders. Let us not be under the illusion that we are serving the Gospel through an exaggerated interest in the wide field of temporal problems.
Pope John Paul II
ProblemsPoliticalYouIllusionUs
Once I go on stage, the atmosphere is totally theatrical. The greater the illusion, the greater the intensity of the excitement it creates.
Todd Rundgren
IllusionGoExcitementStageGreater
In our natural state, we are glorious beings. In the world of illusion, we are lost and imprisoned, slaves to our appetites and our will to false power.
Marianne Williamson
PowerWorldIllusionLostWill
Let's just shatter the illusion. I am not wealthy. I've lived in the same house for the past 30 years.
Liam Cunningham
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The passage of time is simply an illusion created by our brains.
Julian Barbour
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The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages.
Horace Greeley
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Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.
George Orwell
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I think the greatest illusion we have is that denial protects us. It's actually the biggest distortion and lie. In fact, staying asleep is what's killing us.
Eve Ensler
LieThinkIllusionDenialGreatest
History is delusional. Not just an illusion, it's a delusion. America is this giant country, so it has these big delusions, and history is where delusions play out.
David Means
HistoryAmericaIllusionPlayOut
We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament, and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy.
Cyril Connolly
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I'm not a big believer in the power of more regulation to fix things. I think it can almost be more dangerous because it provides the illusion that things have been fixed without the substance.
Bethany McLean
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'Three Billboards,' which is not based on a true story but does have some reality flavoring, must appear worthy of elected office in some way. This was, at first, the illusion presented by the people running the campaigns and, in turn, over the years, has become the custom for lots of us.
Wesley Morris
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We need a romantic illusion to embark on relationships in the first place. After that, they survive or fail for other, more practical reasons.
Nick Hornby
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We have an illusion of security, we don't have security.
Isaac Yeffet
IllusionSecurity
After a crisis we tell ourselves we understand why it happened and maintain the illusion that the world is understandable. In fact, we should accept the world is incomprehensible much of the time.
Daniel Kahneman
TimeWorldIllusionWhyUnderstand
It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.
W. Somerset Maugham
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As in The Lime Twig dream and illusion are right at the center of Charivari.
John C. Hawkes
DreamIllusionRightCenterLime
There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
IllusionPersonMeetEveryOptical
Safety is an illusion, and trying to protect ourselves does nothing more than protect us from experiencing a full, evolved, and juicy life.
Jen Sincero
LifeSafetyTryingIllusionNothing
I continue with the illusion of serving Colombia. Only God knows if it were to be from the presidency.
Ingrid Betancourt
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