The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
Albert Einstein
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There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all.
Rebecca West
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Whatever happens in the world is real, what one thinks should have happened is projection. We suffer more from our fictitious illusion and expectations of reality.
Jacque Fresco
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Since fame is an illusion and death is in our future all we have is the next moment before we are swallowed into oblivion.
Al Goldstein
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The time has come to stop beating our heads against stone walls under the illusion that we have been appointed policeman to the human race.
Walter Lippmann
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I used to have this illusion that time and remote areas prepare you for the world. Our moms used to think that kind of thing. Well, it doesn't prepare you for the world at all!
Jim Harrison
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A house must be built on solid foundations if it is to last. The same principle applies to man, otherwise he too will sink back into the soft ground and becomes swallowed up by the world of illusion.
Sai Baba
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Hollywood is an illusion. These intense workplaces, with very close relationships, a few months at a time - and then it ends.
John C. Reilly
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There is an important idea in psychology: The 'just world theory,' which says that it is very important for us to convince ourselves that the world is just and things happen for a reason. That there is some elemental fairness in everything, which creates the illusion of justice.
Malcolm Gladwell
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My point was that it's hard to make good films, but I'm not under any illusion that you do all the time.
John Cusack
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No one ought to be under any illusion that Cheney privately thinks himself a failure.
Barton Gellman
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The source of all the material comes from nothingness, illusion is working more on things you can prove. That's the principle, the essence of life, it is actually an illusion, not immaterial. That's worth pursuing. So illusion is not nothing. In a way, that is the truth.
Ang Lee
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The misconception that a victory can be worth its price, has in the nuclear age become a total illusion.
Alva Myrdal
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There's a way in which 'The Illusion' is a play about the theater.
Tony Kushner
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We romanticize the past with an illusion that we'd know how we'd fit.
Robin Weigert
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I don't really believe that documentary is objective reality and fiction is all illusion.
Mike Mills
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Comics are about the illusion of movement, and movies are about movement itself.
Jason Henderson
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Anything I've done up till May 27th 1999 was kind of an illusion, existing without living. My daughter, the birth of my daughter, gave me life.
Johnny Depp
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The world is real. Consciousness is the illusion.
Craig Bruce
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We're all living in some state of illusion, even if modestly.
Claire Messud
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Life is an illusion. I am held together in the nothingness by art.
Anselm Kiefer
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What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.
Woody Allen
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I'm an actress, and that's why I'm still here. Anybody who has the illusion that you can have a career as long as I have and be a star is kidding themselves.
Suzanne Pleshette
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I just think, as a model, it's taught me to be a master of deception and illusion.
Tyra Banks
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