Quotes About Reality

From what it seems like in my follower base, they have these bad misconceptions about China, and some of them are true and some are false.

We must not fear daylight just because it almost always illuminates a miserable world.

People always accuse me of making these dark, depressing movies. 'Why do you have to pick up on real issues? People are so exhausted and miserable.'

Don Quixote's misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza.

Don't be misled by those who claim God doesn't exist, because He does.

Sometimes I miss coaching, but often things are not how they appear in football.

The funny response to 'One Mississippi' continues to be that people don't know what is true and what's fiction.

Nobody's perfect. And if you think they are, you're sadly mistaken.

'Magic' is a word that's too often misused in the record industry.

I don't like docudramas. Documentaries should not go together with fiction, or half-fiction or quarter-fiction. The two should not go together. They cannot mix.

People say money changes people. So does ego and so does social media. And so does the press. I think that all of that mixed in between - you really gotta keep yourself grounded.

Mixing humour and harsh reality is a very human behaviour, it's the way people stay sane in their daily lives.

You can listen to a lot of cowboy records that sound goofy and almost cartoon-y. Its a fine line to walk, having traditional cowboy songs rooted in some kind of reality, while at the same time maintaining that mythos without it becoming a mockery of it.

Cyberspace as a mode of being will never go away. We live in cyberspace.

If you think of politics as 'serious people focusing seriously on the most important questions,' which is the default mode of most educated people and the media (but not the less-educated public which has better instincts), then your model of reality is badly wrong.

I just think, as a model, it's taught me to be a master of deception and illusion.

Not everybody is some kind of media model.

In modeling, because you're the center of attention, it builds up people's egos. Sometimes people lose touch with reality. But that happens with acting, too.

The faces I see in the modeling industry can get dull.

I grew up poor and used to look at people in big houses and thought they had everything. Then, later on, I looked at models in magazines and thought they had it all. When you have the ability to live that life, to some extent you find out that they don't have any magic cure for everything.

Buildings are always better than drawings and models.

What is consciousness? Our brain simulates reality. So, our everyday experiences are a form of dreaming, which is to say, they are mental models, simulations, not the things they appear to be.

To attempt this would be like seeing without eyes or directing the gaze of knowledge behind one's own eye. Modern science can acknowledge no other than this epistemological stand-point.

Look, I live in the modern world as much as anyone else.