Quotes About Reality

Every girl has a dream - she wants a perfect husband. But that is not possible. There will be ego clashes and one has to compromise.

To me, Berlin is as much a conceit as a reality. Why? Because the city is forever in the process of becoming, never being, and so lives more powerfully in the imagination.

There is nothing like a good bit of pain for taking the conceit out of one.

I would love to go on 'The Biggest Loser,' where it's a concentrated thing.

Age and numbers are a concept made up by man.

We live in a society that compels us to go on using these concepts, and we no longer know what they mean.

As far as I'm concerned, I didn't dream - ever.

A lot of what we sing concerns the Brazilian way of life. The stuff I write is reality, everything I see. That's the stuff I want to sing about.

After watching a movie, you can't conclude that I am the same person in real life too.

I don't want happy-face conclusions. I want the truth.

Life is a pre-existing condition.

I don't like something so fantasy-filled that I couldn't imagine it ever happening. I like things that could come true. That's how I conduct the show.

I have to confess that I've never seen Australian 'MasterChef.'

Conflict happens. People aren't happy all of the time.

Religion is the call to confront reality; to master the self.

What we know to be true is that comfort isn't always freedom. People confuse the two.

We always want to congratulate ourselves at having made more progress than we actually have.

We all live in the moment, and we often mistakenly believe that what is true today was true always. Not so in politics, and especially in Congressional elections.

When you look at C-3PO and Darth Vader and then look at the actors behind them, you can't really make the connection. It kills the magic.

With my research, I really need absolute confirmation of what actually happened, direct physical connections to the past.

In this industry there's this ridiculous connotation with women shows that's it's got to be difficult, and it's not true.

Where you are in consciousness has everything to do with what you see in experience.

One advantage of arguing that causality is aesthetic is that it allows us to consider what we call consciousness alongside what we call things.

It's just like my dream to shoot things with no consequences.