Quotes About Reality

The secret lives of politicians are always shady. People need to accept the fact that their leaders aren't perfect. No one is.

I've gotten to believe it's more fun to play politicians than actually be them.

One cannot judge the poll outcome by the crowds one draws at public meetings.

The role of a leader is to create a reality and not to be influenced by polls.

While the liberal media elite depict the bowler as a chubby guy with a comb-over and polyester pants, the reality is that bowling is one of the most tech-heavy sports today. Robotic pinsetters and computerized scoring were just the beginning.

People say to me, 'You're so lucky. You get to see the world.' But I don't. I go to the hotel and to the pools and back again. That's it.

There were many times eating ramen noodles and sitting on a friend's couch watching ESPN where I was like, 'This is not what I thought California was going to be like. I thought it was going to be pools and cocktails with umbrellas in them and Maseratis, but this ain't it.'

I don't really believe in the myth of being poor but happy. At the poorest times in my life, I wasn't happy. I was just hungry.

The Bachelor' has always been a great show that embraces what's happening in the world and embraces pop culture.

I have to accept the fact that the time I was on, 'Project Runway' was already becoming a pop culture phenomenon.

I think a lot of pop music is escapist.

The story of American pop music is the story of failure. The blues, country music, it's not the story of success. People don't win; they lose.

When you're a pop star it doesn't mean you just get free stuff.

I did think that acting would be much more like being a pop star. Now I'm here, I can't think of anything more different.

I'm not a shiny pop star.

I used to sit in my bedroom and think that all of my favourite pop stars go on stage, they sing, and then they do other normal stuff. I didn't know what goes on or what you let yourself in for.

Enthusiasm just creates bubbles; it doesn't keep them from popping.

Money is a bubble that never pops. It's a consensus hallucination.

Expecting something for nothing is the most popular form of hope.

A misconception that exists in the eyes of the general reading population is that authors make truckloads of money.

I love what I do, but it occurs to me I may have handed over a large portion of my life to fiction.

I was never one to feed into what the media was saying about us, especially out there in Portland because I was so in-touch with the people everyday.

My responsibility isn't to paint a flattering portrait; my responsibility is to paint a real portrait, a true portrait.

Portray the world for what it is, and you will find truth.