Quotes About Reality

When people meet me, they say that I'm really kind - contrary to a lot of my music.

Customer service, they say, is dead. Actually, it isn't. It's just hiding behind a call center in Manila.

Carnegie Hall is as good as they say it is. It's not like Stonehenge which looks great in books but then you go there and it's a pile of rocks next to a highway. There's actually a highway right next to it, but you don't see that in pictures.

I am only an actress when they say, 'action' and I stop being an actress when they say, 'cut'. I am a normal person outside of acting.

Many criminals believe what they say is true; they could pass a lie detector test.

Sometimes I think people live in a parallel universe when they say all we need are a few more regulations.

Coming from L.A. to D.C., I'm always impressed that in D.C., people are doing the things that the people in L.A. are pretending to do. Whenever I'm in D.C., I ask people what they do, and they say, 'I'm with the agency, or I'm with State.' In L.A., I ran into a guy who said, 'I'm working on an audition for a guy who happens to be with an agency.'

The left-brainer and the economist in me says watch what people do, not what they say.

I've been falsely accused of drawing too much from real life. But I am a petty thief - I take little things. And, I mean, I can hardly write 10 words before I start to make things up. I start to invent, because that's what I want to do. I'm running away to an invented place.

Stock market bubbles don't grow out of thin air. They have a solid basis in reality, but reality as distorted by a misconception.

Size matters in fiction, but so does lack of size. Everything else being equal, fat novels tend to be perceived as serious, very thin ones as more honest, more real. Writers address these age-old expectations by filling their big books with philosophy and cramming their little ones with feeling.

Hurricane Katrina exposed the harsh reality that we have been skating on thin ice when it comes to this country's energy concentrations on the Gulf Coast.

People expect me to be thin and perfect... I'm not.

There is no such thing as death; life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves.

In the journey of an entrepreneur, the most important thing is self-belief and the ability to convert that belief into reality.

To the soul, there is no past and no future; all is, and will be ever, in now. For artificial purposes time is mutually agreed on, but there is really no such thing.

I'll tell you one thing, it's a cruel, cruel world.

Assuming if there's such a thing as reality, if you have a false relationship with it, how can you do anything but fail?

Things are not always as they seem; the first appearance deceives many.

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.

Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

In Israel, there's a lot to learn from anyone, because to live there you've got to deal with the truth. Things happen real fast. Your day goes from cool to catastrophic in one second. Israelis know that the cafe you're in could blow up, or the shopping mall, and they rock that.

I have noticed that when things happen in one's imaginings, they never happen in one's life.