- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Delusional Quotes
When delusion is a flaw, and when it's a survival tactic.
These quotes examine what it means to be called delusional, from a screenwriter who says self-confidence has to start as delusion, to political critics who use the word as a direct accusation. There's a real tension here between delusion as a flaw and delusion as a survival tactic.
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- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Maybe I'm delusional but I'm usually funny. It's not 100% but I have a pretty good batting average.
- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only benefit of my dad being in the film industry was that I got a reality check right from the start. I wasn't delusional and didn't want to be an actor just for the glamour.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
My wife says I have happy delusions. I'm delusional that way. I just say, 'This is how it's got to be, and it's got to be.' I don't take no. I just don't like no. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. That's just how I am.
- Defer
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- Nov 07, 2020
From the Left comes the proposition that, given the slow economy, we should defer attending to the problem of mounting obligations - and the truly delusional idea that growing federal debt doesn't matter because we owe most of it to ourselves.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just find there's nothing funnier and more scary than a delusional man who thinks they're the center of the universe, and in fact they're not.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to begin every screenplay with a burst of delusional self-confidence. It tends to fade pretty quickly, but (for me, at least) there doesn't seem to be any other way to start writing a script.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm sort of a delusional in the sense of, I was just gonna graduate from school and just, like, prance onto a film set and have a movie crew waiting for me to make my '8½' or something, which is completely insane.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would finally renounce my delusional hypotheses and revert to thinking of myself as a human of more conventional circumstances and return to mathematical research.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Sour Heart' is a collection of seven linked short stories narrated by young Chinese-American girls living in New York City in the '90s. It's exceptionally hard to describe what I've written without sounding delusional or boring, so I'll just say they are stories about growing up and the pleasures and agonies of having a family, a body, and a home.
- Drill
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother had two unshakable beliefs that she tried to drill into me. The first was that I had to study and work twice as hard as my white peers if I wanted to survive in America, and the second was that it was delusional and dangerous to believe I possessed the same freedom white people had to pursue my dreams.
- Society
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- Nov 07, 2020
When a society is stressed, when it comes up against things that are hard to understand, you get a lot of delusional thinking.
- Life Is Too Short
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life is too short to have anything but delusional notions about yourself.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you really think about it, I'm not delusional enough to think that what I do is important to life as we know it on this planet. No. But neither is what you do.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020