- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
Illusion Quotes
For the gap between what seems true and what is.
Looking back, youth often seems carefree only to those who no longer have it - a trick of memory as much as anything real. This collection sits alongside our Life quotes on perception and time.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most fatal illusion is the narrow point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Animation is about creating the illusion of life. And you can't create it if you don't have one.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not a big believer in the power of more regulation to fix things. I think it can almost be more dangerous because it provides the illusion that things have been fixed without the substance.
- Picture
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- Nov 07, 2020
A picture story just doesn't run like a film. It doesn't have 24 frames per second. It doesn't deal with this illusion of movement.
- Influence
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- Nov 07, 2020
The main influence on a child's palate may no longer be a parent but a series of food manufacturers whose products - despite their illusion of infinite choice - deliver a monotonous flavour hit, quite unlike the more varied flavours of traditional cuisine.
- Failure
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- Nov 07, 2020
No one ought to be under any illusion that Cheney privately thinks himself a failure.
- Belief
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- Nov 07, 2020
Belief in the absence of illusions is itself an illusion.
- Eye
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always try to manipulate the eye when I'm dressing myself or someone else. I don't have an hourglass figure, so I'm always trying to give the illusion that I have one; bringing the eye to the waistline by adding a belt or having a heavier print at the bottom or at the top helps define your shape.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even the things we are certain about are only an illusion. We are born with a female side and a male side, and these two sides are always fighting and challenging each other. This is why anything we want to do, we have the other side of telling us not to do it, to be careful about it.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
Law not served by power is an illusion; but power not ruled by law is a menace which our nuclear age cannot afford.
- Emptiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
Illusion is needed to disguise the emptiness within.
- Real
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- Nov 07, 2020
Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
We think we're saving time with microwaves, cell phones, beepers, computers and voice mail, but often these things help us create the illusion of getting somewhere - and they foster a chain of constant activity. We're really just squeezing extra activity into every minute that we gain.
- Strange
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- Nov 07, 2020