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Zitat des Tages über Illusionen / Illusions:

I am fortunate to have the resources to have many methods to do each of my illusions. David Copperfield

For awhile, I got stupid about only wanting a leading-man role, but I have no illusions. I know I'm not Brad Pitt.

Breckin Meyer

Our democratic societies are in danger. In allowing ourselves to be infiltrated by fear, to be blinded by the passion of identity, we are entertaining the most serious illusions about our freedom.

Tariq Ramadan

I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.

Bob Dylan

I had great faith in Irish actors, that they'd be hip to the whole theatre thing, and they are. I had no illusions of coming over here as some kind of big shot. It's been a learning experience for me too.

Christopher Meloni

My parents made certain I had no illusions about acting. To them, it was always just a job.

Sam Robards

I'm an idealist without illusions.

John F. Kennedy

Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do.

Elizabeth Bowen

I have no illusions about my art. I am what the public made me and, consequently, I am not likely to forget my debt to them.

Conrad Veidt

I have had four happy days in my life, and three of them turned out to be illusions.

Taylor Caldwell

Show me a man who claims he is objective and I'll show you a man with illusions.

Henry R. Luce

Social media is incredible: it creates a community that I'm really proud to be a part of, but it also creates illusions and a false reality, and it's difficult to grow up with that.

Ella Woodward

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.

Simone Weil

I have no illusions concerning the precarious status of my tales and do not expect to become a serious competitor of my favorite weird authors.

H. P. Lovecraft

I never look at other people's work. My mind has to be completely focused on my own illusions.

Alexander McQueen

By that I mean, I think that it is true that politics and political heroes have to satisfy our need to be greater than mortal in some way, and that's led them into creating illusions, sound bites, focus groups that tell you what to do.

Sydney Pollack

Belief in the absence of illusions is itself an illusion.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions.

Joseph Conrad

I like the idea that we build up these walls or rules or laws to maintain our reality, and when they fall away, you're left with a whole bunch of illusions.

Sarah McLachlan

We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by those images we have put in their place.

Daniel J. Boorstin

I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.

Paul Cezanne

Like when you go to a magic show and you know how they do the illusions. That's how I am when I watch any movies where they have people flying through the air.

Renee O'Connor

Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.

Sigmund Freud

Illusions of grandeur are not the same as visions of greatness.

Edwin Louis Cole

I've known Dennis Kucinich for a long time, and I don't think I have illusions about him. Sometimes I find him pompous, male chauvinistic, intellectually unbending. But he is a good man, and a serious one.

Marianne Williamson

It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.

Patrick Henry

Words are illusions.

Bodhidharma

I actually feel sorry for people who have a lot of illusions in their head about what gay is. I mean, I know some gay people who are really wonderful people.

Richard Chamberlain

The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.

Robert Wilson Lynd

I'd always wanted to do these types of things - pieces of magic I could put out not as illusions, but really doing it.

David Blaine

Official truths are often powerful illusions.

John Pilger

It is not unusual for the eye or ear to play tricks with one, but when such illusions and delusions are taken for the Spirit forms of the departed and voices of the dead instead of being recognized as some subjective phenomena brought about by a physical cause, the situation takes on a grave aspect.

Harry Houdini

Man is created to be God's deputy on earth and it is important to realize the obligation to rid ourselves of all illusions and to make our lives a preparation for the next life.

Cat Stevens

I'm a centrist.

Scott McClellan

My work is not great, but it's respectable. I have no false illusions.

Maurice Sendak

These false barriers that we've erected of space and race, all these illusions that we've allowed to infect us like toxins, we've got to rid ourselves of that. We are a better nation when we are ultimately united in a common purpose and a common cause.

Cory Booker

I can imagine that the Iraqis undertake the destruction out of fear. If they had denied it, if they had said no, that certainly would have played into the hands of those that would like to take armed action immediately. I have no illusions in that regard.

Hans Blix