"Imaginations and illusions are always so much more powerful and bigger than this mediocre and boring thing called reality."

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Source : Interview with Yuichi Konno, Yaso magazine, Japan, 2003.

Gottfried Helnwein

#Powerful Quotes #Reality Quotes #Imagination Quotes

“There is physical evidence of the body's response to doing good. Endorphins are released in the brain when you do something for someone else. Doing good really feels good.”
“Give the FBI unchecked domestic spying powers and instead of focusing on preventing terrorism, it will revert to doing what it does best - monitoring, harassing, and intimidating political dissidents and thousands of harmless immigrants.”

Source : "Ashcroft's Lies". prospect.org. June 27, 2002.
“A space in Paradise equivalent to the size of a foot would be better than the world and what is in it.”
“No act of man can claim to be more than an attempt, not even science.”
“I don’t believe in involving the government in enforcing or encouraging the lifestyle of gays and homosexuals.”
“Certainly there was the Affordable Care Act part, then unaccompanied children [there has been a surge of children entering the country illegally and without parents, particularly in Texas], and things like, we find smallpox in an NIH lab, after 50 years? Why didn't you find it, like, five weeks ago or three years ago? There was thing after thing. But the big ones were [dealing with] the Ebola [outbreak], the unaccompanied children. [It was] perhaps a bigger challenge than I had calculated on my yellow pad as I was thinking about this role.”

Source : Source: www.glamour.com
“I'm not sure there can be loving without commitment, although commitment takes all kinds of forms, and there can be commitment for the moment as well as commitment for all time. The kind that is essential for loving marriages - and love affairs, as well - is a commitment to preserving the essential quality of your partner's soul, adding to them as a person rather than taking away.”

Source : "Some Men are More Perfect Than Others". Book by Merle Shain, 1973.
“If the United States leads a multinational force into Iraq without United Nations backing, Canada should fight beside its neighbour. We've gone from being a middle power to a muddle power on this one.”

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