Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lady Gaga

I don't see myself in terms of artifice. I see myself as a real person who chooses to live my life in an open way - artistically.

Lady Gaga

The blurring of fantasy and reality is something that the Japanese herald in their life, in their day-to-day commercialism.

Lady Gaga

I'm not real. I'm theatre

Lady Gaga

My records are borderline dance records. They've got a real electro-rock heart and soul, and the vibe of the sentiment is pop, but there's a lot of people that were like, 'This is a dance record.'

Lady Gaga

The real cake isn't HAVING what you want, it's DOING what you want

Lady Gaga

I do not accept any less than someone just as real, as fabulous!

Lady Gaga

We need fantasy to survive because reality is too difficult.

Lady Gaga

I live halfway between reality and theater at all times. And I was born this way.

Lady Gaga

Every video I'm in, every magazine cover, they stretch you; they make you perfect. It's not real life.

Lady Gaga

I live between fantasy and reality at all times. In that way, I’m a librarian.

Levon Helm

The power of music just kinda kills all those ills; it cures everything and you’ve got more energy just from the music. And, I’ve never seen it fail. It’s good for ya; real good for ya.

Lewis B. Smedes

When you release the wrongdoer from the wrong, you cut a malignant tumor out of your inner life. You set a prisoner free, but you discover that the real prisoner was yourself.

Lewis Black

How long can we go without real leadership? It's like an experiment. It's [a problem with ] both parties, it's beyond belief.

Lewis Black

There is no better moment than this moment, when we're anticipating the actual moment itself. All of the moments that lead up to the actual moment are truly the best moments. Those are the moments that are filled with good times. Those are the moments in which you are able to think that it is going to be perfect, when the moment actually happens. But, the moment is reality, and reality always kinda sucks!

Lewis Black

The Democrats have responded to the Republicans' lack of dealing with reality by truly not dealing with reality, either.

Lewis Black

I do not make jokes about Sarah Palin simply because I could not live in this world if I believed she was a real person.

Lewis Black

I've always really liked theater. It fascinated me. You can create a reality and get people involved in that reality. It takes place in real time.

Leona Helmsley

I've always wanted to be the biggest real estate man to come down the pike.

Leon Uris

Love can't mature in one room. It has to come out of the full sharing of everything: joys, aspirations, downfalls, all of it. That's the only real path to love.

Leonard Bernstein

What [Louis Armstrong] does is real, and true, and honest, and simple, and even noble. Every time this man puts his trumpet to his lips, even if only to practice three notes, he does it with his whole soul.

Joyce Maynard

The real drug, I came to believe, was love.

Joseph Wambaugh

The Onion Field made a real writer. And then I knew it was over, I couldn't be a cop anymore.

Joseph Story

The real object of the First Amendment was not to countenance, much less advance Mohammedanism, or Judaism or infidelity, by prostrating Christianity; but ... to prevent any national ecclesiastical establishment which should give to a hierarchy the exclusive patronage of the national government.

Joseph Stiglitz

Climate change is a reality.

Joseph Heller

I am miracle ingredient Z-247. I'm immense. I'm a real, slam-bang, honest-to-goodness, three-fisted humdinger. I'm a bona fide supraman.

Joseph Campbell

The usual marriage in traditional cultures was arranged for by the families. It wasn't a person-to-person decision at all. . . . In the Middle Ages, that was the kind of marriage that was sanctified by the Church. And so the troubadour idea of real person-to-person Amor was very dangerous. . . . It is in direct contradiction to the way of the Church. The word AMOR spelt backwards is ROMA, the Roman Catholic Church, which was justifying marriages that were simply political and social in their character. And so came this movement validating individual choice, what I call following your bliss.

Joseph Campbell

A myth doesn't have to be real to be true.

Joseph Campbell

There is no way you can use the word “reality” without quotation marks around it.

Joseph Campbell

If you realize what the real problem is-losing yourself-you realize that this itself is the ultimate trial.

Joseph Campbell

Our true reality is in our identity and unity with all life.

Joseph Campbell

This is an essential experience of any mystical realization. You die to your flesh and are born into your spirit. You identify yourself with the consciousness and life of which your body is but the vehicle. You die to the vehicle and become identified in your consciousness with that of which the vehicle is but the carrier. That is the God.

Joseph Campbell

Perfection isn't human. Human beings are not perfect. What evokes our love--and I mean love, not lust--is the imperfection of the human being. So, when the imperfection of the real person peaks through, say, 'This is a challenge to my compassion.' Then make a try, and something might begin to get going.

Joseph Campbell

Each of us has capacities. The real trick is knowing the machinery of the boat in which you are crossing the channel.