For more than a decade, I was President Trump’s right-hand man, fixer and confidant. I was complicit in helping conceal the real Donald Trump. In essence, I was part of creating an illusion. – Michael Cohen
Decorate your home. It gives the illusion that your life is more interesting than it really is. – Charles M. Schulz
Indians are usually seen as capsulized: limited to one environment, with the illusion of stability in that environment. But Indians have been engaged all over the world for centuries, in Europe, even in Asia. – Gerald Vizenor
The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages. – Horace Greeley
I probably complicate things unnecessarily now just to give the illusion of professionalism. – Henry Thomas
When playing a role, I would feel more comfortable, as you’re given a prescribed way of behaving. So, both Facebook and theatre provide contrived settings that provide the illusion of social interaction. – Jesse Eisenberg
A lot of people do that kind of nostalgia stuff believing that they were very happy in their teenage years, but that’s probably just an illusion. – Jo Brand
All politics to me – Indian or white – is an illusion preventing us from being authentic because we’re communicating through something that isn’t real to us. – John Trudell
Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared. – Henri Nouwen
I’m intrigued by fanatics – people who are seduced by the promise, or the illusion, of the absolute. – Jon Krakauer
I continue with the illusion of serving Colombia. Only God knows if it were to be from the presidency. – Ingrid Betancourt
My point was that it’s hard to make good films, but I’m not under any illusion that you do all the time. – John Cusack
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. – Ben Katchor
Whenever I see a forecast written out to two decimal places, I cannot help but wonder if there is a misunderstanding of the limitations of the data, and an illusion of precision. – Barry Ritholtz
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. – Bethany McLean
Reason cannot establish values, and its belief that it can is the stupidiest and most pernicious illusion. – Allan Bloom
Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion. – Blaise Pascal
