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This industry is very make-believe and you caught in a false sense of what reality is. -- Morris Chestnut
I love things that are harsh and things that are too loud. And I love lulling people into a false sense of security. That's life. -- FKA twigs
Instead of generating either unnecessary alarm or a false sense of security regarding these fundamental issues, the best course is to empower people with the truth. -- Dick Thornburgh
I know people who enjoy having 10 people running around and doing things for them. I don't. I feel awkward in such situations. It gives you a false sense of importance. -- Sonam Kapoor
Photography can be a deceitful, superficial medium that leads us into believing something even though we know it's not necessarily true. It lulls us into a false sense of complacency. -- Alison Jackson
I lull them into a false sense of security by watching me pitch... If overconfidence can cause the Roman Empire to fall, I ought to be able to get a ground ball. -- Dan Quisenberry
For a change, lady luck seemed to be smiling on me. Then again, maybe the fickle wench was just lulling me into a false sense of security while she reached for a rock. -- Timothy Zahn
After they killed Uday and Qusay, the focus centered on Saddam: Find him, kill him, capture him, whatever it takes. To me, it was a false sense of security: If we get Saddam, we're going to win this war. -- Janis Karpinski
It was quite risky to open the book with one of my quieter stories; I'm kind of trying, I think, to lure readers into a false sense of security and then assault them with a couple really loud, really strange stories. -- Kevin Barry
The fact that the price of gasoline has declined some in recent weeks must not allow Americans to be lulled into a false sense of security. Energy independence must rank along with border security as the top priorities of the United States. -- Virgil Goode
Dogmas are collective conceptual prisons. And the strange thing is that people love their prison cells because they give them a sense of security and a false sense of 'I know.' Nothing has inflicted more suffering on humanity than its dogmas. -- Eckhart Tolle
I've worked on all sorts of things, like the sci-fi stuff for Vin Diesel, where the script is numbered and is in unphotocopy-able colours and your name is stamped into every page. And it doesn't really help because it creates a false sense of specialness about the thing. -- Colm Feore
Trust your gut instinct over spreadsheets. There are too many variables in the real world that you simply can't put into a spreadsheet. Spreadsheets spit out results from your inexact assumptions and give you a false sense of security. In most cases, your heart and gut are still your best guide. -- Naveen Jain
I want people to think about movies and how we watch them. Let them know it's okay to question the structure or how we're sometimes duped into a false sense of normalcy. Most of all, I want people to question the old standard practices of, 'This is how the structure of something should work,' or, 'This is how a character must behave.' -- Tim Heidecker
He has lulled himself into a false sense of competence -- Orlando McGuire
A false sense of security is the only kind there is. -- Michael Meade
When one sense has been bribed the others readily bear false witness. -- John Lancaster Spalding
How much liberty do with want to give up for a false sense of security? -- Rand Paul
Writing, printing, and the Internet give a false sense of security about the permanence of culture. -- Jane Jacobs
Individuals motivated by self-interest, self-indulgence, and a false sense of self-sufficiency pursue selfish ambition for the purpose of self-glorification. -- C. J. Mahaney
I strongly hold that, if an idea fits with common sense, then scientifically it is almost certain to be false. -- Lewis Wolpert
The ego is a false sense based on mental concepts. It is identification with the body and the mind-primarily identification with thought form. -- Eckhart Tolle
Many a statistic is false on its face. It gets by only because the magic of numbers brings about a suspension of common sense. -- Darrell Huff
Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true. -- John Keats
The property boom has made us all feel wealthy, but unfortunately it has lulled many of those nearing retirement into a false sense of security. -- Noel Whittaker
Mr False Pretence, you don't make sense I just don't know you But you make me cry, where's my kiss goodbye I think I love you -- Amy Winehouse
Forgiveness happens naturally when you see that it has no purpose other than to strengthen a false sense of self, to keep the ego in place. -- Eckhart Tolle
We're just fragile machines programmed with a false sense of our own importance. And every now and then the universe sends a reminder that we don't really matter to it... -- Neil Strauss

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