Amy Klobuchar Quotes

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

Life isn't what it's like in the movies.

I don't think you should meet the people you most admire. I don't want reality to interfere with my image.

Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.

Nobody should pin their hopes on a miracle.

California is a tragic country … like every Promised Land.

We have this idealized romanticism about how love might solve all of our problems, but then it doesn't.

We cling to our fairy tales until the price for believing in them becomes too high.

My dreams have become puny with the reality my life has become.

Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.

I had amazing stuff happen right off the top. I thought this was how it worked. Hollywood is awesome! Cut to three years later: What happened?

And if real life was like the movies, I should have lived happily ever after.

Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations.

Nothing lives up to what you imagine. It changes, shifts, becomes something else.

You expect certain things. You build up in your mind how it's supposed to go down. When you get a record deal, you think you're supposed to get X, Y, and Z. It doesn't happen like that. You're like 'Oh, this isn't as exciting as I thought it was going to be.'

The demise of Constellation is not the death of a dream. It's just the end of an illusion.

There is no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.

Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.

We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.

That Happily Ever After is a great way to tell stories when you're young but eventually it loses its meaning because it's just not true.

It's the fate of every executive. He gets in on promises and finds that things can't be fulfilled as he hoped.

People always want change .... Government always raises expectations far beyond what is there.

Reality has a way of intruding upon illusion.

I'm as much a victim of the romantic myth of 'getting away' as anyone else. My head tells me it's myth, but I don't want to believe it is.

Losing a fantasy is much harder than losing a reality.