Too many countries of the former Soviet bloc remain under the control of authoritarian leaders, including some, like the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, who have learned how to maintain a more convincing facade of elections than their communist predecessors.

Joseph Stiglitz

Everyone's more vulnerable than they seem, and I think men are more vulnerable. Once you get close to a man, the whole thing's a facade anyway. I think manhood is fragile.

Alain de Botton

A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the facade of his appearance.

Alanis Morissette

I've always felt that if one was going to take seriously this vocation as an artist, you have to get beyond that decorative facade.

Anish Kapoor

I can't put on a facade every time I go out.

Arjun Kapoor

America has chosen Georgia as a junior partner. The United States believes that Saakashvili is creating a democratic Georgia, but these are merely facades.

Bidzina Ivanishvili

Architects have to become designers of eco-systems. Not just designers of beautiful facades or beautiful sculptures, but systems of economy and ecology, where we channel the flow not only of people, but also the flow of resources through our cities and buildings.

Bjarke Ingels

I'm really not interested in acting as a facade, I'm interested in it as an emotional expression and as a transcendent experience for an individual. I find that a lot of people, a lot of young actors, haven't gotten to the point where they're comfortable being stripped down. They're still interested in ornate jackets.

Brie Larson

I've always wanted to be a brooding, deep, dark artist, but I can never keep that facade going for more than 15 minutes.

Bryan Callen

I was always the guy who jumped off the roof of the garage, who could climb up the facade of a building.

Casey Neistat

You can't be entirely unguarded in politics. Even appearing to be unguarded is as much a facade as a reality.

Chris Gabrieli

I wanted pretty pictures of older women - women who are trying too hard but succeeding - pulling off an extreme look. What I didn't know would creep into the portraits was a vulnerability behind the strong facade that most of them wear.

Cindy Sherman

I don't want to lie. I dislike dishonesty. And I work in Hollywood, a town and a business that relies on a lot of falsehoods with people hiding behind different facades. I don't want to be a part of that.

David Arquette

Momofuku is not me. It's everyone. I'm just the facade. We have to exceed expectations and be our harshest critics.

David Chang

The concept of reason itself appears as an artificial attempt to separate intellectual powers from the frustrations, emotions, and accidents which cause events; the concept of reason is viewed as facade to prevent change.

Edward Levi

There were a lot of lyrics that I sang but didn't understand. But I had this facade in performance of looking like I wrote the book.

Elaine Stritch

It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we're alive - to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

I start to feel like I can't maintain the facade any longer, that I may just start to show through. And I wish I knew what was wrong. Maybe something about how stupid my whole life is.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

We define only out of despair, we must have a formula... to give a facade tot he void.

Emil Cioran

I like characters who have strong facades and then have secrets. They have cracks.

Eva Green

People's personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld