In real life, people are constantly saying one thing and doing another, but if you write your characters that way, the story becomes too hard to follow.
There's no point in living in an alternate reality.
If you want to do what you want to do, you have to look a certain way.
New York is where you go to catch a big fish.
I don't want the IRS banging down my door.
If you're still in a bar when the lights go on, you are a loser.