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- Nov 07, 2020
Reality Quotes
What's real depends on where you're standing.
This set weighs reality against illusion, touching on digital-age facts that can't be hidden, the difference between a screen character and the actor playing tough, and why escapist fantasy still appeals. For adjacent emotional ground, see our Pain quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is a sad but undeniable reality that people have died in the line of duty since the earliest days of the United Nations. The first was Ole Bakke, a Norwegian member of the United Nations guard detachment, shot and killed in Palestine in 1948. The toll since then has included colleagues at all levels.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Reality shows like 'SaReGaMaPa' are a huge platform for young talent. Thanks to television, they have more exposure than we could even imagine.
- Drain
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- Nov 07, 2020
In reality, it si more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only one man less, the wounded man is a progressive drain upon his side.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The second Hughes fight was a huge reality check. But it didn't hit me right away.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Apple makes great hardware. The reality is, in the OS, we see things differently.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The reality is, some people don't want you to change or go anywhere different.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
In reality, civil rights are more important than national rights. They're the content, the day-to-day: work, life. But people are sensitive to national rights.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
To arrive at a contradiction is to confess an error in one's thinking; to maintain a contradiction is to abdicate one's mind and to evict oneself from the realm of reality.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
These things bring you to reality as to how fragile you are; at the same moment you are doing something that nobody else is able to do. The same moment that you are seen as the best, the fastest and somebody that cannot be touched, you are enormously fragile.
- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think you should meet the people you most admire. I don't want reality to interfere with my image.
- Dream
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- Nov 07, 2020
The biggest crime in Nabokov's 'Lolita' is imposing your own dream upon someone else's reality. Humbert Humbert is blind. He doesn't see Lolita's reality. He doesn't see that Lolita should leave. He only sees Lolita as an extension of his own obsession. This is what a totalitarian state does.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sooner or later we've all got to confront the reality that we have got to come to understand who we are and what we're doing, and the extent to which we are guided or manipulated by forces that are beyond our control.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the past, we saw European leaders speaking against the Jews. Now, we see them speaking against Israel. It is the same anti-Semitism of blood libels, spreading lies, distorting reality and brainwashing people into hating Israel and the Jews.
- Israel
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- Nov 07, 2020
In reality it's pretty obvious that all the citizens of Israel have total civil equality.
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- Nov 07, 2020