- 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
- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
I enjoyed singing and playing guitar but didn't have the stamina to make music-making a career. In reality, writing was my real gift, and as soon as I figured that out I never looked back.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hear, 'But why do poor people make such bad decisions?' But actually, their decision-making can be far more complex than that of the better-off in many ways. They're not financially illiterate: they're constantly weighing up choices based on the reality of poverty. Somehow the international development community has resisted accepting this.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Camfed has worked for more than two decades in partnership with poor families, transforming this desire for girls' education into reality, and showing the measurable benefits of girls' education for all of us.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would love to sing with Drake, but this is not a reality. I hope it becomes one!
- Logical
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- Nov 07, 2020
In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even when we were under the Spanish flag, we had a movement that just wanted assimilation into Spain, a movement of autonomy - which has been the majority always - and a movement for separation. In that sense, Puerto Rico's political reality is very different from any place I know in the whole world.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
I swear by that old expression, 'One monkey don't stop no show!' The reality is, we still have some good men out there, and we should hail those men as the kings they are.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the beginning of the 60's our country called the foreign workers to come to Germany and now they live in our country. We kidded ourselves a while, we said: 'They won't stay, sometime they will be gone.' But this isn't reality.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
During the 2010 election campaign, Liberal Democrat candidates, including Swinson, signed the National Union of Students pledge to vote against tuition fees. Looking back, students were among the first to see the reality of the Liberal Democrats in government.
- Nov 07, 2020