- Singing
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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
- Nov 07, 2020
Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation.
- Goals
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- Nov 07, 2020
Though we may have desires or bold goals, for whatever reason, most of us don't think we can achieve something beyond what we're qualified to achieve. Why, I ask, do we let reality interfere with our dreams?
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
The lives we live are a bit of a straight-hair vs. curly-hair thing. We often want what we don't have. In reality, it's not about better or worse; it's just perception.
- Enjoy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I enjoy watching sitcoms where the team behind it have successfully created a whole alternate reality that you can enter into for half an hour every week.
- Epidemic
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- Nov 07, 2020
Personally, I don't get that whole reality show thing. It was much smaller, and it's grown. It's like an epidemic. I'm still rather confused by it.
- Normal
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- Nov 07, 2020
The conventional definition of reality, and the idea of 'normal life', mean nothing.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
By making pictures, you learn the many different properties of photography. I use those properties differently than, say, an advertising agency would, but we're both operating in the same reality. A face painted by Picasso occupies the same reality as a portrait by Stieglitz.
- Dashed
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- Nov 07, 2020
Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Reality shows make you more bold and you learn new skills like dancing, anchoring.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to drama school and it didn't prepare me for the ruthlessness of the industry at all, or the reality of it.
- Dream
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is very satisfying to see that my dream of LED lighting has become a reality.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most important thing about my profession is finding the truth, finding the reality of these shows.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
The musicals had a good, happy feeling, saying that the world is a better place. They say it's not reality, but who cares? There's too much reality these days.
- Democrats
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- Nov 07, 2020