- Firm Believer
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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
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
The subject and the reality of having children came at the height of my career.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have our own script. We have our own calendar. We represent the greatness of Africa's past. We also represent the worst of Africa's present, in terms of poverty. It is the best and the worst of African reality.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I work out two or three times a week, whether it be a run or a workout class, a hike... I really try and mix it up a little bit so that it keeps me interested. I have a gym in my house, so if all else fails, I'll get on the running machine and book a movie or some crappy reality TV and just zone out.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hell would freeze over before I would do a reality show. I've been offered everything you could possibly imagine, and it just doesn't interest me. You certainly won't see me dancing on TV.
- Gay
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have to find a way to try and reconcile our beliefs - and Islam, like Judaism and Christianity, has traditionally seen homosexuality as a sin - with the reality of life in modern, pluralistic, secular societies in which gay people cannot be wished away or banished from sight.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
The irony of the media and people in big cities is that they're charged with defining the entire culture, when in reality they don't even live in that culture. They live in such a rarified, tiny world.
- America
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- Nov 07, 2020
Comedy comes from tragedy, and being Iranian in America from 1979 on had been quite tragic. In stand-up comedy, I was able to take the reality and exaggerate it.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm pretty convinced there's a chemical reality to who I am, regarding my brain, that makes me kind of a strange guy.
- Additional
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- Nov 07, 2020
In reality, every time the government takes an additional dollar in taxes out of someone's pocket, it's a dollar that person will not be able to spend or invest. When government spending goes up, private spending goes down. There is no net effect. No wealth creation.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People failed to realize that when you're living such a hyper, super reality of a life, where you're just doing shows and you're on TV and you're talking to this magazine, that doesn't bode well for trying to talk about everyday stuff that hopefully you'll connect with people on.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think, as human beings, we all have a fundamental mode, a basic way of relating to the rest of reality, and for me, it's always instinctively been about sound making and trying to extract information, grammar, meaning from sound making. That's been my way of navigating reality that's very personal; a painter might say they make marks or look.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
All the analysis of infinite reality which the finite human mind can conduct rests on the tacit assumption that only a finite portion of this reality constitutes the object of scientific investigation, and that only it is 'important' in the sense of being 'worthy of being known.'
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020