- 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
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
The booming popularity of alligator hunting, sparked by reality shows like the History Channel's 'Swamp People,' is easy to understand: It's an exotic blast of adrenaline. But there's a culinary upside as well, with gator boasting a delicate light-pink meat that, to me, falls somewhere between veal and wild turkey.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
Morality binds and blinds. It binds us into teams... but thereby makes us go blind to objective reality.
- Complicated
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- Nov 07, 2020
Social reality is so complicated that, once you join one team or the other, you become specialized in detecting certain patterns, but you become blind to other patterns.
- Editing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The excitement of wading into 'reality' and just finding out what happens - and then the challenge of selecting those things that happened and shaping them in the editing into a narrative that will have appeal and be engaging - is a great, great thrill.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in Chillum Heights in the Washington, D.C. area., and it was never a garden spot. When guys go, 'Hey, when I grew up, my neighborhood was tough, and it was this and that'... the reality is that it was just a terribly sad place. And thank God, I was able to escape it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It brings me back to reality. The combine doesn't care if you're a senator or not. It breaks down whenever it wants to break down.
- Find
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are a species that must try to impose and find systems - systems of thought, ways of organizing and categorizing reality.
- Leader
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the military, we can only do so much. The reality of it is if someone... really wants to make an impact on national security and the military as a whole... the person that has the ability to do that most is a knowledgeable civilian leader.
- Great Achievements
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- Nov 07, 2020
The middle class, one of the great achievements in history, is becoming more of a relic than a reality.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
The reality, sitting ten thousand miles away, is that we remain the country that inspires. We remain that shining city on a hill.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
TV has taken a crazy turn, especially in the industry of food, where everything is either a competition show or a sort of reality show. We've lost the kind of shows that are, like, 'Here's how you do this,' like the old Julia Child shows.
- Nov 07, 2020
When your voice contradicts reality and truth, the only way to create space for it is to discredit reality and truth.
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- Nov 07, 2020