- Limits
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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
- Far
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- Nov 07, 2020
Far too often the choices reality proposes are such as to take away one's taste for choosing.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't like dreams or reality. I like when dreams become reality because that is my life.
- Detested
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have always detested any departure from reality, an attitude which I relate to my mother's poor mental health.
- Knowing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Knowing reality means constructing systems of transformations that correspond, more or less adequately, to reality.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like reality. It tastes like bread.
- Energy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I say that a myth is a story which has particular energy, mythic resonance. I always say that a myth is a tear in the fabric of reality through which all of this spiritual energy pours.
- Journey
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- Nov 07, 2020
Entrepreneurs always begin the journey believing that they have the next big idea. They dream of the fame and fortune that awaits them if only they had the funding to pursue it. But the reality is that as the product is built and shared with customers, flaws in their concept are discovered that - if not overcome - will kill the business.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
And the whole Oscar thing, that is just surreal: you spend months and months doing promotion, and then come back to reality with this golden thing in your hands. You put it in the office and then you just have to look at it sitting on the shelf. And, after about two weeks, you go: 'What is that doing there?'
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Alien' asked ground-breaking questions about eco-politics and female empowerment. 'The Matrix' delved deeper into the concept of perception versus reality than perhaps any other film I know. But for some reason, we tend not to remember the significance of their writing.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
The reality is that companies are full of things that are left unspoken. And even when they are out in the open, the CEO is almost always the last to know.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020