- Lose
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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
- Strategy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think there's a tendency, and it's an understandable tendency, to imagine that China makes decisions out of a grand strategy. The reality is that I think China today is operating, most of all, based on its domestic needs.
- Eyes
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- Nov 07, 2020
I met Bowie when I was 15 backstage at his 'Reality' tour and blacked out completely. I have no memory of the encounter except just looking into his different-colored eyes.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got my developmental deal first, and I got 'Total Divas.' Everything from there it just went, boom! I was living my life on reality TV. I had to perform for WWE as well as show that to the whole world.
- Brother
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being on 'Total Divas' definitely prepared me. Because when you're on a reality show, you're used to cameras following you. However, the big difference with 'Big Brother' is they do not turn off.
- Debate
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- Nov 07, 2020
Filibusters should require 35 senators to... make a commitment to continually debate an issue in reality, not just in theory. The number of votes needed to overcome a filibuster should be reduced to 55 from 60.
- Child
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- Nov 07, 2020
A child's sense of reality vs. fantasy can be a bit blurred at the preschool age.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
We tend to do period stuff because it helps make it one step removed from boring everyday reality.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
My relationship to reality has been so utterly skewed for so long that I don't even notice it any more. It's just my reality.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
The reality is that every human being is placed on this planet, and one of the things that drives humans is their need for meaning, and if you can make every job meaningful, then you will guarantee that every job will be done to its highest level of excellence.
- Point Of View
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bored with obvious reality, I find my fascination in transforming it into a subjective point of view.
- Ready
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- Nov 07, 2020
Personally, I'm kind of swirling in this hurricane of virtual reality because of 'Ready Player One.'
- Cusp
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm surprised that VR has come about so quickly. It's lucky I just happened to write a book imagining virtual reality right on the cusp of it actually happening.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020