- Romantic
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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
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I touched the limits of our political system, which pushes one to last-minute compromises. Explanations are rarely given. It plays to people's fears because it hasn't built an ideological consensus. It produces flawed solutions and too often ignores reality.
- Fashion
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think reality television has made the fashion industry and the beauty industry, any industry - frankly, just life - it has made life seem much different than it really is.
- Nov 07, 2020
When you're surrounded by people who share the same set of assumptions as you, you start to think that's reality.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Actors pull from their own experiences to bring reality to the characters. I wouldn't want to play someone who's a lot like me. There would be no turning it on or off.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a reality that in this business there's an expectation of being thin. But having a baby is a reality too, and it's more important for me to make milk than to fit into those tiny pants. So that's just going to have to wait.
- Dreams
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- Nov 07, 2020
Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned.
- Beauty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Monsters are a departure from 'reality' in a way that allows for a range of fantastic possibilities. I mean this within the world of literature as well as in regards to art. When I sit down to draw, I'm energized by the possibility of creating a monster. That is where I find beauty and pathos.
- Failure
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- Nov 07, 2020
The reality is gas prices should be much more expensive then they are because we're not incorporating the true damage to the environment and the hidden costs of mining oil and transporting it to the U.S. Whenever you have an unpriced externality, you have a bit of a market failure, to the degree that eternality remains unpriced.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think there are always times when people want to get out of reality, because sometimes it sucks and it's difficult.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
The decisive factor for the future of Europe - and before all things, for the 'restoration' of Europe - will be whether political thought and national feelings are influenced by the reality of internationalism.
- Emotional
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we are fully conscious and aware, we actually know when we are about to overreact. When we are mindful, we have the mental space and are aware of when our moods change. When we are mindful, we are aware of when our mental models are being challenged and when expectation does not meet with reality, which can trigger an emotional response.
- Green
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- Nov 07, 2020
The reality of the Green party is that we are a party committed to bringing forward big ideas, new ideas and demonstrating by our conduct in parliament and through the election that we really want to work for Canadians, work across party lines, work across jurisdictions.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
Much has been written about Trump's style of speech, which linguists have said is often unintelligible yet deeply compelling. Orwell's famous 1946 essay, 'Politics and the English Language,' centers on the use of abstract words, often by politicians, to obscure reality.
- Nov 07, 2020
The more I think on the present condition of woman, the more am I oppressed with the reality of their degradation.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020