- 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
- Illusion
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- Nov 07, 2020
Censors tend to do what only psychotics do: they confuse reality with illusion.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, the first fact of human existence is the human body. But if you embrace the reality of the human body, you embrace mortality, and that is a very difficult thing for anything to do because the self-conscious mind cannot imagine non-existence. It's impossible to do.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was affected by the harshness of government, the reality of 16-hour days, and the pressures of modern communications.
- Process
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- Nov 07, 2020
Then there is the further question of what is the relationship of thinking to reality. As careful attention shows, thought itself is in an actual process of movement.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
One thus sees that a new kind of theory is needed which drops these basic commitments and at most recovers some essential features of the older theories as abstract forms derived from a deeper reality in which what prevails in unbroken wholeness.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
I came to the conclusion months ago, and I said it to members of Congress, that the only way people are going to fully appreciate what this reform is if we pass it and implement it and it becomes not a caricature but a reality, and I still believe that. So I think it will be easier to sell it moving forward than it was to this point.
- Here
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- Nov 07, 2020
The reality is, 'Game of Thrones' has been a successful show for HBO, which has put us in a position to come and pitch another show and get them excited about it. And that's what helped get us here.
- Nov 07, 2020
An Apostle is a missionary, bearing testimony of the reality and divinity of Jesus Christ in all the world.
- Darkness
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- Nov 07, 2020
These are ideas. I could say that they just came to me, but it would be more accurate to say that I went to them. Ideas - and new connections between ideas - lead you away from commonly held perceptions of reality. Ideas lead you out here. Ideas lead you into the darkness.
- Nov 07, 2020
I don't watch reality TV. I'm cool.
- Reality TV
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't watch reality TV.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
The idea of viewers getting invested in a series is that you're getting invested in the reality of these characters' lives that, in fact, don't have an ending.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's CNN's bigger problem that CNN wants to deny reality. I, too, used to drink the Kool-Aid that it was a top journalism operation that reports without bias. Now that I'm outside the walls of traditional media, I know there is no such thing.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
If there's one thing that 'No Child Left Behind' has proven, it's that more academics don't make for smarter children - or even higher test scores. And yet we somehow refuse to accept this reality.
- I Can
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I can get a sanitized version of reality, I'll take it.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020