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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
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
For those of us living in Texas and other border states, the reality of an open and unsecured border is a part of everyday life.
- Deliberately
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- Nov 07, 2020
One must be deliberately ignoring reality to pretend that our asylum process is not being abused.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
We talk about honesty, but the reality is we have lots of human values, and they are not all compatible. We don't always tell the truth about everything, no matter what the consequences.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Mormon issue is a real problem in the South; it's a real problem in other parts of the country. But people are not going to say it. People are not going to step out and say, 'I have a problem with Romney because he's Mormon.' What they're going to say is he's a flip-flopper... It's a fact; it's reality.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of course, Minneapolis, we think, 'Oh well, it's cold there, lethally cold.' But the reality is you adapt to weather... Humans are consummately adaptable creatures.
- Aging
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- Nov 07, 2020
The brutal reality about aging is that it has only an accelerator pedal. We have yet to discover whether a brake exists for people.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to make a clear distinction between people who take acting seriously and people who call themselves actors because they've been on reality TV or something.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is crucial that we develop real awareness of ourselves as citizens of Earth, linked by mutual and indissoluble bonds. When we clearly recognize this reality and ground ourselves in it, we are compelled to take a strict accounting of our way of life.
- Football
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I chose Mississippi State, of course I dreamed about being a big-time college football player. But I'm so grateful that actually became a reality - and it became a reality in a small town.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's the great thing about G.I. Joe: it's essentially superheroes, but it's military based - and it's based in reality.
- Fake
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's interesting, even in popular culture, in our vernacular now, the whole idea of 'fake news.' You hear it repeated on scripted television shows, on reality shows, you just see it everywhere, even in other countries.
- Climate
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- Nov 07, 2020