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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
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a tendency to seek an objective account of everything before admitting its reality.
- Constructs
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- Nov 07, 2020
Journalism constructs momentarily arrested equilibriums and gives disorder an implied order. That is already two steps from reality.
- Flooded
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- Nov 07, 2020
Solving problems is fine, but it has gotten to the point of being a global obsession. We somehow have it in our heads that if we solve all of the problems, we can sit back and enjoy the easy life. But in reality, we become lazy and complacent. And that's when we get flooded with even bigger problems.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started looking at small companies that were running a sort of virtual reality cottage industry: I had imagined that I would just put on a helmet and be somewhere else - that's your dream of what it's going to be.
- Lifestyle
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- Nov 07, 2020
Usually, the 24-hour, high-maintenance celebrity lifestyle can disconnect people from reality.
- Image
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our idea of nature is increasingly being determined by scientific developments. And they have become decisive for our image of reality.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Generally students are the best vehicles for passing on ideas, for their thoughts are plastic and can be molded and they can adjust the ideas of old men to the shape of reality as they find it in villages and hills of China or in ghettos and suburbs of America.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
The 'Road Rules' thing was just something that happened. It was never like when I was little I said, 'I want to be on a reality show when I grow up.' They didn't even have them then, you know?
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
The reality in the neighborhood that I live in is: if I don't constantly reconcile what I have against what other people don't, either I need to leave and be around other people who have what I have, or I'm constantly engaged in this kind of dynamic flow of opportunity and sharing.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know that everyone who listens to radio creates you in a visual image that they need you to have. Whatever that is, I thought, let them have it. Let me be who the listener needs me to be and let me not contradict that with the reality of my photograph and risk disappointing them.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love zombie films like Danny Boyle's '28 Days Later' - I thought it was so brilliantly done and so grounded in reality. I was definitely thrust into the zombie world watching that film.
- Comic
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wasn't at all sure I could make that sort of leap into that sort of comic book reality.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm just gonna keep making good music and continue to stay in tune with the people and with reality.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People take reality for granted.
- Mean
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- Nov 07, 2020