- 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
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- Nov 07, 2020
When a party is in opposition, it opposes. That's its job. But when it comes to power, it must govern. Easy rhetoric is over, the press of reality becomes irresistible. By necessity, it adopts some of the policies it had once denounced. And a new national consensus is born.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
There exists, if I am not mistaken, an entire world which is the totality of mathematical truths, to which we have access only with our mind, just as a world of physical reality exists, the one like the other independent of ourselves, both of divine creation.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
You cannot set art off in a corner and hope for it to have vitality, reality, and substance.
- Goals
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since coming to Congress in 1971, I have been fighting to help create an environment where the goals of the National Work and the Family Month can become a reality.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's not easy to go from reality TV to being taken seriously as an artist, so I don't think I'll be doing reality TV again because of that.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Honestly, the biggest setback to my music career was people's perception that I was a reality TV star, not a rapper.
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- Nov 07, 2020
All of us grow up in particular realities - a home, family, a clan, a small town, a neighborhood. Depending upon how we're brought up, we are either deeply aware of the particular reading of reality into which we are born, or we are peripherally aware of it.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Two hundred or more years ago most people on the planet were never aware of any reality other than the one into which they were brought up.
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020
Americans have an abiding belief in their ability to control reality by purely material means... airline insurance replaces the fear of death with the comforting prospect of cash.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Movies, more than anything I can think of, are a great escape from reality. My reality, in particular, needs escaping.
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- Nov 07, 2020