Jane Pauley Quotes

I've always been profoundly ambivalent about fame. I think it just eats the reality out of you and it can be intoxicating because I like some of it.

Jane Pauley

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• People look at stuff like 'Godzilla' and 'Avengers' and think I only do blockbusters, or however you wanna put it, but in reality, I can make double or triple what I got paid for 'Avengers' by doing other stuff - there are other options, but I don't want to work with this person or that person, and so I don't do it.

  

  Aaron Taylor-Johnson
  • People
  • Work
  • Reality

• During the nineteenth century, men died believing in the cause of royalty or republicanism. In reality, much of their sacrifice was rendered on the altar of the new nationalism.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Men
  • Reality
  • Sacrifice

• There's no mystery any more. So my instinct is to show very little, because there's much too much information about everyone, everywhere right now. Reality TV is an example of that.

  

  Feist
  • Reality
  • Information

• If I couldn't see the colors, now that would be a problem.

  

  Im Dong-Hyun
  • Problem
  • See
  • Colors

• Creativity is generating ideas that are novel and useful. I define originals as people who go beyond dreaming up the ideas and take initiative to make their visions a reality.

  

  Adam Grant
  • People
  • Up
  • Reality

• If the world is an objective reality that exists independently of us, then humans themselves, even in their own eyes, are nothing more than objects, and their life stories merely a series of disconnected historical accidents, which they may wonder at, but which they themselves have nothing to do with.

  

  Imre Kertesz
  • Life
  • World
  • May

• I think the CG is an instrument to create reality. I don't think it's an instrument to create a heightened reality.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Think
  • Reality
  • Create

• I grew up on Raffi. That was my first impression of what a rock star was.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Up
  • Rock
  • Star

• The inner reality of love can be recognized only by love.

  

  Hans Urs von Balthasar
  • Love
  • Reality
  • Can

• It's hard to do a reality show when there's so much crying and drama.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Reality
  • Drama
  • Hard

• When you get bullied, you automatically think that you're the reason why you're getting bullied. The reality is, it's about them, not you... I'm all about blocking people. I'm all about saying, 'You know what, I don't need this in my life.'

  

  Kat Graham
  • People
  • Life
  • Why

• It's hard to strike that balance: to tell a kid that life isn't fair, but also recognize and enforce in them the reality that their choices matter.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Life
  • Reality
  • Choices

• Why do you think the fans like us - why they prefer our street raps over all that phony stuff out there? Because we're telling the real story of what it's like living in places like Compton. We're giving them reality. We're like reporters. We give them the truth.

  

  Eric Lynn Wright
  • Real
  • Why
  • Truth

• Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind; it is a way of engaging reality.

  

  Irving Howe
  • Reality
  • Imagination
  • Leaving

• The best cure for insomnia is to get a lot of sleep.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Best
  • Sleep
  • Insomnia

• The reality is that politicians, in terms of the amount of power they wield and the amount that they work, don't actually make that much money.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • Work
  • Money
  • Power

• It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Men
  • Religion
  • Grow

• The left and the right live in parallel universes. The right listens to talk radio, the left's on the Internet and they just reinforce one another. They have no sense of reality. I have now one ambition: to retire before it becomes essential to tweet.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Live
  • Reality
  • Ambition

• The working-class aspirations are worse now than when I was a kid - and it was pretty bad when I was a kid. Reality TV means they are being told they are no longer a working class, they're an underclass. Young lassies want to be Jordan or Jade, but very few aspire to be the next Germaine Greer.

  

  Peter Mullan
  • Bad
  • Pretty
  • Reality

• All we are, all we can be, are the stories we tell," he says, and he is talking as if he is talking only to me. "Long after we are gone, our words will be all that is left, and who is to say what really happened or even what reality is? Our stories, our fiction, our words will be as close to truth as can be. And no one can take that away from you.

  

  Nora Raleigh Baskin
  • Reality
  • Stories
  • Talking

• Indian celebrities have the media and fans permanently outside their homes, and that would make me really uncomfortable.

  

  Freida Pinto

• These people in Mississippi State, they are not "down"; all they need is a chance. And I am determined to give my part not for what the Movement can do for me, but what I can do for the Movement to bring about a change in the State of Mississippi.

  

  Fannie Lou Hamer
  • People
  • Giving
  • Needs

• You can't stay mad at somebody who makes you laugh.

  

  Jay Leno
  • Mad

• I've always been profoundly ambivalent about fame. I think it just eats the reality out of you and it can be intoxicating because I like some of it.

  

  Jane Pauley
  • Reality