Plato Quotes
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I've grown up with girls that are like Precious. I've grown up with people that are like everyone that I read about in that book. And so years later, when I was given the role, I just felt a huge responsibility to show the reality of that situation and to show that we're not making it up.
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Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
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The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied with the intellect alone. That which is receptive in us and that which impinges upon us from history is the reality of man's being, unfolding itself in thought.
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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.
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Modern American cinema seems to me superficial. The intention is to understand a certain reality, and the result is nothing but a photographing of that reality.
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We use the term 'fight' very lightly - 'I've been fighting so hard to get my car, I've been fighting so hard to get that job, I've been fighting so hard to get that girl.' But the reality is boxers do fight bitterly to get whatever they want or whatever they need in life, and most of them come from nothing, which is the case of Roberto Duran.
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At times, the curve/fat/plus convo tends be this 'out of the dark' story, like, 'I used to be insecure, but now here I am.' But that is not my reality, and for most of the people, that isn't their reality, either.
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The inner reality of love can be recognized only by love.
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It's hard to do a reality show when there's so much crying and drama.
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I don't really understand what the public perception of me is. I think public perception and reality are two wholly different things.
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The reality is the world is a really, really big place, and there's a lot of people running around with a lot on their mind. And you really have to figure out how to build a company that can put on a message that can actually reach people and have an impact globally.
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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
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'The Wire' really drew on a lot of real-life situations and real-life organizations - it created fiction to make a social statement about reality.
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People who watch 'Transporter' are maybe asking a little less about reality, being serious, and so on.
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I knew it was time to get off of reality TV when someone asked me if I sang as well as acted.
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If all consciousness is subject to essential laws in a manner similar to that in which spatial reality is subject to mathematical laws, then these essential laws will be of most fertile significance in investigating facts of the conscious life of human and brute animals.
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People always say to me, 'You've really strived to redefine retail.' But the reality is, I wanted to redefine magazines.
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I must try and break through the cliches about Latin America. Superpowers and other outsiders have fought over us for centuries in ways that have nothing to do with our problems. In reality we are all alone.
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I probably revisit in my work the moment at which I realised that dreams couldn't be reality.
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I didn't get an athletics scholarship at a major school.
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I never went to drama school, but I did learn a couple of things along the way.
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Those whose hearts are fixed on Reality itself deserve the title of Philosophers.
