Jodhi May Quotes

Television is a very highly constructed, and edited, and censored, and tailored, and marketed reality. But I'm not judgemental about it. I don't have anything against television. I just personally don't feel curious.

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• 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
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• The reality is that I always envisioned the 'Riddick' franchise as a continuing mythology, so I always imagined that there would be many other films to follow.

  

  Vin Diesel
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• One of the things I like best about Netflix is that they make projects like 'Beasts of No Nation.' It's a film about a reality in an African country where kids were being used to be soldiers in a war. And it made so much sense to me as a citizen of the world.

  

  Wagner Moura
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• 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
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• Thinking fragments reality - it cuts it up into conceptual bits and pieces.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
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• To get important work done, most leaders organize people into teams. They believe that when people collaborate toward a common goal, great things can happen. Yet in reality, the whole is often much less than the sum of the parts.

  

  Adam Grant
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• I feel like a lot of people think of Hollywood as being fake, but it's only perceived that way because it takes 10 people to make someone look the way that they do. In reality, they're there because they are doing what they're passionate about.

  

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

  

  Hans Urs von Balthasar
  • Love
  • Reality
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• Reality is what you can count on.

  

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

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Reality
  • Drama
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• Sometimes, fear is good. Sometimes it's a good thing to have a little bit of a reality check.

  

  Taylor Hanson Hanson
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• Personally, I'm not into reality shows - I can't even name a reality show that I was a really big fan of, altogether as a whole, not just from MTV. Like, if ABC has another reality show, I'm like, 'Oh God, another reality show.' But people love them. 'The Hills', 'Laguna Beach'... those do extremely well. It's just a personal preference.

  

  Damien Fahey
  • People
  • God
  • Reality

• One of the reasons I've gotten so attached to talking to scientists is that... they know there is a reality.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Reality
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• I'd like to do some crazy art installations and design some weird synthesizers and work with other people and make some fun stuff for a bit. Maybe tap into virtual reality stuff or maybe write another record... We'll see.

  

  Flume
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  • Work
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• Human beings have a need, generally, to destroy things. The Freudian principle of civilisation is correct. There's always, always a difference between the family image and the reality.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Family
  • Reality
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• 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
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• People who watch 'Transporter' are maybe asking a little less about reality, being serious, and so on.

  

  Olivier Megaton
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• There are two factors in American politics that may seem strange to Europeans: race and religion.

  

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• I'm just a regular girl who likes to go snowboarding and picks her nose like anybody else. I just like to drive into things and take risks.

  

  Cameron Richardson
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• The Trump phenomenon has a lot of really good stuff in it, the anti-elitism, the concern for America's economy in the Rust Belt, the desire to see better days for the country. That's all great stuff. Some of that stuff is Bernie Sanders stuff. The problem is that it's marbled through with xenophobia and misogyny and bigotry.

  

  Van Jones
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• Most of us know what we should expect to find in a dragon's lair, but, as I said before, Eustace had read only the wrong books. They had a lot to say about exports and imports and governments and drains, but they were weak on dragons.

  

  C. S. Lewis
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• And last, we must bear in mind that the relationships between perception, thought, emotion, and behavior are neither automatic nor consistent. In many cases they are demonstrably affected or directed by culture and socialization. We don't just want what we want because we want it; we want what we want because that's what we've learned to want.

  

  Hanne Blank
  • Mind
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• I know my football. And I adore football players. The crashing noise of a tackle, the huddle grunting, and the roar of the crowd are music to my ears.

  

  Rachel Nichols
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  • Know
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• Television is a very highly constructed, and edited, and censored, and tailored, and marketed reality. But I'm not judgemental about it. I don't have anything against television. I just personally don't feel curious.

  

  Jodhi May
  • Reality
  • Judgemental