Jonah Goldberg Quotes
We are a species that must try to impose and find systems - systems of thought, ways of organizing and categorizing reality.
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Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
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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.
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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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I'm half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times. It's best not to ask questions and just enjoy.
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There comes a point when a dream becomes reality and reality becomes a dream.
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Thinking fragments reality - it cuts it up into conceptual bits and pieces.
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Fantasy is like an idealized reality, and the core of fantasy is the one person can make a difference.
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The inner reality of love can be recognized only by love.
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Reality is what you can count on.
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I'm a storyteller, and I was an actor, so I have a fairly thin grip on reality to begin with.
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The only time a friend has ever helped me in the industry was how I got my first job - that was through Mike Figgis.
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It's important in a relationship to have moments when you do your own thing.
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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.
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That's the great thing about G.I. Joe: it's essentially superheroes, but it's military based - and it's based in reality.
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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.'
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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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Poetry is the deification of 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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The scientific-rational mindset is as much a cosmology as the Catholic mindset was in the Middle Ages; scientists are so proud of their mindset and convinced that it's the only reality. I find that worrying.
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Vision, even for a dragon, is woefully unreliable. What you can see with great clarity may not be real; what you cannot see may be the ultimate reality.
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Examine the legacy that we inherited and what we did. We had boom-and-bust economics and a doubled national debt.
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I love that we've chipped away at the celluloid closet and have wonderful programs that feature gay and lesbian characters in really rich, fully developed ways.
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It occurred to me that if I were a ghost, this ambiance was what I'd miss most: the ordinary, day-to-day bustle of the living. Ghosts long, I'm sure, for the stupidest, most unremarkable things.
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We are a species that must try to impose and find systems - systems of thought, ways of organizing and categorizing reality.
