Irving Kristol Quotes

A neoconservative is a liberal who has been mugged by reality. A neoliberal is a liberal who got mugged by reality but has not pressed charges.

Irving Kristol

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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.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • People
  • Up
  • Book

• 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

• Canada was my whole world and my whole reality, and now I meet people who've never been there, and it's like, 'You've never been to my whole world?'

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
  • People
  • World
  • Reality

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

  

  Hans Urs von Balthasar
  • Love
  • Reality
  • Can

• Reality is what you can count on.

  

  Dallas Willard
  • Reality
  • You
  • Count

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

  

  Taylor Hanson Hanson
  • Good
  • Reality
  • Fear

• Once you have perfect virtual reality, what else are you supposed to perfect?

  

  Palmer Luckey
  • Reality
  • You
  • Perfect

• A crime is like a crack in reality, and it is the author's role to explore those cracks. As a writer, I like to see how they impinge on people.

  

  Natsuo Kirino
  • People
  • Reality
  • Author

• 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

• It turns out that if you're a 24-year-old whose only line on their resume says CEO, you are totally unemployable.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • You
  • Line
  • Resume

• The American War of Independence is the expulsion of the intrusive elements, alien to the American essence. If American reality is the reinvention of itself, whatever is found in any way irreducible or unassimilable is not American.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • American
  • War
  • Reality

• A lot of people are living in a dream world - they want to deny that aging occurs or believe it doesn't have to occur. They'll hold on to this belief until the moment they die. The reality will eventually hit them.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • People
  • World
  • Believe

• In China, we think that if you want something to happen, you don't talk about it. So I will keep who I want to work with as my secret.

  

  Zhou Xun
  • Work
  • Think
  • Want

• Any real virtual reality enthusiast can look back at VR science fiction. It's not about playing games... 'The Matrix,' 'Snow Crash,' all this fiction was not about sitting in a room playing video games. It's about being in a parallel digital world that exists alongside our own, communicating with other people, playing with other people.

  

  Palmer Luckey
  • People
  • World
  • Real

• The fundamental laws of physics do not describe true facts about reality. Rendered as descriptions of facts, they are false; amended to be true, they lose their explanatory force.

  

  Nancy Cartwright
  • True
  • Reality
  • Facts

• 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.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • America
  • Reality
  • Alone

• If reality shows are so popular, that means their viewers are screaming for more realness.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Reality
  • Popular
  • More

• Christianity will go.. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first - rock and roll or Christianity. Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Rock
  • Jesus
  • Popular

• If you're going to reach for it, reach all the way for it. Albums like 'Purple Rain' and 'Thriller' and those kind of records, you had to reach far above the din of cynicism and modern living to get to that place, against all the odds.

  

  Dave Sitek Jane's Addiction
  • Rain
  • Purple

• When I was pregnant with Future, one thing I learned quickly was, don't ever let a pregnant lady be hungry, because when I was, I was like the Tasmanian Devil!

  

  Ciara
  • Future
  • Devil

• I've seen people wearing clothes that don't look good on them, but they're really loving those clothes and the experience of wearing those clothes. Fine. At the end of the day, it's fashion.

  

  Ian Astbury The Cult
  • People
  • Good
  • Experience

• A neoconservative is a liberal who has been mugged by reality. A neoliberal is a liberal who got mugged by reality but has not pressed charges.

  

  Irving Kristol
  • Reality