Reality Quotes
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The exploration of the external world by the methods of physical science leads not to a concrete reality but to a shadow world of symbols, beneath which those methods are unadapted for penetrating.
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I've had people accuse me of being too tough of a grader. But my job is to paint reality versus telling people what they want to hear.
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…the reality of society involves the socialization of certain unrealities.
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I'm a man for whom the outside world is an inner reality.
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Is it 'a drag' that passions don't come to us all at once, as epiphanies, without the need to actively develop them? Maybe. But the reality is that our early interests are fragile, vaguely defined, and in need of energetic, years-long cultivation and refinement.
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When we travel we find how greatly our boyhood dreams are outstripped by reality.
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I hold a vision of this blue green planet, safe and in balance. At the end of the Fossil Fuel Era, we are emerging to a new reality. We are ready to make the next leap - as momentous as abolishing slavery or giving women the vote.
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Music stimulates within us direct experience of expanded reality.
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I kind of grew up with high goals for myself; I intended to play pro baseball. Growing up in Texas, Hollywood isn't much of a reality..
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It is possible to build a virtual-reality generator whose repertoire includes every possible environment.
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In ancient times there was no public education, except that of the forum, the theater, and the street, and the general degree of illiteracy was very high. The early men of science were left very much to themselves and such a phrase as "the scientific culture of Alexandria in the third century B.C." does not cover any reality. In a sense, this is still true today; the real pioneers are so far ahead of the crowd (even a very literate crowd) that they remain almost alone.
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I think that if we really want to break it down, that non-black filmmakers have had many, many years and many, many opportunities to tell many, many stories about themselves, and black filmmakers have not had as many years, as many opportunities, as many films to explore the nuances of our reality.
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For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
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Dreams and reality are opposites. Action synthesizes them.
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One symptom of his (Hitler) being strangely at variance with reality, or the nature of things,was his gift for wearing inappropriate of ludicrous clothing...When he was supposed to be starting a militaristic revolution he was wearing evening dress and an ill-fitting black tailcoat...and his army medals.
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The media has enormous power. The media is undergoing huge changes now. It seemed like it's time to step back and look at how the media shapes our lives and our perceptions of reality.
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Reality is in the business of killing off fiction.
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Some people are antagonized by the truth.
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Even in my dreams, I’m an idiot who knows he’s about to wake up to reality.
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When one reaches absolute power, one loses total contact with reality.
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Beauty soaks reality as water fills a rag.
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I adore jokes. They're a theatrical contrivance, but the irony of all fiction is that you approach reality by avoiding it a bit; you spoof it a bit.
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I don't like dreams or reality. I like when dreams become reality because that is my life.
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I can remember how when I was young I believed death to be a phenomenon of the body; now I know it to be merely a function of the mind -- and that of the minds who suffer the bereavement. The nihilists say it is the end; the fundamentalists, the beginning; when in reality it is no more than a single tenant or family moving out of a tenement or a town.
