Reality Quotes
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In art as in politics we must deal with people as they are not as we wish them to be. Only by working with the real can you get closer to the ideal.
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A photographer doesn't just copy reality, but communicates to others what he or she experiences.
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What I want to show in my work is the idea which hides itself behind so-called reality.
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Class certainly loomed large in Katrina's aftermath. Blacks of means escaped the tragedy; blacks without them suffered and died. In reality, it is how race and class interact that made the situation for the poor so horrible on the Gulf Coast. The rigid caste system that punishes poor blacks and other minorities also targets poor whites.
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The minute I forget to balance reality with the fantasy, I'm going back to Virginia.
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What we assert, very often can become our reality. To some degree, everybody can try to shape and control their fate. Everybody picks an identity.
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When I talk of reality, I am always thinking of essentials. Profundity is not located in some remote, inaccessible region. It is rooted in everyday life.
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Reality can be experienced only with the eye of understanding, not just by a scholar.
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You have this disturbing reality that there are a lot of people who would rather say, 'I'm on strike' than 'I'm unemployed.' And those are the people who vote for strikes.
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This completely changed the reality of thousands of Polish municipalities. After 40 years, local self-government was restored, ending the rule of local representatives of the communist government.
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It's difficult for democracy to function properly under the most favorable circumstances, but it has no chance at all when millions of voters are divorced from objective reality and incapable of understanding what is going on in Washington.
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Today, the hopes and dreams of millions of Iraqis are closer to becoming an everyday reality -- a free, democratic government is literally at hand.
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I want all of my films to be grounded in reality, and I think 'Midnight Special' is the most grounded film I've ever made, in spite of its genre.
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In every system of theology, therefore, there is a chapter De libero arbitrio. This is a question which every theologian finds in his path, and which he must dispose of; and on the manner in which it is determined depends his theology, and of course his religion, so far as his theology is to him a truth and reality.
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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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Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
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A photograph acquires something of the dignity which it ordinarily lacks when it ceases to be a reproduction of reality and shows us things that no longer exist.
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Accurate drawing, accurate colour, is perhaps not the essential thing to aim at, because the reflection of reality in a mirror, if it could be caught, colour and all, would not be a picture at all, no more than a photograph.
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Surrealism comes from the reality of Latin America.
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Reality is in the business of killing off fiction.
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I think time and time again, in reality, psychological notions and economic notions interplay, and the man who doesn't understand both is a damned fool.
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When you're right there in the crisi, you'll do anything to make yourself feel better, distract yourself from the misery, deny reality, not matter how stupid.
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As science integrates the in-depth knowledge of the physical world accumulated over the past three centuries, it will be channeled into a new and exciting line of inquiry that acknowledges the expanded reality of consciousness as a creative force in the universe and the spiritual creative power embodied in our own minds.
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I'm concerned about a lot of serious border issues. This book is about the border reality and the struggles of the undocumented worker.
