Reality Quotes
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Isn’t a miserable reality better than the most interesting illusion? Or is it illusion, Barney? I don’t know anything about philosophy; you explain it to me because all I know is religious faith and that doesn’t equip me to understand this.
Philip K. Dick
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My personal feeling is that ultra-high frame rates and ultra-vivid giant screen movies can be like a window onto reality. And if you recognize it as such, you can write your screenplay, direct your movie, edit it, and present it as a live experience - not like a movie.
Douglas Trumbull
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It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media.
Christopher Lasch
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It is almost a rule that the more complex a man is, the simpler his billing. A person with a retrospective ability gone rampant often would be called an historian. Similarly, one to whom reality doesn't seem to make sense gets dubbed a philosopher.
Joseph Brodsky
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My indie work is mostly reality-based, focused on real life and characters.
Jeff Lemire
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Freedom of the press and also of speech, assembly, and worship can persist as social forms and legal guarantees, while at the same time their functional realities can be gradually slipping away.
Marshall Field
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TV networks are dying. The death throes of religion give us jihads. The death throes of television give us reality shows.
Penn Jillette
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When war is not just it is subsequently justified; so it becomes many things. In reality, an unjust war is merely piracy. It consists of piracy, ego and, more than anything, money. War is our century's prostitution.
T. S. Eliot
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Reality TV is here, it's been here really since the Carol Levis Discovery Show in 1957. It's never changed. It just looks a bit different.
Pete Waterman
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No longer are there immutable standards by which to judge ourselves. Image has overtaken reality.
Barbara Goldsmith
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The world of demons, fallen Angels, is very real - a fact we need to know. We have to face up to this terrible reality, so that we do not fall unsuspectingly into their hands and come under their tyranny.
Bernhard Schlink
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Ayn Rand held that art is a 're-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgements.' By its nature, therefore, a novel (like a statue or a symphony) does not require or tolerate an explanatory preface; it is a self-contained universe, aloof from commentary, beckoning the reader to enter, perceive, respond.
Leonard Peikoff
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To the extent math refers to reality, we are not certain to the extent we are certain, math does not refer to reality.
Albert Einstein
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In times of turbulence and rapid change, you must constantly be re-evaluating yourself relative to the new realities.
Brian Tracy
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I work out two or three times a week, whether it be a run or a workout class, a hike... I really try and mix it up a little bit so that it keeps me interested. I have a gym in my house, so if all else fails, I'll get on the running machine and book a movie or some crappy reality TV and just zone out.
Mel B
Spice Girls
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My reality doesn't lie in the part I play, but in the unconscious decision as to what kind of part I assign to myself.
Max Frisch
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I am firmly convinced that there is life after death, not in a primitive sense but as the entry of my completely finite person into God's infinity, as a transition into another reality beyond the dimension of space and time that pure reason can neither affirm nor deny.
Hans Kung
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...The reality is otherwise. Vicente Fox & friends are far closer than all but a few realize to making inevitable a North American Union where American sovereignty is dissipated and the republic is no more.
Pat Buchanan
