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Reality Quotes

When you’re a famous, successful person at 16 years old, the rules change for you. Everybody is doing things for you to make life easier so you can go out and play. And I think you miss out on lot of growing up and a lot of reality checks.

– Chris Evert

Generality is, indeed, an indispensable ingredient of reality; for mere individual existence or actuality without any regularity whatever is a nullity. Chaos is pure nothing.

– Charles Sanders Peirce

People think that dreams are better than reality but this is not always the case; sometimes, because you dream too much, you are unable to see what you have in front of your very eyes.

– Antonio Munoz Molina

Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.

– B. C. Forbes

In the middle of a play, I go crazy and don’t realize what I’m doing. I’ll snap back to reality and I realize, ‘Hey, I just ripped that boy’s helmet off,’ or, ‘I’m over here twisting this guy’s knee.

– Brian Bosworth

Startup stories are always smoother in the telling than they are in reality. A startup is not one, but a series of ‘Aha!’ moments, and some which seem like ‘Aha!’ moments but turn out not to be.

– Anthony Goldbloom

Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience.

– Albert Bandura

Among some of the youngsters, I think reality TV has installed that culture into them and inspired a few of them into wanting to be ‘TV celebrities.’

– Alan Sugar

‘Babel’ is about the point of view of others. It literally includes points of views as experienced from the other side. It is not about a hero. It is not about only one country. It is a prism that allows us to see the same reality from different angles.

– Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I don’t think we’re going to see the price of oil going down in the near future, that’s the reality.

– Carly Fiorina

I’ve realised now that the reality of children is you have to be in the right place with the right person.

– Benedict Cumberbatch

For me they are no different, reality and dreams.

– Alejandro Jodorowsky

I don’t like reality shows and have never watched them, but I’m addicted to ‘Real Housewives’ because it’s authentic old-time soap opera reborn!

– Camille Paglia

Over the past 20 years, I have noticed that the most flexible, dynamic, inquisitive minds among my students have been industrial design majors. Industrial designers are bracingly free of ideology and cant. The industrial designer is trained to be a clear-eyed observer of the commercial world – which, like it or not, is modern reality.

– Camille Paglia

I always liked characters that were more grounded in reality.

– Clint Eastwood

In reality, civil rights are more important than national rights. They’re the content, the day-to-day: work, life. But people are sensitive to national rights.

– Ayman Odeh

Long before the arrival of reality TV – before speed cameras, before recording angels on buses and lampposts – I felt I was living in a country that already knew how to watch itself. It was journalism that held the responsibility for seeing who we were and noticing what we did.

– Andrew O’Hagan

Virtual reality is the ‘ultimate empathy machine.’ These experiences are more than documentaries. They’re opportunities to walk a mile in someone else’s shoes.

– Chris Milk

What I find most satisfying about photography is the way in which it allows me to document ‘reality’ while at the same time creating my own version thereof; in other words, the reality I present is a reality based upon what I choose to include in the frame and what I choose to leave out.

– Alix Smith

With reality TV, sometimes it’s amazing chemistry and you get these gems that turn out to be everything you hoped, and the camera loves them and they just blossom on the show. And then sometimes it’s not all you envision.

– Alison Sweeney

I think the love-hate is fundamental. Everyone hates reality television, and everyone’s watching it. Everyone hates Facebook, and everyone is on it.

– Bo Burnham

I think there is a long exploration in American drama of women in particular who, by force of circumstances or because they are predisposed to, choose fantasy over reality.

– Cate Blanchett

If you start off writing an album with a band, the reality is that you’re constantly in each other’s company, so it’s really important that you get on with each other.

– Bernard Sumner

If I wasn’t prepared knowing every year there is a huge chance of a fire that will require me to evacuate my property, then I’m an ignoramus. If people at this point don’t see that terrorism is a reality, and don’t take steps to prepare themselves a little more than they were the day before, then they are also an irresponsible ignoramus.

– Bill Goldberg

If you want to call me names, make jokes and doubt my intentions, go ahead, because the reality is I can take it.

– Caitlyn Jenner

I could suddenly see the pressures all around; these endless magazines and cheap reality TV programmes poking at women, humiliating us for every flaw. It makes me so angry. I really wonder what it is we are doing to ourselves, because I do think women can be the worst ones for picking each other apart.

– Amanda Burton

Get away from the place that makes you feel comfortable with your depression. The reality is it’s never as bad as the insanity you’ve created in your head.

– Ben Huh

I work with history because I come from a country that has a tremendous thirst for reality.

– Alvaro Enrigue

There’s a very fine line between one person’s reality and another person’s fantasy.

– Conor Oberst

You talk about the values that you have whether they’re in favor or not in favor. That’s how you lead. The reality is, we’re losing more and more elections.

– Artur Davis

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