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Reality Quotes

Our national prosperity is built on our open borders. However, the reality is that if a points system is introduced in the UK it would be unavoidable for us in the Netherlands to implement similar proposals – and inevitable that many other EU countries would follow suit.

– Mark Rutte

Sometimes you can do all the right things and not succeed. And that’s a hard lesson of reality.

– Donna Tartt

In the 40 years I’ve been working as an economist and investor, I have never seen such a disconnect between the asset market and the economic reality… Asset markets are in the sky, and the economy of the ordinary people is in the dumps, where their real incomes adjusted for inflation are going down and asset markets are going up.

– Marc Faber

When I was modelling, I spent half my life staring at thousands of perfect reflections. It got to a stage where I was losing all sense of reality – so after I quit modelling, I took all the mirrors out of my house.

– Grace Jones

While the vast majority of hackers may be disinclined towards violence, it would only take a few to turn cyber terrorism into reality.

– Dorothy Denning

Everybody knows that I’m not a snob when it comes to pop culture, obviously. I love reality shows.

– Diablo Cody

I try to ground most of my characters in reality somehow. That’s kind of what I bring to the table.

– Donnie Wahlberg

If I can get a sanitized version of reality, I’ll take it.

– Darrell Hammond

A romantic or classical view of the French approach would have been to say, ‘It’s a French company; let no one attack it. Let’s block any merger. But the reality is Alcatel-Lucent is not a French company; it’s a global company. Its main markets are China and the U.S. Its ownership is foreign; most of its managers aren’t French.

– Emmanuel Macron

Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence.

– George Steiner

I love Jonathan Adler but more importantly I love throws. To clarify, a throw is not to be confused with a blanket. A blanket is to be slept under, a throw is to accent a chair or sofa and give the illusion that in some scenario someone might rest underneath it. In reality, this scenario does not exist and I never want it to.

– Max Greenfield

I really can’t write fantasy. I cannot invent a world which does not exist. And I can’t read fantasy either. As soon as I realise I’m reading a book that hasn’t got its roots in a reality I can comprehend, I switch off.

– Michael Morpurgo

I wouldn’t want to do a Bollywood film per se, but I would like to do an Indian-language film. For some reason I think Bollywood has become synonymous with commercial cinema, which is song and dance and everything that is larger than life, and I am interested in the reality.

– Freida Pinto

Writing laws based on an abstract theory, rather than reality, is a dangerous undertaking.

– Elizabeth Warren

There’s a hardening of the culture. Reality TV has lowered the standards of entertainment. You’re left wondering about the legitimacy of relationships. It’s probably harder to entertain the same people with a more classic form of writing, and romantic comedies are a classic genre.

– Nancy Meyers

Sci-fi always runs out a little bit ahead of reality, right? Automatic doors in ‘Star Trek,’ stuff like that. It all happened, didn’t it, finally?

– Natalie Dormer

To photograph reality is to photograph nothing.

– Duane Michals

The reality is that most of North America knows next to nothing of the 20th century’s first genocide – the systematic slaughter of 1.5 million Armenians in the First World War.

– Chris Bohjalian

I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.

– Frida Kahlo

I didn’t have parents who were, you know, racing to get a reality television show, you know? Or looking to benefit in some way from their daughter’s fame.

– Molly Ringwald

The primary difference that I have found between the system of education in India and other countries, particularly the U.S., is that they focus on problem solving and relating theories to reality around them. These two things are lacking in the education system in India.

– N. R. Narayana Murthy

I don’t want to shield kids from reality.

– Evangeline Lilly

A denial of the reality of demonical possessions on the part of anyone who believes the Gospel narrative to be true and inspired may justly be regarded as simply and plainly inconceivable.

– Edward McKendree Bounds

My biggest challenge in making ‘The Devil Wears Prada’ was simply to maintain a tone of sophistication and reality. It’s about the fashion world, or it’s set in the fashion world, and that’s a world that’s easy to mock. It’s easy to satirise people trying to lose weight and choosing between fancy clothes.

– David Frankel

I would love to have written Roger Zelazny’s first five books of ‘Amber.’ What a great idea he had about the shadings of reality!

– Carol Berg

When we’re in the shower, when we’re thinking about our idea – boy, does it sound brilliant. But the reality is that most of our ideas are actually terrible.

– Eric Ries

The reality show ‘America’s Next Top Model’ is my girlie pleasure.

– Estelle

When I was making ‘Star Wars,’ I wasn’t restrained by any kind of science. I simply said, ‘I’m going to create a world that’s fun and interesting, makes sense, and seems to have a reality to it.’

– George Lucas

I personally am opposed to abortion, but I will not judge anybody else’s right in that regard because I am not a woman and I could never face the actual reality of it.

– Martin Sheen

The reality of most software development is that the consequences of failure are simply nonexistent.

– Dan Kaminsky

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