I have always been a singer, a writer, and a musician, not as a prodigy or as in a trade handed to me by my parents, but because of an inner voice or maybe a command from beyond reality as it is usually defined. – Frank Black
The kids from the streets don’t want preaching or messages. They want what they can identify with. They want to hear about the reality of their situation, not fairy tales. They don’t care if it’s ugly; they just want reality. – Eazy-E
The goal is to really blur the line. Can you perform a magic trick in a way that someone doesn’t think it’s a magic trick but is something amazing they haven’t seen before? Then they have to wrestle with reality. – Michael Carbonaro
The faux now of Twitter updates and things pinging at you – all the pulses from digitality that we try to keep up with because we sense that there’s something going on that we need to tap into – are artifacts, or symptoms of living in this atemporal reality. And it’s not any worse than living in the ‘time is money’ reality that we’re leaving. – Douglas Rushkoff
It would follow that ‘significant form’ was form behind which we catch a sense of ultimate reality. – Clive Bell
The reality is that we will be reading Miranda rights to the corpse of Osama bin Laden. He will never appear in an American courtroom. That’s the reality. He will be killed by us, or he will be killed by his own people so he’s not captured by us. We know that. – Eric Holder
We continually say things to support an opinion, which we have given, that in reality we don’t above half mean. – Frances Burney
If it is, in reality, capitalism that is the motor force behind the destructive forms of globalization, then it must be in their capacity to neutralize or transform this particular mode of exploitation that one can best test these various forms of resistance to the West. – Fredric Jameson
Reality is self-defined as the mob, any mob, writes its own history, never to be contradicted by the quiet statement of truth. – Mike Barnicle
Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned. – Emile Durkheim
And then, I suppose, there’s also a cinematic reality on top of that. Because it was extremely difficult to keep tabs on, it was quite confusing acting that. – Gabriel Byrne
Basically if you study entrepreneurs, there is a misnomer: People think that entrepreneurs take risk, and they get rewarded because they take risk. In reality entrepreneurs do everything they can to minimize risk. They are not interested in taking risk. They want free lunches and they go after free lunches. – Mohnish Pabrai
I feel like I’m losing my ability to understand reality; like when someone loses their hearing, they can still speak English, but their speech eventually becomes distorted because they can’t hear themselves. – David Chang
I preferred MTV as it used to be when it was about the music – I don’t like it that now they just have reality shows. Reality TV rots people’s brains. – Georgia May Jagger
The reality is that the institutional framework in which Wall Street operates is fundamentally inappropriate, and it inevitably generates violent fluctuations of the market. – Maurice Allais
Painting is not for me either decorative amusement, or the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation. – Max Ernst
It is crucial that we develop real awareness of ourselves as citizens of Earth, linked by mutual and indissoluble bonds. When we clearly recognize this reality and ground ourselves in it, we are compelled to take a strict accounting of our way of life. – Daisaku Ikeda
I really want to work in a movie with Quentin Tarantino. I think he makes fantastic movies. I love people that create a different reality for the actors to live in. – Daniella Alonso
Anyone who’s had a casual conversation with his neighbors or is cognizant of reality TV should already be petrified of democracy. – David Harsanyi
It was inevitable at some point that I would bump into one of my father’s plays. The reality of the situation is that I’m a jobbing actor, and any actor would give their eye-teeth to have one of those roles. It’s a no-brainer! I’m pleased the stars have aligned around ‘Arcadia.’ – Ed Stoppard
To deal with the stark reality of having hit or hurt a woman or child, to deal with the initial responsibility you have not to do that and the knowledge you did do it, can be incredibly hard. – David Soul
Readers probably haven’t heard much about it yet, but they will. Quantum technology turns ordinary reality upside down. – Michael Crichton
I think the last reality show I watched was the first ‘Survivor’. That was a long time ago. – David Henrie
Video looks like reality, it’s more immediate, it has a verite surface to it. Film has this liquid kind of surface, feels like something made up. – Michael Mann
I learned a great deal doing Brooklyn Bridge. I was able to take a giant step into the terrible reality that was then. We saw the cattle cars that took folks away. Just knowing it was real, it would be impossible not to feel. – Marion Ross
You’re guilty until proven innocent. Perception is reality, that’s the way that it is in this world. – Chris Webber
I’m pretty convinced there’s a chemical reality to who I am, regarding my brain, that makes me kind of a strange guy. – McG
