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Reality Quotes

Children, I mean, think of your own childhood, how important the bedtime story was. How important these imaginary experiences were for you. They helped shape reality, and I think human beings wouldn’t be human without narrative fiction.

– Paul Auster

Somehow I have managed to delay looking old. In reality I have good genes.

– Michael Schumacher

The fact is that one of the earliest lessons I learned in business was that balance sheets and income statements are fiction, cash flow is reality.

– Chris Chocola

It’s the historian’s job not to ridicule the myths, but to show the difference between myth and reality.

– Norman Davies

It was taunted as reality. It was dangled as a carrot. In terms of people’s hopes and dreams, to say that that is less of a reality than the daily grind they find themselves in is maybe not correct.

– Martin Mull

The real influence on my work was reality, that of my country and Latin America in general.

– Mario Benedetti

Stock market bubbles don’t grow out of thin air. They have a solid basis in reality, but reality as distorted by a misconception.

– George Soros

I learned a long time ago: You’re in the entertainment business. You’re not in the reality business. One has absolutely nothing to do with the other.

– Dennis Farina

When we are fully conscious and aware, we actually know when we are about to overreact. When we are mindful, we have the mental space and are aware of when our moods change. When we are mindful, we are aware of when our mental models are being challenged and when expectation does not meet with reality, which can trigger an emotional response.

– Elizabeth Thornton

Now you watch reality TV, you watch them in all those pools or Jacuzzis and I say to myself was I that stupid? But that was me then.

– Marcel Dionne

Even if I’m playing a superhero, it has to be steeped in reality.

– Michael Fassbender

We talk about honesty, but the reality is we have lots of human values, and they are not all compatible. We don’t always tell the truth about everything, no matter what the consequences.

– Dan Ariely

The reality is institutions that invest in high growth have offices globally and talk across offices.

– Danny Rimer

I’ve turned down millions of dollars to go on reality TV. It’s an absolute no-go.

– Grace Jones

In the past, before phones and the Internet, all communication was face-to-face. Now, most of it is digital, via emails and messaging services. If people were to start using virtual reality, it would almost come full circle.

– Palmer Luckey

Reality show? You can’t find anything better than boxing because of the trials and errors, the ups and downs, the struggle when you get knocked down to get back up. Use it symbolically and interchangeably for life.

– Don King

To my mind, ‘Dear Brutus’ stands halfway between Shakespeare’s ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ and Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s ‘Into the Woods’. Like them, it is a play about enchantment and disillusion, dreams and reality.

– Michael Dirda

We must give up Arab neighborhoods in Jerusalem and return to the core of the territory that is the State of Israel prior to 1967, with minor corrections dictated by the reality created since then.

– Ehud Olmert

An artist sees that which does not yet exist. He or she imagines a future others cannot perceive. The artist – and the writer – reshapes reality so that it becomes even more vivid and lasting.

– David Ebershoff

The Olympic Movement gives the world an ideal which reckons with the reality of life, and includes a possibility to guide this reality toward the great Olympic Idea.

– Pierre de Coubertin

I don’t want to put one innocent person to death to put 99 that are guilty to death. So philosophically I’m a tooth-for-tooth guy, but the reality is the death penalty as public policy is flawed.

– Gary Johnson

I think reality television is such a special talent.

– Margaret Cho

I don’t think people should confuse fantasy and reality because no one is perfect – we all know that.

– Erin Heatherton

I think it’s a lot easier to put together a reality show than to actually create a scripted show.

– David Charvet

Sometimes, the other characters are too normal and then you start to be brought back to reality but then Luna shows up and she is just so funny and cool and honest and slightly mad and she’s all that matters. She is 100% true. She puts on no shows, because she is so comfortable with herself.

– Evanna Lynch

I do believe we have to understand why reality turned out to be different than expectations and estimates. But you have more public service – certainly many of you – than I have ever had, and you recognize that this is not unusual.

– David Kay

However far back I go into my childhood, nothing seems to me more characteristic of, or more familiar in, my interior economy than the appetite or irresistible demand for some ‘Unique all-sufficing and necessary reality.’

– Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

That’s the great thing about G.I. Joe: it’s essentially superheroes, but it’s military based – and it’s based in reality.

– D. J. Cotrona

In reality, there are very few villains who view themselves as villains. They just have a certain agenda at a certain time.

– Michael Jai White

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

– Pablo Picasso

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