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Reality Quotes

Global warming is a fact. Now it’s up to liberals to make it a reality. Hence there is crucial importance in preventing powerful, greedy free market forces from getting in the way of worsening storms and rising sea levels. The Kyoto Accord is a good first step.

– P. J. O’Rourke

Unless you are really grounded and have a true sense of reality, you can get lost in that and a lot of people do and that’s why you see so many people with successful careers but with destructive lives.

– Morris Chestnut

Don’t Take Anything Personally. Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won’t be the victim of needless suffering.

– Don Miguel Ruiz

For better or worse, in the 21st century, reality shows are the variety show.

– Penn Jillette

The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much intermittent gloom.

– Margaret Drabble

What I want to show in my work is the idea which hides itself behind so-called reality.

– Max Beckmann

Every member of Congress deserves a seat at the table to be involved in the process. I will continue fighting for this to become a reality in Washington, and will be running for speaker of the House.

– Dan Webster

It’s a reality that in this business there’s an expectation of being thin. But having a baby is a reality too, and it’s more important for me to make milk than to fit into those tiny pants. So that’s just going to have to wait.

– Emily Procter

Well, the future of the Internet is… Reality.

– Daniel Keys Moran

I don’t look at myself as a historical icon, but the reality of it is, yeah, I am playing for history now.

– Pete Sampras

I don’t need to do a reality show to make my mark in this world.

– Niecy Nash

From the very first time I talked to Safeco employees, I said the reality was expenses were too high and the reality is two-thirds of our expenses are people, so the reality is there will be effects on people.

– Mike McGavick

If the world is an objective reality that exists independently of us, then humans themselves, even in their own eyes, are nothing more than objects, and their life stories merely a series of disconnected historical accidents, which they may wonder at, but which they themselves have nothing to do with.

– Imre Kertesz

As soon as I became old enough to make my dreams my reality, I became a firm believer that the subconscious and the world outside of our flesh and blood is essentially the truth.

– Melissa Auf der Maur

The irony of the media and people in big cities is that they’re charged with defining the entire culture, when in reality they don’t even live in that culture. They live in such a rarified, tiny world.

– Meghan Daum

I have no words for my reality.

– Max Frisch

An example I often use to illustrate the reality of vanity, is this: look at the peacock; it’s beautiful if you look at it from the front. But if you look at it from behind, you discover the truth… Whoever gives in to such self-absorbed vanity has huge misery hiding inside them.

– Pope Francis

The way I approach any role, whether it’s comedy or drama, I like to look for the truth first. I think comedy for the sake of comedy wears dull pretty quickly. You have to ground the character in reality first and allow the audience to sympathize, emphasize and be more invested.

– Matt McGorry

It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.

– Philip K. Dick

Most people’s jobs are rooted in reality.

– Mika

One of the things that Teller and I are obsessed with, one of the reasons that we’re in magic, is the difference between fantasy and reality. That is the subject that, if you have a brain in your head, is always dealt with in magic. The smarter the tricks you’re doing, the more that’ s an important thing.

– Penn Jillette

The mind, whatever else it is, is a constant of everyone’s experience, and, in more ways than we know, the creator of the reality that we live within… Nothing is more essential to us.

– Marilynne Robinson

I enjoy watching Fear Factor, Newlyweds and American Idol as far as reality TV shows go.

– Natalie Gulbis

I respect newspapers, but the reality is that magazine ‘photojournalism’ is finished. They want illustrations, Photoshopped pictures of movie stars.

– Mary Ellen Mark

There is the illusion of the world and the reality of the Torah.

– Meir Kahane

The irony is that Washington was, in reality, very much like Benedict Arnold. The big difference was that Washington was ultimately able to control his emotions, something Arnold never learned to do.

– Nathaniel Philbrick

‘American Sniper’ is a movie. War is a grim reality and with us still.

– Mike Barnicle

Crucial to science education is hands-on involvement: showing, not just telling; real experiments and field trips and not just ‘virtual reality.’

– Martin Rees

What has reality shows got to do with reality? It is beyond unreality; there is nothing real about it.

– Morley Safer

I simply loved all my life; loved is too strong a word, but I had a tremendous sentiment, partly conditioned, of course, by the reality of where I grew up, for the spirit of individualism, for the idea of your being on your own in a big way.

– Joseph Brodsky

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