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Reality Quotes

I was interested in virtual reality for several years even before working at USC, it wasn’t an interest that started there at all. In fact, when I started working at USC, I already had prototypes of the Rift that were very similar to the final design.

– Palmer Luckey

You will not ever perceive the truth that is reality. There are many realities.

– Paul Watson

I think because I try to keep things as real as I can, or I try to start from a place of reality, I almost don’t have the imagination to write a book that’s not set where I am.

– Maria Semple

If you have perfect virtual reality eventually, where you’re be able to simulate everything that a human can experience or imagine experiencing, it’s hard to imagine where you go from there.

– Palmer Luckey

It’s good for me to pull away from something that is just done for effect, which was basically Sue White in ‘Green Wing.’ In that, it was very much: if in trouble, gurn, or fall down. There was no character background to Sue. You didn’t know who she was. She didn’t have any toehold in any kind of reality.

– Michelle Gomez

Our thoughts create our reality – where we put our focus is the direction we tend to go.

– Peter McWilliams

First have being in your mind. Make real in your mind then bring that being into reality. The genius is he who sees what is not yet and causes it to come to be.

– Peter Nivio Zarlenga

If I can go through what I’ve been through and do a television show with my son and then be a boy from the hood making records for the people I make records for, that’s reality.

– Master P

I refer, of course, to the debts our nation has amassed for itself over decades of indulgence. It is the new Red Menace, this time consisting of ink. We can debate its origins endlessly and search for villains on ideological grounds, but the reality is pure arithmetic.

– Mitch Daniels

It’s one of the things that looks good written down, but the reality is that you think about the pieces you’re doing and try to bear in mind everyone in the audience.

– Matthew Bourne

I loved ‘Pan’s Labyrinth.’ It transported me into another world. I like fantasy worlds; I love ‘Lord of the Rings’ as well, for that reason, because you really get to get out of reality and go somewhere else.

– Malin Akerman

Grunge came from a group of English photographers, and they were documenting their own reality… I’m South American – we celebrate life.

– Mario Testino

We must get the American public to look past the glitter, beyond the showmanship, to the reality, the hard substance of things. And we’ll do it not so much with speeches that will bring people to their feet as with speeches that bring people to their senses.

– Mario Cuomo

It’s no sin to make a critical study of Brazil’s reality. A small percentage own land. Most people don’t.

– Paulo Freire

If there is no certain reality, the idea of following a leader must be scrutinized.

– Marguerite Young

Films can be entertaining without shying away from exploring something. They can be magical and have fantasy, but also can have enough reality that you can be really emotionally invested.

– Paul Dano

My favorite kind of book is a domestic drama that’s grounded in reality yet slightly unhinged.

– Maria Semple

It’s funny, people don’t think of ‘Cloverfield’ as being restrained because it’s a handycam movie, but the only reason it’s a handycam movie is because that was supposed to be the reality of the situation.

– Matt Reeves

The poet’s expression of joy conceals his despair at not having found the reality of joy.

– Max Jacob

When people say there is too much violence in my books, what they are saying is there is too much reality in life.

– Joyce Carol Oates

There can be no argument about the Lone Star State’s significant contributions to American history, and we must remember the actions and the sacrifices of those who made Texas independence a reality.

– Michael McCaul

These are stories you hear… of people sitting in a mall and being spotted, and you think it will happen to you. And when you’re fresh off the boat, and new in Bombay, you want those kind of things! They are magical fables. You want to, somewhere, be a part of it, something people will read about. But reality is different.

– Nimrat Kaur

All that is base in the masses is temporary, no doubt serving only to prevent evolution (that of the elite, as well) from proceeding too quickly and thus not becoming ‘reality.’

– Piet Mondrian

Every song I’ve ever written has been based in reality, based in fact, things that happen to me.

– Ne-Yo

In reality, everybody in Congress is a stand-in for some kind of lobbyist. In many cases it’s difficult to tell whether it’s the companies that are lobbying the legislators or whether it’s the other way around.

– Matt Taibbi

In all my movies, be it ‘Page 3’, ‘Chandni Bar’ or ‘Corporate,’ I have tried to depict honesty and reality.

– Madhur Bhandarkar

In France, a hip replacement was captured using two GoPros in a stereoscopic 3D arrangement. Students can watch the surgery using a virtual reality headset.

– Nick Woodman

Since God created the world, He also created reality.

– Pope Francis

People failed to realize that when you’re living such a hyper, super reality of a life, where you’re just doing shows and you’re on TV and you’re talking to this magazine, that doesn’t bode well for trying to talk about everyday stuff that hopefully you’ll connect with people on.

– Maxwell

This industry is very make-believe and you caught in a false sense of what reality is.

– Morris Chestnut

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