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Reality Quotes
"I do not support raising the minimum wage, and the reason is as follows. When the minimum wage is raised, workers are priced out of the market. That is the economic reality that seems, at least so far, to be missing from this discussion."
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"All the best stories are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape."
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"Knowing reality means constructing systems of transformations that correspond, more or less adequately, to reality."
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"Wishful thinking is one thing, and reality another."
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"This is a world in which reasons are made up because reality is too painful."
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"Even if I'm playing a superhero, it has to be steeped in reality."
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"I saw the world I had walked since my birth and I understood how fragile it was, that the reality was a thin layer of icing on a great dark birthday cake writhing with grubs and nightmares and hunger."
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"The worst is still ahead of us. But no one in Washington has the spine to tell you that."
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"I know I'm on a small cable reality show. I'm realistic where I stand in the scheme of things."
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"I get out of the taxi and it's probably the only city which in reality looks better than on the postcards, New York."
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"I think that's where reality TV works - you don't know where it's going."
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"All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape."
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"There are billions of people in the world, and each one of them has their own view of reality."
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"One simple test of the claim that the pleasure in the world outweighs the pain is to compare the feelings of an animal that is devouring another with those of the animal being devoured."
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"Sometimes I feel like I'm a contestant in a reality show that probably would be called The Apprentice Survivor Millionaire."
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"I try to ground most of my characters in reality somehow. That's kind of what I bring to the table."
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"My relationship to reality has been so utterly skewed for so long that I don't even notice it any more. It's just my reality."
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"In reality the workings of your governing system are opaque and covert, while hiding in the chattering spotlight of an ostensible transparency, even though the ultimate objective is clear."
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"I've wrestled with reality for 35 years, and I'm happy, Doctor, I finally won out over it."
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"When you get on stage, you can be anything. You are removed from reality in a way, the real world."
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"I read that Monica Seles got stabbed. And although I have nothing against Monica Seles, I'm glad somebody in sports got stabbed. I like the idea of it; it's good entertainment. If we're lucky, it'll spread through sports. And show business, too! Wouldn't you like to see a guy jump up on stage and stab some famous singer? Especially a real shitty pop singer? Maybe they'll even start stabbing comedians. Fuck it, I'm ready! I never perform without my can of mace. I have a switchblade knife, too. I'll cut your eye out and go right on telling jokes."
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"I've learned that no matter how inspired, fired up and motivated you might be, the dark clouds will always set in."
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"It's astonishing in this world how things don't turn out at all the way you expect them to."
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"We long for permanence but everything in the known universe is transient. That's a fact but one we fight."
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"Orwell is almost our litmus test. Some of his satirical writing looks like reality these days."
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"The tragedy of life is that sometimes we get what we want."
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"I am seeking for the bridge which leans from the visible to the invisible through reality."
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"Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive."
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