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Reality Quotes
"Even if I'm playing a superhero, it has to be steeped in reality."
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"It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane."
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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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"Knowing reality means constructing systems of transformations that correspond, more or less adequately, to reality."
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"Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive."
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"Wishful thinking is one thing, and reality another."
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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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"Reality is not what it is. It consists of the many realities which it can be made into."
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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'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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"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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"Don't be carried away by beauty, for the faeces also stays in the rectum of ravishing faces, and their private life is not beautiful as their public life...fear beauty!"
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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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"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 actually think I'm more of a turtle than Verne is. Where Verne is up on two legs and moving at full speed and doesn't pull his head into the shell very often, I in reality was five or ten minutes later to every recording session."
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"I think that's where reality TV works - you don't know where it's going."
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"This is a world in which reasons are made up because reality is too painful."
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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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"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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"What we think affects our life so much that life is for each of us just what we think it is. So the question of what life means has individual answers for each of us."
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"Harry Potter isn't real? Oh no! Wait, wait, what do you mean by real? Is this video blog real? Am I real if you can see me and hear me, but only through the internet? Are you real if I can read your comment but I don't know who you are or what your name is or where you're from or what you look like or how old you are? I know all of those things about Harry Potter. Maybe Harry Potter's real and you're not."
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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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"In reality I have said very little things; I didn't point out many things to Geoffrey, I trusted very much not only his understanding of what I was doing, or what I wanted to do, in that moment."
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"We cannot pretend that reality is different from what it is."
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"The tragedy of life is that sometimes we get what we want."
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"It is a shock to many college graduates that their segway into the real world is one of obligation, profound debt, and countless sacrifices of the soul."
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"I am seeking for the bridge which leans from the visible to the invisible through reality."
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"The world's not getting any stranger.We are!"
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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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"The sciences which take socio-historical reality as their subject matter are seeking, more intensively than ever before, their systematic relations to one another and to their foundation."
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"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."
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"Orwell is almost our litmus test. Some of his satirical writing looks like reality these days."
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"You have to look at the discrepancy between what you hoped and imagined and the reality of yourself and all your shortcomings."
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