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Reality Quotes
"I'd like to be an assistant producer to a reality show."
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"I think that's where reality TV works - you don't know where it's going."
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"It would follow that 'significant form' was form behind which we catch a sense of ultimate reality."
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"Sometimes the reader will decide something else than the author's intent; this is certainly true of attempts to empirically decipher reality."
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"If I leave, reality will devour me. Then they will all really be dead."
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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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"Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you."
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"I'm concerned about a lot of serious border issues. This book is about the border reality and the struggles of the undocumented worker."
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"If you try hard enough, you can bend the spoon; you can shift reality."
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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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"We don't live in the world of reality, we live in the world of how we perceive reality."
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"Well, I think the United States first of all has to recognize the world for what it is."
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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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"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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"We are assuming that we exist, that there is reality, and that the matter of which we are made is real."
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"We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by those images we have put in their place."
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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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"Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes."
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"This is a world in which reasons are made up because reality is too painful."
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"I am ashamed to admit I watch a lot of reality shows like The Osbournes and The Bachelor."
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"This may not be the best of all possible worlds, but it's the only real one."
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"Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached."
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"I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it."
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"The worst of such stories is that the triumphant romancers can always be put to confusion and crushed by the very details in which real life is so rich and which these unhappy and involuntary story-tellers neglect as insignificant trifles. Oh, they have no thought to spare for such details, their minds are concentrated on their grand invention as a whole, and fancy any one daring to pull them up for a trifle! But that's how they are caught."
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"It is a part of probability that many improbabilities will happen."
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"You have to find something there that relates to the characters and reality on some level."
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"Reality is never as bad as a nightmare, as the mental tortures we inflict on ourselves."
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"How do you know if something is real? That's easy. Does it change you? Does it form you? Does it give you wings? Does it give you roots? Does it make you look back at a month ago and say, "I am a whole different person right now? If yes, then it's real. The evidence of truth and reality, lies in how much something can touch you, can change you, even if it's from very far away. Distance is only the evidence of what can be surpassed."
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"We read the weird tales in newspapers to crowd out the even weirder stuff inside us."
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"What had seemed easy in imagination was rather hard in reality."
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