Harsh Reality Quotes

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  We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.

  Judy Garland

  Dream, Reality, Imagination

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• Harsh reality is always better than false hope.

  Julian Fellowes

  Reality, False Hope, Harsh

  "Fictional character: Dr. Clarkson". "Downton Abbey (TV Series) Episode #5.6", www.imdb.com. 2014.

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• Life being full of harsh realities, we seek relief from them in a variety of pleasing delusions.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Life, Reality, Relief

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• There's a harsh reality - nothing lasts forever. You have to be ready to grow, and grow fast.

  Pras Michel

  Reality, Forever, Lasts

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Mixing humour and harsh reality is a very human behaviour, it's the way people stay sane in their daily lives.

  Jorge Garcia

  Reality, People, Mixing

  "Jorge Garcia, the one-man Greek chorus who helped explain Lost" by Rich Pelley, www.theguardian.com. March 24, 2012.

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• It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality.

  Shirley Chisholm

  Reality, Addiction, Needs

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• We all know the epicentre of terrorism in the world today is Pakistan. The world community has to come to grips with this harsh reality.

  Manmohan Singh

  Reality, Community, Pakistan

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• The cold harsh reality is that we have to balance the budget.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Reality, Balance, Cold

  "NYC mayor paints bleak picture in 'doomsday' budget". www.cnn.com. April 15, 2003.

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  Running is a road to self-awareness and reliance-you can push yourself to extremes and learn the harsh reality of your physical and mental limitations or coast quietly down a solitary path watching the earth spin beneath your feet.

  Doris Brown Heritage

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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  We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.

  Jesse Owens

  Inspirational, Motivational, Running

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Hurricane Katrina exposed the harsh reality that we have been skating on thin ice when it comes to this country's energy concentrations on the Gulf Coast.

  Pete Domenici

  Country, Hockey, Reality

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• A harsh reality of newspaper editing is that the deadlines don't allow for the polish that you expect in books or even magazines

  Bill Walsh

  Sports, Book, Reality

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• It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality. There are more television addicts, more baseball and football addicts, more movie addicts, and certainly more alcohol addicts in this country than there are narcotics addicts.

  Shirley Chisholm

  Sports, Baseball, Football

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• A lot of independent films offer a harsh reality check.

  Aubrey Plaza

  Independent, Reality, Film

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Until I read Anne Frank's diary, I had found books a literal escape from what could be the harsh reality around me. After I read the diary, I had a fresh way of viewing the both literature and the world. From then on, I found I was impatient with books that were not honest or that were trivial and frivolous.

  Alexandra Fuller

  Book, Reality, Diaries

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• Life will take its toll on all of us. We get injured, we get old. It's really sad to try to run away from these harsh realities of life. Looks are not everything. I am not going to look beautiful all the time.

  Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

  Beautiful, Running, Reality

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Running is the classical road to self-consciousness, self-awareness, and self-reliance.

  Noel Carroll

  Running, Self, Consciousness

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• Anyone who thinks they stand apart from society and defies all which govern its existence has less in common with the lone wolf patriot standing up to dystopic forces of oppression - a myth - and more in common with the disease known as cancer - a harsh reality.

  Steven Weber

  Cancer, Reality, Thinking

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• For me, the value of a climb is the sum of three inseparable elements, all equally important: aesthetics, history, and ethics. Together they form the whole basis of my concept of alpinism. Some people see no more in climbing mountains than an escape from the harsh realities of modern times. This is not only uninformed but unfair. I don’t deny that there can be an element of escapism in mountaineering, but this should never overshadow its real essence, which is not escape but victory over your own human frailty.

  Walter Bonatti

  Real, Climbing, Essence

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• As I observe my daily life and that of others, I have come to the conclusion that genuine joy is a potent mixture of harsh reality, and the realization that life can be funny.

  Tone Bell

  Reality, Joy, Realization

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I have received 16 Grammy nominations and I have no trophies, because I chose to write the harsh realities. I stayed true to myself and I've taken a little beating behind it.

  Curtis Jackson

  Taken, Writing, Reality

  Source: www.complex.com

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• Chilvalry's essential function, Maurice Keen has written, is always to hold up an idealised image of armed conflict in defiance of the harsh realities of actual warfare. By definition, chivalry also reaffirms the paramount importance of custom, hierarchy and inherited rank.

  Linda Colley

  Reality, Essentials, Warfare

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• The harsh reality is that America moves on four wheels, powered by conventional internal-combustion engines. At this point, while the elite media (excluding Newsweek) trumpet the benefits of hybrids and Ford and Toyota plan to lead the nation into a low-powered, high-mileage hybrid Utopia, the multitudes remain loyal to the gas-guzzling family bus in the driveway.

  Brock Yates

  Moving, Reality, Media

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• And what's wrong with dimming the harsh reality of life a little, anyway? In essence, being alive is a bloody long and hard walk to death. Why not make it as pleasant along the way as you can?

  Lucinda Riley

  Reality, Essence, Long

  Lucinda Riley (2013). “The Lavender Garden: A Novel”, p.167, Simon and Schuster

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• One thing about the business and investing world that I connect to very intimately is that there is little room to deny the harsh realities of your mistakes. A bad call can lose you many millions.

  Joshua Waitzkin

  Mistake, Reality, Investing

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