Reality Quotes - Page 13

• The roughest thing was learning the realities of the world at such a young age. I was 10 or 11, going to church, hearing the adults standing on the podium talking about world affairs, about history, about war, and how America was founded.

  Michelle Rodriguez

  War, Talking, America

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The classic theology of my tradition comes from the French Renaissance. [William] Shakespeare was born in 1564, the year [John] Calvin died, and that theology was very influential in England in his lifetime. I think Shakespeare was attentive to questions raised by it, about human nature, history, reality itself. I find the two literatures to be mutually illuminating.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Thinking, Years, Two

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• Symbols are powerful because they are the visible signs of invisible realities.

  Saint Augustine

  Powerful, Invisible, Symbols

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• A man is sane only to the extent that he subscribes to a previously-agreed construction of reality.

  Salman Rushdie

  Men, Construction, Sane

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• The self-fulfilled woman is far from reality.

  Anita Brookner

  Self, Fulfilled

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• If you think hitting 40 is liberating, wait until you hit 50; and I was surprised at how liberating it was. The anticipation of something is always much worse than the reality.

  Michelle Pfeiffer

  Thinking, Waiting, Hitting

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• If you believe what you say, words will become reality.

  Ingrid Betancourt

  Believe, If You Believe, Ifs

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• In the West nowadays, it's very common to talk about the Judeo- Christian tradition. It's a common term. The term is relatively modern but the reality is an old one. One could with equal justification talk about a Judeo-Islamic tradition or a Christian-Islamic tradition. These three religions are interlinked in many signification ways, which marks them off from the rest of the world. And I think there is a growing awareness of this among Christians and among Jews, and even to some extent to some Muslims. That's happening for obvious reasons.

  Bernard Lewis

  Christian, Thinking, World

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• History illumes reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Memories, History Of Life, Daily Life

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• Science is a contemplative possession of reality through exclusion of all illusion, error and ignorance.

  Georges Canguilhem

  Ignorance, Errors, Exclusion

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• The structure of language determines not only thought, but reality itself.

  Noam Chomsky

  Language, Structure, Determine

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• Every mind has another vision of reality. There is not a common reality. Every person thinks he is like the others, but every person is different, living in his own psychology.

  Alejandro Jodorowsky

  Thinking, Psychology, Mind

  "Alejandro Jodorowsky’s Prophetic Vision". Interview with Colleen Kelsey, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 21, 2014.

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• Art gives to you a new conception of reality, opens your mind, opens your heart, opens your desire of action.

  Alejandro Jodorowsky

  Art, Giving, Mind

  "Alejandro Jodorowsky’s Prophetic Vision". Interview with Colleen Kelsey, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 21, 2014.

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• The word reality scared me. I just looked at reality as everybody follows me around with a camera, and I'm not that kind of person. I fought for my privacy in England. And I didn't see another way it could be done.

  Naomi Campbell

  Cameras, Done, Way

  Interview Magazine Interview, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 12, 2013.

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• The planet is populated by human beings, of which there are only two sexes, and the role of the writer is to explore otherness, other realities. So the idea of a man exploring what it's like to be a woman doesn't strike me as being that wild or crazy an idea.

  Yann Martel

  Sex, Crazy, Men

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I believe that reality is vastly richer than the cursory attention we usually give it permits us to understand. I like to write through a consciousness that allows me to suggest something of this richness.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Believe, Writing, Giving

  "One of Obama’s Favorite Writers Redefines Spirituality". Interview with Gregory Barber, www.motherjones.com. October 25, 2015.

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• If I'm going to understand the land, I have to understand the wind, the snow, the rain, the leaves, the ice, and changes in temperature. It just reflects a reality for me.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Rain, Ice, Wind

  "Andy Goldsworthy goes into the wild". Interview with Katherine Cusumano, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 26, 2015.

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• To me, the grotesque is like a sonic manifestation of reality. I don't know how you could look out onto our world and see only beauty. And I like beautiful things. I like the aesthetically harmonious. But I am much more attracted to something that is off-kilter. It is a truer reflection of not only nature, but the human spirit - the state of the world. I just think everything feels a little off.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Beautiful, Reflection, Thinking

  "Carrie Brownstein Discusses Her Memoir". Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. October 27, 2015.

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• I think every person deserves two marriages, because you may not get the first one right. You really never knew. That's why divorce is so big. We all want it to last, but that's not always the reality of it.

  Tichina Arnold

  Divorce, Thinking, Two

  "Exclusive: Tichina Arnold On Her Past Love Mistakes and Preparing to Remarry". Interview with Charli Penn, www.essence.com. March 27, 2012.

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• Flaubert's famous sentence, "Madame Bovary, c'est moi" ("Madame Bovary, she is me"), in reality means, " Madame Bovary, c'est nous" ("Madame Bovary, she is us"), in our modern incapacity to live a "good-enough" life.

  Sophie Barthes

  Mean, Good Enough, Modern

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• The development of physics in the twentieth century already has transformed the consciousness of those involved with it. The study (of modern physics) produces insights into the nature of reality very similar to those produced by the study of eastern philosophy.

  Gary Zukav

  Philosophy, Development, Study

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• There are those who believe that a new modernity demands a new morality. What they fail to consider is the harsh reality that there is no such thing as a new morality. There is only one morality . All else is immorality.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Believe, Demand, Morality

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• I've been wrestling with reality for most of my life. I'm pleased to say I've won.

  Emo Philips

  Wrestling

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• Indeed, we have reached a level of complexity where simplicity itself is suspect. For example, the simple reality is that jobs migrate to less difficult nations. It's the old Rule of Capital: Capital goes where it is treated well.

  Oliver DeMille

  Jobs, Simple, Simplicity

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• Religion is just an alternate way of reading reality - you read material reality, and then you add on an extra layer of religiosity that deepens that understanding of reality. Some countries have lost that capacity, or dismissed it or marginalized it.

  Yann Martel

  Country, Reading, Understanding

  Source: www.avclub.com

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