Reality Quotes - Page 17

• 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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• I try not to manipulate reality... What will happen, will happen. Let things be themselves.

  Robert Barry

  Trying, Manipulate, Happens

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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 believe framing reality is one of the only ways we can ever be sure it actually exists. In that regard, I feel as though I'm still learning who I am as an artist.

  Sturgill Simpson

  Believe, Artist, Who I Am

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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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 reality is: when you're slouched over, not only are you not using the full potential of your brain, but you look untrustworthy.

  James Altucher

  Brain, Full Potential, Looks

  "How to convince anyone of anything in 10 seconds" by James Altucher, www.businessinsider.com. July 17, 2014.

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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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• 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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• 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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• Thoughts are created in the act of writing. [It is a myth that] you must have something to say in order to write. Reality: You often need to write in order to have anything to say. Thought comes with writing, and writing may never come if it is postponed until we are satisfied that we have something to say...The assertion of write first, see what you had to say later applies to all manifestations of written language, to letters...as well as to diaries and journals

  Frank Smith

  Writing, Order, Needs

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• Understanding arises from reducing one type of reality into another.

  Claude Levi-Strauss

  Understanding, Reducing, Arise

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• This harmony that human intelligence believes it discovers in nature - does it exist apart from that intelligence? No, without doubt, a reality completely independent of the spirit which conceives it, sees it or feels it, is an impossibility. A world so exterior as that, even if it existed, would be forever inaccessible to us. But what we call objective reality is, in the last analysis, that which is common to several thinking beings, and could be common to all; this common part, we will see, can be nothing but the harmony expressed by mathematical laws.

  Henri Poincare

  Believe, Independent, Thinking

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• Woe be to him who tries to isolate one department of knowledge from the rest. All science is one: language, literature and history, physics, mathematics and philosophy; subjects which seem the most remote from one another are in reality connected, or rather they all form a single system.

  Jules Michelet

  Philosophy, Trying, Literature

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• [Freud's] sense of reality is less clouded by wishful thinking than is the case with other people and [he combines] the qualities of critical judgment, earnestness and responsibility.

  Albert Einstein

  Responsibility, Thinking, People

  Albert Einstein (2017). “Einstein on Peace”, p.274, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• We've got to have a legacy of leadership. We've got to bring along with us a generation of black women who are going to confront twenty-first-century realities.

  Jewell Jackson McCabe

  Black, Twenties, Legacy

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• Any honest inquiry into the reality of nature also yields insights about ourselves.

  Carl Safina

  Yield, Inquiry, Honest

  Carl Safina (2010). “Song for the Blue Ocean: Encounters Along the World's Coasts and Beneath the Seas”, p.440, Macmillan

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• To be religious is to be sensitive to reality.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Religious, Sensitive

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1992). “This Matter of Culture”

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• I need the binocular approach of science and religion if I am to do any sort of justice to the deep and rich reality of the world in which we live.

  John Polkinghorne

  Justice, Needs, World

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• A lot of times you talk about what you know, but since our reality is so difficult, its hard to think about travelling beyond the stars to another dimension - fantasy worlds - when, in reality, you can't get a job on Earth.

  Kevin Grevioux

  Jobs, Stars, Thinking

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• You need a visualization of the outside obstacle and what can be better than a wall. For the Palestinians it means a division from each other, because the wall didn't separate Palestinians from Israelis, it separated them from themselves. This is the reality, and the wall is a kind of jail to the Palestinians.

  Hany Abu-Assad

  Wall, Mean, Jail

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Pink culture is presented in a positive, pink and gentle way bordering on the thinking that we are "close" to finding a cure. This does not reflect today's reality of more women dying around the world from this disease and the lack of real progress.

  Leanne Pooley

  Real, Thinking, Progress

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I never believe I'm presenting objective reality; I also don't want to delude people into thinking that my subject is talking directly to them.

  Joe Berlinger

  Believe, Thinking, Talking

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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