Reality Quotes - Page 13

• It is better to live in a world of poetic meaning rather than hardcore reality.

  Mark Gonzales

  World, Poetic, Hardcore

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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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• My films are the celebration of reality, of life, of my friends, of actual daily life that passes and is gone tomorrow. We don't pay attention to it when it happens.

  Jonas Mekas

  Pay, Attention, Gone

  Interview with Peter BogdAnOvich, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 26, 2015.

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• For me, to catch, to celebrate the reality and life and friends and everything around me the very moment it happens - that's what is, that's what I'm possessed by.

  Jonas Mekas

  Moments, Celebrate, Happens

  Interview with Peter BogdAnOvich, 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Symbols are powerful because they are the visible signs of invisible realities.

  Saint Augustine

  Powerful, Invisible, Symbols

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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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• Most mistakes in philosophy and logic occur because the human mind is apt to take the symbol for the reality.

  Albert Einstein

  Philosophy, Mistake, Mind

  Albert Einstein, George Bernard Shaw (2009). “Einstein on Cosmic Religion and Other Opinions and Aphorisms”, p.101, Courier Corporation

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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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• Precision is not reality

  Henri Matisse

  Precision

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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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• Those who wait for the future to happen before aligning their educational goals with the new realities will be left behind in the new ecomomy. A better path is to know what is ahead and prepare-this is education.

  Oliver DeMille

  Educational, Goal, Waiting

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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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• 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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• Time after time mankind is driven against the rocks of the horrid reality of a fallen creation. And time after time mankind must learn the hard lessons of history-the lessons that for some dangerous and awful reason we can't seem to keep in our collective memory.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Memories, Collective Memory, Rocks

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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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• 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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