Reality Quotes - Page 15

• Looking at virtual reality through computer screens, video game screens, and above all television screens is a denial of personality development. It's a denial of socialization, of expansion of vocabulary, of interaction with real human beings.

  Ralph Nader

  Real, Vocabulary, Games

  "A Portrait of the Crusader as a Young Man". Interview with Koshlan Mayer-Blackwell, www.motherjones.com. March 14, 2007.

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• Television is not my favorite medium, my favorite form of entertainment. Certainly game shows aren't. I don't watch reality shows at all.

  Chuck Barris

  Games, Watches, Television

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. May 28, 2003.

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• All the theories of conspiracy were always a way to escape our responsibilities. It is a very important kind of social sickness by which we avoid recognizing reality such as it is and avoid our responsibilities.

  Umberto Eco

  Responsibility, Important, Way

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 2, 2015.

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• I want to connect music to its highest power - which is heightening consciousness and affecting people's reality. That can't be done in normal ways, not according to my experience.

  Saul Williams

  People, Done, Want

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Symbols mean a lot in politics. They indicate a will and create new realities.

  Francois Hollande

  Mean, Symbols

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• The reality is that most gay couples don't want to adopt a child. Those who do, though, are often prepared to devote themselves entirely to their adoptive child.

  Jens Spahn

  Couple, Children, Gay

  "On Being Gay, Conservative and Catholic". SPIEGEL interview, www.transcend.org. November 23, 2012.

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• Adults trying to protect children from reality, right? And adults always trying to fill children with fantasy - the tooth fairy, Santa, make-believe games, etc. But kids are really smart, I think they know from an early age about death, this void and hole they are immediately traveling toward.

  Shane Warren Jones

  Children, Smart, Believe

  Source: logger.believermag.com

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• I think literature is somehow both a fantasy and a reality we should all get back to.

  Shane Warren Jones

  Thinking, Literature, Fantasy

  Source: logger.believermag.com

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• Conservative feminism is such an artificial term that doesn't mean much to me. For me conservatism means accepting reality. I acknowledge that there are differences between men and women.

  Kristina Schroder

  Mean, Men, Differences

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I see the artist as a participant, a co-producer of reality. I do not see the artist as a person who sits at a distance and evaluates.

  Olafur Eliasson

  Distance, Artist, Producers

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I see the artist as a participant, a co-producer of reality.

  Olafur Eliasson

  Artist, Producers, Participants

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• Politics is about realities, not logic.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Logic

  "'Peace without Syria Is Unthinkable'". Interview with Dieter Bednarz, www.spiegel.de. January 19, 2009.

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• Personally, I do not support the concept of suicide bombings. This is not part of our [syrian] culture. But whether you condemn them or not, suicide bombings are a reality.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Suicide, Support, Culture

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I'd like to believe that I would be able to give in the same way Mandela did, but in reality, I don't know whether that is true. It is much more likely that I would be left with an immense sense of injustice and immense desire for revenge.

  Naomie Harris

  Revenge, Believe, Giving

  Interview with Jeffrey Wright, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 23, 2013.

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• The goal of all my work is essentially the same: demonstrating that magic is real or that reality is magic, by paying attention, and finding compensation or consolation for what is essentially a tragic existence.

  Peter Blegvad

  Real, Goal, Magic

  Interview with Franklin Bruno, believermag.com. November 1, 2009.

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• When I sing the songs, there's a color tone and a place, and it's not a place that I remember in reality. It's usually based on a photo that I took - 'cause those photos don't look like the real world. The film distorts them, and the colors get exaggerated.

  Phil Elvrum

  Song, Real, Color

  Interview with Brandon Stosuy, believermag.com. July 1, 2009.

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• I usually see the word "metafiction" applied to works that draw attention to their own devices, their own artificiality, in order to mock novelistic convention and show the impossibility of capturing a reality external to the text or whatever.

  Ben Lerner

  Order, Attention, Conventions

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• One unanswered question is whether a Euro-Islam that combines Islam with democracy will be possible in the future. We mustn't confuse desire with reality.

  Walter Kasper

  Islam, Democracy, Desire

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Stores are the same everywhere; small downtowns are done. Not just in America, but globally. You hear the same music on every station, all our building materials look the same, and all our clothes look the same. But I thought that it couldn't be that simple, because Arizona is not Minnesota. There is this other reality, which is a reality of landscape.

  Cynthia Daignault

  Simple, Clothes, America

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• No matter what the genre, I want to see me and my friends. I want to see reality. I want to see what we're really like. I loved 'Bridesmaids'. I thought it was the most honest portrayal of female friendship in such a long time.

  Drew Barrymore

  Long, Matter, Female

  Interview with Becky Kirsch, www.popsugar.com. November 6, 2015.

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• Consensus reality seemed like a dull, dead-end street compared to the intense, mutable reality of visions or whatever they were - neurological misfires. I expected life to be full of sudden, inexplicable surprises. When these things didn't happen for a while, life seemed dull and painful.

  Jim Woodring

  Vision, Dull, Surprise

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• In the paintings I was always interested in taking elements of space and the reality that we know and dissolving it into patterns.

  Francesca DiMattio

  Space, Elements, Patterns

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• People for whom art is religion can say, "What I love about art is that it points to a higher reality." Well, fine, but the time comes when the smart thing for such a person to do is to let go of the fun of the art and get into the hard work of attaining and understanding that higher reality, unmixed with worldly games.

  Jim Woodring

  Letting Go, Art, Fun

  Interview with Ross Simonini, staging.believermag.com. 2008.

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• When your head is smashing into the concrete you don't have question about whether it's a real sensation. And ultimately, that's what's going to unmake us all - smashing up against the physical reality of death and decay, and being unmade.

  Will Sheff

  Real, Decay, Smashing

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• "Hello" is always presented as a linear narrative, a singular chain, sometimes in a loop. But the reality of making it is that connections are naturally sprawling all over the place, so I am free to edit any way I want.

  Aleksandra Mir

  Connections, Want, Narrative

  Source: www.believermag.com

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