Reality Quotes - Page 17

• Our most serious obstacle is the uncontrollable urge to convert everything to the familiar, to reduce it all to the level of the primate brain; to reject the living, breathing reality of the totality of all possible attention.

  E. J. Gold

  Uncontrollable Urge, Breathing, Brain

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• You see, for me a painting is a dramatic action in the course of which the reality finds itself split apart. For me, that dramatic action takes precedence over all other considerations. The pure plastic act is only secondary as far as I'm concerned. What counts is the drama of that plastic art, the moment at which the universe comes out of itself and meets its own destruction.

  Francoise Gilot

  Art, Drama, Splits

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• If 'The Wild One' were filmed today, Marlon Brando and the Black Rebel Motorcycle Club would all have to wear helmets. I used to be afraid that when (Hells) Angels became movie stars and Cal the hero of the book, the bikerider would perish on the coffee tables of America. But now I think that this attention doesn't have the strength of reality of the people it aspires to know, and that as long as Harley-Davidsons are manufactured other bikeriders will appear, riding unknown and beautiful through Chicago, into the streets of Cicero.

  Danny Lyon

  Beautiful, Stars, Coffee

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• The problem of journalism is simple. Journalists are rarely in a position to establish the truth of an issue themselves, since they didn't' witness it personally. They are entirely dependent on self-interested sources to supply their facts. Every part of the news-making process is defined by this relationship; everything is colored by this reality.

  Edward Jay Epstein

  Simple, Self, Issues

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• It's not virtual reality until you can be tortured to death in it.

  Andrew Plotkin

  Virtual Reality

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• And one has to remember that no photography can pretend to show the truth. A picture only shows a given situation under a very specific perspective, consciously or not, openly or not, relevantly or not. Photographers have to accept they can just convey fragments of illusory realities and relate their own intimate experience of the world. In this process of fictionalising an unreachable truth, it's up to them to impose their doubts about any photographic truth, or accept being impotent pawns in the mediatic game.

  Antoine D'Agata

  Photography, Games, Perspective

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• All hair is away from the face - there's no emotion and all of the personality is taken away. I envisioned the way a 'virtual girl' is drawn in a cartoon. Then I added these different colored extensions - white, red and black, which adds to the synthetic feeling of the hair. I used colors which looked most dramatic against each of the models' real hair. The different colors give you that pop of fakeness so we're not talking about reality. Like a futuristic princess.

  Guido Palau

  Girl, Real, Princess

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• I began to realize that by carefully selecting the depth of field and making it narrow, I could create a sense of movement and reality that was in fact not there.

  David Levinthal

  Depth, Movement, Fields

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• Ever since I began working with toys, I have been intrigued with the idea that these seemingly benign objects could take on such incredible power and personality simply by the way they were photographed. I began to realize that by carefully selecting the depth of field and making it narrow, I could create a sense of movement and reality that was in fact not there

  David Levinthal

  Ideas, Personality, Depth

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• Don't share your dreams with everyone. Make them a reality - then share.

  Skye Townsend

  Dream, Share, Your Dreams

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• Alliances and partnerships produce stability when they reflect realities and interests.

  Stephen Kinzer

  Alliances, Partnership, Produce

  "America and the rise of middle powers" by Stephen Kinzer, www.theguardian.com. January 11, 2011.

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• Men and women fall in love abandoning reality in favour of the dream

  Jeremy Griffith

  Dream, Falling In Love, Men

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• Scientists are supposed to live in ivory towers. Their darkrooms and their vibration-proof benches are supposed to isolate their activities from the disturbances of common life. What they tell us is supposed to be for the ages, not for the next election. But the reality may be otherwise.

  Simon LeVay

  Ivory Tower, Age, Towers

  "Queer Science: The Use and Abuse of Research into Homosexuality". Book by Simon LeVay, Cambridge: MIT Press. p. 9, 1996.

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• Reality TV is really just based for sensationalism. So, it's extreme versions and extreme caricatures of personalities.

  Essence Atkins

  Personality, Tvs, Caricatures

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• It's all about synthesis, you don't have to be a real musician. You just synthesize your own reality, synthesize your own talents. Welcome to the electronic age.

  Klayton

  Real, Age, Musician

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• People who watch Transporter are maybe asking a little less about reality, being serious, and so on.

  Olivier Megaton

  People, Watches, Asking

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• Maybe knowledge is as fundamental, or even more fundamental than [material] reality.

  Anton Zeilinger

  Fundamentals, Materials

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• I can understand the dilemma of growing up in a bubble, and then not knowing what to do when unemployment beckons and reality bursts in.

  Jessie Cave

  Growing Up, Knowing, Unemployment

  "My jailed Harry Potter co-star is the victim of a make-believe world" by Jessie Cave, www.theguardian.com. March 22, 2012.

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• In no way did I allow reality as it was to intrude on reality as I wanted it to be.

  Mark Barrowcliffe

  Way, Wanted

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• We need to educate people about the reality of Islam, the logics of Islam. I am sure every free man in this world would fight the ideology of Islam.

  Mosab Hassan Yousef

  Fighting, Men, People

  Mosab Hassan Yousef's Remarks on Terrorism, Christianity, www.christianpost.com. March 23, 2010.

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• I had begun to think that dreams are meant to be no more than dreams and that in reality dreams don't come true. Then my brother (Zac) left on his trip. It was amazing to see all the support that he got from around the world and to see how everyone worked together to help make his dream reality. Watching him do this really made me believe that I could too.

  Abby Sunderland

  Dream, Brother, Believe

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• Dying is all about letting go and letting be, as is the awareness of God. People who have traveled far along the contemplative path are often aware that the sense of separation from God is itself pasted up out of a mass of thoughts and feelings. When the mind comes into its own stillness and enters the silent land, the sense of separation goes. Union is seen to be the fundamental reality and separateness a highly filtered mental perception.

  Martin Laird

  Letting Go, Land, People

  Martin Laird (2006). “Into the Silent Land: A Guide to the Christian Practice of Contemplation”, p.10, Oxford University Press

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• Strong people stand up for themselves. Stronger people stand up for others. The irony is that while sleep sometimes brings nightmares, it's the reality of my waking hours that can cause me the greater fear.

  Chris Gardner

  Strong, Sleep, People

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• Everything ends eventually. I guess that's what makes summer so intense, this feeling that it lasts for only a a short while and then it's back to reality.

  Katherine Applegate

  Summer, Feelings, Lasts

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• Writers . . . write to give reality to experience.

  Archibald MacLeish

  Writing, Giving

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