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“'The Wire' really drew on a lot of real-life situations and real-life organizations - it created fiction to make a social statement about reality.”

Real Reality Social Fiction Situation Organization Real Life Statements Wire

Author:Lance Reddick

“Most of my nightmares that jolt me awake either involve the cosmos or something completely out of human control. In reality, I worry more about nuclear war, or war in general.”

Humans War Reality Worry Nuclear Awake Cosmos Nightmare Nuclear War

Author:Lorene Scafaria

“People think that there is so much money in tennis, but the reality is unless you're ranked in about the top 50 you don't earn much at all. It is hard to support yourself travelling the world, to be away from home most of the year and to pay for a coach to help you become a better player.”

People Thinking World Years Hard Helping Home Reality Pay Support Player Coaches Tennis Travel The World Away From Home

Author:Samantha Stosur

“Among some of the youngsters, I think reality TV has installed that culture into them and inspired a few of them into wanting to be 'TV celebrities.”

Thinking Reality Culture Tvs Inspired Youngsters Reality Tv

Author:Alan Sugar

“In reality, American girls are among the most outspoken, ambitious, successful girls in the history of the human race.”

Humans Reality Girl Race Successful Human Race Ambitious Outspoken

Author:Christina Hoff Sommers

“I'm able to separate fiction and reality. I guess it remains to be seen if other people are.”

People Ifs Reality Able Fiction Remains Fiction And Reality

Author:Curtis Sittenfeld

“Most 'reality' shows aren't reality at all. They're game shows with no prize. Like 'Rock of Love.' His aren't genuine feelings. Then again, Bob Barker didn't really care whether or not you won the toaster. Sorry to shatter everyone's dreams.”

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Author:Hal Sparks

“The stark reality facing us today is that without the labour reforms, workers will get neither the income nor jobs in the face of cut-throat global economic competition.”

Reality Today Jobs Faces Cutting Economic Competition Workers Income Reform Labour Throat Starks Stark Reality Economic Competition

Author:Kim Young-sam

“There are Eastern religions that deny the reality of pain and suffering. They just try to wipe it away by saying it's all an illusion.”

Trying Reality Pain Suffering Illusion Deny Eastern Wipe Pain And Suffering

Author:Lee Strobel

“It is true that of far the greater part of things, we must content ourselves with such knowledge as description may exhibit, or analogy supply; but it is true likewise, that these ideas are always incomplete, and that at least, till we have compared them with realities, we do not know them to be just. As we see more, we become possessed of more certainties, and consequently gain more principles of reasoning, and found a wider base of analogy.”

Knows May Ideas Reality Found Principles Knowledge Greater Gains Certainty Reasoning Description Possessed Incomplete Exhibits Analogies

Book:The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Lives of the poets

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Lives of the poets

“Now, for Romney to believe that somebody's grandmother is going to be so cut off she is going to self deport... He certainly shows no concern for the humanity of people who are already here... I think you have to live in worlds of Swiss bank accounts and Cayman Island accounts and automatic $20 million a year income with no work to have some fantasy this far from reality.”

People Thinking World Years Believe Self Shows Reality Humanity Millions Fantasy Cutting Republican Concern Accounts Income Islands Grandmother Romney Bank Accounts Swiss Cayman Islands

Author:Newt Gingrich

“When I look at Jesus' warm and intimate friendships, my heart fills with praise that Jesus was. . . a man. A man of flesh-and-blood reality. His heart felt the sting of sympathy. His eyes glowed with tenderness. His arms embraced. His lips smiled. His hands touched. Jesus was male! Jesus invites us to relate to him as the Son of Man. And because he is fully man, we can relate to Jesus with affection and love.”

“And so one may be without connection with any church, and even without connection with any established religion, and yet be in spirit, hence in reality, a much truer Christian than hosts of those who profess to be His most ardent followers, as indeed Jesus Himself so many times says. "By their fruits ye shall know them," said He. "Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven."”

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Book:Thoughts I Met on the Highway and Other Truths

Source: Thoughts I Met on the Highway and Other Truths

“What solidarity we do find exists despite the society, against all its realities, as an unending struggle between the innate decency of man and the innate indecency of the society. Can we imagine how men would behave if this decency could find full release, if society earned the respect, even the love of the individual?”

Ifs Men Reality Individual Struggle Imagine Activism Despite Release Behave Solidarity Innate Decency Unending

Book:The Murray Bookchin Reader

Source: The Murray Bookchin Reader

“If you get bored with nothing to do, you are not a writer ... We are in the business of reproducing reality from nothing. We are the biggest liars in the world, seeking truth.”

Ifs World Writing Reality Seeking Bored Liars Seeking Truth Reproducing

Author:Guillermo del Toro

“We fret about words, we writers. Words mean. Words point. They are arrows. Arrows stuck in the rough hide of reality. And the more portentous, more general the word, the more they can also resemble rooms or tunnels. They can expand, or cave in. They can come to be filled with a bad smell. They will often remind us of other rooms, where we'd rather dwell or where we think we are already living. They can be spaces we lose the art or the wisdom of inhabiting. And eventually those volumes of mental intention we no longer know how to inhabit will be abandoned, boarded up, closed down.”

Thinking Knows Writing Mean Art Reality Loses Space Rooms Know How Filled Intention Smell Stuck Rough Abandoned Volume Caves Arrows Tunnels Mean Words

Author:Susan Sontag

“A teacher of knowledge and power gives you experiences in other dimensions. They show you that the universe is much bigger and more fascinating than you had ever imagined. They give you direct and immediate experiences in other realities.”

Giving Shows Wisdom Reality Universe Teacher Buddhism Direct Bigger Dimensions Fascinating Knowledge And Power

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Life is endless reality. There is reality after reality, spinning on endlessly into the cosmos, billions and billions of manifest universes. Underlying all of this is the unmanifest, the absolute reality.”

World Reality Life Is Universe Buddhism Absolutes Billions Endless Cosmos Manifest Spinning Other Worlds

Author:Frederick Lenz

“All of the physical universes put together, stretching out endlessly, are only a fraction of the totality of reality. In other words, all of the physical universes are only part of the physical dimensional plane, and there are thousands of dimensional planes.”

World Reality Together Science Universe Buddhism Planes Other Worlds Stretching Fractions Totality

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There are endless planes of attention, endless realities and endless mind states. They're like collections of atoms and protons and neutrons, nuclei. They just go on forever. They're plasma, they're fluid ... they're alive.”

World Mind States Reality Attention Forever Alive Buddhism Goes On Endless Planes Collections Atoms Fluid Other Worlds Nucleus Neutrons Plasma Proton

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The end of this world occurs when you move from one world into another, from one reality into another.”

World Ends Reality Moving This World Buddhism Other Worlds

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We are transmuting the reality of our perceptual field. There are endless, beautiful and perfect universes - or you can go beyond universes to the dissolution, where there's no beginning.”

World Reality Beautiful Universe Perfect Fields Buddhism Endless Other Worlds Dissolution

Author:Frederick Lenz

“For an advanced preceiver, the play of life is to assemble and reassemble the self in alternate realities of which this is one.”

World Self Play Reality Life Is Buddhism Other Worlds Alternate Realities

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There's a place this moment comes from, where it's made. Actually, it's like a big factory where they make moments, where they make realities, where they make infinities.”

World Made Moments Bigs Reality Buddhism Infinity Factories Other Worlds

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There wasn't a single day in which the world was created. It's created anew at every moment. The structures of eternity are completely fluid but they are bound together by the mind forming a nexus point so reality comes into being.”

World Mind Moments Reality Together Awareness Buddhism Eternity Structure Bounds Fluid Nexus

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Our very awareness is the window upon which reality presents itself.”

Reality Awareness Buddhism Window Self Awareness

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Everything is perception. A hallucination is a perception of a certain reality. It is a perception of a certain state of mind.”

Mind States Reality Certain Awareness Ignorance Buddhism Perception State Of Mind Hallucinations

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We are taught not to perceive but to avoid direct perceptions of reality and to substitute instead this kind of one-dimensional view of life.”

Kind Reality Views Awareness Taught Buddhism Perception Direct Perceive Substitutes Perception Reality

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Reality does appear to exist, there does appear to be birth, youth, people appear to have children. But all of it's a dream. These are isolated moments that are only connected by perception. There is no separation.”

People Children Doe Moments Dream Reality Awareness Youth Buddhism Birth Perception Connected Separation Isolated

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Once we have conceived of time and space, once we have accepted their existence, then that implies that there is a structural order to bonding realities.”

Reality Order Space Existence Awareness Buddhism Accepted Time And Space Bonding

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Everything that you see here, in other words, is a reflection of a higher reality.”

Reality Awareness Buddhism Higher Reflection

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The mind is infinite. It is not relegated to the brain or to thought or to emotion. It is made up of an endless series of realities that stretch on into infinity.”

Mind Made Reality Emotion Brain Awareness Buddhism Infinite Series Endless Infinity

Author:Frederick Lenz

“It is better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot.”

Littles Wisdom Reality

Book:The Revolt of the Angels

Source: The Revolt of the Angels

“To do something perfectly, you must not think about what you are doing at all ... Your thoughts are what create imperfections in your actions. They alienate you from the true reality of any action you perform.”

Thinking Reality Action Health Buddhism Imperfection Athletics True Reality

Book:Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

Source: Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

“Globalization is not a monolithic force but an evolving set of consequences - some good, some bad and some unintended. It is the new reality.”

Reality Force Consequence Evolve Globalization Unintended Consequences

Author:John B. Larson

“As all Americans head forward into the new reality globalization has created, they want leaders who will level with them and help level the playing field.”

Want Helping Reality Levels Leader Fields Globalization Playing Fields

Author:John B. Larson

“There's a lot of strength in the U.S., but there's a lot of froth also. The froth will blow off. We're going to have to face up to some realities that we're not fully facing up to right now.”

Reality Faces Right Now Blow

Author:Jeffrey Sachs

“An example I often use to illustrate the reality of vanity, is this: look at the peacock; it's beautiful if you look at it from the front. But if you look at it from behind, you discover the truth... Whoever gives in to such self-absorbed vanity has huge misery hiding inside them.”

Ifs Life Giving Looks Self Use Reality Beautiful Success Behinds Fronts Example Huge Misery Vanity Hiding Behind You Self Absorbed Peacock

Author:Pope Francis

“For a culture that has such a problem with death, we seem to deal with it in a quite bizarre way. We see people shot, killed and blown up, and we find it funny and sexy and all those things. But, the reality of it is that every day people die, and people are really sad and they grieve and they go through a really difficult process with it.”

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Author:Michael Sheen

“Trying to ground everything in reality was the most important thing to me.”

Trying Important Reality Important Things

Author:Rupert Sanders

“Our perception of celebrities in Hollywood is not the reality. The reality of our lives is so much like everyone else's life. We have family members we love, everyone gets up in the morning, they have three meals a day and they go about their business.”

Reality Life Is Three Morning Our Lives Members Perception Hollywood Get Up Meals Family Members Love Everyone

Author:Sissy Spacek

“All directors are control freaks and very obsessive. I get the feeling that directors as kids, they all have had a childhood with not too much contact with other kids. They constructed their own reality and they continue to do it. It's a funny breed, directors.”

Feelings Reality Kids Too Much Childhood Directors Contact Freak Obsessive Control Freak

Author:Stellan Skarsgard

“I love the irony of movies. I really do. For whatever reason, I'm incredibly intrigued by the irony of reality in a motion picture.”

Reason Reality Irony Intrigued Motion Pictures

Author:Zack Snyder

“I believe that pop culture is just, like, so ready for 'Watchmen.' We tried so hard to ride that wave between satire and reality, and all the things that make you still care about the character, but you don't miss the commentary about them.”

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Author:Zack Snyder

“I have been spending the better part of my professional life trying to create self-driving cars. At Google, I am working with a world-class team of engineers to turn science fiction into reality.”

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Author:Sebastian Thrun

“I'd like to classify my life as a romantic comedy. Unfortunately I feel it's probably more like a TV reality show.”

Feels Shows Reality Comedy Tvs Reality Shows

Author:Uma Thurman

“The world is getting so reality-driven these days. It seems to be accelerating exponentially. But it's a dangerous game for a lot of people.”

People World Reality Seems Games Dangerous Driven These Days

Author:Keith Urban

“As a reporter you tend to seek coherence from your subject or your source - it all needs to add up and make sense. In truth, in reality, there's often a great deal of murkiness and muddiness, confusion and contradiction.”

Needs Reality Deals Subjects Source Add Confusion Make Sense Contradiction Reporters Coherence

Author:Amy Waldman

“When we choose to have an abortion, we must do so understanding the full ramifications of what we are doing. Anything less feels to me to be hypocritical, a selfish abnegation of reality and responsibility.”

Feels Reality Understanding Responsibility Selfish Abortion Hypocritical Abnegation Ramifications

Book:Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities, and Occasional Moments of Grace

Source: Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities, and Occasional Moments of Grace

“The left and the right live in parallel universes. The right listens to talk radio, the left's on the Internet and they just reinforce one another. They have no sense of reality. I have now one ambition: to retire before it becomes essential to tweet.”

Reality Universe Left Internet Essentials Ambition Radio Retiring Parallels Tweet Parallel Universe Talk Radio

Author:Barney Frank

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