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A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away.
No poetic phantasy but a biological reality, a fact: I am an entity like bird, insect, plant or sea-plant cell; I live; I am alive.
The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality but at the same time the most intellectually resisted fact.
I love talk shows and hosting. I would want to do something like that. I'm not sure I would want to be a reality star continuously.
Yes, for all of us in the Shakespeare Squadron, writing is just that: not an escape from reality, but an attempt to change reality.
Big comedy is good, I like things that are big, but good comedy has to be truthful I think and has to reflect some sort of reality.
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.
An independant reality in the ordinary physical sense can neither be ascribed to the phenomenon nor to the agencies of observation.
Zen is all-inclusive. It never denies, it never says no to anything; it accepts everything and transforms it into a higher reality.
I've been writing jokes since I'm fifteen. Not out of happiness, but to go to a different place, because reality wasn't good to me.
I think hard times are coming. We will need writers who can remember freedom. Poets, visionaries, the realists of a larger reality.
The brutal reality about aging is that it has only an accelerator pedal. We have yet to discover whether a brake exists for people.
The reality is: when you're slouched over, not only are you not using the full potential of your brain, but you look untrustworthy.
The reality is that whatever you are looking for is, at the same time, looking for you. It all starts with believing before seeing.
How can love survive in such a graceless age? The trust and self assurance that lead to happiness, they're the very things we kill.
To be honest I don't really know because I really didn't care when I was writing about mixing up reality with what was not reality.
Just to prove that even the silliest idea can be pursued to its illogical conclusion, Legal Realism spawned Critical Legal Studies.
To make a precise scientific description of reality out of words is like trying to build a rigid structure out of pure quicksilver.
In reality long-term travel has nothing to do with demographics, age, ideology, income, and everything to do with personal outlook.
We do not go to the theatre like our ancestors, to escape from the pressure of reality, so much as to confirm our experience of it.
Often the tension that exists between the pictorial content of a photograph and its record of reality is the picture's true beauty.
Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.
Being a Jew, one learns to believe in the reality of cruelty and one learns to recognize indifference to human suffering as a fact.
A cyborg is a cybernetic organism, a hybrid of machine and organism, a creature of social reality as well as a creature of fiction.
In reality, the main thing that keeps me awake at night is probably the destruction of the planet that's what gets me pretty upset.
You got men who can't hold peace and women who can't control their tongues. The rich seduce the poor, and the old seduce the young.
We have invented the literature because the reality wasn't imaginative enough and we also wanted to be alone, at least for a while!
I look at my music in the beginning, and the sexual songs, the partying songs, those are the realities because those things happen.
The tragic reality of today is reflected in the true plight of our spiritual existence. We are spineless and cannot stand straight.
A Universal Good should reflect the reality of the individual benefits that are collected under its name, not the other way around.
The main question raised by the thriller is not what kind of world we live in, or what reality is like, but what it has done to us.
If we get a government that reflects more of what this country is really about, we can turn the century - and the economy - around.
In reality, my father [Pablo Escobar ] always interrupted others to be with his family. My father's priority was always the family.
I have a vision of a Modern India. I have embarked on a huge mission to convert that vision into reality. My mantra is Development.
There is no definition of terrorism and there is still the reality that one person's terrorist is another person's freedom fighter.
I'm pretty captivated by reality TV and I know that as an actor I probably shouldn't be saying that, but it's what I like to watch.
Men play at tragedy because they do not believe in the reality of the tragedy which is actually being staged in the civilised world
Be sure, when you think you are being extremely tactful, that you are not in reality running away from something you ought to face.
Everyone sits in the prison of his own ideas; he must burst it open, and that in his youth, and so try to test his ideas on reality.
In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not.
Being empowered with the knowledge that you are the creator of your own reality, is the best way to accelerate healing and learning.
Thus my faith grew that my beautiful dream for the future would become reality after all, even though this might require long years.
I jokingly call this convergence of games into reality the "Gamepocalypse": the moment when every moment of life is actually a game.
Gaze no more in the bitter glass The demons, with their subtle guile, Lift up before us when they pass, Or only gaze a little while.
If psychoanalysis clarifies some facts of sexuality, it is not by aiming at them in their own reality, not in biological experience.
Beware the writer who always encloses the word *reality* in quotation marks: He's trying to slip something over on you. Or into you.
But the miracle of the redemptive reality of God is that the worst and the vilest offender can never exhaust the depths of His love.
The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.
Reality television is a scripted hyper-life that employs writers, but won't allow them to call themselves writers or join the union.
An idol is anything put in the place of God as the ultimate reality - the eternal, self-existent, uncaused cause of everything else.