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Quotes About Reality

Not even the creators of 'Rock Band' could possibly believe that playing the game is tantamount to making your own music. There is, however, a sad similarity between 'Rock Band' and some actual bands, and that is the attempt at realness.
~ Carrie Brownstein
History will judge harshly my Republican colleagues who deny the science of climate change. Similarly, those Democrats who would use climate change as a basis to regulate out of existence the American experience will face the harsh reality that their ideas will fail.
~ Matt Gaetz
I don't have anything against Simon Cowell and 'The X Factor.'
~ Marilyn Manson
I was in a tsunami with Simon Amstell.
~ Miquita Oliver
I grew up off 'The Simple Life' where they really made just being a personality a thing.
~ Tana Mongeau
I came to Southbury because I wanted to live a more simple life. When I was a child, I saw lots of movies about happy people living in Connecticut. And ever since then, that was where I wanted to live. I thought it would be like the movies. And it really is. It's exactly what I hoped it would be.
~ Polly Bergen
This whole notion that it's somehow easy and simpler to live in the country is such a fallacy.
~ Meghan Daum
Simply because you do not have evidence that something exists does not mean that you have evidence that it doesn't exist.
~ Donald Rumsfeld
The passage of time is simply an illusion created by our brains.
~ Julian Barbour
What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way? Deformations simply do not exist.
~ Pablo Picasso
Men simply copied the realities of their hearts when they built prisons.
~ Richard Wright
Assistance is the universal, immutable force of creative manifestation, whose role since the Big Bang has been to translate potential into being, to convert dreams into reality.
~ Steven Pressfield
You're supposed to learn that things that you think are nothing, as weightless as air, are actually powerful substantial forces, as real and as solid as earth.   I understood. The eagle was telling me that dreams, visions, meditations such as this very one–things that I had till now disdained as fantasy and illusion–were as real and as solid as anything in my waking life.
~ Steven Pressfield
He knows that any job, whether it's a novel or a kitchen remodel, takes twice as long as he thinks and costs twice as much. He accepts that. He recognizes it as reality.
~ Steven Pressfield
I, on the other hand, believe that the source of creativity is found on the same plane of reality as Resistance.
~ Steven Pressfield
You're supposed to learn that things that you think are nothing, as weightless as air, are actually powerful substantial forces, as real and as solid as earth.
~ Steven Pressfield
That gang or posse that we imagine is sustaining us by the bonds we share is in fact a conglomeration of individuals who are just as fucked up as we are and just as terrified.
~ Steven Pressfield
The professional arms himself with patience, not only to give the stars time to align in his career, but to keep himself from flaming out in each individual work. He knows that any job, whether it's a novel or a kitchen remodel, takes twice as long as he thinks and costs twice as much. He accepts that. He recognizes it as reality. The
~ Steven Pressfield
Doctors estimate that seventy to eighty percent of their business is non-health-related. People aren't sick, they're self- dramatizing. Sometimes the hardest part of a medical job is keeping a straight face.
~ Steven Pressfield
From what I've seen, the operations of war are constituted less of glorious attacks and valiant defences and more of an ongoing succession of mundane and often excruciating balls-ups.
~ Steven Pressfield
Often, "reality" means nothing more than conventional reality. And conventional reality is almost always wrong. Ask Dick Rowe of Decca Records, who turned down the Beatles.
~ Steven Pressfield
Doctors estimate that seventy to eighty percent of their business is non-health-related. People aren't sick, they're self- dramatizing. Sometimes the hardest part of a medical job is keeping a straight face. As Jerry Seinfeld observed of his twenty years of dating: That's a lot of acting fascinated.
~ Steven Pressfield
We simply do not find anything in the laws of nature that in any way corresponds to ideas of goodness, justice, love, or strife
~ Steven Weinberg
While a necessary lesson, it was always a disappointment to discover he wasn't the fastest or smartest or best at everything.
~ Stewart O'Nan