Quotes About Reality

I do not live in the world of sobriety.

I thought I was a pretty decent soccer player. I'm not.

Unfortunately, we don't have the luxury of being paid like NBA, NFL and soccer and baseball athletes. They have that cushion where they can kind of hang out. Even the guys on the bench. But for us, we don't fight, we don't get paid and that's the scary reality to it all.

When it comes to fundraising for a social enterprise, if you are pursuing your true passion, you'll learn to become great at your craft because you'll care so much about perfecting the skills necessary to make that dream a reality.

I always say 'The Bachelor' doesn't create and drive social issues. We're a microcosm of what's happening in the world.

I've been very careful to always make clear that I am a real person. That's why I'm on social media a lot.

I don't take the Internet and social media very seriously. I've grown up around social media but to me what happens on the Internet just doesn't feel real.

When you meet people you've interacted with on social media, they are not like they are on social media.

I think with social media and Instagram, people are able to see what's over the fence of everyone else, and it all seems within reach.

If you're trying to write about what the Chinese people are talking about, you can sometimes get a distorted picture if you go online and look at the conversation on social media.

The image of myself that I give on social media isn't actually who I am; it's not 100 percent me, obviously.

All that social media hyperbole is just so fake.

Social media is incredible: it creates a community that I'm really proud to be a part of, but it also creates illusions and a false reality, and it's difficult to grow up with that.

I went to work for the Civil Service. I'd wanted to work for the Ministry of Defence because I had some far-fetched idea that it had something to do with the Avengers, but I ended up in Social Security.

Since 1935, this has been a pay-as-you-go system, and I always believed when I first started talking about Social Security that there was a little box that had my name on it and it had my benefits for when I retired. That is not true.

Democratic socialists, why don't you open your eyes, 'Clockwork Orange'-style, and look at the truth.

One of the maddening things about being a foreigner in France is that hardly anyone in the rest of the world knows what's really happening here. They think Paris is a socialist museum where people are exceptionally good at eating small bits of chocolate and tying scarves.

At Harvard, direct cinema was the core of the film department, and most of the students were trying to make socially conscious works, but I was trying to combine fiction and non-fiction to show how our seemingly factual world is constituted through fantasy and stories.

It's the relationship I have with the world: always trying to escape from reality. I'm a daydreamer; I don't feel in harmony with my epoch or the societies I live in.

Society has always to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.

The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.

You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it.

Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society; and we can't get out of it if we would.

A lot of people have what they call 'sofa time,' but it just doesn't exist in my world.