Quotes About Reality

Investors are sometimes too busy looking for profits to notice where the truth ends and the deception begins.

'Fringe' is a sci-fi show. But once you go beyond the genre, you're immersed in a profound reality.

I became a conservative after a deeply profound spiritual awakening at which point I repented of my anger, and God allowed me to see reality.

I've always been profoundly ambivalent about fame. I think it just eats the reality out of you and it can be intoxicating because I like some of it.

People come up to me and say, 'It's too bad the space program got canceled.' This is not the case, and yet that is what most of the public thinks has happened.

When you've been on a programme called 'An Idiot Abroad' job offers aren't exactly flying in.

We appear to be programmed with the idea that there are 'things' outside of our self, and some are conscious, and some are not.

I've always have loved reality programmes. 'Big Brother,' 'I'm A Celebrity,' they're my guilty pleasure.

You get fed up watching shows with not much care and love, reality programmes where they put people in a house for a fortnight and film them doing everything, or where participants arrive after lunch and do the programme at six.

The displacement of scripted series by reality programming continues to be a severe obstacle to a working actor's ability to earn a living.

People imagine that programming is logical, a process like fixing a clock. Nothing could be further from the truth.

You have to watch CNN, MSNBC, Fox and then the local news and then Al Jazeera. The truth is somewhere in the middle, because all of them are lying. It's what they're not saying that's really going on. What they're saying is called television programming. They're telling you this is the program. You are being programmed.

Look, three love affairs in history, are Abelard and Eloise, Romeo and Juliet and the American media and this President at the moment. But this doesn't matter over time. Reality will impinge. If his programs work, he's fine. If it doesn't work, all of the adulation of journalists in the world won't matter.

I think anyone that thought that we were coming in as a bunch of liberal Democrats to deliver more large-scale social programs was nuts. I sure didn't expect it.

The thing that I've learned, not just from writing comics but also from writing television programs like 'Law & Order,' is that you can fool some of the people some of the time - but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.

Americans do believe in progress and there is almost certainly a kernel of truth in the joke.

The administration needs to speak honestly with the American people. Exaggerating our progress in defeating the insurgency or in creating an Iraqi army paints a dangerous picture.

Even the people who have had success and made money writing these books of fiction seem to feel the need to pretend it's no big deal, or part of a natural progression from poetry to fiction, but often it's really just about the money, the perceived prestige.

I sometimes think, as bad as things seem for progressives in this world in the Trump era, it's worse than we think it is.

Progressives are not going to give up on facts.

I'm not ashamed to admit that prohibition is 'impractical.'

Hollywood is an image. We project these fantasies on to it, but people are just people.

I know movies are a function of our dream world. And when you project yourself on screen, it's easier to project yourself into what you were, not what you are.

I think innocence is something that adults project upon children that's not really there.