Man keeps looking for a truth that fits his reality. Given our reality, the truth doesn't fit.
For Rembrandt, reality is role-playing. . . . Everyone is portrayed in relation to a social hierarchy.
I don't look forward to the day because I don't like to see guys get traded that I like, or other guys. I didn't want to get traded from the Islanders but then when I did, reality set in that I'd been traded. It's a wild day. It's a crazy day.
You decide whether you look at your reality or live pretending these feelings don't exist.
In the last analysis, provincialism is your belief in yourself, in your neighborhood, in your reality. It is patriotism without belligerence. Convincing cases have been made to show that all great art is provincial in the sense of reflecting a place, a time, and a Zeitgeist.
A man who trims himself to suit everybody will soon whittle himself away.
Nuclear bombs have made mass murder a reality. Nuclear bombs threaten humankind.
One of the panelists on CNN, after the Hillary Clinton commencement speech, literally started crying, "I can't believe, I can't believe the election actually happened and she lost. " I don't need to see that. I don't need to see a bunch of whimpering leftists who themselves are incapable of grounding themselves in reality, whining and moaning.
Arrogance cometh before reality.
Einstein, in the special theory of relativity, proved that different observers, in different states of motion, see different realities.
I lived a normal life for a number of years. I had kids. I lived up on a farm in Gloucestershire in rural England, and just kind of got back to reality again.
The more lucidly we think, the more we are cut off: the more deeply we enter into reality, the less we can think.
You can learn more from failure than success. In failure you're forced to find out what part did not work. But in success you can believe everything you did was great, when in fact some parts may not have worked at all. Failure forces you to face reality.
Dare to believe in the reality of your assumption and watch the world play its part relative to to its fulfillment.
The human form is a microcosm of the universe. All that supposedly exists outside us in reality exists in us. The world is in you and can become known in you, as you.
To be a human being is to be in a state of tension between your appetites and your dreams, and the social realities around you and your obligations to your fellow man.
Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.
Professional opinion is skeptical about anything that doesn't fit in with the version of reality it has been programmed to believe in. The skepticism comes from a lack of understanding and the need to defend the status quo and not from actual knowledge of the subject.
I am ashamed to admit I watch a lot of reality shows like The Osbournes and The Bachelor.
I don't think any actors love taking their clothes off on film, unless you're an exhibitionist, which I'm certainly not. Those are the scenes that you actually dread doing. But, so much more goes into this role. As an actress, it's all about reality, and I'm not a prude. I'm not someone who judges other people for taking their clothes off for roles. I'm not going to show everything, but nudity here or there doesn't faze me.
