#real

I adopt a very simple approach. I observe and reflect real life and ordinary people and sooner or later that raises a laugh. ↗

— Alberto Sordi

#approach #i #later #laugh #life

At MTV, it's very nice sometimes to be able to be very specific. Specificity really makes a news story interesting because you can color it in that personality. ↗

— Tabitha Soren

#because #color #interesting #makes #mtv

At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic. ↗

— Tabitha Soren

#going #grandparents #humor #i #nbc

Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#against #allow #because #bit #commend

Al Gore is not just whistling in the wind. Global warming is for real. Every scientist knows that now, and we are on our way to the destruction of every species on earth, if we don't pay attention and reverse our course. ↗

— Theodore C. Sorensen

#al gore #attention #course #destruction #earth

Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes. ↗

— George Soros

#condition #correct #failing #human #human condition

Markets are designed to allow individuals to look after their private needs and to pursue profit. It's really a great invention and I wouldn't under-estimate the value of that, but they're not designed to take care of social needs. ↗

— George Soros

#allow #care #designed #great #i

Stock market bubbles don't grow out of thin air. They have a solid basis in reality, but reality as distorted by a misconception. ↗

— George Soros

#basis #bubbles #distorted #grow #market

We coin concepts and we use them to analyse and explain nature and society. But we seem to forget, midway, that these concepts are our own constructs and start equating them with reality. ↗

— Abdolkarim Soroush

#coin #concepts #constructs #equating #explain

My father taught me how to substitute realities. ↗

— Mira Sorvino

#father #how #me #realities #substitute