#reality

The reality in Iraq is that we are creating new terrorists and severely damaging the public impression of the United States in the Muslim world. ↗

— Sherrod Brown

#damaging #impression #iraq #muslim #muslim world

Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive. ↗

— William F. Buckley, Jr.

#become #costs #fine #idealism #prohibitive

I could suddenly see the pressures all around; these endless magazines and cheap reality TV programmes poking at women, humiliating us for every flaw. It makes me so angry. I really wonder what it is we are doing to ourselves, because I do think women can be the worst ones for picking each other apart. ↗

— Amanda Burton

#apart #around #because #cheap #could

In reality drilling is the slowest, dirtiest, and most expensive way to solve our energy crisis. ↗

— Lois Capps

#dirtiest #drilling #energy #expensive #most

The atmosphere of libraries, lecture rooms and laboratories is dangerous to those who shut themselves up in them too long. It separates us from reality like a fog. ↗

— Alexis Carrel

#dangerous #fog #laboratories #lecture #libraries

I always look for reality. I look for plain truthful roles. ↗

— Jim Caviezel

#i #i always #look #plain #reality

I did a little theatre work after that and the following year I got another part in a television series. Then it was almost to the end of the year before I got more work. That was coming to terms with the reality of the vocation I had chosen. ↗

— Karl Urban

#almost #another #before #chosen #coming

I've realised now that the reality of children is you have to be in the right place with the right person. ↗

— Benedict Cumberbatch

#i #now #person #place #realised

There is a strange pecking order among actors. Theatre actors look down on film actors, who look down on TV actors. Thank God for reality shows, or we wouldn't have anybody to look down on. ↗

— George Clooney

#anybody #down #film #film actors #god

For me, the first fact of human existence is the human body. But if you embrace the reality of the human body, you embrace mortality, and that is a very difficult thing for anything to do because the self-conscious mind cannot imagine non-existence. It's impossible to do. ↗

— David Cronenberg

#because #body #cannot #conscious mind #cult thing