All Quotes

The real world is horrible.
‐‐ Lev Grossman

The real world is the fantasy writer's scrapbook. Real history, real geography, real customs and religions are all invaluable sources of guidance and inspiration.
‐‐ Lynn Flewelling

'The Real World' is the most predictable arc ever. They get on the show, they're all excited, we're gonna be best friends, then people start drinking and get hammered, and say stupid stuff, and that's pretty much it.
‐‐ Adam McKay

The real writer is one who really writes. Talent is an invention like phlogiston after the fact of fire. Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved.
‐‐ Marge Piercy

The realisation that, depending on where we changed from one note to the next in a melodic line, the music could subtly influence the entire meaning of a scene in so many ways was like a door opening to this amazing new world for me.
‐‐ Steven Price

The realistic value of a work is completely independent of its properties in terms of content.
‐‐ Fernand Leger

The realities are that, you know, as a black man, you know, Barack can get shot going to the gas station, you know.
‐‐ Michelle Obama

The realities of the modern global economy require government to play a substantial role in ensuring the national and economic security of the people.
‐‐ Matthew Continetti

The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination.
‐‐ Bryant H. McGill

The reality about being economically dependent on someone else usually doesn't work out for women in the end. It's about being an adult and being responsible for your life. Most women have to work, so let's just get on with it.
‐‐ Candace Bushnell

The reality about transportation is that it's future-oriented. If we're planning for what we have, we're behind the curve.
‐‐ Anthony Foxx

The reality for us in America is that we will never get out of debt with more than 15 million people out of work.
‐‐ Debbie Stabenow

The reality, I believe, is that all change starts small. The big picture is just too unwieldy, too incomprehensible and seemingly immovable. But give us something individual, quantifiable and personalize-able and, suddenly, our perspective shifts to the one.
‐‐ Mick Ebeling

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

The reality in the neighborhood that I live in is: if I don't constantly reconcile what I have against what other people don't, either I need to leave and be around other people who have what I have, or I'm constantly engaged in this kind of dynamic flow of opportunity and sharing.
‐‐ Theaster Gates

The reality is being an Olympic windsurfer is bloody hard work, and it is a huge commitment.
‐‐ Nick Dempsey

The reality is: By the time swine flu got on the radar screen of global public health, it had already spread. It was already in the States, it was in Mexico, it was in New Zealand. By the time it reaches that point, you've lost the ability to contain it.
‐‐ Nathan Wolfe

The reality is even if you are a hands-on Mayor or Governor or chief executive, at best, you must know about 10 or 20% of what's going on. Otherwise, you never get through the day... I was very hands on, and there's lots of stuff I didn't know, and lots of things that either went wrong or right that I would find out about afterwards.
‐‐ Rudy Giuliani

The reality is for 50 years in this country, federal law has required people that are illegal - or that are immigrants - or that are legal immigrants to this country to carry documentation to that effect. And that has been the law for 50 years.
‐‐ Trent Franks

The reality is gas prices should be much more expensive then they are because we're not incorporating the true damage to the environment and the hidden costs of mining oil and transporting it to the U.S. Whenever you have an unpriced externality, you have a bit of a market failure, to the degree that eternality remains unpriced.
‐‐ Elon Musk

The reality is I have a closet full of shoes that I don't wear because they are not comfortable, and I am not going to be hobbling between meetings. There's nothing that ruins an entrance like somebody who's uncomfortable in their shoes.
‐‐ Ivanka Trump

The reality is I have a job as a national party chair that, one, requires a thick skin. It requires me to be able to absorb the body blows so our candidates can stay above the fray.
‐‐ Debbie Wasserman Schultz

The reality is I'm not a 'get knocked down and come back harder' kind of guy.
‐‐ Greg Giraldo

The reality is I'm not this person with this driving 'get it done' attitude.
‐‐ Greg Giraldo

The reality is I meet a lot of actresses. They're wonderful, beautiful ladies. It's pretty hard to stay away from them. You know, there's worse problems to have.
‐‐ David Sutcliffe

The reality is, I've started multiple companies, so actually I'm probably more of a product/creative person than I am sales. Although I can do both.
‐‐ Tim Armstrong

The reality is, if you have a high-level-energy dog, it's not going to be happy with a one-hour walk. Those types of dogs are going to require more than one hour of physical challenge in the outside world.
‐‐ Cesar Millan

The reality is, if you're going to have a defeat on the road, Week 1 is probably the best time to have it.
‐‐ Mike McCarthy

The reality is, if you were fortunate to be born to rich parents, you have a better chance of succeeding in life. And that's wrong.
‐‐ Naftali Bennett

The reality is if you were going to die tomorrow, and someone offered you another 10 years, most people would take those 10 years.
‐‐ Bill Maris

The reality is institutions that invest in high growth have offices globally and talk across offices.
‐‐ Danny Rimer

The reality is is that Congress is a very male-gendered oriented institution. Out of the, you know, more than 10,000 people who've ever been elected to Congress, you know, only about 250 of them have ever been women.
‐‐ Gwen Moore

The reality is, is that we love competition, at Apple. We think it makes us all better. But we want people to invent their own stuff.
‐‐ Tim Cook

The reality is, it will be a significant conflict going for many, many months, if not longer. Saddam Hussein is not a fool. He hasn't been sitting there waiting to get shot for 13 years.
‐‐ John Hewson

The reality is, Jennifer and I can do our job well because we truly are friends. But when the day's over, she goes home to her boyfriend and I go home to a magazine.
‐‐ David Schwimmer

The reality is, like any band, you can never quite quantify who does what.
‐‐ Nick Mason

The reality is regulation often lags behind innovation.
‐‐ Bill Maris

The reality is sobering: in the United States one in three girls will become pregnant before age 20, totaling more than 750,000 girls per year.
‐‐ Jane Fonda

The reality is, some people don't want you to change or go anywhere different.
‐‐ Kenneth Edmonds

The reality is, Ted Cruz has seen his best day.
‐‐ Paul Manafort

The reality is that a consumer culture which chucks out its iPhones for a new version every nine months is completely unsustainable, because Earth has already reached the tipping point. 'The General Strike' attempts to personalize these issues and encourage listeners to look for a new model.
‐‐ Justin Sane

The reality is that a person who has always struggled with numbers is unlikely to be a great accountant or statistician.
‐‐ Tom Rath

The reality is that al Qaeda has been trying to attack the United States since long before Iraq.
‐‐ Ed Royce

The reality is that art has often risen to greater heights than the people who created it. Many flawed artists have created great works of art. You have to decide if you are going to listen to Richard Wagner's music or not because he was very anti-Semitic.
‐‐ Gavin Hood

The reality is that asking the public to fund political campaigns accomplishes nothing. Candidates continue to seek interest-group support through other channels, both financial and in-kind, and corruption problems abound.
‐‐ Bradley A. Smith

The reality is that business and investment spending are the true leading indicators of the economy and the stock market. If you want to know where the stock market is headed, forget about consumer spending and retail sales figures. Look to business spending, price inflation, interest rates, and productivity gains.
‐‐ Mark Skousen

The reality is that de-carbonisation is not happening fast enough.
‐‐ Jamais Cascio

The reality is that during the Reagan years, for instance, we doubled the amount of revenue that we were sending to Washington, D.C. after the tax cuts took effect.
‐‐ Mike Pence

The reality is that each movie has got to be seen in its own light.
‐‐ Joel Silver

The reality is that every human being is placed on this planet, and one of the things that drives humans is their need for meaning, and if you can make every job meaningful, then you will guarantee that every job will be done to its highest level of excellence.
‐‐ Erwin McManus