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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.

Reality is, I'm an actor and an entertainer, and I really wouldn't know what to do with another profession.

I respect the state workers and I respect their unions, but we simply can't afford to pay benefits and pensions that are out of line with economic reality.

We must get the American public to look past the glitter, beyond the showmanship, to the reality, the hard substance of things. And we'll do it not so much with speeches that will bring people to their feet as with speeches that bring people to their senses.

There's no point in living in an alternate reality.

Reality doesn't bite, rather our perception of reality bites.

In reality, for me every role is completely different.

In an age of synthetic images and synthetic emotions, the chances of an accidental encounter with reality are remote indeed.

I refer, of course, to the debts our nation has amassed for itself over decades of indulgence. It is the new Red Menace, this time consisting of ink. We can debate its origins endlessly and search for villains on ideological grounds, but the reality is pure arithmetic.

The Rockwell magazine cover was more a part of the American reality than a record of it.

You talk about the values that you have whether they're in favor or not in favor. That's how you lead. The reality is, we're losing more and more elections.

Reality is never as bad as a nightmare, as the mental tortures we inflict on ourselves.

Too many moralists begin with a dislike of reality.

It is said that a neo-conservative is a liberal who has been mugged by reality.

I know that plans and reality may be two different things, but I think my demands on life are minimal.

Prostitution happens to you because of troubles you had. In reality no woman would choose to do that.

But in reality we are accompanied by the whole dancing universe.

There is no reality of consciousness independent of the effects of various vehicles of content on subsequent action (and hence, of course, on memory).

While the vast majority of hackers may be disinclined towards violence, it would only take a few to turn cyber terrorism into reality.

What I would have liked to do on that show was play a secretary of state who has huge personal business interests throughout the world. That, to me, seems to be more in synch with reality.