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I secretly think reality exists so we can speculate about it.


Slavoj Zizek

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SLAVOJ ZIZEK ...there is a myth called objective reality - we think an impersonal world exists apart from us - it...
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SCOTT MCCLELLAN Reality never changes; its how we think about it that determines how we feel about it.
JIM GENOVESE He blesses us so we can be different.
CRAIG GROESCHEL I am proud to be a Southerner. I think Southern hospitality is very... I don't think it's ju...
PAULA DEEN Bound by custom or unique by choice.
MARGARET MCHEYZER In the East, fames are won.
In the west, deeds are done.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON The consolation of an imaginary thing is still a real consolation.
ROGER SCRUTON It's very early at this point to speculate about the future of the Dome and whether it can be repair...
DOUG THORNTON I'll meet someone on the street and blurt out my most intimate details. I think everybody secret...
IMOGEN HEAP I think that possibility exists. I don't see how we can open a new school without changing the bound...
DAN WOOD You can speculate all you want but we just don't know.
BRAD ARNSBERG Everyday people all over the world take advantage of life, they abuse it and dice with it.Life is so...
GARY F EVANS... Reality only exists in the present moment.
JIM GENOVESE Q- What makes you depressed?

Seeing stupid people happy.
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ANNA ESHOO I think it would be irresponsible to speculate at all that this was some sort of attack.
GLEN MATHISON I've always been profoundly ambivalent about fame. I think it just eats the reality out of you a...
JANE PAULEY They're doing a great job. And I don't speculate about personnel matters.
SCOTT MCCLELLAN I think what's so great about 'Arrow' is that they really ground everything in reality.
SETH GABEL Your reality is as you perceive it to be. So, it is true, that by altering this perception we can al...
WILIAM CONSTANTINE I don't write a whole lot about one person that exists in reality; it's usually characterist...
JASON ISBELL I think we are faced in medicine with the reality that we have to be willing to talk about our failu...
ATUL GAWANDE Hannibal at eighteen was rooting for Mephistopheles and contemptuous of Faust, but he only half-list...
THOMAS HARRIS Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
GEORGE ORWELL At this point, ... it's so uncertain, there are so many variables out there, I think it's foolish fo...
BILL GERSTENMAIER I think it's wrong to take the (May) launch period and speculate whether we will make it or not. Tha...
BILL GERSTENMAIER I think science fiction helps us think about possibilities, to speculate - it helps us look at our s...
MAE JEMISON We think there is an enormous market here, ... It allows people to manage everyday risks in their li...
RUSSELL ANDERSSON We have been expecting this system to weaken for the last few days, but the system has not weakened....
LIXION AVILA In so far as a scientific statement speaks about reality, it must be falsifiable; and in so far as i...
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BEN LLOYD-HUGHES If you think you can do it, you can.
JOHN BURROUGHS Ignore reality, there's nothing you can do about it.
NATALIE IMBRUGLIA You'd always like to think you can make that dream a reality. But did I believe it would become a re...
HEATHER BRUDER I think it's hard to know how one deals in situations of confrontation until you're actually...
JUSTIN TRUDEAU We don't want to speculate, but certainly it's not beyond any reality that the person or persons inv...
CHARLES MOOSE All you can do is speculate right now.
CAL SAUNDERS I think that reality TV is so bad. It is a tool by the media to not make people think.
NAVEEN ANDREWS People speculate on your personal life all the time anyway. So I just think it's important to ke...
PRINCE He things we think he's a double agent, working for them but secretly working for us. He doesn't kno...
DEREK LANDY There's nothing on the horizon. There's nothing to speculate about.
LOU PINIELLA I don't think anyone can speculate what will happen with respect to oil prices and gas prices be...
KEN SALAZAR We are not investigating it as criminal. (But), I can't speculate as to what might have happened.
GAIL TIERNEY You have to kind of put it in perspective and really think about it. I think about I'm hurting my fa...
ANGELA LENHART It came so soon and so fast. It's just overwhelming. Every time I think about it, I just can'...
GABRIELA SABATINI Nobody can ever pin you down when you speculate.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF I am not going to speculate about the emotions that might be involved in avian infidelity.
TIM BIRKHEAD Because an illusion is an illusion. Reality always exists despite the facade.
KASIE WEST Some stuff which I do aren't some kind a cheats or this kind a of stuff it's about thinking and it's...
DEYTH BANGER We can speak and think only of what exists. And what exists is uncreated and imperishable for it is ...
PARMENIDES People speculate or think what they want to think, but it's been really fun for me to kind of ex...
SELENA GOMEZ At this point, it's so uncertain ... that it would be foolish to speculate on a date.
BILL GERSTENMAIER I think we changed about as much as you can possibly change, so there's a lot to learn.
WILL HERRING The fact that I am Latino is not a secret. There's not much I can do about that. It is what it i...
PETE GALLEGO In the past few hours, I’ve been possessed, nearly had my head caved in, and found out my mom is s...
RACHEL HAWKINS A distressing gap exists between the public's expectations for retirement and the reality.
GEORGE CARL One of the things we take into account is the future of the game. But I don't want to speculate beca...
COLIN LOVE At a very basic level, I think television exists for game shows, and I think it always will.
ANDY RICHTER As a kid, I thought of myself as a funny person who secretly wanted to be serious, but now I think m...
NOAH BAUMBACH I guess you can speculate all you want. I'm just happy that the team pulled through.
BRIAN ELLIOTT You can pray for someone even if you don't think God exists.
GORDON ATKINSON For me, the sea was a great comfort, Pilar. But it made my children restless. It exists now so we ca...
CRISTINA GARCíA If God exists, what objection can he have to saying so?
LEMUEL K. WASHBURN Created visions of experiencing unreality.
VICDO Why lie about being over something you're secretly still addicted to? Cap fit, wear it.
DEDRICK D. L. PITTER We can't speculate on this investigation further.
JENNIFER FREEMAN Movies, more than anything I can think of, are a great escape from reality. My reality, in particula...
CAZZIE DAVID I think especially with the Internet and the amount of reality shows that are going on, there's ...
JASON MRAZ We think having faith means being convinced God exists in the same way we are convinced a chair exis...
GORDON ATKINSON Well, I think I'm not a non-believer, and I'm not a believer. But, on the other hand, I couldn't giv...
MICHAEL KEATON He exists and we have four people who identified him and I know who he is, where he is, what his pho...
WILLIAM PEPPER I don't think it reflects the reality of what we have been seeing out there.
JENNIFER KNIGHT My prayer will shake heaven to come down and kiss the earth... and I will pose somewhere to watch it...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR This matter is not about the accuracy of pricing. It concerns individually marking items on shelves ...
SARAH CLARK We have enough talent to win it, no doubt about it. I still think we can break through.
JOE MACKEY I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you're everything that exists; the reality o...
VIRGINIA WOOLF The reality is the technology exists now to extend life and have people live healthier, happier live...
BILL MARIS There are a lot of things that could have gone into it, so to speculate would be wrong.
MICHAEL ANDRETTI Oh, love isn't there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.
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JAAP BRAKKE I don?t think it?s fair to speculate. We?re going to rehab him like he?s going to play again. I have...
RICK BURKHOLDER If I can get a sanitized version of reality, I'll take it.
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ERNST HAAS The best and most exciting kind of love is the one that's so close to the heart and so real in the m...
MOVINGNOTION I don't think I can answer questions about the trust fund.
LOUISE WOODWARD People will speculate about what they want, but that is not my intention,
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