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Somehow, talking to young students brings you back to reality - it should, anyway. -- Robert J. Shiller
The cruel ambush of 9/11 supposedly 'changed everything,' slapping us back to reality. Yet we are constantly shocked, shocked by the foreseeable. -- Frank Rich
One win, and you're on top of the world. Lose in the first round of the next tournament: you're back to reality. -- Sania Mirza
It brings me back to reality. The combine doesn't care if you're a senator or not. It breaks down whenever it wants to break down. -- Jon Tester
I got a little house in East L.A. and did the gardening. I was doing some acting here and there, doing my own thing... getting back to reality. -- Adam Ant
I lived a normal life for a number of years. I had kids. I lived up on a farm in Gloucestershire in rural England, and just kind of got back to reality again. -- Roger Andrew Taylor
Whenever I feel like I'm getting too far away from where I need to be, I think about my sons and the legacy I have to leave for them - and it always brings me back to reality. -- Dwyane Wade
In the middle of a play, I go crazy and don't realize what I'm doing. I'll snap back to reality and I realize, 'Hey, I just ripped that boy's helmet off,' or, 'I'm over here twisting this guy's knee. -- Brian Bosworth
Katniss, got that spile?" Finnick asks, snapping me back to reality. -- Suzanne Collins
I'm not trying to minimize things; I'm trying to bring them back to reality. -- Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
Seems like nothing ever brings you back to reality that makes you want to stay there. -- Robert Breault
Can we take a direct flight back to reality or do we have to change planes in Denver? -- Tim Allen
I am extremely grateful. And that brings me back to reality on the days I am complaining about something. -- Olivia Newton-John
Well then, music take me on that wonderful journey of my lost memories, and never take me back to reality. -- Seth Hawkins
I knew it wasn't good when it happened. It's definitely scary. Every now and then, something brings you back to reality. -- Justin Smiley
Work to live up to your dreams and fantasies; to hell with them who ask you to come back to reality. -- Vikrmn
It was good to get a few days off after the number of games we had. Now it's back to reality. -- Stew Morrill
After the stretch of weather we've had, this is going to be a culture shock for some people. We always end up crashing back to reality. -- Paul Gross
I found I was having continually to please the sort of people I'd always hated when I was a child. This began to bring me back to reality. -- John Lennon
Everything ends eventually. I guess that's what makes summer so intense, this feeling that it lasts for only a a short while and then it's back to reality. -- Katherine Applegate
I just always want to be different - THE EXCEPTION - and this weekend knocked me right back to reality.And the reality is - I AM TRULY BLESSED -- Jon-Robert Holden
If you want to make a documentary you should automatically go to the fiction, and if you want to nourish your fiction you have to come back to reality. -- Jean-Luc Godard
It is possible that a picture will move far away from Nature and yet find its way back to reality. The faculty of memory, experience at a distance produces pictorial associations. -- Paul Klee
I lived a normal life for a number of years. I had kids. I lived up on a farm in Gloucestershire in rural England, and just kind of got back to reality again. -- Roger Andrew Taylor
On my best days, such as when I was a junior in high school coming off a 42-point performance and near triple-double, my dad was there to tell me I haven't arrived yet and bring me back to reality. -- Candace Parker
I had a normal upbringing and went to public school. If I ever, even for a second, started getting a big head, I was brought back to reality pretty quickly. I was working full time and still had to fight for a cell phone. -- Mila Kunis
I've gone from being a brilliant captain of a TV soccer team to an average rugby player on a real team. I've gotten so used to ruling the roost and just saying whatever the hell I wanted, and I had to get back to reality. -- Tanc Sade
Lord, help me to appreciate this woman/man without elevating her/him above you in my heart. Help me to remember that nobody can ever take your place in my life. You are my strength, my hope, my joy, and my ultimate reward. Bring me back to reality, God. Give me an undivided heart. -- Joshua Harris
Sometimes, the other characters are too normal and then you start to be brought back to reality but then Luna shows up and she is just so funny and cool and honest and slightly mad and she's all that matters. She is 100% true. She puts on no shows, because she is so comfortable with herself. -- Evanna Lynch
When you act, you're being asked to pretend in a very rigid, controlled environment. It's very un-childlike. So a lot of times, when you put kids in that situation, you hope they have a better support system outside of what they're doing to bring them back to reality at the end of the day and to keep them well-rounded. -- Patton Oswalt
And the whole Oscar thing, that is just surreal: you spend months and months doing promotion, and then come back to reality with this golden thing in your hands. You put it in the office and then you just have to look at it sitting on the shelf. And, after about two weeks, you go: 'What is that doing there?' -- Javier Bardem
We had just played a sold-out show and it had been a fun night when we heard the news. It brought everything back to reality. He was a brilliant guy. He was an aerospace engineer and an entrepreneur. We were just starting to write new songs two weeks after he died. We were still grieving. So that was naturally a big subject matter for the album. -- Brendan Bayliss
The minute I forget to balance reality with the fantasy, I'm going back to Virginia. -- Schuyler Fisk
I've often dreamed about going back to Nigeria, but that's a very romantic notion. It's a hideous country to go to in reality. -- Hugo Weaving
In reality, Afghanistan has functioned as a nation-state for more than two centuries, and its army and bureaucracy reach back to the 19th century. -- Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
To pine for the days before public education became a practical reality is to pine for an America held back by mass ignorance and mass illiteracy. -- Timothy Noah
If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values - that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
As a child, recognizing my difference from other kids, I went to the local public library to try to better understand my reality. Back then, many library card catalogues didn't even list 'homosexuality' as a topic. -- James McGreevey
Reality show? You can't find anything better than boxing because of the trials and errors, the ups and downs, the struggle when you get knocked down to get back up. Use it symbolically and interchangeably for life. -- Don King
I don't think I'll ever escape the fact that I don't belong anywhere in particular. I've often dreamed about going back to Nigeria, but that's a very romantic notion. It's a hideous country to go to in reality. -- Hugo Weaving
We've got the wind at our back right now. Americans are waking up to the realities of their previous choices. We must keep America moving back to preeminence because our values and conservative ideas are the world's greatest hope. -- Rick Perry
You watch these reality shows and say, 'Oh, I would do that, except for eating all the gross stuff.' These reality shows are like everyone's little guilty pleasure. To have an opportunity to be on one, why not? Anybody who says, 'No, I don't want to be on one' is kind of lying in the back of their heads. -- Cris Judd
Reality denied comes back to haunt. -- Philip K. Dick
Reality Sucks, I want my dreams back. -- Sandra Chami Kassis
Never turn your back on reality. It surrounds you. -- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
People have learned to escape Reality very well but too often lose their way back. -- Eugene J. Martin
When I'm back at home it's just reality. I kind of separate myself from Hollywood. -- Logan Lerman
The reality is I'm not a 'get knocked down and come back harder' kind of guy. -- Greg Giraldo
I believe in facing reality. But only because I don't like turning my back on it. -- Bob Thaves
Things seemed to go back and forth between reality and imagination--except that it was all reality. -- Gary Paulsen
Meditate, Visualize and Create your own reality and the universe will simply reflect back to you. -- Amit Ray
I never miss reality when I'm not in it, but it's sometimes nice to come back to. -- Ashleigh Brilliant
The hard reality is that the omelette has been made and you cannot get your egg back. -- K.P. Fabian
I think literature is somehow both a fantasy and a reality we should all get back to. -- Shane Warren Jones
It's too late by the way, with virtual reality. You can't put the genie back into the bottle. -- Howard Rheingold
I never thought I would run for Congress. If you look back at a certain reality TV show, you know that. -- Sean Duffy
The reality is this city will not be the same for a while, ... We're not saying bring New Orleans back today. -- Ray Nagin
No-one has held back. They have put some definition around the numbers and now we have to wait for the reality. -- Joseph Stanislaw
When we fight back with joy, we awaken to the deepest reality of our identity as beloved, delightful children of God. -- Margaret Feinberg
The question is, when does the therapeutic community end and the reality kick back in Then, what do you do with them -- James Johnson
Children do live in fantasy and reality; they move back and forth very easily in a way we no longer remember how to do. -- Maurice Sendak
There's only so long you can live in a fantasy world before the reality comes along to sharply put you back in your place. -- Giovanna Fletcher
Reality is an aspect of property. It must be seized. And investigative journalism is the noble art of seizing reality back from the powerful. -- Julian Assange
I turned down a lot of reality shows in the past, but MTV, back in the day, was just the coolest with Cribs to Pimp My Ride. -- Tyga
I went horseback riding and got a big chunk of horse manure kicked into my face. It has a way of slapping you right back into reality. -- Vanessa Carlton
The tunnel under the wall of intellectual snobbery is the only way back to common sense reality, but most won't find it because it is beneath them. -- D.E. Navarro
If you're having a very high-adrenaline, high-movement experience in virtual reality and then all of a sudden you're back in your office, that disconnect is pretty notable. -- Palmer Luckey
In order to put meaning back into our lives, we should recognize illusions for what they are, and we should reach out and touch the fabric of reality. -- Walker Evans
Regain your senses, call yourself back, and once again wake up. Now that you realize that only dreams were troubling you, view this 'reality' as you view your dreams. -- Marcus Aurelius
The thing itself photographed becomes less interesting when you go back to it years later but I think the photograph becomes more important later when the reality has passed. -- George A Tice

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