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The rEaL wOrLd is a fictional place where those who have narrow minds and shallow imagination compile their oppressive ideas of what rEaLiTy should only be. – Khayri R.R. Woulfe	added by ____ 11 days ago
The (Chinese) response is so far divorced from reality that it is fictional. An unarmed, airliner-sized aircraft does not aggressively turn into a nimble armed fighter. – Robert Hopkins	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Ru-propaganda lives in a fictional world : [ Ukrainian ] woman and her 12-year-old child were' assigned' responsible for blowing up the car of Darya Dugina. Surprisingly, they did not find the' Estonian visa' on the spot. – Mykhailo Podolyak	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It is important not to feel numbed by the ongoing violence in our community, a horrible crime has again occurred, and it is not a movie or a fictional account. These victims died in our city, in one of our neighborhoods. – Cavalier Johnson	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It’s fictional, but it’s loosely based on the truth. Of course, it’s not strictly accurate; it gives you a rough idea about what that lifestyle is, the pressures of putting duty and service above family and everything else, what can come from that. – Prince Harry	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
When people say, ‘I wish you had been my mom,’ it always makes me feel a little sad, olivia was a fictional character. We all wish she had been our mother. I tried to get [producer] Earl Hammer to let her make mistakes because all mothers do at times. – Michael Learned	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
They are 8 and 10. We just felt like we would wait until they were a little bit older, most of that stuff goes over their head anyway. But also it was just weird for them to watch dad on the television... it was really fun. It actually lightened the mood for my wife and I to have them laughing at everybody's ridiculousness. It kind of helped with the melancholy aspect of saying goodbye to the show and my fictional family. – Ty Burrell	Found on CNN 4 years ago
This is a fictional narrative that has been perpetrated and propagated by the Russian security services themselves. – Fiona Hill	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Based on questions and statements I have heard, some of you on this committee appear to believe that Russia and its security services did not conduct a campaign against our country — and that perhaps, somehow, for some reason, Ukraine did, this is a fictional narrative that has been perpetrated and propagated by the Russian security services themselves. – Fiona Hill	Found on CNN 4 years ago
The attraction to make this film and this character was that we were going to approach it in our own way so for me I didn't refer to any past creations of the character, i did identify Arthur as a particular personality but then I also wanted the freedom to create something that wasn't identifiable. This is a fictional character and I didn't want a psychiatrist to be able to identify the kind of person he was. – Joaquin Phoenix	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Could Cliff Booth beat up Bruce Lee ? Brad Pitt would not be able to beat up Bruce Lee, but Cliff Booth maybe could, if you ask me the question,' Well, who would win in a fight : Bruce Lee or Dracula ?' It's the same question. It's a fictional character. If I say Cliff Booth could beat Bruce Lee up, Cliff Booth's a fictional character, then Cliff Booth could beat Bruce Lee up. – Quentin Tarantino	Found on CNN 4 years ago
We're committed to bringing customers games of the highest quality, both with our own original IP as well as beloved cultural pillars like' The Lord of the Rings,' tolkien's Middle-earth is one of the richest fictional worlds in history, and it gives our team of experienced MMO developers -- from the same studio developing' New World' -- tremendous opportunity to play and create. – Christoph Hartmann	Found on CNN 4 years ago
As soon as you are born, you're given a name, a religion, a nationality and a race. You spend the rest of your life defining and defending a fictional identity. – Brandon Garic Notch	added by Brandon G. Notch 5 years ago
It's an honor to take a fictional character like Rocky and do something in the world of reality. – Sylvester Stallone	Found on CNN 5 years ago
Not Pocahontas, the fictional character most Americans know from the movies, but Pocahontas, the Native woman who really lived, and whose real story has been passed down to so many of you through the generations. – Elizabeth Warren	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
I noticed that [fictional defense attorney] Perry Mason was involved in a lot of the same kinds of investigative work that I had been fascinated with reading Nancy Drew, so I decided to become a lawyer, once I focused on becoming a lawyer, I never deviated from that goal. – Sonia Sotomayor	Found on CNN 6 years ago
Nikki Haley announced. Since then, at least 60 public Confederate symbols have been removed since the 2015 church shooting, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center. Most recently, the city of St. Louis, Mo., removed a Confedearte monument -- a 32-foot-tall granite column with a bronze sculpture -- from a park. Complicating the debate for those opposed to these moves is the involvement of hate groups like the KKK. The group is planning a rally for July 8 following a decision by the city council in Charlottesville, Va., to remove a statue of Gen. Lee Park and rename Lee Park. Meanwhile, in April, New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu ordered the removal of multiple Confederate statues. New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu received brutal backlash and was forced to have heavy police presence in place when the nighttime removals began. Despite threats that people would boycott New Orleans, New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu did not back down. These statues are not just stone and metal, New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu said in a highly lauded speech after the last Confederate statue had been taken down. They are not just innocent remembrances of a benign history. These monuments purposefully celebrate a fictional, sanitized Confederacy ; ignoring the death, ignoring the enslavement and the terror that it actually stood for. But to others, like Kenneth Nail Nail, it’s not about oppression. To us, it’s not a hate thing. It’s a heritage thing and what we like to do is celebrate everyone's struggles : the blacks, the whites, the north and south. – Kenneth Nail	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
Nikki Haley announced. Since then, at least 60 public Confederate symbols have been removed since the 2015 church shooting, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center. Most recently, the city of St. Louis, Mo., removed a Confedearte monument -- a 32-foot-tall granite column with a bronze sculpture -- from a park. Complicating the debate for those opposed to these moves is the involvement of hate groups like the KKK. The group is planning a rally for July 8 following a decision by the city council in Charlottesville, Va., to remove a statue of Gen. Lee Park and rename Lee Park. Meanwhile, in April, New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu ordered the removal of multiple Confederate statutes. New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu received brutal backlash and was forced to have heavy police presence in place when the nighttime removals began. Despite threats that people would boycott New Orleans, New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu did not back down. These statues are not just stone and metal, New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu said in a highly lauded speech after the last Confederate statue had been taken down. They are not just innocent remembrances of a benign history. These monuments purposefully celebrate a fictional, sanitized Confederacy ; ignoring the death, ignoring the enslavement and the terror that it actually stood for. But to others, like Kenneth Nail Nail, it’s not about oppression. To us, it’s not a hate thing. It’s a heritage thing and what we like to do is celebrate everyone's struggles : the blacks, the whites, the north and south. – Kenneth Nail	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
The girl Hannah, even though she is fictional, teens -- if vulnerable and at risk -- may identity with her. – Andrew Evangelista	Found on CNN 7 years ago
I felt it was a great opportunity for staff, counselors and parents to connect with their children by using it as a teachable moment, the girl Hannah, even though she is fictional, teens -- if vulnerable and at risk -- may identity with her. – Andrew Evangelista	Found on CNN 7 years ago
All of the characters are fictional, but inspired by my experiences through the years, all characters have a little bit of me in them. Of course our brilliant ‘Daytime Divas’ writers have added their creative spin to it …. – Star Jones	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
Indian demand, the great savior from falling China demand, has turned out to be largely fictional. – Hans Lukiman	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
Marlon James fictional retelling of the 1976 attempted murder of Bob Marley. Marlon James, 44, who now lives in Minneapolis and teaches at Macalester College, is the first Jamaican author to win the prize in the British award's 47 years. It's also the first for Marlon James publisher, Oneworld Publications. ' It is a crime novel that moves beyond the world of crime and takes us deep into a recent history we know far too little about. It moves at a terrific pace and will come to be seen as a classic of our times. – Michael Woods	Found on CNN 8 years ago
I think it would be an even better place to write a movie, i tried to make it a bar I would want to spend my own non-fictional afternoons in. – Wes Anderson	Found on CNN 8 years ago

The rEaL wOrLd is a fictional place where those who have narrow minds and shallow imagination compile their oppressive ideas of what rEaLiTy should only be.

– Khayri R.R. Woulfe

added by ____
11 days ago

The (Chinese) response is so far divorced from reality that it is fictional. An unarmed, airliner-sized aircraft does not aggressively turn into a nimble armed fighter.

– Robert Hopkins

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Ru-propaganda lives in a fictional world : [ Ukrainian ] woman and her 12-year-old child were' assigned' responsible for blowing up the car of Darya Dugina. Surprisingly, they did not find the' Estonian visa' on the spot.

– Mykhailo Podolyak

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It is important not to feel numbed by the ongoing violence in our community, a horrible crime has again occurred, and it is not a movie or a fictional account. These victims died in our city, in one of our neighborhoods.

– Cavalier Johnson

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It’s fictional, but it’s loosely based on the truth. Of course, it’s not strictly accurate; it gives you a rough idea about what that lifestyle is, the pressures of putting duty and service above family and everything else, what can come from that.

– Prince Harry

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

When people say, ‘I wish you had been my mom,’ it always makes me feel a little sad, olivia was a fictional character. We all wish she had been our mother. I tried to get [producer] Earl Hammer to let her make mistakes because all mothers do at times.

– Michael Learned

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

They are 8 and 10. We just felt like we would wait until they were a little bit older, most of that stuff goes over their head anyway. But also it was just weird for them to watch dad on the television... it was really fun. It actually lightened the mood for my wife and I to have them laughing at everybody's ridiculousness. It kind of helped with the melancholy aspect of saying goodbye to the show and my fictional family.

– Ty Burrell

Found on CNN
4 years ago

This is a fictional narrative that has been perpetrated and propagated by the Russian security services themselves.

– Fiona Hill

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Based on questions and statements I have heard, some of you on this committee appear to believe that Russia and its security services did not conduct a campaign against our country — and that perhaps, somehow, for some reason, Ukraine did, this is a fictional narrative that has been perpetrated and propagated by the Russian security services themselves.

– Fiona Hill

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The attraction to make this film and this character was that we were going to approach it in our own way so for me I didn't refer to any past creations of the character, i did identify Arthur as a particular personality but then I also wanted the freedom to create something that wasn't identifiable. This is a fictional character and I didn't want a psychiatrist to be able to identify the kind of person he was.

– Joaquin Phoenix

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Could Cliff Booth beat up Bruce Lee ? Brad Pitt would not be able to beat up Bruce Lee, but Cliff Booth maybe could, if you ask me the question,' Well, who would win in a fight : Bruce Lee or Dracula ?' It's the same question. It's a fictional character. If I say Cliff Booth could beat Bruce Lee up, Cliff Booth's a fictional character, then Cliff Booth could beat Bruce Lee up.

– Quentin Tarantino

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We're committed to bringing customers games of the highest quality, both with our own original IP as well as beloved cultural pillars like' The Lord of the Rings,' tolkien's Middle-earth is one of the richest fictional worlds in history, and it gives our team of experienced MMO developers -- from the same studio developing' New World' -- tremendous opportunity to play and create.

– Christoph Hartmann

Found on CNN
4 years ago

As soon as you are born, you're given a name, a religion, a nationality and a race. You spend the rest of your life defining and defending a fictional identity.

– Brandon Garic Notch

added by Brandon G. Notch
5 years ago

It's an honor to take a fictional character like Rocky and do something in the world of reality.

– Sylvester Stallone

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Not Pocahontas, the fictional character most Americans know from the movies, but Pocahontas, the Native woman who really lived, and whose real story has been passed down to so many of you through the generations.

– Elizabeth Warren

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

I noticed that [fictional defense attorney] Perry Mason was involved in a lot of the same kinds of investigative work that I had been fascinated with reading Nancy Drew, so I decided to become a lawyer, once I focused on becoming a lawyer, I never deviated from that goal.

– Sonia Sotomayor

Found on CNN
6 years ago

Nikki Haley announced. Since then, at least 60 public Confederate symbols have been removed since the 2015 church shooting, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center. Most recently, the city of St. Louis, Mo., removed a Confedearte monument -- a 32-foot-tall granite column with a bronze sculpture -- from a park. Complicating the debate for those opposed to these moves is the involvement of hate groups like the KKK. The group is planning a rally for July 8 following a decision by the city council in Charlottesville, Va., to remove a statue of Gen. Lee Park and rename Lee Park. Meanwhile, in April, New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu ordered the removal of multiple Confederate statues. New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu received brutal backlash and was forced to have heavy police presence in place when the nighttime removals began. Despite threats that people would boycott New Orleans, New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu did not back down. These statues are not just stone and metal, New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu said in a highly lauded speech after the last Confederate statue had been taken down. They are not just innocent remembrances of a benign history. These monuments purposefully celebrate a fictional, sanitized Confederacy ; ignoring the death, ignoring the enslavement and the terror that it actually stood for. But to others, like Kenneth Nail Nail, it’s not about oppression. To us, it’s not a hate thing. It’s a heritage thing and what we like to do is celebrate everyone's struggles : the blacks, the whites, the north and south.

– Kenneth Nail

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Nikki Haley announced. Since then, at least 60 public Confederate symbols have been removed since the 2015 church shooting, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center. Most recently, the city of St. Louis, Mo., removed a Confedearte monument -- a 32-foot-tall granite column with a bronze sculpture -- from a park. Complicating the debate for those opposed to these moves is the involvement of hate groups like the KKK. The group is planning a rally for July 8 following a decision by the city council in Charlottesville, Va., to remove a statue of Gen. Lee Park and rename Lee Park. Meanwhile, in April, New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu ordered the removal of multiple Confederate statutes. New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu received brutal backlash and was forced to have heavy police presence in place when the nighttime removals began. Despite threats that people would boycott New Orleans, New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu did not back down. These statues are not just stone and metal, New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu said in a highly lauded speech after the last Confederate statue had been taken down. They are not just innocent remembrances of a benign history. These monuments purposefully celebrate a fictional, sanitized Confederacy ; ignoring the death, ignoring the enslavement and the terror that it actually stood for. But to others, like Kenneth Nail Nail, it’s not about oppression. To us, it’s not a hate thing. It’s a heritage thing and what we like to do is celebrate everyone's struggles : the blacks, the whites, the north and south.

– Kenneth Nail

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

The girl Hannah, even though she is fictional, teens -- if vulnerable and at risk -- may identity with her.

– Andrew Evangelista

Found on CNN
7 years ago

I felt it was a great opportunity for staff, counselors and parents to connect with their children by using it as a teachable moment, the girl Hannah, even though she is fictional, teens -- if vulnerable and at risk -- may identity with her.

– Andrew Evangelista

Found on CNN
7 years ago

All of the characters are fictional, but inspired by my experiences through the years, all characters have a little bit of me in them. Of course our brilliant ‘Daytime Divas’ writers have added their creative spin to it ….

– Star Jones

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

Indian demand, the great savior from falling China demand, has turned out to be largely fictional.

– Hans Lukiman

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Marlon James fictional retelling of the 1976 attempted murder of Bob Marley. Marlon James, 44, who now lives in Minneapolis and teaches at Macalester College, is the first Jamaican author to win the prize in the British award's 47 years. It's also the first for Marlon James publisher, Oneworld Publications. ' It is a crime novel that moves beyond the world of crime and takes us deep into a recent history we know far too little about. It moves at a terrific pace and will come to be seen as a classic of our times.

– Michael Woods

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I think it would be an even better place to write a movie, i tried to make it a bar I would want to spend my own non-fictional afternoons in.

– Wes Anderson

Found on CNN
8 years ago

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