Being Real Quotes - Page 14

• Nobody knows why we're alive; so we all create stories based on our imagination of the world; and as a community, we believe in the same story. In India, every person believes his/ her own mythosphere to be real. Indian thought is obsessed with subjectivity; Greek thought with objectivity.

  Devdutt Pattanaik

  Real, Believe, Objectivity

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• The young person isn't certain that love can be real; the middle-aged man is only discovering that it is; and the older person seems so sure of it. I was interested in the way that many of us go through the whole of our lives staying with someone just out of complacency, because leaving isn't easy.

  Conor McPherson

  Real, Men, Leaving

  "So there's these three Irishmen". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. February 4, 2001.

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• If you put a real leaf and a silk leaf side by side, youll see something of the difference between Homers poetry and anyone elses. There seem to be real leaves still alive in the Iliad, real animals, real people, real light attending everything.

  Alice Oswald

  Real, Animal, Light

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• When you know the lyrics to a tune, you have some kind of insight as to it's composition. If you don't understand what it's about, you're depriving yourself of being really able to communicate this poem.

  Dexter Gordon

  Tunes, Able, Kind

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• I got fed up with being in bands. I spent a couple of years touring the country in a smoked filled band, doing lots of drugs and being really unhealthy.

  Cliff Martinez

  Country, Couple, Years

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• I think that I'm just the same, but there is sometimes that you just have to be real. You have to look in the mirror and be real with yourself and you have go: 'You know what? I am the best in the world. What is happening?'

  Mickie James

  Real, Thinking, Mirrors

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• Monotheism owes its existence not to philosophic speculation about the nature of reality or knowledge or virtue, but to acceptance of reality identified with a supreme being.

  Israel Shenker

  Acceptance, Reality, Virtue

  Israel Shenker (1985). “Coat of Many Colors: Pages from Jewish Life”, Doubleday Books

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• I always work only with friends, but it must be about them and myself. Because I film only very personal moments, nothing preplanned, staged or written, it has to be real and spontaneous. Some of them have become famous, some are not yet famous, some will never be famous. But they are all my friends.

  Jonas Mekas

  Real, Film, Moments

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• God will have life to be real; we will be damned, but it shall be theatrical.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Real, Gods Will, Theatrical

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1973). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1847-1848”, p.374, Harvard University Press

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• If I must have an ill, may it be real, That I may meet it eye to eye and fight, And wheresoever it may strength reveal Get after it with all my main and might. The woe that but impends and wears the mind With worry deep and most vexatious care, Is harder fighting than the realler kind, For when you come to strike—it isn't there!

  John Kendrick Bangs

  Real, Eye, Fighting

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• For children, diversity needs to be real and not merely relegated to learning the names of the usual suspects during Black History Month or enjoying south-of-the-border cuisine on Cinco de Mayo. It means talking to and spending time with kids not like them so that they may discover those kids are in fact just like them.

  John Ridley

  Children, Real, Mean

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My language is a feel-thinking language, feeling and thinking at once, that is why it is a celebration of life, and at once it is a denunciation of everything that is not allowed in life to be real life, it's plenitude.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Real, Thinking, Feelings

  Interview with Kevin Murphy, www.oregonlive.com. July 2, 2009.

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• I feel like, when we're kids, you're sold into this fairy tale of what love is. That Prince Charming's gonna come along and save you and you're gonna live happily ever after. They're gonna rescue me from the Bronx, and we're gonna go off and live in a castle somewhere and it's gonna be awesome. He's gonna love me forever, and I'm gonna love him forever, and it's gonna be real easy. And it's so different than that.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Real, Kids, Love Is

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• Frank Berliners spiritual memoir is beautifully crafted and written. It is a tale about love, and the great longing that springs from there—to learn, to grow, to be real, and to forge a genuine connection with oneself and others, with life, and with death. I highly recommend it.

  John Welwood

  Spiritual, Spring, Real

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• May Sarton said, "the deeper you go, the more universal you become." It's a reminder to me that those things I try to convince myself I don't need to admit are usually those things I need the most to say. Speaking the truth, in its most poignant details, is liberating and gives those around us the freedom to be real.

  Sabrina Ward Harrison

  Real, Giving, Trying

  "Women of Courage: Inspiring Stories from the Women Who Lived Them". Book by Katherine Martin, 1999.

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• I'm a huge fan of director's cuts or reassemblies if they're good, but I remember being really excited about the restored version of Apocalypse Now, and then I preferred the original film. Kingdom of Heaven as a director's cut is the real picture, but in fact someone recently told me that there was another cut, the original first cut, which he said was just extraordinary. I've never seen it - and of course now I want to, if it exists, and so would everybody else.

  William Monahan

  Real, Cutting, Heaven

  Source: collider.com

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• I wouldn't play the normal girl. I don't think that that's interesting or realistic, as far as how human beings really are.

  Madeline Zima

  Girl, Thinking, Play

  Source: collider.com

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• I never envisioned myself playing for the U.S. Olympic team -- growing up, I never envisioned playing in the NBA, to be real with you. I never envisioned that type of stuff. So this is like a dream that I never had come true. It's like I'm a part of what's really going on. It's still very hard for me to believe that I am really going to be a part of the biggest thing in the whole entire world.

  Carmelo Anthony

  Dream, Growing Up, Team

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• If you're not trying to be real, you don't have to get it right. That's art.

  Andy Warhol

  Art, Real, Trying

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• Guinevere has been done quite a few times, especially as a mature young woman, who either is the damsel in distress or the warrior, strong-willed woman. Chris wanted a variety of things in this Guinevere. He predominately wanted her to be real and natural, and make mistakes and be passionate, and be the feisty young girl, but then also completely naive, innocent and ignorant, at the same time.

  Tamsin Egerton

  Girl, Strong, Real

  Source: collider.com

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• I didn't want people to accuse me of being really depressive. I really tried to fight against that and not have a complete downer about the subject.

  Joe Casey

  Fighting, People, Want

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I have a sneaking suspicion that leading an examined life and being really tan aren't consistent with one another.

  Dov Davidoff

  Consistent, Suspicion, Examined Life

  FaceBook post by Dov Davidoff from Jun 16, 2012

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• My prayer for you is that you may grow in the likeness of Christ, being real carriers of God's love and that you really bring his presence, first, into your own family, then, to the next door neighbor, the street you we live in, the town we live in, the country we live, then only, in the whole world, that living example of God's presence.

  Mother Teresa

  Country, Prayer, Real

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• I think emotion is just anything that is emotional, you know, people can feel with music. Music is already so emotional, like the strings, the chords, and the notes and the melodies and stuff. And then you throw on a topic that everyone can relate to. That's gonna be real music.

  Sam McCandless

  Real, Emotional, Thinking

  "Cold Interview With Kelly Hayes (And A Cameo From Drummer Sam Mccandless)". IGN interview, www.ign.com. August 8, 2003.

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• We must maintain the integrity of the White House, and that integrity must be real, not transparent. There can be no whitewash at the White House.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Integrity, Real, White

  Nixon, Richard M. (1975). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1973”, p.332, Best Books on

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