Being Real Quotes - Page 15

• There are problems that just end up being really hard and by definition the only problems that come to my desk are the ones that nobody else can solve.

  Barack Obama

  Definitions, Problem, Desks

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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• Evolutionary naturalism takes the inherent limitations of science and turns them into a devastating philosophical weapon: because science is our only real way of knowing anything, what science cannot know cannot be real.

  Phillip E. Johnson

  Real, Philosophical, Knowing

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• The best thing is being really close. The worst thing is being really close.

  Joel Madden

  Worst, Best Things, Worst Things

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• I used to look at horror movies as being really real and it would totally freak me out and give me nightmares. Now I watch and think, 'whoa how'd they do that?

  Evan Peters

  Real, Thinking, Giving

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

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• I prefer doing interviews where people don't have to interpret what you say. I'm going to be real honest.

  Octavia Spencer

  Real, People, Interviews

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• The talk about balance, nuclear balance, seems to me to be metaphysical and doesn't seem to be real at all.

  E. P. Thompson

  Real, Balance, Nuclear

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• For a writer, they say write what you know. As a performer, you find it in yourself, in your heart. You relate to the character. You try to live it, try to have it be real for you.

  Uma Thurman

  Real, Writing, Heart

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• Whatever my life looks like, I want it to be real and big and full. I want when, if I get hit by a car, I want to know that I have deep and real friendships, people to visit me in the hospital.

  Jen Kirkman

  Real, Car, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Some people are drawn to meditation without knowing why. Their inner being realizes that they've totally fouled up their life so far, and now it's just going to drag them to the local meditation hall.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Knowing, People

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• But I'm not trying to convince anybody how to vote or how to live. Nobody's ever successfully accused me of being realistic.

  Frank Miller

  Trying, Vote, Realistic

  "Black and white and bloody" by Steve Rose, www.theguardian.com. May 26, 2005.

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• Real crime-beat investigative journalism does seem to be really dwindling, especially in this age with everything being centered around iPhones. Everyone's a journalist today, essentially. Every pedestrian on the street has the potential of capturing a big story on their mobile device and then selling it and making a lot of money.

  Megan Fox

  Real, Iphone, Age

  "What Megan Fox Looks for in a Man (and Turtle)". Interview with J. Rentilly, www.menshealth.com. August 8, 2014.

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• I think the process of being hopeful, being really opportunity oriented, not just in rhetoric but in action, showing that no one get's left behind, not just by talking about it but by doing it, I think is really a key [to political success].

  John Kasich

  Opportunity, Thinking, Keys

  "Kasich Takes the Stage". Interview with Zeke J. Miller, time.com. November 11, 2014.

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• Far as I'm concerned, friendship between black and white don't mean that much 'cause it usually ain't on a equal basis. ... Maybe one day whites and blacks can be real friends, but right now the country ain't built that way.

  Mildred D. Taylor

  Country, Real, Mean

  Mildred D. Taylor (2004). “Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Puffin Modern Classics)”, p.115, Penguin

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• What a dazzlingly generous, gloriously unpredictable book! Maggie Nelson shows us what it means to be real, offering a way of thinking that is as challenging as it is liberating. She invites us to 'pay homage to the transitive' and enjoy 'a becoming in which one never becomes.' Reading The Argonauts made me happier and freer.

  Eula Biss

  Real, Reading, Book

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• There's no value to working hard on being really popular.

  Chris Brogan

  Hard, Really Popular, Values

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• When you love, deeply love another human being, really deeply, somewhere you will feel that you are still alone, and this very beloved human being has no access.

  Irina Tweedie

  Deep Love, Beloved, Really Deep

  Source: www.goldensufi.org

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• We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefore probably the purpose, of forcing the patient out of real life, of alienating him from actuality.

  Sigmund Freud

  Real, Long, Purpose

  Sigmund Freud (2008). “General Psychological Theory: Papers on Metapsychology”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

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• Do you have to feel something for it to be real or mean anything? Can you touch your dreams, taste your imagination.

  Tim Lebbon

  Dream, Real, Mean

  Tim Lebbon (2003). “Fears Unnamed”

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• What is essential to understand at this point is that until now there was no such thing as mind and matter, subject and object, form and substance. Those divisions are just dialectical inventions that came later...They are just ghosts, immortal gods of the modern mythos which appear to us to be real because we are within that mythos. But in reality they are just as much an artistic creation as the anthropomorphic gods they replaced.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Real, Mind, Essentials

  "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". Book by Robert M. Pirsig, 1974.

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• You kind of gotta step back from your dreams and your passions once in a while, and kind of do something else for a minute so that you can come back to it with a fresh outlook, and be real inspired by something else, so you can give something back to your dreams and your passions.

  Tristan Prettyman

  Dream, Real, Passion

  Source: www.thestarscoop.com

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• It's very unbalanced actually, to be real. Everything's like deserted.

  Ariana Grande

  Real, Unbalanced, Deserted

  "Prince Royce Talks Touring with Ariana Grande & the Growing 'Spanglish' Music Scene at iHeartRadio Music Fest". Billboard Interview, www.billboard.com. September 21, 2015.

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• You got to be real with yourself and not just let yourself pass on things that tend to become a bad habit. Make sure you stay on top of practicing well and preparing the way you always do.

  Champ Bailey

  Real, Way, Habit

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• I think that it is real important for someone to be really honest and open emotionally. I'm really an emotional person. If I'm that way and the guy isn't that way I just really feel like a jerk.

  Molly Ringwald

  Real, Emotional, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I would say I don't like people who are really into themselves or are very materialistic. Just always talking themselves up. Not being real is the pet peeve. Be true to yourself.

  Austin Stowell

  Real, Talking, People

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• If the Devil is real, then God must be real, too.

  Jacob Vargas

  Real, Devil, Ifs

  "Frequently Asked Questions/How does the movie end?". "Devil", www.imdb.com. 2010.

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