I Realized Quotes - Page 23

• I'm a 'What you see is what I want you to see' kind of girl . . . When I first started, I just wanted to be perfect. I wanted to say I loved bunnies and rainbows and world peace. I realized that the only way to be perfect was to embrace your imperfections.

  Olivia Munn

  Girl, Perfect, Rainbow

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• I really romanticized being pregnant. Then I realized, this is awful!

  Marcia Cross

  Awful, Being Pregnant, Pregnant

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• It all started to come together when I realized that boxing was how I was going to succeed in life.

  Muhammad Ali

  Boxing, Together, Succeed

  FaceBook post by Muhammad Ali from Jun 27, 2014

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• I realized I really liked the screen. I knew it was a challenge, but I wasn't afraid of risk

  Tom Selleck

  Challenges, Risk, Screens

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• As soon as I realized that I didn't need meat to survive or to be in good health, I began to see how forlorn it all is. If only we had a different mentality about the drama of the cowboy and the range and all the rest of it. It's a very romantic notion, an entrenched part of American culture, but I've seen, for example, pigs waiting to be slaughtered, and their hysteria and panic was something I shall never forget.

  Cloris Leachman

  Drama, Cowboy, Pigs

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• By sharing something, I realized that I'm not alone, that there are a lot of people that share with me the same preoccupations, the same ideas, the same ideals, and the same quest for a meaning for this life.

  Paulo Coelho

  Ideas, People, Quests

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• It's not always enough to be brave, I realized years later. You have to be brave and contribute something positive, too. Brave on its own is just a party trick.

  B. J. Novak

  Party, Years, Brave

  B.J. Novak (2014). “One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories”, p.223, Vintage

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• I realized that so much of the pressure I was feeling was from outside sources, and I knew I wasn't ready to take that step into motherhood. [...] Being a biological mother just isn't part of my experience this time around.

  Kim Cattrall

  Mother, Feelings, Pressure

  "Kim Cattrall's Aha! Moment". O, The Oprah Magazine, www.oprah.com. March 2003.

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• When I first prepared this particular talk... I realized that my usual approach is usually critical. That is, a lot of the things that I do, that most people do, are because they hate something somebody else has done, or they hate that something hasn't been done. And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web. Because the web has produced so much uninformed criticism. It's kind of a Gresham's Law-bad money drives the good money out of circulation. Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can't criticize anything.

  Alan Kay

  Hate, Law, People

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• At one point that's all I cared about, being a pro athlete. But I realized I wasn't athletic enough.

  Josh Duhamel

  Athlete, Athletic, Enough

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• I realized that most thoughts are impersonal happenings, like self-assembling machines. Unless we train ourselves, the thoughts passing through our mind have little involvement with our will. It is strange to realize that even our own thoughts pass by like scenery out the window of a bus, a bus we took by accident while trying to get somewhere else. Most of the time, thinking is an autonomous process, something that happens outside of our control. This perception of machine-like quality of the self is something many people discover, then try to overcome, through meditation.

  Daniel Pinchbeck

  Thinking, Self, Somewhere Else

  Daniel Pinchbeck (2002). “Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism”, p.129, Three Rivers Press

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• It's easy to get next to music theory, especially between your peers and music classes and so forth. You just pay attention. I had a good ear, so I realized that printed music was just about reminding you what to play.

  Quincy Jones

  Class, Play, Peers

  The Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org.

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• A few years ago I lost 30 pounds, and people still wanted to criticize. And honestly, I'm happy with myself if I'm a little heavier. I realized: 'Why am I trying to conform to someone else's idea of beauty?' I think I'm beautiful either way.

  Khloe Kardashian

  Beautiful, Thinking, Years

  "Khloé Kardashian's Best Makeup Advice". Interview with Lauren Brown, www.glamour.com. January 8, 2013.

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• While I was doing these plays in the beginning, I wasn't getting paid. I thought of it more as a hobby. Then I realized how seriously a lot of these people took what they were doing

  Tom Berenger

  Play, People, Hobbies

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• I got addicted to Tetris, playing it in my basement, I was missing all these airplane flights over it. After the fourth one that I missed, I realized I needed to get rid of this thing - so ever since then, I don't play video games any more.

  Bam Margera

  Airplane, Games, Play

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• I realized that I'm a soft person. I think I'm sensitive. I wanted very much to be tough and I think movie stars have a certain kind of resilience and toughness to them, but I'm quite a sensitive young lady in some respects.

  Rachael Taylor

  Stars, Thinking, Resilience

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• At Princeton I gained a great deal of pleasure from success in my classes. knowing that I could accomplish those things, and I realized that my success was directly proportionate to the work I put in.

  Brooke Shields

  Class, Knowing, Pleasure

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• I realized that Judaism required me to give up something that meant too much to me...Bacon cheeseburgers.

  Shawnee Smith

  Giving Up, Too Much, Judaism

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• For a while, I thought of myself as an atheist until I realized it was a belief, too. It's a shame everything has to have a label.

  George Carlin

  Atheist, Labels, Belief

  Las Vegas CityLife, August 09, 2007.

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• I remember the revelation it was to me when I realized I'd rather be smart in the way Elvis Presley was than in the way, say, Ludwig Wittgenstein was. The thing was, you could imagine you could be smart like Wittgenstein by just thinking hard enough, but Elvis just had it. It was almost spiritual. A kind of grace.

  Richard Hell

  Spiritual, Smart, Thinking

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• I had no idea what they were saying in Italian as a child, they spoke too quickly on the radio. But I realized that language was very funny.

  Dominic Chianese

  Children, Italian, Ideas

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• It was one thing not to want a husband, I realized; it was quite another not to need one for the roof over your head, for your meat and bread, for the shoes on your feet and the coat on your back.

  Margo Lanagan

  Husband, Roof Over Your Head, Shoes

  Margo Lanagan (2012). “The Brides of Rollrock Island”, p.91, Random House

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• A child isn’t born bitter. I point no fingers as to who tainted the clean, pure pool of my childhood. Let’s just say that when I realized that I didn’t want to grow up, the damage was already done. Knowing that being grown up was no swell place to be means that you are grown up enough to notice. And you can’t go back from there. You have to forge another route, draw your own map.

  Hiromi

  Children, Growing Up, Mean

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• My doctor asked me if I smoked, and I said only when I'm working, golfing, or drinking. Then I realized the only time I don't smoke is when I'm home. I didn't even realize I'd become a smoker.

  Dennis Franz

  Drinking, Home, Doctors

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• I had a map on my wall that had a circle around Lubbock and then giant arrows pointing toward New York City and Los Angeles. Written across both arrows were the words 'Toward Civilization.' Of course, by the time I got to New York, I realized there really isn't any civilization.

  Barry Corbin

  New York, Wall, Civilization

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