Imaginary Quotes - Page 22

• An imaginary baby is so much easier than a real baby. No diapers to change.

  Sufjan Stevens

  Baby, Real, Diapers

  Interview with Jason Crock, pitchfork.com. May 15, 2006.

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• Millions of Germans had absolute faith in Hitler. Millions of Russians had faith in Stalin. Millions of Chinese had faith in Mao. Billions have had faith in imaginary gods.

  Steve Allen

  Chinese, Religion, Mao

  Steve Allen (1994). “Reflections”

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• An imaginary perfection is automatically at the same level as I who imagine it neither higher nor lower.

  Simone Weil

  Perfection, Levels, Imagine

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.99, Psychology Press

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• What I really do is take real plums and put them in an imaginary cake. If you're interested in the cake, you get rather annoyed with people saying what species the real plum was.

  Mary McCarthy

  Real, Cake, People

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• Rebellion against technology and civilization is real rebellion, a real attack on the values of the existing system. But the green anarchists, anarcho-primitivists, and so forth (The "GA Movement") have fallen under such heavy influence from the left that their rebellion against civilization has to great extent been neutralized. Instead of rebelling against the values of civilization, they have adopted many civilized values themselves and have constructed an imaginary picture of primitive societies that embodies these civilized values.

  Theodore Kaczynski

  Real, Technology, Civilization

  "The Road to Revolution" by Theodore Kaczynski, 2008.

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• First of all, directing is an idea that you have of a total flow of images that are going on, which are incidentally actors, words, and objects in space. It's an idea you have of yourself, like the idea you have of your own personality which finds its best representation in the world in terms of specific flows of imaginary images. That's what directing is.

  Abraham Polonsky

  Ideas, Space, Personality

  "Directing the Film". Book by Ed Sherman, 1976.

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• imaginary things were often the only items of real substance in people's lives.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Real, People, Substance

  Brandon Sanderson (2009). “Warbreaker”, p.159, Macmillan

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• Exceptions to the traditions of dumpy dignity and fake learnedness in law review writing are as rare as they are beautiful. Once in a while a Thomas Reed Powell gets away with an imaginary judicial opinion that gives a real twist to the lion's tail. Once in a while a Thurman Arnold forgets his footnotes as though to say that if people do not believe or understand him that is their worry and not his. But even such mild breaches of etiquette as these are tolerated gingerly and seldom, and are likely to be looked at a little askance by the writers' more pious brethren.

  Fred Rodell

  Beautiful, Real, Believe

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• There are in life real evils enough, and it is folly to afflict ourselves with imaginary ones; it is time enough when the real ones arrive.

  Benjamin

  Real, Evil, Enough

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• The highfalutin aims of democracy, whether real or imaginary, are always assumed to be identical with its achievements. This, of course, is sheer hallucination. Not one of those aims, not even the aim of giving every adult a vote, has been realized. It has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.

  H. L. Mencken

  Wise, Real, Men

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• In our true blissful essence of mind is known that everything is alright forever and forever and forever...listen to the silence inside the illusion of the world, and you will remember the lesson you forgot, It is all one vast awakened thing. We were never really born, we will never really die. It has nothing to do with the imaginary idea of a personal self, other selves, many selves everywhere: Self is only an idea, a mortal idea. That which passes into everything is one thing. It's a dream already ended.

  Jack Kerouac

  Dream, Essence, Ideas

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• If we listen to our self-love, we shall estimate our lot less by what it is than by what it is not; shall dwell upon its hindrances and be blind to its possibilities; and, comparing it only with imaginary lives, shall indulge in flattering dreams of what we should do if we had but power, and give if we had but wealth, and be if we had no temptations.

  James Martineau

  Dream, Self, Indulge In

  James Martineau (1905). “Tides of the Spirit: Selections from the Writings of James Martineau”

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• There is no wrong suffering. There is imaginary, sham, feigned, simulated, pretended suffering. But the assertion that someone suffers for the right or wrong reason presupposes a divine, all-penetrating judgment able to distinguish historically obsolete forms of suffering from those in our time, instead of leaving this decision to the sufferers themselves.

  Dorothee Solle

  Decision, Leaving, Suffering

  Dorothee Sölle (1975). “Suffering”, Fortress Press

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• Maybe that's all that family really is, a group of people who all miss the same imaginary place.

  Zach Braff

  People, Missing, Groups

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• Writing is a consciousness formally at work in the territory of the imaginary.

  Nicole Brossard

  Writing, Territory, Consciousness

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• As a child I did a lot of imaginary bits, you know. It depends on the individual, I enjoyed then knocking the nail in, I enjoy knocking nails in walls to hang pictures up, but I also enjoy thinking 'I'm gonna do that' but I actually won't do it, I enjoy imagining doing things just as much.

  John Lennon

  Children, Wall, Thinking

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• I have laid the stick that connects people together. Now it is up to you, your generation and the generations to come, to build upon that stick a bridge that will ensure the free sharing of information and teaching between the two peoples until the day we become united again as a single people, as we were once before; before men separated us with their imaginary political boundaries of today's Polynesia and Micronesia.

  Mau Piailug

  Teaching, Men, Two

  "Piailug's greatest lesson is that we are a single people". "Honolulu Star-Advertiser" Newspaper, July 29, 2010.

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• I was lucky, I had support from Mum and Dad - they said as long as you work hard, anything is possible. I never thought past those two things - that I liked living in imaginary worlds and that it is possible to do that for a living.

  Harry Treadaway

  Dad, Hard Work, Past

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

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• I've always had a really active imagination. Lots of kids have imaginary friends. Mine just took on a rather demonic form.

  Claire Danes

  Kids, Imagination, Form

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• Life in a small town is like an intricately plotted novel, and even though I had read every book in the public library by the time I was fourteen, I found the real people around me saying and doing far more interesting things than did the imaginary book characters.

  Maxine Cheshire

  Real, Book, Character

  Maxine Cheshire, John Greenya (1979). “Maxine Cheshire, reporter”, Dell Publishing Company

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• In this twenty-first century, there's no one like Sharona Muir who can write, in bright accurate language, animals real or imaginary in an updated bestiary that riffs on evolution, extinction, and what it means to be human among other species. We need this view, and you'll be right there with her on every page of Invisible Beasts.

  John Felstiner

  Real, Mean, Writing

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• I took my first acting class at age 6 because I found out that's what Carol Burnett was doing - acting. Also she had an imaginary friend as a kid and went to UCLA, two things we have in common. I will always admire her and hope one day, I can make someone laugh a fraction as hard as she's made me bellyache.

  Christine Lakin

  Kids, Ucla, Class

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• Much of what we see in the universe ... starts out as imaginary. Often you must imagine something before you can come to terms with it.

  Clifford D. Simak

  Imagine, Term, Universe

  Clifford D. Simak (2015). “Highway of Eternity”, p.158, Open Road Media

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• I don't think we have enough imaginary creatures in cinema. It seems like we're stuck with zombies, vampires, and werewolves. We should have everything. We should have minotaurs. We should have elves. We should have mermen in popular culture. But instead we've stuck with vampires.

  Neil Jordan

  Thinking, Should Have, Zombie

  "Q&A: Neil Jordan, Master of the Vampire Movie". Interview with Paul Schrodt, www.esquire.com. June 27, 2013.

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• It is not for man to seek, or even to believe in, God.
  He only has to refuse his ultimate love to everything that is not God.
  This refusal does not presuppose any belief.
  It is enough to recognize what is obvious to any mind:
  that all the goods of this world, past, present, and future, real or imaginary,
  are finite and limited and radically incapable of satisfying
  the desire that perpetually burns within us
  for an infinite and perfect good.

  Simone Weil

  Real, Believe, Past

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