Real Things Quotes - Page 11

• The real thing that we renounce is the tenacious hope that we could be saved from being who we are.

  Pema Chodron

  Real, Who We Are, Renounce

  Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.54, Shambhala Publications

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• Fascist is not just an epithet. Fascist is a proper noun that means a specific thing. It`s a real thing. It`s not always referring to ancient history.

  Rachel Maddow

  Real, Mean, Nouns

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• History, as I recall, was never this winsome, and especially not this clean, but the real thing would never sell: most people prefer a past in which nothing smells.

  Margaret Atwood

  Real, Past, Smell

  Margaret Atwood (2007). “The Blind Assassin: A Novel”, p.52, Anchor

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• There were moments ... when it seemed that all one could be asked was just to keep the ashtrays clean, the bed made, the wastebaskets emptied, as if one never got to the real things because of the constant exhausting battle to keep ordinary life from falling apart.

  May Sarton

  Real, Fall, Battle

  May Sarton (2014). “Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing: A Novel”, p.13, Open Road Media

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• [On the] question of why we might want to look at images even more than the real thing: I think there is some quality when you look at an image of, not only seeing this thing, whether it's the horse or the sky, but you are seeing somebody point at it and say, Look!

  Rebecca Solnit

  Horse, Real, Thinking

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• Is passion what we are? Is that what we are in pictures? Is what we are in pictures almost real? Maybe it's become the most real thing.

  Richard Prince

  Real, Passion

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• I write songs about real things... The subject dictates the mood and it goes from there, really.

  John Mayall

  Song, Real, Writing

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• Can we imagine a different world? I can. That's a world where work is rational, it's in the common good, and we're actually producing real things rather than spinning our wheels in dreams of consumer heaven.

  Bill Ayers

  Dream, Real, Heaven

  "The Rumpus Long Interview with Bill Ayers". Interview with Scott Hutchins, therumpus.net. February 20, 2009.

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• According to quantum field theory, fields alone are real. They are the substance of the universe and not 'matter'. Matter is simply the momentary manifestation of interacting fields which, intangible and insubstantial as they are, are the only real things in the universe.

  Gary Zukav

  Real, Unity, Substance

  Gary Zukav (1979). “The dancing Wu Li masters: an overview of the new physics”, Bantam

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• I had a feeling about what I wanted to say, and I wasn't really qualified to discuss real things out of America because I didn't grow up there.

  Johnny Marr

  Growing Up, Real, America

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I was deeply influenced by an Episcopal laywoman named Agnes Sanford, who in her day was quite famous as a faith healer, which is a term I've always distrusted, because it conjures up charlatanry. She was not a charlatan. She was the real thing, and she had had remarkable healings.

  Frederick Buechner

  Real, Healing, Remarkable

  Interview with Bob Abernethy, www.pbs.org. April 5, 2006.

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• I'm interested in taboos for certain reasons. They can dramatise things and they're scary, and they're important to think about. I'm also wary about the fact that if you don't proceed with caution and understand what you're doing, you understand these things are realities that you're dealing with, they're real things.

  Bo Burnham

  Real, Thinking, Scary

  Source: thelatest.co.uk

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• My favorite kinds of stories are the ones that have these big crazy genre hijinks and then a real honest, meaty, emotional story where we're watching a character grapple with some real things.

  Greg Pak

  Crazy, Real, Character

  "New Hulk Revealed, Will We See Him in a Marvel Movie?". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. September 4, 2015.

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• The real thing you do is you ask a lot of questions.

  Keith Rabois

  Real, Asks

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• India's fortune will depend on how many runs the little champion scores. There is no doubt Tendulkar is the real thing.

  Sunil Gavaskar

  Running, Real, Champion

  "Legends' take on Sachin Tendulkar". sports.ndtv.com. November 12, 2009.

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• Fortune is no real thing.
  But men who cannot bear what comes to them
  In Nature's way, give their own characters
  The name of Fortune.

  Menander

  Real, Character, Men

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• My readers often say to me, 'If we lived next door to each other, we'd be best friends.' That is precisely what I wanted to say to smart, funny, self-effacing Ellen McCarthy after I finished reading The Real Thing. I loved every lesson laid out in a book that wouldn't dare to call itself a field guide to marriage but amounts to as much on every page. This is a deeply useful little book.

  Kelly Corrigan

  Smart, Real, Book

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• The interesting trick of comedy, in a lot of ways, is to have both the comedy and the grounding of the real thing. You get a real sense of a human being.

  Natasha Lyonne

  Real, Interesting, Way

  Source: collider.com

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• I was deluding myself that the song was almost not important, but I think the real thing that was happening was almost like self-hypnosis or mediation. The guitar lick was the transcendental key that unlocked my brain. It freed me. And then it all became easy. It's funny now, because I've had times when it wasn't easy.

  John Fogerty

  Song, Real, Thinking

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. November 27, 2007.

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• If you're in your early twenties, don't put so much importance on the money, on the raise. Getting an extra thousand dollars a year is okay, but the real thing is the responsibility and the power and the experience that you're learning.

  Robert Greene

  Real, Responsibility, Years

  Source: bigthink.com

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• A lot of people question how talented I am. But I'm a real dude and I know real things and I've seen real people get their head blown off.

  Young Jeezy

  Real, People, Knows

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• Subtle, funny and touching, with a striking downbeat authenticity. Director Craig Zobel is the real thing.

  A. O. Scott

  Real, Touching, Directors

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• The function of the actor is to make the audience imagine for the moment that real things are happening to real people.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Real, People, Acting

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• Language as a real thing is not imitation either of sounds or colors or emotions it is an intellectual recreation and there is nopossible doubt about it and it is going to go on being that as long as humanity is anything.

  Gertrude Stein

  Real, Color, Long

  Gertrude Stein (1998). “Writings, 1932-1946”

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• The mother must teach her son how to respect and follow the rules. She must teach him how to compete successfully with the other boys. And she must teach him how to find a woman to take care of him and finish the job she began of training him how to live in a family. But no matter how good a job a woman does in teaching a boy how to be a man, he knows that she is not the real thing, and so he tends to exaggerate the differences between men and women that she embodies.

  Frank Pittman

  Mother, Jobs, Real

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