Real Things Quotes - Page 4

• One thing I'd like to just keep on doing is I want to educate people about animal behavior and about autism. I've been doing autism talks for the last 20 years and there still are people out there that do not want to, they can't recognize that these sensory problems are real. That, for some of these kids when that fire alarm goes off, that really hurts the ears, it's a really real thing.

  Temple Grandin

  Hurt, Real, Kids

  "Talk of the Nation" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. January 20, 2006.

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• Surprisingly, a large number of people who fell out with their partners contacted us, saying that they would love to fly on a Virgle spaceship. But out of April Fools' jokes come real things, and I wouldn't be surprised, within the next 50 years, [if] there are one-way trips heading out into space with people on it. It would be very exciting.

  Richard Branson

  Real, Years, Numbers

  "Richard Branson: Time To Rethink 'Business As Usual'". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. December 1, 2011.

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• Mental illness is a real thing. It has real material consequences for people who suffer from it and at the time even the most biological finding reflects social context in very important ways, and so I think psychiatry is better off looking both at biology and at social context and really trying to think of the relationship between these and I think doctors and patients are better off that way.

  Jonathan Michel Metzl

  Real, Thinking, Doctors

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. January 29, 2010.

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• The myth works to make the very real things people don't want to look at visible for them.

  Alexander Chee

  Real, People, Looks

  "Go Forth (Vol. 41)". Interview with Kristen Evans, logger.believermag.com. February 26, 2016.

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• If a product costs $10,000 or $20,000 it has limited use. This is what the first computers cost! Only when almost everyone is able to afford it will it be a real thing.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Real, Firsts, Cost

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• The real thing we tried to look at is what happens to a society when the state is absent. At that point, the state had really withdrawn from Lagos; the city was left to its own devices, both in terms of money and services. That, by definition, created an unbelievable proliferation of independent agency: each citizen needed to take, in any day, maybe 400 or 500 independent decisions on how to survive that extremely complex system.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Real, Independent, Agency

  "'Lagos shows how a city can recover from a deep, deep pit': Rem Koolhaas talks to Kunlé Adeyemi". Interview with Chris Michael, www.theguardian.com. February 26, 2016.

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• A dream does not die on its own. A dream is vanquished by the choices ordinary people make about real things in their own lives.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Dream, Real, People

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• In reality they all lived in a kind of hieroglyphic world, where the real thing was never said or done or even thought, but only represented by a set of arbitrary signs.

  Edith Wharton

  Real, Arbitrary, Done

  Edith Wharton (2015). “The Age of Innocence”, p.39, Booklassic

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• When I got older I decided I wanted to be a real writer. I tried to write about real things. I wanted to describe the world, because to live in an undescribed world was too lonely.

  Nicole Krauss

  Lonely, Real, Writing

  Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.7, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Reading a poem is a real thing, a worthy thing. So to be there right with the reader at that moment is part of the effect of a title like "Poem for" something or other. Matt Rohrer does this a lot in his titles, and I think I might have gotten some of the idea to do this, or at least been reminded of how it can work, from his recent amazing books.

  Matthew Zapruder

  Real, Book, Reading

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Somewhere back a whiskey or so ago I wrote that thinking was a real thing in the world, just like anything else. I mean that very literally, materially. And it's true about poems, too.

  Matthew Zapruder

  Real, Mean, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It always felt like you were trying too hard to look like the audience or something. That whole thing about the artistic integrity, which, of course, I've never bought into - with any artist. It's just not a real thing.

  David Bowie

  Integrity, Real, Artist

  "David Bowie On The Ziggy Stardust Years: 'We Were Creating The 21st Century In 1971'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. 2002.

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• I find that, for me, it is this concept of borrowed or built life, life on loan, that gets me writing. It's similar to speaking about literature. I like it, and then I don't like it. It has such an inherent vein of pretention, because you're not speaking about real things. There's a literary pretentiousness made of speaking and spending so much time on unreal persons. And it seems, now, impossible to create an unpretentious, totally organic character.

  Sergio Chejfec

  Real, Character, Writing

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think. Whereas, if the child is left to himself, he will think more and better, if less showily.

  Helen Keller

  Children, Real, Thinking

  "The Story of My Life".

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• I don't watch TV but occasionally I'll read the Washington Post. I will say that sports are the only "real thing" on television.

  Ian MacKaye

  Sports, Real, Watches

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing.

  Aesop

  Real, Men, Originality

  Aesop (2013). “Aesop's Fables”, p.81, Lulu Press, Inc

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• If gay marriage is a real thing, gay infertility must be a real thing. It's not fair. I mean, it wasn't fair they couldn't get married, and now it's not fair that they can't have babies, even though they're not infertile, that doesn't matter. And so there must be access to infertility insurance for married gay couples, if our culture and if our society is to be fair and equal for one and all, and it is coming, and don't laugh about it.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Baby, Couple, Real

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Everything is energy. Thought is energy and thoughts are real things.

  James Van Praagh

  Real, Energy

  Source: www.cyinterview.com

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• The technical stuff is easy to deal with, it's just supplemental to the plight - it's not a real thing, it's just background to what we're really trying to do.

  Eyedea

  Real, Trying, Plight

  Source: kandisknightpr.blogspot.com

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• Look, a lot of people don't think that the way that I live my life is a real thing, that it exists, that having a broad spectrum of sexual orientation is even possible.

  Nico Tortorella

  Real, Thinking, People

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Being authentic in the way you'll see today on the sets [of Doctor Strange] that Charles Wood has designed for us, being authentic in filming, as we did for the first week on production on this in Nepal and in Kathmandu. It was important to us to make it feel like these were real locations and real things.

  Kevin Feige

  Real, Doctors, Important

  Source: screenrant.com

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• Here are examples of real women who have done real things: good, bad, and in between. We're expanding not just the definition of the female or feminine hero, but also villains and more complex, nuanced female characters. Too often I hear men say, "I don't know how to write women." Here you go, here are five incredible women you can use to inspire your own stories.

  Anita Sarkeesian

  Real, Hero, Writing

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• I learned by experience that you can change your circumstance. It's as simple as the serenity prayer; it's a very, very real thing.

  Bonnie Raitt

  Prayer, Real, Simple

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• The real thing is the heart, you know the heart shouldn't be covered with concrete.

  Chuck D

  Real, Heart, Concrete

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 12, 2012.

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• There's a truth to the fact that it's hard to be real. It's easy to be indulgent. It's easy to be bubble gum, but it's hard to find a real thing that really makes your soul tick. It's painful and honest. It can be more challenging than just a sad song.

  Mat Kearney

  Song, Real, Challenges

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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