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• Falling in love is like eating mushrooms, you never know if it's the real thing until it's too late.

  Bill Ballance

  Falling In Love, Real, Love Is

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• Sometimes I look around my living room, and the most real thing in the room is the television. It's bright and vivid, and the rest of my life looks drab. So I turn the damn thing off. That does it every time. Get my life back.

  Michael Crichton

  Real, Doe, Looks

  Michael Crichton (2001). “Airframe”, p.336, Ballantine Books

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• Pornography is to sex what McDonalds is to food. A plasticized, generic version of the real thing.

  Gail Dines

  Sex, Real, Mcdonalds

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• Today's aikido is so dimensionless. It's hollow, empty on the inside. People try to reach the highest levels without even paying their dues. That's why it seems so much like a dance these days. You have to master the very basics solidly, with your body, and then proceed to develop to the higher levels.... Now we see nothing but copying or imitation without any grasp of the real thing.

  Gozo Shioda

  Real, People, Trying

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• Trends are manufactured. Real things just happen.

  Eicca Toppinen

  Real, Trends, Happens

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• I try to live with the idea that karma is a very real thing. So I put out what I want to get back.

  Megan Fox

  Karma, Real, Ideas

  "Megan Fox calls 'Jonah Hex' shoot 'intense'" by Eric Ditzian, www.mtv.com. June 16, 2010.

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• No, I was never that kind of guy. I believed in true romance; one-night stands are always going to leave you feeling cold and empty. I was always looking for the real thing, romance, and all that. I love being married. I never liked the idea of going to bars and chasing girls. Some guys might enjoy that, but I always wanted to find that one special woman, which I did when I met Jenna.

  Channing Tatum

  Girl, Real, Night

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• I became a Christian man in a very real way. I could have just said the prayers that were on the page, but it was a real thing that really saved me. And you can't identify unless you're really going through it. It's a full-blown exchange of heart, a surrender of control.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Christian, Prayer, Real

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• The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him. All our faculties keep us within the realm of the real, of what is already there. The most we can do is to combine things or break them up. The metaphor alone furnishes an escape; between the real things, it lets emerge imaginary reefs, a crop of floating islands.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Real, Men, Islands

  "The Dehumanization of Art and Ideas about the Novel". Book by Jose Ortega y Gasset. Chapter "Taboo and Metaphor", 1925.

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• A successful argument for a government manufacturing policy has to go beyond the feeling that it's better to produce 'real things' than services. American consumers value health care and haircuts as much as washing machines and hair dryers.

  Christina Romer

  Real, Successful, Hair

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• Your political reputation affects how likely allies are to trust you, and what kind of deals they'll offer at the negotiating table. There's also some emotional response in there, so factions do bear grudges. Just like the real thing.

  Michael K. Simpson

  Trust, Real, Emotional

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• I don't like honors. I'm appreciated for the work that I did, and for people who appreciate it, and I notice that other physicists use my work. I don't need anything else. I don't think there's any sense to anything else.... I've already got the prize. The prize is the pleasure of finding the thing out, the kick in the discovery, the observation that other people use it. Those are the real things. The honors are unreal to me. I don't believe in honors... I can't stand it, it hurts me.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Hurt, Real, Believe

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• I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built upon 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." Let him come and go freely, let him touch real things and combine his impressions for himself... Teaching fills the mind with artificial associations that must be got rid of before the child can develop independent ideas out of actual experiences.

  Anne Sullivan Macy

  Children, Real, Teaching

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• When you get inside a literary novel you feel that the author, more often than not, just doesn't know enough about things. They haven't been around enough - novelists never go anywhere. Once I discovered true books about real things - books like 'How To Run a Company' - I stopped reading novels.

  Peter York

  Running, Real, Reading

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• You know so many documentaries now are very carefully scripted before you start, and then people are sort of put in chairs which are beautifully lit, and they tell their stories and you do that with another 10 people and you then construct a story from what they say. You do a sort of paper thing, and then you put some images in-between, and that's your film. And that's so not what I think is a good documentary. It can be so much more than that, it should be much more of an adventure and much more uncertain... like real things are.

  Nick Broomfield

  Real, Adventure, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm kind of a scaredy cat - I don't watch a ton of them. I mean, I started reaching this script at night and had to wait until the next morning to finish it so it would be light out. It really scared me. The scary movies I like are The Others and Pan's Labyrinth - they're so scary but they're about real things, and hopefully this is too.

  Keri Russell

  Morning, Real, Mean

  "Keri Russell: I'm A Scaredy Cat". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, www.etonline.com. February 13, 2013.

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• I can't read historical fiction because I find the real thing so much more interesting.

  Antonia Fraser

  Real, Interesting, Historical

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• Love isn’t perfect. It’s hard work and sometimes it’s more effort to be in love than it is to just run away. If you keep looking for perfect, the real thing is going to pass right by you.

  Jay Crownover

  Running, Real, Hard Work

  Jay Crownover (2014). “Rome (The Marked Men, Book 3)”, p.15, HarperCollins UK

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• In other words, in the same way that mass incarceration surged because of a real thing, it's finally starting to ebb because of a real thing: the actual, concrete decline in violent crime that started in the early 90s and which appears to be permanent. America is simply a safer place than it used to be, and looks set to stay that way.

  Kevin Drum

  Real, America, Looks

  "Our Obsession With Mass Incarceration May Finally Be Ebbing" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. January 2, 2015.

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• There's a kind of decadence about all this: If 9/11 was really an inside job, you wouldn't be driving around with a bumper sticker bragging that you were on to it. Fantasy is a by-product of security: it's the difference between hanging upside down in your dominatrix's bondage parlor after work on Friday and enduring the real thing for years on end in Saddam's prisons.

  Mark Steyn

  Friday, Jobs, Real

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• The real thing is not the goal, the real thing is the beauty of the movement. The real thing is not reaching, the real thing is the journey. Remember, the real thing is the journey, the very traveling. It is so beautiful, why bother about the goal? And if you are too bothered about the goal, you will miss the journey, and the journey is life - the goal can only be death.

  Rajneesh

  Beautiful, Real, Journey

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• Truth must be told-and things must change! If words are not about real things and do not cause things to happen, what is the good of them?

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Truth, Real, Causes

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• I dislike the word 'emerging artist.' Emerging connotes to me an alligator coming up from the water. I consider all artists to be artists, not rising, emerging, amateur, beginning, but the real thing.

  Jack White

  Real, Artist, Water

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• It is the artist's job to revere beauty without being enchanted by it, to aim for it but also to aim for truth and goodness - just in case they, and not beauty, are the real things of value.

  Eric Maisel

  Beauty, Jobs, Real

  Eric Maisel (1996). “Affirmations for Artists”, Tarcher

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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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