Real Things Quotes - Page 8

• If there can be a better way for the real world to include the one of images, it will require an ecology not only of real things but of images as well.

  Susan Sontag

  Real, World, Way

  Source: ctheory.net

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• I'm still basically an idealist, which translates into getting real things done to make people's lives better.

  Charles Schumer

  Real, People, Done

  Source: www.questia.com

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• I feel that we have some opportunity in North America to go back and say the American Revolution was the real thing.

  Murray Bookchin

  Real, Opportunity, America

  Source: robertgraham.wordpress.com

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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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• Those are all real things that I experienced, not with [my daughters] growing up but with the, you know - I'm trying not to step into something and get a call, "Dad why'd you say that?"! But we'd go to games [where score wasn't kept], and I'd get it, but I wouldn't get it, because I think there's a real value in winners and losers, in not everybody getting a trophy - it makes you work hard, you appreciate what it takes, to say, "Why didn't we win?" You shouldn't be condemned for losing.

  Billy Crystal

  Daughter, Growing Up, Dad

  Source: www.scene-stealers.com

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• People gravitate towards their own era, nostalgia therapy is a real thing that's being tinkered with.

  Charlie Brooker

  Real, People, Eras

  Source: collider.com

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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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• The abuse of prescription pills is a real thing. I understand that there are people that really need them and I understand that there are people that abuse them, and it's just a gray line that unfortunately has to exist.

  Channing Tatum

  Real, People, Abuse

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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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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• 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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• 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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• If we split practice from the real thing, neither one of them will be very real.

  Stephen Nachmanovitch

  Real, Practice, Splits

  Stephen Nachmanovitch (1991). “Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art”, p.67, Penguin

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• It's not like I turn off Marilyn Manson and I'm an everyday guy who goes and has another job and doesn't think about any of this stuff. Marilyn Manson is the most real thing that can come from me.

  Marilyn Manson

  Jobs, Real, Thinking

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• I think in a lot of ways unconditional love is a myth. My mom's the only reason I know it's a real thing.

  Conor Oberst

  Mom, Real, Unconditional Love

  "Conor Oberst: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 22, 2008.

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• I truly believe that we each have a House of Belonging waiting for us. Waiting to be found, waiting to be built, waiting to be renovated, waiting to be cleaned up. Waiting to rescue us. Waiting for the real thing: a grown-up, romantic, reciprocal relationship.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Real, Believe, Waiting

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• Nobody has ever seen an electron. Nor a thought. You can't see a thought, you can't measure, weigh, nor taste it- but thoughts are the most real things in the Galaxy.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Real, Taste, Electrons

  Robert A. Heinlein (2005). “Citizen of the Galaxy”, p.152, Simon and Schuster

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• Okay well - no that is a very real thing seven-year-olds asking for BlackBerrys and cell phones and things like that. And that's one of the things I love most about the show [The Starter Wife] is the social satire.

  Debra Messing

  Real, Phones, Cells

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• For me, luxury isn't just the real thing. It's also fake. Swarovski crystals or real diamonds? It's a game. You have to be luxurious nude.

  Sonia Rykiel

  Real, Games, Luxury

  Interview with Rebecca Voight, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 22, 2008.

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• You can access that on many levels and the human spirit and the human mind responds to those themes because they recognise the veracity of them. That they are real things. Sometimes it even goes beyond logic, it's just a sense of something.

  Mel Gibson

  Real, Mind, Levels

  "Apocalypto - Mel Gibson interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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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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• 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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