Real World Quotes

• I know children regress after vaccination because it happened to my own son. Why aren't there any tests out there on the safety of how vaccines are administered in the real world, six at a time? Why have only two of the 36 shots our kids receive been looked at for their relationship to autism?

  Jenny McCarthy

  Children, Real, Kids

  "In the Vaccine-Autism Debate, What Can Parents Believe?" by Jenny McCarthy, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 10, 2011.

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• To be matter-of-fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy - and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Real, History, World

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.324, Penguin

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• Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.

  Oscar Wilde

  Real, Individuality, Society

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• So, what's it like in the real world? Well, the food is better, but beyond that, I don't recommend it.

  Bill Watterson

  Graduation, Real, World

  "Some thoughts on the real world by one who glimpsed it and fled". Bill Watterson's commencement speech at the Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, www.graduationwisdom.com. May 20, 1990.

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• I probably still haven’t completely adapted to the world. I don’t know, I feel like this isn’t the real world. The people, the scene: they just don’t seem real to me.

  Haruki Murakami

  Real, People, World

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “Norwegian Wood”, p.223, Random House

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• He knew what he knew: that the real world was full of magic, so magical worlds could easily be real.

  Salman Rushdie

  Real, Magic, World

  Salman Rushdie (1990). “Haroun and the Sea of Stories”, Penguin Books

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• Sometimes I'm kind of spacey. I'm like Ferdinand the bull, sniffing the daisy, not aware of time, of what's going on in the real world.

  Richard Gere

  Real, Bulls, World

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• Cyberspace is colonising what we used to think of as the real world. I think that our grandchildren will probably regard the distinction we make between what we call the real world and what they think of as simply the world as the quaintest and most incomprehensible thing about us.

  William Gibson

  Real, Thinking, Grandchildren

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• Love in the real world means saying you're sorry 10 times a day.

  Kathie Lee Gifford

  Sorry, Real, Mean

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• Told that the passing grade is a B or competence and that we will help you to get there, students do competent work. The lowest passing grade in the real world is competence. Why do schools accept so much less?

  William Glasser

  Real, School, World

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• It's fun to toy around with press stuff a little bit, because in many ways it's not a real world.

  Joshua Homme

  Fun, Real, World

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I get satisfaction out of seeing stuff that makes real change in the real world. We need a lot more of that and a lot less abstract stuff.

  Temple Grandin

  Real, Needs, World

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• The thing that bums me out about 'The Real World' is I don't want to believe that teenagers are that stupid.

  Kathy Griffin

  Real, Teenager, Stupid

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• Certain mystes aver that the real world has been constructed by the human mind, since our ways are governed by the artificial categories into which we place essentially undifferentiated things, things weaker than our words for them. We believe we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges.

  Gene Wolfe

  Real, Believe, Mind

  "The Shadow of the Torturer". Book by Gene Wolfe, 1980.

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• Science manipulates things and gives up living in them. It makes its own limited models of things; operating upon these indices or variables to effect whatever transformations are permitted by their definition, it comes face to face with the real world only at rare intervals. Science is and always will be that admirably active, ingenious, and bold way of thinking whose fundamental bias is to treat everything as though it were an object-in-general - as though it meant nothing to us and yet was predestined for our own use.

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty

  Giving Up, Real, Thinking

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty, James M. Edie (1964). “The Primacy of Perception: And Other Essays on Phenomenological Psychology, the Philosophy of Art, History and Politics”, p.159, Northwestern University Press

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• The only funny part about Colonial Dunsboro is maybe it's too authentic, but for all the wrong reasons. This whole crowd of losers and nutcases who hide out here because they can't make it in the real world, in real jobs — isn't this why we left England in the first place? To establish our own alternate reality. Weren't the Pilgrims pretty much the crackpots of their time? For sure, instead of just wanting to believe something different about God's love, the losers I work with want to find salvation through compulsive behaviors.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Jobs, Real, Believe

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• The reason you go to university is to be taught, is to learn how to think more clearly, to call into question the ideas that you came with and think about whether or not they are the ideas you will always want to hold. A university education at its best is a time of confusion and questioning, a time to learn how to think clearly about the values and principles that guide one's life. Of course, it's also a time to acquire the skills needed for jobs in the "real world," but the part about becoming an adult with ideals and integrity is also important.

  Joan Wallach Scott

  Real, Integrity, Thinking

  Source: www.salon.com

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• When you lead change, sometimes you get arrows in your back. I mean, that's just the way the real world is.

  Carly Fiorina

  Real, Mean, Arrows

  "Fiorina Ready to Rumble for Boxer's Senate Seat". "On the Record" with Greta Van Susteren, www.foxnews.com. June 9, 2010.

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• Rational beliefs bring us closer to getting good results in the real world.

  Albert Ellis

  Real, World, Belief

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• You know, at some point there has to be parity. There has to be parity between what is happening in the real world, and what is happening in the public sector world.

  Chris Christie

  Real, World, Public Sector

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• In the real world, children love me.

  Jackie Chan

  Children, Real, World

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• For me, a good thriller must teach me something about the real world. Thrillers like 'Coma,' 'The Hunt for Red October' and 'The Firm' all captivated me by providing glimpses into realms about which I knew very little - medical science, submarine technology and the law.

  Dan Brown

  Real, Technology, Law

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• For me, a good thriller must teach me something about the real world.

  Dan Brown

  Real, Submarines, World

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• What's great about science fiction is that it allows for surreal scenarios even if they pertain to the real world.

  Larissa Sansour

  Real, World, Science Fiction

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• Government has really been growing, a lot of largesse, but the people in the real world aren't. And that's what has to change. Government has no conformity at all with the real world.

  Michele Bachmann

  Real, Government, People

  "Michele Bachmann Looks Ahead After Iowa Straw Poll Victory". "Fox News Sunday With Chris Wallace", www.foxnews.com. August 14, 2011.

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