Real World Quotes - Page 18

• It is easy to criticize, particularly in a political season. But to lead is something altogether different. The leader must live in the real world of the price that might be paid for the goal that has been set.

  Norm Coleman

  Real, Goal, Leader

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• Dictators are ludicrous characters, and, you know, in my career and in my life, I've always enjoyed sort of inhabiting these ludicrous, larger-than-life characters that somehow exist in the real world.

  Sacha Baron Cohen

  Real, Character, Careers

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• I tried out for another show while I was in college so I could pay off my student loans, and it sort of led to The Real World. The same people that were casting that show were casting The Real World, so they asked me to do it.

  Trishelle Cannatella

  Real, College, People

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• I tend to be so lost in the work that I don't notice the weather. My partner will come home and say, 'Beautiful day, wasn't it?' and I'll say, 'Was it?' as I won't have noticed the real world at all.

  Emma Donoghue

  Beautiful, Real, Home

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• I'm not such an artist type that I can't handle the real world. I read the financial pages, because most people don't talk about art.

  Caio Fonseca

  Art, Real, People

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• My forms are not abstractions of things in the real world. They're also not symbols. I would say that my job is to invent these forms and to put them together in a way that keeps your interest, to give the forms a quirky identity so you can engage with them, so you realize there's an inner intelligence or logic.

  Caio Fonseca

  Jobs, Real, Giving

  "Caio Fonseca Comes Out of Isolation". Interview with Meghan Dailey, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 28, 2012.

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• When I go on stage man I just want people to have fun, I don't want people to think about their problems, I want people to get energy and nutrition and food from that so they can go back into the real world and work on their problems.

  Jon Fishman

  Fun, Real, Men

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• It's true, I don't like the real world.

  Richard Foreman

  Real, World

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• When you get on stage, you can be anything. You are removed from reality in a way, the real world.

  Suzanne Farrell

  Real, World, Way

  "Ballerina of the Century". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. December 16, 1990.

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• I don't know if people feel this way, but I think by nature that when you start off as a young pop singer, they assume that you're a bit pampered, prissy, and precious, or that you live in a bubble and not in the real world. For me that's not the case.

  Debbie Gibson

  Real, Thinking, People

  "Debbie Gibson: Out of the Blue and on Celebrity Apprentice". Interview with Dustin Fitzharris, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 17, 2012.

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• In a real-world way, my gifts are very limited in terms of what I can do.

  Sherman Alexie

  Real, World, Way

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• There is a real world, beyond the glass, for children who look, for those whose parents encourage them to truly see.

  Richard Louv

  Nature, Children, Real

  Richard Louv (2013). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.57, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Beware of "the real world". A speaker's apeal to it is always an invitation not to challenge his tacit assumptions.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Real, Challenges, World

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• You can always create a fraction by putting one variable upstairs and another variable downstairs, but that soes not establish any causal relationship between them, nor does the resulting quotient have any necessary relationship to anything in the real world.

  Thomas Sowell

  Real, Science, Doe

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• There are as many "real worlds" as there are people!

  Carl Rogers

  Life, Real, People

  Carl Rogers (1995). “A Way of Being”, p.120, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We live in an instant-coffee world. Sometimes real-world solutions take a little longer.

  Mike Conaway

  Real, Coffee, World

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• The real world is horrible.

  Lev Grossman

  Real, World, Horrible

  Interview with Jason Heller, www.avclub.com. August 26, 2009.

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• All novels are about crime. You'd be hard pressed to find any novel that does not have an element of crime. I don't see myself as a crime novelist, but there are crimes in my books. That's the nature of storytelling, if you want to reflect the real world.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Real, Book, Novelists

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• I write 'by the seat of my pants.' I love to do research. I am inspired by contemporary writers and contemporary events. I live in the real world.

  Iris Johansen

  Real, Writing, Events

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• I think it's good that I had some experience of the real world before I became successful. You know, having to get up in the morning and going to work in construction.

  Tom Jones

  Morning, Real, Successful

  "Tom Jones: He's actually quite unusual" by Johnny Davis, www.theguardian.com. July 31, 2010.

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• Conservative policies have on the whole worked - insofar as any set of policies can be said to 'work' in the real world. Conservatives of the Reagan-Bush-Gingrich-Bush years have a fair amount to be proud of.

  William Kristol

  Real, Years, World

  "Will Obama Save Liberalism?". www.nytimes.com. January 25, 2009.

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• The real world is far too complex and unpredictable to make something like the idea of humanity controlling its own evolution or engineering itself - well, I wouldn't say impossible but it should be approached with a degree of caution.

  Ken MacLeod

  Real, Engineering, Ideas

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• We are getting an education of a lifetime. We're actually out there in the real world.

  Solange Knowles

  Real, World, Lifetime

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Life would be very dreary if there were no magic. If the real world were only that veil of tears, I just don't think could get up in the morning.

  Victoria Moran

  Morning, Real, Thinking

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• I think it's vital to have something outside your acting to keep you rooted in the real world, and help you fill the vacuum. If you have nothing else, it can be unhealthy. For me being a Christian has been invaluable: it simply means acting isn't the centre of my life.

  David Oyelowo

  Christian, Real, Mean

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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