Real World Quotes - Page 22

• I'm mischievous. The idea of taking risks and having real-world consequences energizes me.

  Shepard Fairey

  Real, Ideas, Risk

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I lived in the world of poetry and ideas. I thought life was all about art and philosophy. In the military, I suddenly found out about the real world.

  Shahin Najafi

  Art, Philosophy, Military

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I'm interested in that hybrid - the place between the real world and my imagination. There's a friction that's created between the things we imagine and the things that exist.

  Laurel Nakadate

  Real, Imagination, World

  Interview with Scott Indrisek, believermag.com. October 1, 2006.

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• I've often thought I would like to try to write a conventional novel, but I just don't know enough about the real world to write one.

  Jim Woodring

  Real, Writing, Trying

  Interview with Ross Simonini, staging.believermag.com.

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• It's a basic, elemental universe, one of the last remaining zones where violence and domination sort out who is top dog. That's football's glory, and its curse. The game of football doesn't transfer well to the real world. You can't treat your friends, neighbors, or loved ones the way you treat your opponent on the football field.

  Tiki Barber

  Football, Dog, Real

  Tiki Barber, Gil Reavill (2008). “Tiki: My Life in the Game and Beyond”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

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• Tactics and strategies ought to be based on what the real world is, and we do not have the political power to do this. We're not about to shut the government down over the fact that we cannot, only controlling one house of Congress, tell the president that we're not going to fund any portion of [Obamacare]. Because we can't do that.

  Tom Coburn

  Leadership, Money, Real

  "Tom Coburn Says Republicans Pushing To Defund Obamacare Are Not Based In The ‘Real World’". www.huffingtonpost.com. September 22, 2013.

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• Links have become the suburbs of the real world.

  Michael Stipe

  Real, World, Links

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• [My novels] introduce levels of intelligence ... moral doubt [and] self-doubt, which may not pertain [to real-world espionage].

  John le Carre

  Real, Self, Doubt

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• That is what I'm looking forward to the most, practical learning. I want to be a registered nurse so getting to talk to people who already work in those jobs can really teach me what to expect when I get out in the real world.

  Angela Carter

  Jobs, Real, Nurse

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• The board transported its jurisdiction to a never-never land where a Dorothy of the new millennium might exclaim: "They still call it Kansas, but I don't think we're in the real world anymore."

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Real, Thinking, Land

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• Religion is based upon blind faith supported by no evidence. Science is based upon confidence that results from evidence - and that confidence can be modified and/or reversed by further observations and experimentation. Science approaches truth, closer and closer, by hard dedicated work. Religion already has it all decided, and it's in the book. It's dogma, unchangeable, and unaffected by reality and whatever facts we come upon in the real world.

  James Randi

  Real, Book, Atheism

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• Don't we want to escape our real world and go into something larger than that, simpler than that, more beautiful or darker?

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Beautiful, Real, World

  "Jessica Alba, Josh Brolin, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Eva Green, Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller Talk SIN CITY: A DAME TO KILL FOR". Press conference, collider.com. August 19, 2014.

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• Instagram is a media company. I think we're about visual media. I explain ourselves as a disruptive entertainment platform that enables communication through visual media. I don't think it's just photos. There's a reason we don't allow you to upload photos on the Web as albums. It's not about taking all these photos off your DSLR putting them into an album and sharing them with your family. It's not about that. It's about what are you up to right now out in the real world, how can you share that with everyone.

  Kevin Systrom

  Real, Communication, Thinking

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• People are getting too far away from the real-world. Politics is just ridiculous, it's totally dysfunctional.

  Temple Grandin

  Real, People, World

  "Temple Grandin On The Secret To Success For Kids With Autism". Interview with Macrina Cooper-White, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 29, 2014.

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• I think that it's easy to target a heavy metal band for inciting violence or making kids turn to a cult than it is to actually look at real problems in the real world.

  Sam Dunn

  Real, Kids, Thinking

  "Heavy metal and violence: More than a myth?" by James Donkin, www.cnn.com. ay 12, 2008.

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• All people have is hope. That's what brings the next day and whatever that day may bring... A hope grounded in the real world of living, friendship, work, family...

  Bruce Springsteen

  Real, Next Day, People

  "Meet the new Boss". Interview with Jon Pareles, www.theguardian.com. July 21, 2002.

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• A major boom in real stock prices in the US after Black Tuesday brought them halfway back to 1929 levels by 1930. This was followed by a second crash, another boom from 1932 to 1937, and a third crash. Speculative bubbles do not end like a short story, novel, or play. There is no final denouement that brings all the strands of a narrative into an impressive final conclusion. In the real world, we never know when the story is over.

  Robert J. Shiller

  Real, Play, Tuesday

  "Speculative bubbles don't just pop - they may deflate and reflate" by Robert J. Shiller, www.theguardian.com. July 19, 2013.

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• Jesus, it is true, shows no personal interest in gain, but he does speak of treasure in heaven and even of mansions as an inducement to follow him. Is it not further true that all religions down the ages have shown a keen interest in the amassment of material goods in the real world?

  Christopher Hitchens

  Jesus, Real, Heaven

  Christopher Hitchens (2011). “God is Not Great”, p.114, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• [In science any model depends on a pre-chosen taxonomy] a set of classifications into which we divide the enormous complexity of the real world... Land, labor, and capital are extremely heterogeneous aggregates, not much better than earth, air, fire, and water.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Real, Land, Fire

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• I think it's the real world. The people we're writing about in professional sports, they're suffering and living and dying and loving and trying to make their way through life just as the brick layers and politicians are.

  Red Smith

  Sports, Real, Writing

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• It's hard to get justice in the real world. It's possible in fiction.

  Lauren Beukes

  Real, Justice, Fiction

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• I...have been in that weird state between dreaming and waking, where dreams could be memories and the real world could be a dream.

  Jocelyn Davies

  Dream, Memories, Real

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• Don't worry if people think you're good. Make this your experience. And find out what makes you unique as an artist. You don't get the opportunity to do that as much in the real world.

  Matt Bomer

  Real, Artist, Unique

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• Allow some warm-up time each day to stimulate your creative flow. A pianist does keyboard exercises. A gymnast stretches. An artist needs to loosen up, too. It takes a few minutes to shift from the real world into a creative mode.

  Nita Leland

  Real, Exercise, Artist

  Nita Leland (2006). “The New Creative Artist”, p.14, North Light Books

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• I don't accept the idea that literature can be just entertainment and that there is no consequences of literature in the real world.

  Mario Vargas Llosa

  Real, Ideas, Literature

  "Peruvian Writer Mario Vargas Llosa on the Importance of Literature". Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. May 31, 2012.

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