Realising Quotes - Page 13

• I have invested some money and I have a home, but people don't realise that you might only be working for a few weeks of the year and remain unemployed the rest of the time.

  Greta Scacchi

  Home, Years, People

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• You experience other cultures to give you a kind of shock that makes you look at your own culture. You appreciate it more as a result of being out of it, but you also realise there are some things lacking in your culture.

  Mem Fox

  Other Cultures, Appreciate, Giving

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• The only way to be happy is to realise how much depends on how you look at things

  Alain de Botton

  Looks, Way, Depends

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• Wisdom is looking back at your life and realising that every single event, person, place and idea was part of the perfected experience you needed to build your dream. Not one was a mistake.

  John Frederick Demartini

  Dream, Mistake, Ideas

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• All of my life had been spent in the shadow of apartheid. And when South Africa went through its extraordinary change in 1994, it was like having spent a lifetime in a boxing ring with an opponent and suddenly finding yourself in that boxing ring with nobody else and realising you've to take the gloves off and get out and reinvent yourself.

  Athol Fugard

  Boxing, Finding Yourself, Shadow

  "I'm a storyteller, that's all" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. March 18, 2002.

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• If you are already an awakened soul,
  Then you must realise
  That God has already given you
  A supreme task to perform:
  He wants you to work
  For His Vision's world-blossoms.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Soul, Vision, Tasks

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• "All is passing". When one realises this, he sits loose to this world of sorrow : This is the way of purity.

  Gautama Buddha

  Sorrow, World, Way

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• I think what you have to realise is that our generation is the first generation since its sexual awakening has come into the world and realised that sex can mean, ultimately, death. That has had a very serious effect on social morals and on the way people deal with each other. As we approach the millennium, people are getting more and more confused and contact is getting more and more sanitised, so there's a lot more mental games being played.

  Brian Molko

  Sex, Confused, Mean

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• Success, I've come to realise, is fleeting so you shouldn't value it too much.

  Marina and the Diamonds

  Fleeting, Too Much, Values

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• To me, the team is more important than any individual member of the squad, and the players have to realise that and accept that my priority is to pick a side with the best possible chance of winning each match.

  Gerard Houllier

  Team, Winning, Player

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• One should feel inside oneself for right and wrong, and should have the patience to gradually realise one's God.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Should Have, Feels, Oneself

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “D. H. Lawrence: The Complete Novels (Book House)”, p.530, Book House

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• People do not realise that many of my works are done in urban places. I was brought up on the edge of Leeds, five miles from the city centre-on one side were fields and on the other, the city.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Cities, People, Done

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• I've learnt to realise my brother is my own best friend. He'd always stick his nose in even though I turned around and said "It's none of your business", I know he only wanted to look out for me.

  Andrew Chan

  Brother, Sticks, Looks

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• The scariest time of my life was when I knew my Nana was dying. It was horrible, as there's nothing I could do to stop it. I grew up living with my Mum, brother and Nana (my mum's mum), so it felt like I lost a parent rather than a grandparent. It makes you realise the fragility of life.

  Nikki Sanderson

  Brother, Grandparent, Dying

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• I met Princess Anne once at a charity do and she said Blue Peter made her realise TV was all lies - she'd gone to Africa on safari with Valerie Singleton and they didn't see a thing, but when she watched it on TV they'd edited in some lion cubs. I was like, 'Oh dear.' I still don't know if she was joking or not.

  Konnie Huq

  Lying, Princess, Blue

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• People think they know me from somewhere, and then I open my mouth and they realise it's me from Birds Of A Feather.

  Pauline Quirke

  Thinking, People, Bird

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• Do you realise that when you give a schilling to a beggar you are giving it to yourself?Do you realise that when you help a dog over a stile you yourself are being helped?Do you realise when you kick a man when he is down, you are kicking yourslef?Give him another kick, you deserve it!

  Wei Wu Wei

  Dog, Men, Giving

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• I have lived in many places over the years - sung in many languages too but hearing the Treorchy Male Choir made me realise how deep my feelings are, and always will be, for our beloved Land of Song. Glorious years of hard work and glorious music! Well done! I am only half Welsh - but these sincere good wishes and congratulations come from all of me!

  Petula Clark

  Song, Congratulations, Hard Work

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• I walk every day, and I look at the mountains and the fields and the small city, and I say: 'Oh my God, what a blessing.' Then you realise it's important to put it in a context beyond this woman, this man, this city, this country, this universe.

  Paulo Coelho

  Country, Men, Blessing

  "Paulo Coelho on Jesus, Twitter and the difference between defeat and failure" by Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. March 17, 2013.

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• I'm really a pussycat and this [bad-boy] image has been totally overblown for 30 years. Sure, I used to rumble a little but I don't do that stuff anymore. I'm an old man now. When you reach your 50s, you realise that if you don't mellow, you won't last.

  George C. Scott

  Boys, Men, Years

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• To be honest I think my read is people are now taking this seriously. They realise that the game is up and the planet and all of us - I mean all of us - have to really start doing something much more drastic in order to try and contain the impacts.

  Chris Barrie

  Mean, Thinking, Impact

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• There is nothing simple or dull in achieving the transparent page. Vulgar ostentation is twice as easy as discipline. When you realise that ugly typography never effaces itself, you will be able to capture beauty as the wise men capture happiness by aiming at something else.

  Beatrice Warde

  Wise, Simple, Men

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• I think people are finally realising that women are interesting and more interesting the older they get. But it's taken a while for that realisation to happen.

  Christine Bottomley

  Taken, Thinking, People

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• By nature, I'm a very positive person, and because I'm happy in myself, and in my life, and I've got a great husband, and beautiful children, and I have a job that I love that calls for a certain amount of emotional expression, I get to realise a lot of my dreams and aspirations.

  Kate Winslet

  Beautiful, Dream, Jobs

  "'I did have moments where I'd say, Oh my God ...'". Interview with Kira Cochrane, www.theguardian.com. December 18, 2008.

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• When I was 12 or 13, I started to watch films and understand more about the craft and that helped me to develop. But it also felt like a game, because it was fun. I mean, all of us do it when we're kids to a degree - play acting. But then I came to realise that it's a lovely way to express yourself. So, my passion for it developed as I got older.

  Yasmin Paige

  Fun, Passion, Mean

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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