Realizing Quotes - Page 9

• I think it takes a long time, as you get older, to realize just how crazy the world is, just how ridiculous it all is.

  John Cleese

  Crazy, Thinking, Long

  Interview with David Morgan, www.cbsnews.com. October 25, 2015.

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• To me, that ugliness, that grotesqueness - that's the essence [of life]. That's where you realize, it's not about all the consonance and the harmony. It's all the parts that are wrong that help explain why we're drawn to something - what the mystery is - just as much as the beautiful things.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Beautiful, Essence, Helping

  "Carrie Brownstein Discusses Her Memoir". Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. October 27, 2015.

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• The older I get, the more I realize I'm becoming people's role models and that's freaky to me. That's not what you intend to do when you set out to be a musician, to be a little 14-year-old's role model.

  Ingrid Michaelson

  Years, People, Role Models

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When you start reading nonfiction books about piracy, you realize that it's actually just a history of desperate people.

  Daniel Handler

  Book, Reading, People

  "Lemony Snicket Walks the Plank". Interview with Maddie Oatman, www.motherjones.com. January, 2015.

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• I wish my life and decisions to depend upon myself, not on external forces of whatever kind. I wish to be the instrument of my own, not other men's, acts of will. I wish to be the subject, not an object...I wish to be somebody, not nobody; a doer - deciding, not being decided for, slef-directed and not acted upon by external nature or by other men as if I were a thing, or an animal, or a slave incapable of playing a human role, that is, of conceiving goals and policies of my own and realizing them.

  Isaiah Berlin

  Men, Animal, Goal

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• I now realize there are millions of self-made millionaires who started with nothing. They dug inside themselves to find the answers and they succeeded. There is nothing anyone else can do that I can't do.

  Dean Graziosi

  Self, Answers, Made

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• I mean, you could lie here day after day, if you wanted to, and think about nothing but waterbugs. Not chase waterbugs, mind you, just think about them. You could spend your whole day, every day, just wondering and pondering about waterbugs, and talking to others about waterbugs . . . and before you realized it, you'd be old. One day you'd realize that you'd never actually seen a waterbug . . . but by then you wouldn't want to, because it would spoil all your beautiful ideas.

  Tad Williams

  Beautiful, Lying, Mean

  Tad Williams (2015). “Tailchaser's Song”, p.143, Hachette UK

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• All is made clear,regarding Abraham and Sarah's traversal into Egypt, when we realize what biblicists meant by the term "Egypt." As Ralph Ellis so brilliantly points out, the name Egypt was employed by the composers of the Old Testament to denote Thebes in Lower Egypt. This was the city and region controlled by the adversaries of the Hyksos. It was considered a separate region, with different rulers, gods, customs, and politics. So, it was not the country of Egypt that Abraham visited, but Thebes within Egypt.

  Michael Tsarion

  Country, Egypt, Cities

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• The one thread that was most surprising and most consistent was the lack of fear that people felt at the worst moment. They felt a lot of fear in early stages, when they're just realizing what's happening. But then things really seemed to be at their peak of terror, the fear went away. You can imagine why that's useful. At that moment your brain needs to focus all its attention on surviving, so people will feel a sense of calm as their brain tries to sort out a plan.

  Amanda Ripley

  Worst Moments, People, Focus

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I'm just a regular guy. I want people to realize that I embody the true American dream. I work hard. I went to school.

  Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa

  Dream, Hard Work, School

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I'm not a genius. I just worked really, really hard, and I want our generation, our children and our future generations to realize that they can fulfill the same dreams.

  Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa

  Dream, Children, Our Generation

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Maybe I don't think I'm touching people, but I am. Sometimes I'm sitting there at three in the morning, proofreading something, and I'm thinking, Is this really worth it? Or am I doing this only because my mother taught me never to give up? Then you realize, no, even if it doesn't come back to you, you are touching people.

  Micah Lexier

  Mother, Morning, Giving Up

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. October 1, 2013.

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• My philosophy on writing a song for myself is that I always, always, always want to write a song. I always want to write a song. I realize that as a record producer or a singer or whatever I might not, if I recorded on myself or someone else, the first time out I might not give it the right treatment, so that the world or many people will accept it and it'll be a public hit, or anything like that.

  Smokey Robinson

  Song, Philosophy, Writing

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I look back on some of my early reviews of others, and realize to my chagrin that I've been as guilty as anybody else on that front.

  Thomas L. Dumm

  Looks, Guilty, Reviews

  Interview with Jill Stauffer, believermag.com. January 1, 2009.

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• Kids don't even realize what they're up against.

  Pharoahe Monch

  Kids

  Interview with Adam Mansbach, believermag.com. January 1, 2011.

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• It is only when you realize your nothingness, your emptiness, that God can fill you with Himself.

  Mother Teresa

  Emptiness, Silence Of The Heart, Nothingness

  Mother Teresa (2016). “No Greater Love, Commemorative Edition”, p.8, New World Library

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• Just as members of American teachers unions often send their own children to private schools, so unionized workers at government-run hospitals in Britain have insurance that allows them to go to private hospitals. In both cases, those on the inside realize how bad these institutions are, regardless of what they say to those on the outside.

  Thomas Sowell

  Running, Teacher, Children

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• Healthy parenting is especially challenging when our own childhoods weren't healthy. It requires energy, attention, and constant restraint. Realize that you need healing. Take time out to nurture yourself.

  Vimala McClure

  Healing, Childhood, Challenges

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• Easter is not complete without loving the one who made it possible-Judas. Forgiveness becomes possible when we transcend appearances and realize that those people who represent the Judases in our lives and those qualities within ourselves that seem to have betrayed us have been the divine process growing us into Christs. It’s all Love.

  Walter Starcke

  Easter, People, Quality

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• High School made me realize that the people who say they will never change, are always the ones who change the most.

  John Green

  School, People, Never Change

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• If we miss this chance to make a fresh start, we may look back on this moment from some later vantage point and realize how much that failure cost us all.

  Ronald Reagan

  Missing, Looks, Cost

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• One has to be alone, under the sky, Before everything falls into place and one finds his or her own place in the midst of it all. We have to have the humility to realize ourselves as part of nature.

  Thomas Merton

  Fall, Humility, Sky

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• You know the known, so go a little into the unknown. The mind that is caught up in the known - extended a little beyond reason. The moment you go beyond , you move in the soul. Releasing the bondage of your mind to extend further, reach the unknown a little more. The further you go, you realize that the known is limited and the unknown is vast.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Moving, Soul, Mind

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• As a young citizen of India, armed with technology and love for my nation, I realize, a small aim is a crime.

  Abdul Kalam

  Technology, And Love, India

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (2003). “Ignited Minds: Unleashing the Power Within India”, p.196, Penguin Books India

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• Few people realize the number of things that are possible.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Numbers, People

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