Been Real Quotes

• All of the women on The Apprentice flirted with me - consciously or unconsciously. That's to be expected.

  Donald Trump

  Flirting, Hate Him, Real Women

  Donald J. Trump, Meredith McIver (2004). “Trump: How to Get Rich”, p.223, Random House

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• I've been real fortunate to be on a lot of great teams.

  Ed Belfour

  Team, Real, Fortunate

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• There's been real hostility toward political poetry in the U.S., hostility or, at best, incomprehension. I'm speaking of those who have institutional power over what gets published, over grants andprizes and reviewing. Most of them, though not all, arewhite and male. But even as American society is unravelling, becoming more violent and punitive, wonderful political poetshave been emerging.

  Adrienne Rich

  Real, Political, Males

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• My father was English. He date-raped my mother so she's hated English men ever since. You know my boyfriend's English, and I'm, uh, I'm half-English, which she's never been real happy about. If she finds out I'm dating someone English, she'll ah, think I' turning my back on her and becoming a foreigner.' Cathy, that's the stupidest reason I've ever heard.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Mother, Father, Real

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• I've always been a really really big Sheryl Crow fan. I just respect what she does in a way that she just remains true to her music and sort of has just been real. She isn't trying too hard ever.

  Kate Voegele

  Real, Crow, Trying

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• Apart from the faint odor of ink that pervaded the scene, it might have been real.

  Jasper Fforde

  Real, Ink, Odor

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• Up to now, men and women have not been living in relationship - because woman has never been thought equal. And relationship exists only between equal people; it cannot happen between unequal people. Unless woman is given total freedom, absolute equality, there will be no possibility to relate. Up to now, man has exploited woman, woman has exploited man; there has not been real relationship.

  Rajneesh

  Relationship, Real, Men

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• Even though I have never had an abrupt conversion experience, religion has been real to me and closely knitted to life. In fact the two cannot be separated; religion for me is life.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Life, Real, Two

  Martin Luther King (1992). “The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr”, p.54, Univ of California Press

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• It's been real weird. It wasn't how I expected my life to turn out. Especially, mainly pertaining to the show. It never crossed my mind that one day I'm gonna be big and famous and have my own TV show, you know?

  Jack Osbourne

  Real, Tv Shows, Mind

  "Jack Talks About His Addiction and Recovery". MTV.com, February 2003.

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• I got to see first hand what he has done to make this a reality. That has been real rewarding to watch him achieve his dream.

  John Scott

  Dream, Real, Hands

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• The friendship that can cease has never been real.

  St. Jerome

  Friendship, Real, Losing Friends

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• For the photograph's immobility is somehow the result of a perverse confusion between two concepts: the Real and the Live: by attesting that the object has been real, the photograph surreptitiously induces belief that it is alive, because of that delusion which makes us attribute to Reality an absolute superior, somehow eternal value; but by shifting this reality to the past ("this-has-been"), the photograph suggests that it is already dead.

  Roland Barthes

  Real, Past, Two

  "Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography". Essay by Roland Barthes (translated by R. Howard), 1980.

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• Without realizing that the past is constantly determining their present actions, they avoid learning anything about their history. They continue to live in their repressed childhood situation, ignoring the fact that is no longer exists, continuing to fear and avoid dangers that, although once real, have not been real for a long time.

  Alice Miller

  Real, Past, Long

  Alice Miller (1997). “The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self”, p.2, Basic Books

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• That night I looked up at those same stars, but I didn't want any of those things. I didn't want Egypt, or France, or far-flung destinations. I just wanted to go back to my life from my childhood, just to visit it, and touch it, and to convince myself that yes, it had been real.

  Jenny Lawson

  Stars, Real, Night

  Jenny Lawson (2012). “Let's Pretend This Never Happened”, p.94, Penguin

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• If Peter Pan had been real, he would've gone mad and killed everyone in Neverland.

  Amanda Hocking

  Real, Mad, Gone

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• This had been real: real in its flaws and uncertainties, real in its small triumphs, real in its compromises and understanding.

  Juliet Marillier

  Real, Understanding, Triumph

  Juliet Marillier (2011). “Heart's Blood”, p.247, Pan Macmillan

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• I feel it now: there's a power in me to grasp and give shape to my world I know that nothing has ever been real without my beholding it. All becoming has need me.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Real, Power, Giving

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1996). “Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God”, Riverhead Books (Hardcover)

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