Being Real Quotes - Page 24

• Please be SILENT and LISTEN. I am the SCHOOLMASTER and you are in the CLASSROOM. Just like ELEVEN PLUS TWO equals TWELVE PLUS ONE, And even a FUNERAL can be REAL FUN, You will find my DICTIONARY is quite INDICATORY. If you want to read my story, just look... THEN UNREAD.

  Pseudonymous Bosch

  Fun, Real, Two

  Pseudonymous Bosch (2011). “The Name of this Book is Secret: The Secret Series”, p.54, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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• The best part of one's life is the working part, the creative part. Believe me, I love to succeed... However, the real spiritual and emotional excitement is in the doing.

  Garson Kanin

  Life, Spiritual, Real

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• Indie music is 'it' now. It's kind of a revolution to the music: 1980s, 1990s music was getting very sanitized; they were complying with the music industry. Music was getting more and more dead in a way. Now, because of the social climate that's very severe, the artists are compelled to start being real. It's really great that indie music is now.

  Yoko Ono

  Real, Artist, Climate

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• It has to be real, and I think a lot of the problems we have as a society is because we don’t acknowledge that family is important and it has to be people who are present, you know and mothers and fathers, both are not present enough with children.

  James Earl Jones

  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Children

  "The Voice of Triumph". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 29, 1996.

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• Taking the things people do wrong seriously is part of taking them seriously. It’s part of letting their actions have weight. It’s part of letting their actions be actions rather than just indifferent shopping choices; of letting their lives tell a life-story, with consequences, and losses, and gains, rather than just be a flurry of events. It’s part of letting them be real enough to be worth loving, rather than just attractive or glamorous or pretty or charismatic or cool.

  Francis Spufford

  Real, Loss, Shopping

  Francis Spufford (2012). “Unapologetic: Why, despite everything, Christianity can still make surprising emotional sense”, p.34, Faber & Faber

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• The sorcerer is a Simple Realist: the world is real--but then so must consciousness be real since its effects are so tangible.

  Hakim Bey

  Real, Simple, World

  Hakim Bey (2003). “T.A.Z.: The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism”, p.22, Autonomedia

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• The poet Marianne Moore famously wrote of 'real toads in imaginary gardens,' and the labyrinth offers us the possibility of being real creatures in symbolic space...In such spaces as the labyrinth we cross over [between real and imaginary spaces]; we are really travelling, even if the destination is only symbolic.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Real, Garden, Space

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• I would rather be hated every damn day of my life for being real than loved for being something I'm not.

  Aubrey O'Day

  Real, Damn, Hated

  "Aubrey O'day And D. Woods Kicked Out Of Danity Kane, Diddy Announces" by Jocelyn Vena, www.mtv.com. October 15, 2008.

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• Be real and be unashamed, even of your faults. I do truly know what my husband is made of and vice versa.

  Amy Bloom

  Husband, Real, Vices

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• The Harlem of my books was never meant to be real; I never called it real; I just wanted to take it away from the white man if only in my books.

  Chester Himes

  Real, Book, Men

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

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• Tantra says be real, be authentic to yourself. Your happiness is not bad; it is good. It is not sin! Only sadness is sin, only to be miserable is sin. To be happy is virtue because a happy person will not create unhappiness for others. Only a happy person can be a ground for others' happiness.

  Rajneesh

  Happiness, Real, Sadness

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• It's difficult to explain, but I just somehow feel that I never really *have* lived; that I never really will live--exist or whatever--in the sense that other people do. It drives me crazy. I was terribly aware of it all those nights waiting for you in the Ritz bar looking around at what seemed to be real grown-up lives. I just find everybody else's life surrounded by plate glass. I mean I'd like to break through it just once and actually touch one.

  Elaine Dundy

  Crazy, Real, Mean

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• But once a dead God, always a dead God, even resurrected. The Son must have the taste of death forever in his mouth. The Trinity must be tainted by it; there must be a certain stench at the right hand of God the Father. The horror must be real. Why would God wish that upon Himself? Why not leave death to mortals? Why make dirty what is beautiful, spoil what is perfect? -- Love. That was his answer.

  Yann Martel

  Beautiful, Father, Real

  Yann Martel, Canongate Books (2007). “Life of Pi (Illustrated): Deluxe Illustrated Edition”, p.67, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can't have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I'd rather not be in a cage. I'd rather be dead. And it's real simple. And I think it's not that uncommon.

  Angelina Jolie

  Love, Life, Freedom

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• Young people want you to be real with them.

  Magic Johnson

  Basketball, Real, People

  "Magic Johnson pushes HIV awareness". Interview with Dr. Sanjay Gupta, www.cnn.com. November 24, 2004.

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• I knew nothing but shadows and I thought them to be real.

  Oscar Wilde

  Real, Shadow, Disillusionment

  Oscar Wilde (2000). “Oscar Wilde - The Major Works”, p.112, OUP Oxford

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• We need to build our friendships on truth and wholeness. We need friends who can be with us in our loneliness, not people who will cheer us up so that we don’t feel it. We need friends who get furious with us when we are not being real or true to ourselves, not when we don’t do what they want us to do.

  Geneen Roth

  Cheer, Real, Loneliness

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• We can deny angels exist, convince ourselves they can't be real. But they show up anyway, at strange places and at strange times. They can speak through any character we can imagine. They'll shout through demons if they have to. Daring us, challenging us to fight.

  Zack Snyder

  Real, Character, Angel

  "Fictional character: Sweet Pea". "Sucker Punch", 2011.

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• Only when human beings are able to perceive and acknowledge the Self in each other can there be real peace.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Real, Self, Able

  Twitter post from Jul 04, 2015

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• It is better to be silent and be real than to talk and not be real.

  Ignatius of Antioch

  Real, Silent

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• For me it's a dedication to your real interests. It's an ability to be open-minded. Without an open-minded mind, you can never be a great success. The great artists have been open-minded, even though they may seem, like Picasso, to be very directed, you can be directed and open-minded at the same time. I think you have to be really intensely serious about your work, but not so serious that you can't see the lightness that may also involve your life. You have to have that lightness too. You have to not be so heavy-handed and so ostentatious. It's very important not to be.

  Martha Stewart

  Real, Thinking, Dedication

  "Discovering Everyday Good Things". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 2, 1995.

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• We take that which is unreal to be real and that which is real to be unreal.

  Rupert Spira

  Real, Unreal

  Rupert Spira (2016). “The Transparency of Things: Contemplating the Nature of Experience”, p.152, New Harbinger Publications

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• Don't persuade, defend or interrupt. Be curious, be conversational, be real. And listen.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Motivation, Real, Inspiration

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• Sometimes it is hard to sing and dance at the same time but I would rather be off and be real and genuine about it to my fans.

  Kesha

  Inspirational, Dance, Real

  "Britney Spears should be ashamed of her miming, says rising star Ke$ha". Daily Record Interview, www.dailyrecord.co.uk. March 3, 2010.

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• I believe that children are, by nature, very forgiving. I don't think children expect their parents to be perfect. I think they demand that their parents be real.

  Beth Moore

  Children, Real, Believe

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