Being Real Quotes - Page 7

• The materials of the novelist must be real; they must be gathered from the field of humanity by his actual observation.

  Goldwin Smith

  Real, Humanity, Novelists

  Goldwin Smith (1881). “Lectures and Essays”, New York : Macmillan

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• The reality is we live in a world of scarce resources in this veil of tears, as Tony Abbott often describes the world, we have to be real, we have to accept that we can't spend as much money on everything as we would like and so we have chosen to re prioritise, to change spending.

  Chris Bowen

  Real, Tears, Veils

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• When you know the lyrics to a tune, you have some kind of insight as to it's composition. If you don't understand what it's about, you're depriving yourself of being really able to communicate this poem.

  Dexter Gordon

  Tunes, Able, Kind

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• This propaganda of dis-associating Western Negroes from Africa is not a new one. For many years white propagandists have been printing tons of literature to impress scattered Ethiopia, especially that portion within their civilization, with the idea that Africa is a despised place, inhabited by savages, and cannibals, where no civilized human being should go, especially black civilized human beings. This propaganda is promulgated for the cause that is being realized today. That cause is COLONIAL EXPANSION for the white nations of the world.

  Marcus Garvey

  Years, Civilization, Ideas

  Marcus Garvey, Amy Jacques Garvey (1923). “The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey, Or, Africa for the Africans”, p.54, The Majority Press

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• The best thing is being really close. The worst thing is being really close.

  Joel Madden

  Worst, Best Things, Worst Things

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• There is a generation begging for you to be real... and to be real now.

  Karen Wheaton

  Real, Generations, Begging

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• To say that politics is not a part of sports is not being realistic. When I run, I am more than a runner. I am a diplomat, an ambassador for my country.

  Filbert Bayi

  Sports, Running, Country

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• God will have life to be real; we will be damned, but it shall be theatrical.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Real, Gods Will, Theatrical

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1973). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1847-1848”, p.374, Harvard University Press

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• If I must have an ill, may it be real, That I may meet it eye to eye and fight, And wheresoever it may strength reveal Get after it with all my main and might. The woe that but impends and wears the mind With worry deep and most vexatious care, Is harder fighting than the realler kind, For when you come to strike—it isn't there!

  John Kendrick Bangs

  Real, Eye, Fighting

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• I've played a lot of really smarmy people in film, and it can be real fun, don't get me wrong. But it can be characters I'm not as excited to explore.

  Ty Burrell

  Fun, Real, Character

  Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. November 18, 2009.

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• When people say, 'You're not being realistic,' they're just trying to tag some thoughts that they can't otherwise handle.

  David R. Brower

  People, Trying, Tag

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• You know, I used to be made fun of as a kid for being really articulate; it was sort of like a strange thing.

  Carla Gugino

  Fun, Kids, Strange

  Interview with Spence D., www.ign.com. April 6, 2001.

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• For children, diversity needs to be real and not merely relegated to learning the names of the usual suspects during Black History Month or enjoying south-of-the-border cuisine on Cinco de Mayo. It means talking to and spending time with kids not like them so that they may discover those kids are in fact just like them.

  John Ridley

  Children, Real, Mean

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

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• My language is a feel-thinking language, feeling and thinking at once, that is why it is a celebration of life, and at once it is a denunciation of everything that is not allowed in life to be real life, it's plenitude.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Real, Thinking, Feelings

  Interview with Kevin Murphy, www.oregonlive.com. July 2, 2009.

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• We must maintain the integrity of the White House, and that integrity must be real, not transparent. There can be no whitewash at the White House.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Integrity, Real, White

  Nixon, Richard M. (1975). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1973”, p.332, Best Books on

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• Monotheism owes its existence not to philosophic speculation about the nature of reality or knowledge or virtue, but to acceptance of reality identified with a supreme being.

  Israel Shenker

  Acceptance, Reality, Virtue

  Israel Shenker (1985). “Coat of Many Colors: Pages from Jewish Life”, Doubleday Books

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• Sooner or later, many idealists transform themselves into disheartened realists who mistakenly believe that giving up is the same thing as being realistic.

  Seth Godin

  Giving Up, Believe, Realist

  Seth Godin (2015). “Poke The Box: When Was the Last Time You Did Something for the First Time?”, p.29, Penguin

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• To me, grey is the welcome and only possible equivalent for indifference, noncommitment, absence of opinion, absence of shape. But grey, like formlessness and the rest, can be real only as an idea, and so all I can do is create a colour nuance that means grey but is not it. The painting is then a mixture of grey as a fiction and grey as a visible, designated area of colour.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Real, Mean

  Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: text : writings, interviews and letters, 1961-2007”

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• The cause, then, philosophically speaking, is the sum total of the conditions, positive and negative, taken together; the whole of the contingencies of every description, which being realized, the consequent invariably follows.

  John Stuart Mill

  Taken, Science, Together

  John Stuart Mill (1858). “A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive: Being a Connected View of the Principles of Evidence and the Methods of Scientific Investigation”, p.200

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  If your heart was as big as your mouth you'd be real.

  DMX

  Friendship, Real, Heart

  Song: Bring Your Whole Crew, Album: Flesh of My Flesh, Blood of My Blood

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• My hair used to be real long, and my parents were encouraged when I cut it. They thought I was going 'straight,' but I was just getting weirder - at least in their eyes. I was getting into the punk thing.

  Billy Idol

  Real, Eye, Cutting

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

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• When you have satire, it has to be real. No matter how outrageous the comedy becomes, you have to believe in the characters.

  Kevin Kline

  Real, Believe, Character

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• I got fed up with being in bands. I spent a couple of years touring the country in a smoked filled band, doing lots of drugs and being really unhealthy.

  Cliff Martinez

  Country, Couple, Years

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• I think that I'm just the same, but there is sometimes that you just have to be real. You have to look in the mirror and be real with yourself and you have go: 'You know what? I am the best in the world. What is happening?'

  Mickie James

  Real, Thinking, Mirrors

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• I always work only with friends, but it must be about them and myself. Because I film only very personal moments, nothing preplanned, staged or written, it has to be real and spontaneous. Some of them have become famous, some are not yet famous, some will never be famous. But they are all my friends.

  Jonas Mekas

  Real, Film, Moments

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