I Realized Quotes - Page 33

• July 13, 1954 was the most tragic day of my life. I had lost my beloved Frida forever. To late now I realized that the most wonderful part of my life had been my love for Frida.

  Diego Rivera

  Lost Love, Happy Friday, Artist

  Deborah Kent, Diego Rivera (2005). “Diego Rivera: Painting Mexico”, Childs World Incorporated

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• I felt like I was flying without a net. But once I realized that the audience was my partner, I was flying a jet, because the people would allow me to develop the character on stage.

  Loretta Swit

  Character, People, Flying

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• It can be hard to feel like you have to start from scratch when you have invested so much time with a person, but shortly after my break up I realized something: I wasn't losing the chance to have love - I was getting the opportunity to do it all over again.

  Lauren Conrad

  Opportunity, Scratches, Losing

  "Ask Lauren: My Friends are All Engaged!" by Lauren Conrad, laurenconrad.com. August 29, 2012.

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• I realized that health is the most important thing and that all the other things come with time if you are devoted enough.

  Blanka Vlasic

  Important, Enough, Devoted

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• A few years ago I wrote two versions of my obituary, the one I wanted and the one I was heading for. They were very different. I realized I needed to make some big changes if I was going to look back and be proud of my life. I am making those changes, and now I have a life worth living.

  Roz Savage

  Two, Years, Proud

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• I realized that I had traveled to Havana during what now seems like the childhood of the Cuban Revolution, if you think that Fidel has now been in power for 44 extremely long years. I started looking at the revolution as history, and not as part of the daily news.

  Alma Guillermoprieto

  Thinking, Years, Long

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• I was soon drawn to the Republican Party because I realized that it truly, not just rhetorically, believed in equality.

  Alphonso Jackson

  Party, Republican, Republican Party

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• I never thought very many people in the world were very much like John Laroche, but I realized more and more that he was only an extreme, not an aberration - that most people in some way or another do strive for something exceptional, something to pursue, even at their peril, rather than abide an ordinary life.

  Susan Orlean

  People, Way, Ordinary

  Susan Orlean (2000). “The Orchid Thief”, Ballantine Books

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• Stars, too, were time travelers. How many of these ancient points of light were the last echoes of suns now dead? How many had been born but their light not yet come this far? If all the suns but ours collapsed tonight, how many lifetimes would it take us to realize that we were alone? I had always known the sky was full of mysteries - but not until now had I realized how full of them the earth was.

  Ransom Riggs

  Life, Stars, Echoes

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• If I never went home, what exactly would I be missing? I pictured my cold cavernous house, my friendless town full of bad memories, the utterly unremarkable life that had been mapped out for me. It had never once occurred to me, I realized, to refuse it.

  Ransom Riggs

  Memories, Home, House

  Ransom Riggs (2011). “Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children”, p.167, Quirk Books

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• When I first moved to L.A., I thought about turning gay. Then I realized none of the guys I was interested in was good enough for me.

  Zach Braff

  Gay, Guy, Firsts

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• Working on 'Scrubs' made me feel guilty because I realized that if I had decided to become an actual doctor, instead of just playing one, I could probably have found a cure to cancer within five years.

  Zach Braff

  Cancer, Doctors, Years

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• I had a dream once. I wanted to do a line of cocaine off a hooker's ass. That's when I realized, 'Hey, I'm freakin' Zach Braff.' I did it the next morning.

  Zach Braff

  Dream, Morning, Hey

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• It's... it's such a weird thing. After Garden State, so many companies wanted to make my movies, and after The Last Kiss, I realized people would make anything I was in. As long as I keep this up I'll be swimming in chubby indie girl pussy.

  Zach Braff

  Girl, Kissing, Swimming

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• One time I considered making a video game about my life where people control a character called 'Zach Braff' and run around being awesome. Then I realized that getting to pretend to be me would be like shooting up heroin for anyone who played it, and I don't want that on my conscience.

  Zach Braff

  Running, Character, Games

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• You know I was just taking a dump one day, and then as I sat there I realized, I really do deserve better.

  Zach Braff

  Deserve Better, One Day, Dump

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• At first, I didn't really care if global warming existed. But then I realized it means that less bums would freeze to death in the winter

  Zach Braff

  Mean, Winter, Care

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• And rock being a male-dominated, testosterone-driven place that I've been in the eye of the hurricane now for several years, I realized that it can be a place that can perpetuate homophobic behavior unless it's addressed by bands like us.

  Tim McIlrath

  Eye, Years, Rocks

  "Rise Against's 'Make It Stop' Tackles Bullying, Suicide" by James Montgomery, www.mtv.com. June 20, 2011.

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• Suddenly, in the space of a moment, I realized what it was that I loved about Britain - which is to say, all of it. Every last bit of it, good and bad - old churches, country lanes, people saying 'Mustn't grumble,' and 'I'm terribly sorry but,' people apologizing to ME when I conk them with a careless elbow, milk in bottles, beans on toast, haymaking in June, seaside piers, Ordnance Survey maps, tea and crumpets, summer showers and foggy winter evenings - every bit of it.

  Bill Bryson

  Summer, Country, Sorry

  "Notes from a Small Island". Book by Bill Bryson, 1995.

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• I realized that my life was to be one of simple, childlike faith, and that my part was to trust, not to do. I was to trust in Him and He would work in me to do His good pleasure. From that time my life was different.

  Charles Studd

  Simple, Missionary, Different

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• I became a vegetarian out of concern for animals, but I wasn't a vegetarian long before I realized there's something to that. I don't think I would have worked for the past five years probably were it not for my vegetarian diet.

  Bob Barker

  Animal, Past, Thinking

  "Bob Barker Says Goodbye". movieweb.com. April 23, 2007.

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• I always wanted attention, and I realized I could make people laugh.

  Lusia Strus

  People, Laughing, Attention

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• Three years after my first trip to Haiti, I realized there was another emotional note that had to be reckoned with: the intense, vibrant color of these worlds. Searing light and intense color seemed somehow embedded in the cultures that I had begun working in, so utterly different from the gray-brown reticence of my New England background. Since then, I have worked predominantly in color.

  Alex Webb

  Emotional, Light, Color

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• I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

  Marianne Williamson

  Love, Sky, Important

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• I haven't played a chess match for several decades. At one point I lost most of my chess games. Then I realized many of my competitors were memorizing the best moves and I was unwilling to do this.

  John Harsanyi

  Moving, Games, Chess Game

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