I Realized Quotes - Page 34

• The truth is, after Boys Don't Cry, I realized how few and far between the great roles are. I am beyond thankful for finding Million Dollar Baby.

  Hilary Swank

  Baby, Boys, Thankfulness

  "'Million Dollar Baby' wins best picture". www.today.com. February 24, 2005.

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• I think I realized it was an art form at the beginning, but it took me a really long time before I was able to view what I was performing myself as an art form.

  Patton Oswalt

  Art, Thinking, Views

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• Sometimes in the past when I was going to perform a piece again I would listen to old recordings and try to reproduce the material. This time I realized that carrying around old information, trying to get everything in, and still be in the moment just doesn't work.

  Meredith Monk

  Past, Trying, Pieces

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• I realized that in those nine seasons I started out at about 225 pounds and I felt, you know, full figured fabulous woman but in those seasons I gained 75 pounds up to over 300 pounds all in front of the nation.

  Star Jones

  Nine, Fabulous, Pounds

  "Larry King Live", transcripts.cnn.com. January 10, 2006.

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• Then one day I realized that a false picture of the German camps had been created and that the problem of the concentration camps was a universal one, not just one that could be disposed of by placing it on the doorstep of the National Socialists. The deportees - many of whom were Communists - had been largely responsible for leading international political thinking to such an erroneous conclusion. I suddenly felt that by remaining silent I was an accomplice to a dangerous influence.

  Paul Rassinier

  Thinking, Holocaust, Political

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• I noticed that democracy was broken and tried to work on fixing that in Japan. Then I realized that it was broken all over the place and decided to work on that too.

  Joichi Ito

  Broken Heart, Japan, Democracy

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• I realized that, instead of moving people closer to a salvation decision, an answer can push them further away. Rather than engaging their minds or urging them to consider an alternative perspective, an answer can give them ammunition for future attacks against the gospel.

  Randy Newman

  Moving, People, Giving

  "Questioning Evangelism: Engaging People's Hearts the Way Jesus Did". Book by Randy Newman, December 11, 2003.

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• I thought that if you come across as a freak, there will be some kind of distance. Maybe the distance became excessive. I realized that people were afraid of me without knowing me.

  Thomas Kretschmann

  Distance, Knowing, People

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• It became like a symbolic thing, to be “an artist.” After Duchamp, I realized that being an artist is more about a lifestyle and attitude than producing some product.

  Ai Weiwei

  Attitude, Artist, Lifestyle

  "Ai Weiwei (Contemporary Artists (Phaidon))". Book by Karen Smith et al., 2009.

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• And I realized that maybe none of us ever gets to choose our lives. Our only choice is to live the life that comes to us, or go down into darkness.

  Melinda M. Snodgrass

  Live Life, Choices, Darkness

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• Turns out, I couldn't catch them - or even get close to them. I realized that sharks are amazing, beautiful animals who have absolutely no interest in checking me out.

  Malin Akerman

  Beautiful, Animal, Sharks

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

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• Eventually I got asked to be in a Michael J. Fox sitcom called High School U.S.A. I didn’t think it was funny and said no. They doubled the money, and that kind of offended me. I realized, oh, that’s right, my opinion means nothing in Hollywood. I’d seen other people compromise, and I felt that once you gave up on what you wanted to do, you couldn’t go back. It was selling out. So I decided to go back to Minneapolis.

  Joel Hodgson

  School, Mean, Thinking

  "'Mystery Science Theater 3000': the Definitive Oral History of a Tv Masterpiece". Interview with Brian Raftery, www.wired.com. April 22, 14.

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• It was much later that I realized Dad's secret. He gained respect by giving it. He talked and listened to the fourth-grade kids in Spring Valley who shined shoes the same way he talked and listened to a bishop or a college president. He was seriously interested in who you were and what you had to say.

  Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot

  Dad, Spring, Kids

  Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot (2000). “Respect: An Exploration”, p.4, Basic Books

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• For a long time I was embarrassed to say I was a 'B' movie actor, ... But now that I see what Hollywood's putting out, I realized 'B' actually means 'better.'

  Bruce Campbell

  Mean, Long, Hollywood

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• Even before I had had time to really think things through, I realized we must not forget. If all of us forgot, the same thing might happen again, in 20 or 50 or 100 years.

  Simon Wiesenthal

  Thinking, Years, Might

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• I lost myself in the process and I realized how much I had identified myself with Maria Shriver, newswoman. When that was gone, I had to really sit back and go, 'Well, actually, who am I today?

  Maria Shriver

  Gone, Today, Lost

  "Maria Shriver Talks To Oprah About Being First Lady: 'I Cried A Lot... I Still Cry'". www.huffingtonpost.com. April 24, 2008.

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• I realized I’m not supposed to be pursuing impact, I’m supposed to be pursuing God. And when I pursue God I will have exactly as much impact as He wants me to have.

  Phil Vischer

  Impact, Want, Pursue

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• I thought martial arts was going to help me with my movies and TV stuff, but I realized it would not.

  Bas Rutten

  Art, Stuff, Tvs

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• I realized then that even though I was a tiny speck in an infinite cosmos, a blip on the timeline of eternity, I was not without purpose. And as long as I had a part in the music of the spheres, even if it was only a single grace note, I was not worthless. Nor was I alone.

  R. J. Anderson

  Long, Grace, Cosmos

  R. J. Anderson (2011). “Ultraviolet”, p.291, Carolrhoda Lab

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• What kind of husband am I gonna be if I can't even hold my wife's hand?
  ...but I realized I may not have hands to hold my wife's hand, but when the time comes, I'll be able to hold her heart. I don't need hands to hold her heart.

  Nick Vujicic

  Husband, Heart, Hands

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• Being in love isn't the only way of loving. I realized with all my being that if you loved somebody- it didn't matter who it was- and dedicated yourself to bringing joy to your loved one, you, too, would be redeemed.

  Sayo Masuda

  Being In Love, Love Is, Joy

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• I knew it was time to leave when I realized I could no longer look students in the eye and tell them what a great place this was to work.

  Greg Smith

  Eye, Looks, Students

  "Why I Am Leaving Goldman Sachs". www.nytimes.com. March 14, 2012.

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• There was no relationship between a wedding dress and fashion. There was no good taste, either. I realized that I could make an impression in terms of changing and readdressing the whole industry of bridal.

  Vera Wang

  Wedding, Fashion, Dresses

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• After so many changes, I realized I'd better cling to my own family and to what I've got right here.

  Suzy Bogguss

  My Own

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• Women, I learned, adapted.
  At first..they seemed so fragile, so dependent on fathers and husbands and brothers and lovers. Gradually, though, I noticed how supple their lives were beneath the surface. Then I realized it was this flexibility that enabled them to survive...that sooner or later, by choice or by chance, most women faced the task of adapting to a future on their own. When at my most optimistic, I thought of it as independence; in darker moods, as survival. Either way women had to do it.

  Alice Steinbach

  Brother, Husband, Father

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