I Realized Quotes - Page 37

• When I came out, when I was 17 years old, it was one of those things where I realized that there was going to be so many obstacles, but being gay doesn't mean being weak. And being gay doesn't mean that you are less than anybody else. It's just who you are.

  Bob Harper

  Mean, Gay, Years

  "'Biggest Loser' trainer Bob Harper reveals he's gay" by Ree Hines, www.today.com. November 27, 2013.

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• I'd see the bus pass every day… But to me, that was a way of life; we had no choice but to accept what was the custom. The bus was among the first ways I realized there was a black world and a white world.

  Rosa Parks

  White, Choices, Black

  Speech by Chris Dodd. Congressional Record (Bound Volumes), Part 11, July 20, 2006.

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• I realized at a young age that sequence in an album is almost as important as the songs that are on the album.

  Dr. Dre

  Song, Important, Age

  "Exclusive: Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine Talk Beats Music". Interview with Isaac Guzmán, entertainment.time.com. January 17, 2014.

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• I think I was about 30 before I realized that not every family talks about the presentment clause on a regular basis.

  Mike Lee

  Thinking, Clauses, Bases

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• It was not until some weeks later that I realized there is no need to restrict oneself to 2 by 2 matrices. One could go on to 4 by 4 matrices, and the problem is then easily soluable. In retrospect, it seems strange that one can be so much held up over such an elementary point. The resulting wave equation for the electron turned out to be very successful. It led to correct values for the spin and the magnetic moment. This was quite unexpected. The work all followed from a study of pretty mathematics, without any thought being given to these physical properties of the electron.

  Paul Dirac

  Successful, Discovery, Goes On

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• If I'm writing strictly for others, how does that show what I'm experiencing or thinking? I just got to a point where I realized I could be as personal as I wanted to be and people could relate to those situations if they so choose.

  Chantal Kreviazuk

  Writing, Thinking, People

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• I tried being a mechanic and I tried catering, but I realized I had even less aptitude for semi-skilled labour than for academic work.

  Toby Young

  Academic Work, Aptitude, Mechanic

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• The second time I took acid, I watched myself in the mirror for nine hours. What I realized, when I stared, was that my face looked exactly the same when I cried as when I laughed. After awhile I couldn't tell which I was doing. Relief was just pain inside out.

  Jerry Stahl

  Pain, Mirrors, Relief

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• I realized that the worst thing that could happen to me was about to happen to me.

  William Manchester

  Fear, Worst, Happens

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• I was a super-duper Tupac fan, and I realized later, when I became a huge Nas fan and a huge Eminem fan, I was drawn to the storytellers. They all told stories in different ways, but they were all like the best storytellers.

  J. Cole

  Fans, Different, Stories

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• I realized ceativity is a renewable resource. You never run out of good ideas

  Biz Stone

  Running, Ideas, Renewable Resources

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• I realized that I could have been in galleries much sooner. I just needed to get past the fear of rejection. I still feel nervous when I approach a new gallery, although it has become more like a job now. The first step on this long road was getting past that initial fear.

  Mark Edward

  Jobs, Past, Long

  "Do The Things Other People Fear". markedwardadams.com. April 29, 2013.

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• I realized that the artists who managed to fight through this recession have a better shot at longevity than most. The recession was a test of your resolve and passion. I think as we come out of these rough times we will be more adept at survival and will have gained the skills necessary to make a long fruitful artistic career. There will still be those that fade away but we are more likely to grow and bend with the times and prosper.

  Mark Edward

  Passion, Fighting, Artist

  "Lessons From Old Art Magazines". markedwardadams.com. May 3, 2013.

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• I suppose it was later on that I realized that there was some reaction among the musicians themselves, some of whom resented the success of cool jazz in California, and that broke down into the white guys against the hard-blowing black guys in New York.

  Ashley Kahn

  New York, Cool Jazz, California

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• My dad was a very conservative Republican businessman, so obviously I considered it a problem when I realized I was a lesbian.

  Catherine Opie

  Dad, Conservative, Problem

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• The very first time I realized what unconditional love meant ; was the very first time I held each one of my children in my arms. It was love at first sight.

  Nishan

  Children, Unconditional Love, Sight

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• I realized that everything I do is fantasy, whether it is an adult movie or a kids movie.

  Robert Rodriguez

  Kids, Adults, Fantasy

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• And then I realized that my sister was trying to LIVE a romance novel. Man, that takes courage and imagination. Well, it also took some degree of mental illness, too, but I was suddenly happy for her. And a little scared. Well, a lot scared.

  Sherman Alexie

  Men, Imagination, Romance

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• I was going round the world searching for an interesting place, when I realized that the place that I was in was already interesting.

  Emmet Gowin

  Photography, Interesting, World

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• I was feeling a bit down, I went to a therapist a few times, at a hundred bucks a pop. But then I realized that no therapy session would ever cheer me up half as much as if I was just strolling along and found a hundred dollar bill.

  Emo Philips

  Cheer, Feelings, Dollar Bills

  Psychology Today, July 2006.

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• I wanted to be an actor because I wanted to be onstage. I wanted to do musical theater, and from that I realized I was interested in plays. I never imagined myself on television. I was so lucky to be onstage my whole life.

  Jesse Tyler Ferguson

  Play, Musical, Lucky

  "Jesse Tyler Ferguson On Shakespeare In The Park: ‘I Love The Challenge Of Starting A Play’". Interview with Matthew Jacobs, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 27, 2013.

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• Vaguely at first, then more distinctly, I realized that man is an eternal stranger on this planet.

  Eric Hoffer

  Men, Firsts, Stranger

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• I realized that kids everywhere go for the same stuff; and seeing as we'd done it in England, there's no reason why we couldn't do it in America too.

  John Lennon

  Kids, America, Done

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• Keeping up with the Joneses was a full-time job with my mother and father. It was not until many years later when I lived alone that I realized how much cheaper it was to drag the Joneses down to my level.

  Quentin Crisp

  Funny, Mother, Jobs

  1968 The Naked Civil Servant, ch.1.

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• I realized during my time as a chaplain that I didn't want to be a minister.

  John Green

  Want, Ministers, Chaplains

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