Real Life Quotes - Page 28

• Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Life, Death, Art

  "A Psalm of Life" st. 1 - 2 (1838)

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• Death is more important than life. Life is just the trivial, just the superficial; death is deeper. Through death you grow to the real life, and through life you only reach death and nothing else.

  Rajneesh

  Death, Real, Important

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• We cannot discuss the state of our minorities until we first have some sense of what we are, who we are, what our goals are, and what we take life to be. The question is not what we can do now for the hypothetical Mexican, the hypothetical Negro. The question is what we really want out of life, for ourselves, what we think is real.

  James A. Baldwin

  Life, Real, Thinking

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• The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Love, Life, Happiness

  Harry Persons Taber, Elbert Hubbard (1914). “The Philistine: A Periodical of Protest”

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• Ah! What avails the classic bent
  And what the cultured word,
  Against the undoctored incident
  That actually occurred?
  And what is Art whereto we press
  Through paint and prose and rhyme-
  When Nature in her nakedness
  Defeats us every time?

  Rudyard Kipling

  Art, Real, Classic

  Rudyard Kipling (1994). “The Collected Poems of Rudyard Kipling”, p.352, Wordsworth Editions

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• Life doesn't have plots and subplots and denouements. It's just a big collection of loose ends and dangling threads that never get explained.

  Grant Morrison

  Real, Plot, Ends

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• Reality is a cruel and unintuitive place with frustrating gameplay mechanics.
  (Press X to thanklessly toil your life away)

  Yahtzee Croshaw

  Real, Toil, Mechanic

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• All the songs that were written for that album are just all our first sophomore songs. So they're all from real life. Very sweet and very innocent.

  Ann Wilson

  Song, Sweet, Real

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• All the songs that were written for that album are just all our first sophomore songs. So they're all from real life. Very sweet and very innocent. I think the theme of the album probably was just that it was our first record. ... Back when we were first making records, you didn't just make the music, you put a great deal of energy into the way it looked, and every word that was written on the whole thing.

  Cat Stevens

  Song, Sweet, Real

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• If music in general is an imitation of history, opera in particular is an imitation of human willfulness; it is rooted in the fact that we not only have feelings but insist upon having them at whatever cost to ourselves. The quality common to all the great operatic roles, e.g., Don Giovanni, Norma, Lucia, Tristan, Isolde, Br?nnhilde, is that each of them is a passionate and willful state of being. In real life they would all be bores, even Don Giovanni.

  W. H. Auden

  Real, Feelings, Quality

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• I take in a lot of stuff from real life, movies, television, news and it all gets mixed in my head and somehow turns into a story idea.

  Janet Evanovich

  Real, Writing, Ideas

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• The theatre, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history, because the medium has a kindred movement to that of real life, though an artificial setting and form.

  George Santayana

  Real, History, Theatre

  George Santayana, Martin A. Coleman (2009). “The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings”, p.84, Indiana University Press

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• American Hustle shows the FBI making real-life bribes to Washington politicians. I know, because as your U.S. senator, I turned them down.

  Larry Pressler

  Real, Hustle, Politician

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• I'm nothing like Romeo in real life.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Real

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• As much as I do love real-life stories they can often make you hurt in a way I'd rather not hurt. . . . For some reason, it's always the pain that gets you.

  Henry Cavill

  Hurt, Pain, Real

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• I still like to live in a whimsical world that seems more romantic and fantasy-related because real life seems so hard

  Taylor Swift

  Real, World, Fantasy

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• Sometimes the lines in a song are lines you wish you could text-message somebody in real life.

  Taylor Swift

  Song, Real, Wish

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• In real life, I'm always in tracksuits, and I never wear makeup.

  Teresa Palmer

  Real, Makeup

  "Teresa Palmer " by Sarah Wilson, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 21, 2008.

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• In real life, I am emotionally confused, which enables me to write songs. I'm a Pisces, and they say that Pisces are very sensitive. If men were just honest with themselves, they would see that they all have that side.

  Adam Levine

  Song, Confused, Real

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

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• I like to think that I'm not as ominous in real life.

  Daniel Dae Kim

  Real, Thinking, Ominous

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• My father has a general rule. He says if I haven't done it in real life I shouldn't do it on-screen.

  Natalie Portman

  Father, Real, Done

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• Ive never understood having crushes on people who you dont know in real life. I only crush on people I meet. I mean, I can appreciate that someone is good-looking, obviously, but I dont intend to fantasize about people I dont know!

  Emma Watson

  Crush, Real, Mean

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• No. The blues are because you're getting fat and maybe it's been raining too long, you're just sad that's all. The mean reds are horrible. Suddenly you're afraid and you don't know what you're afraid of. Do you ever get that feeling?

  Audrey Hepburn

  Real, Rain, Mean

  "Fictional character: Holly Golightly". "Breakfast at Tiffany's", www.imdb.com. 1961.

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• I have a lot of real life experience with hustling and doing stupid stuff.

  Mark Wahlberg

  Real, Stupid, Hustle

  Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. May 29, 2003.

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• We try to magnify the difference between Americans and the English. In real life they like the same music and dress the same. It's really much more similar than anyone thinks or how we show it.

  Amanda Bynes

  Real, Thinking, Differences

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

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