Real Life Quotes - Page 34

• Real life is about accepting ups and downs, the good and the bad, the possibility of failure as well as the ambition to succeed. Atheism speaks to the truth about our human nature because it recognizes all this and does not seek to shield us from the truth by myth and superstition

  Julian Baggini

  Real, Ambition, Atheism

  Julian Baggini (2003). “Atheism: A Very Short Introduction”, p.111, Oxford University Press

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• Pulitzer's Gold is a goldmine of inspiration for both journalists and non-journalists. Those in the newspaper business, who now find themselves obsessing about staff cutbacks and circulation declines, should embrace this book as a reminder of the highest ideals, and the absolute thrills, to be found in their profession. As for regular readers, Pulitzer's Gold offers marvelous storytelling, real-life adventures, and absolute proof that journalism can change our world for the better.

  Jeffrey Zaslow

  Real, Book, Inspiration

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• I want gaming to be something that everybody does, because they understand that games can be a real solution to problems and a real source of happiness. I want games to be something everybody learns how to design and develop, because they understand that games are a real platform for change and getting things done. And I want families, schools, companies, industries, cities, countries, and the whole world to come together to play them, because we’re finally making games that tackle real dilemmas and improve real lives.

  Jane McGonigal

  Country, Real, School

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• By directing combat and war pieces, I could experience catharsis and successfully avoid committing a murder in real life. In this sense, I'm really grateful for that because I was conscious that I had such homicidal traits, to be honest.

  Yoshiyuki Tomino

  Real, War, Grateful

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• So-called real life has only once interfered with me, and it had been a far cry from what the words, lines, books had prepared me for. Fate had to do with blind seers, oracles, choruses announcing death, not with panting next to the refrigerator, fumbling with condoms, waiting in a Honda parked round the corner and surreptitious encounters in a Lisbon hotel. Only the written word exists, everything one must do oneself is without form, subject to contingency without rhyme or reason. It takes too long. And if it ends badly the metre isn't right, and there's no way to cross things out.

  Cees Nooteboom

  Real, Book, Fate

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• We all in real life put on these masks - we don't swear when we're around certain people When we come home, when you're on your own I'm sure you're really different than when you're with your boss.

  Malin Akerman

  Real, Home, People

  "Malin Akerman, The Awkward Girl Next Door". Interview with Gillian Monhey, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 15, 2011.

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• Dying to your own attachments is a beautiful death.
  Because this death releases you into real life.
  You have to die as a seed to live as a tree.

  Mooji

  Beautiful, Real, Attachment

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• School typically doesn't prepare young people for real life - unless their lives are spent following instructions and pleasing others. In my opinion, that's why so many students who succeed in school fail in life.

  Ray Dalio

  Life, Real, School

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• My real life was when I was just a working guy. You know, it's OK to head out for Wonderful. But on your way to Wonderful, you're gonna have to pass through All Right. And when you get to All Right, take a good look around, and get used to it, because that may be as far as you're gonna go.

  Bill Withers

  Real, Guy, Looks

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• It's more about when you come back from being out somewhere; in a minicab or a night bus, or with someone, or walking home across London late at night, dreamlike, and you've still got the music kind of echoing in you, in your bloodstream, but with real life trying to get in the way. I want it to be like a little sanctuary. It's like that 24-hour stand selling tea on a rainy night, glowing in the dark. It's pretty simple.

  Burial

  Real, Home, Dark

  "'Only five people know I make tunes'". Interview with Dan Hancox, www.theguardian.com. October 25, 2007.

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• We referenced fictional characters as if they were people to learn from. As if real-life people were too nebulous, too private and unreal for us to understand.

  Miguel Syjuco

  Real, Character, People

  Miguel Syjuco (2010). “Ilustrado: A Novel”, p.31, Macmillan

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• When you walk on the beach at night, you can say things you can't say in real life.

  Jenny Han

  Beach, Real, Night

  Jenny Han (2010). “The Summer I Turned Pretty”, p.171, Simon and Schuster

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• For me there was-is-nothing better than walking on the beach late at night. It feels like you could walk forever, like the whole night is yours and so is the ocean. When you walk on the beach at night, you can say things you can't say in real life. In the dark you can feel really close to a person. You can say whatever you want.

  Jenny Han

  Beach, Real, Ocean

  Jenny Han (2010). “The Summer I Turned Pretty”, p.171, Simon and Schuster

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• It feels better there. In real life you can eventually learn to deal with the pain and trauma, learn to cope on some level, you know? But you can never undo death, and even if you think they deserve it, killing doesn’t take away your pain, just puts you on dangerous ground that can collapse out from beneath you at any time.

  Taylor Stevens

  Pain, Real, Feel Better

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• Tulse Luper, who without too many confessions, in a sense, is a fictive version of me. I have to say he has far more exciting adventures, and certainly a lot of them sexual, than ever I've experienced. But in a sense, what you do with an alter ego, you give them all sorts of permissions and licences which you know you'll never be able to embrace in your real life.

  Peter Greenaway

  Real, Adventure, Giving

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• Yes, I get dry spells. Sometimes I can't turn out a thing for three months. When one of those spells comes on I quit trying to work and go out and see something of life. You can't write a story that's got any life in it by sitting at a writing table and thinking. You've got to get out into the streets, into the crowds, talk with people, and feel the rush and throb of real life-that's the stimulant for a story writer.

  O. Henry

  Real, Writing, Thinking

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• I'm more attracted to the bad guys. Why? Because in real life, I don't know any good guys. I know okay guys. I know polite guys. I know people who can control themselves.

  Vincent Cassel

  Real, People, Guy

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• Every video I'm in, every magazine cover, they stretch you - they make you perfect. It's not real life. I'm gonna say this about girls: The dieting wars have got to stop. Everyone just knock it off. Because at the end of the day, it's affecting kids your age. And it's making girls sick.

  Lady Gaga

  Girl, Real, War

  "Lady Gaga and the Remaking of Celebrity Culture". Book by Amber Davisson, 2013.

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• If people tell you that
  you should live your life preparing for the future, do not believe
  them. Real Life is found only in the present.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Real, Believe, People

  Leo Tolstoy (2010). “A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Se”, p.93, Simon and Schuster

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• I can think of no greater happiness than to be clear-sighted and know the miracle when it happens. And I can think of no more real life than the adventurous one of living and liking and exclaiming the things of one's own time.

  Robert Henri

  Real, Thinking, Miracle

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• To write a poem you must have a streak of arrogance-- not in real life I hope. In real life try to be nice. It will save you a hell of a lot of trouble and give you more time to write.

  Richard Hugo

  Real, Nice, Writing

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• There are two novels that can transform a bookish 14-year-old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish daydream that can lead to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood ...in which large chunks of the day are spent inventing ways to make real life more like a fantasy novel. The other is a book about orcs.

  Raj Patel

  Real, Book, Years

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• Students generally have very little idea of the world they are entering into, and their teachers - like parents - are viewed as beings who alternately guide and admonish; rarely are those teachers viewed as individuals or is their professional standing considered. It is usually only afterward, when young people encounter real-life situations in their chosen professions that they sometimes learn (if they are lucky) that they studied with one of the greats.

  Marian Bantjes

  Teacher, Real, Ideas

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• [I]nstead of the usual "Why can't we make movies more like real life?" I think a more pertinent question is "Why can't real life be more like the movies?"

  Ernie Pyle

  Real, Thinking, Pertinent Questions

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• It is not that Shakespeare's art is in technicolor and fancy, and that real life is black and white and tedious. The life that Shakespeare was living was the only life he had, and he had to use it to create what he was doing.

  Stephen Greenblatt

  Art, Real, Black And White

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