Real Things Quotes - Page 5

• The World Health Organization recently concluded that glyphosate, the main ingredient in the most-used herbicide on GMOs, is "possibly carcinogenic to humans." What's even scarier is that more than 3,200 elementary schools are within 1,000 feet of genetically modified corn or soybean fields. Drift is a very real thing in agricultural communities, so the proximity of these toxic substances to children is terrifying.

  Zoe Lister-Jones

  Children, Real, School

  "Zoe Lister-Jones: The Dangers of GMOs". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. April 27, 2016.

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• I still feel lucky whenever I hear a director say, "Action!" Because then I think, "Whoa, I'm really in the movies. This is a real thing happening." I've never not been enthralled by that. I still love it. I still love hearing it, and I feel really lucky all the time.

  Fred Armisen

  Real, Thinking, Directors

  Interview with Jeff Goldblum, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 21, 2016.

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• Without someone giving you a shot, opening a door, believing that your obsession is a real thing when you're young, you don't get the opportunity. Every single day I'm reminded of that.

  Ryan Seacrest

  Real, Believe, Opportunity

  Source: www.billboard.com

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• I'm used to being the background. I'm used to having work that only lasts for a little while. I'm used to being - working in the real world, where real things are.

  Robert Barry

  Real, World, Littles

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its officeholders. The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing; it is the thing to watch over, and care for, and be loyal to; institutions are extraneous, they are its mere clothing, and clothing can wear out, become ragged, cease to be comfortable, cease to protect the body from winter, disease, and death.

  Mark Twain

  Loyalty, Country, Real

  Mark Twain (1889). “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court”, p.100, Createspace Independent Pub

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• So then I thought, I'd like you to have something to remember me by, you know, if you ever meet some veela when you're off doing whatever you're doing.' I think dating opportunities are going to be pretty thin on the ground, to be honest.' There's a silver lining I've been looking for,' she whispered, and then she was kissing him as she never kissed him before, and Harry was kissing her back, and it was a blissful oblivion, better than firewhiskey; she was the only real thing in the world, Ginny, the feel of her, one hand on her back, the other in her long sweet-smelling hair.

  J. K. Rowling

  Sweet, Real, Kissing

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• You're mine, Angel, and don't you forget it. Your fights are my fights. What if something bad had happened today? It was bad enough when I thought your ghost was haunting me; I don't think I can handle the real thing.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Real, Angel, Fighting

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2011). “Silence”, p.341, Simon and Schuster

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• It could have been like a fairy tale. But fairy tales aren't real. Things don't work like that. There's a price for everything.

  Maureen Johnson

  Real, Fairy Tale, Tales

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• Don't let that little pyramid with the bright eye fool you. That's to draw your attention away from the real thing: the big trapezoid beneath it.

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Real, Eye, Pyramids

  Anton Szandor LaVey (2000). “The Devil's Notebook”, p.112, Feral House

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• Going to a movie so you won't be offended is like eating potato chips made with Olestra; you avoid the dangers of the real thing, but your insides fill up with synthetic runny stuff.

  Roger Ebert

  Real, Potato Chips, Stuff

  Roger Ebert (2002). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2003”, p.473, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• If you have a temperature rise, if it's a problem in one area, it's beneficial in another area. But sea level is the real 'bad guy,' and therefore they [The IPCC] have talked very much about it. But the real thing is, that [sea level rise] doesn't exist in observational data, only in computer modeling.

  Nils-Axel Morner

  Real, Sea, Data

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• Inside each of us resides the truth, I began, the absolute truth. But sometimes the truth is hidden in a hall of mirrors. Sometimes we believe we are viewing the real thing, when in fact we are viewing a facsimile, a distortion.

  Garth Stein

  Real, Believe, Mirrors

  Garth Stein (2008). “The Art of Racing in the Rain”, Harper

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• It took the real thing to show you the size of your delusions.

  Ann Brashares

  Real, Size, Delusion

  Ann Brashares (2010). “My Name is Memory”, p.163, Penguin

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• You matter as much as the things that matter to you. And I got so backwards trying to matter to him. All this time, there were real things to care about: real, good people who care about me, and this place. It's so easy to get stuck. You just get caught in being something, being special or cool or whatever, to the point where you don't even know why you need it; you just think you do.

  John Green

  Life, Real, Thinking

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• Our love has been the thread through the labyrinth, the net under the high-wire walker, the only real thing in this strange life of mine that I could ever trust.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Real, Labyrinth, Wire

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.515, Simon and Schuster

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• It was bad enough when I thought your ghost was haunting me; I don't think I could handle the real thing.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Real, Thinking, Haunting

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2011). “Silence”, p.341, Simon and Schuster

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• I was doing science," Giddon said. "He threw a bean." "I was testing the impact of a bean upon water," Bann said. "That's not even a real thing." "Perhaps I'll test the impact of a bean upon your beautiful white shirt.

  Kristin Cashore

  Beautiful, Real, Impact

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• You," he said, "are a terribly real thing in a terribly false world, and that, I believe, is why you are in so much pain.

  Emilie Autumn

  Pain, Real, Believe

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• Granny knew all about bad fortune-telling. It was harder than the real thing. You needed a good imagination.

  Terry Pratchett

  Real, Imagination, Fortune Telling

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• Where you are in life is exactly where you are supposed to be as a result of the things you have done up until that moment in time. To do anything else but accept your current situation would be crazy. The real thing to do is decide where you want to go, use both consistency and patience to get there and enjoy the ride. It is, after all, the path you have chosen in life.

  Martyn Rooney

  Crazy, Real, Consistency

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• My attitude is if somebody blunders into the level of popularity; at least remember the human factor. These guys are still human beings and hopefully still have hearts and if you keep in touch with them rather than vilify them you may be able to encourage them to go in the right direction. What I'm hoping will eventually happen is that they will grasp the amount of power and financial clout that is now at their fingertips and use those as tools to help real people with real things the way punk politics was always designed to do before, but nobody had any money.

  Jello Biafra

  Attitude, Real, Heart

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• Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Life, Marriage

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• A clockwork heart can't replace the real thing.

  Dru Pagliassotti

  Real, Heart, Steampunk

  Dru Pagliassotti (2017). “Clockwork Heart”, p.88, EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing

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• All life is only a set of pictures in the brain, among which there is no difference betwixt those born of real things and those born of inward dreamings, and no cause to value the one above the other.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Dream, Real, Differences

  H.P. Lovecraft (2002). “Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre: The Best of H. P. Lovecraft”, p.53, Del Rey

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• Our lives aren't even about doing real things most of the time. We think and talk about people we've never met, pretend to visit places we've never actually been to, discuss things that are just names as though they were as real as rocks or animals or something. Information Age - Hell it's the Imagination Age. We're living in our own minds. No, she decided as the plane began its steep descent, really we're living in other people's minds.

  Tad Williams

  Real, Thinking, Animal

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