Real World Quotes

• I know children regress after vaccination because it happened to my own son. Why aren't there any tests out there on the safety of how vaccines are administered in the real world, six at a time? Why have only two of the 36 shots our kids receive been looked at for their relationship to autism?

  Jenny McCarthy

  Children, Real, Kids

  "In the Vaccine-Autism Debate, What Can Parents Believe?" by Jenny McCarthy, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 10, 2011.

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• Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.

  Oscar Wilde

  Real, Individuality, Society

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• To be matter-of-fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy - and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Real, History, World

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.324, Penguin

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• So, what's it like in the real world? Well, the food is better, but beyond that, I don't recommend it.

  Bill Watterson

  Graduation, Real, World

  "Some thoughts on the real world by one who glimpsed it and fled". Bill Watterson's commencement speech at the Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, www.graduationwisdom.com. May 20, 1990.

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• I probably still haven’t completely adapted to the world. I don’t know, I feel like this isn’t the real world. The people, the scene: they just don’t seem real to me.

  Haruki Murakami

  Real, People, World

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “Norwegian Wood”, p.223, Random House

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• That is what I'm looking forward to the most, practical learning. I want to be a registered nurse so getting to talk to people who already work in those jobs can really teach me what to expect when I get out in the real world.

  Angela Carter

  Jobs, Real, Nurse

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• The edge of a painting is its frontier... where the artist negotiates his boundaries with the real world... where art begins and ends and where the eye enters and leaves the image. It determines, in an infinitely subtle number of ways, how you read a painting - which, unlike a book or a piece of music, has no pre-determined beginning or end.

  Andrew Graham-Dixon

  Art, Real, Book

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• Most people view the artistic process as something of a mystery. Leverage that, and engage your prospective clients with good stories. For many, buying art is their escape from the real world. Make it entertaining and enjoyable.

  Cory Trepanier

  Art, Real, Views

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• I love shooting with real things in the real world. I think it gives a level of drama, performance, and everything seems to rise to the occasion.

  Tony Scott

  Real, Drama, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• Commentators frequently blame MMORPGs for an increasing sense of isolation modern life. But virtual worlds are less a cause of that isolation than a response to it. Virtual worlds give back what has been scooped out of modern life. The virtual world is in important ways more authentically human than the real world. It gives us back community, a feeling of competence, and a sense of being an important person whom people depend on.

  Jonathan Gottschall

  Real, Giving, People

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• The real world is where I get to educate and entertain myself. I go and touch the real world and touch real people. That's my way into movies.

  Tony Scott

  Real, People, World

  Source: collider.com

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• Research is what drives me. When I get a script, I go to the real world and touch the real people.

  Tony Scott

  Real, People, Research

  Source: collider.com

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• The way that worms and viruses spread on the Internet is not that different from the way they spread in the real world, and the way you quarantine them is not that different, either.

  David Ulevitch

  Real, World, Quarantine

  "Meet David Ulevitch, CEO of OpenDNS" by Suzanne Herel, www.sfgate.com. September 26, 2010.

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• Art is not a copy of the real world; one of the damn things is enough.

  Virginia Woolf

  Art, Real, World

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• For the problem of decision-making in our complicated world is not how to get the problem simple enough so that we can all understand it; the problem is how to get our thinking about the problem as complex as humanly possible--and thus approach (we can never match) the complexity of the real world around us.

  Harlan Cleveland

  Real, Learning, Simple

  Harlan Cleveland (1966). “The obligations of power: American diplomacy in the search for peace”

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• The underlying reason for convergence seems to be that all organisms are under constant scrutiny of natural selection and are also subject to the constraints of the physical and chemical factors that severely limit the action of all inhabitants of the biosphere. Put simply, convergence shows that in a real world not all things are possible.

  Simon Conway Morris

  Real, World, Limits

  "The Crucible of Creation". Book by Simon Conway Morris, 1998.

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• I can understand why people would want to stay on the road because you create your own bubble. You almost don't live in the real world. Just to have the things that are with you is fine.

  Kylie Minogue

  Real, People, World

  Popjustice.com Interview,

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• The only time you'll see me as a Democrat is when I play Sophia. In the real world I'm a Republican from head to toe.

  Estelle Getty

  Real, Play, World

  The Sun Sentenial Interview, May 11, 1986.

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• I suppose Phil Collins offers something for everybody, and in hipdom that's not cool. But in the real world, there's no shame in that at all.

  Phil Collins

  Real, World, Shame

  Quoted in Guinness Rockopedia (1998).

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• The so-called Real World. Human misery and sadness. Blind politics and general cruelty.

  Tanith Lee

  Real, Sadness, World

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• The Yippie demonstrations were merely an attack of mental disobedience on an obediently insane society... and if you feel you have been living in an unreal world for the last couple of years, it is particularly because this power structure has refused to listen to reason... Step outside the guidelines of the official umpires and make your own rules and your own reality.

  Phil Ochs

  Couple, Reality, Years

  "An American Ordeal: The Antiwar Movement of the Vietnam Period". Book by Charles DeBenedetti, 1990.

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• Science may be weird and incomprehensible--more weird and less comprehensible than any theology--but science works. It gets results. It can fly you to Saturn, slingshotting you around Venus and Jupiter on the way. We may not understand quantum theory (heaven knows, I don't), but a theory that predicts the real world to ten decimal places cannot in any straightforward sense be wrong.

  Richard Dawkins

  Real, Heaven, Jupiter

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• Does religion fill a much needed gap? It is often said that there is a God-shaped gap in the brain which needs to be filled: we have a psychological need for God -- imaginary friend, father, big brother, confessor, confidant -- and the need has to be satisfied whether God really exists or not. But could it be that God clutters up a gap that we'd be better off filling with something else? Science, perhaps? Art? Human friendship? Humanism? Love of this life in the real world, giving no credence to other lives beyond the grave?

  Richard Dawkins

  Art, Brother, Father

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• To try to teach ignoring technology is to ignore the progress that we have made over the last century. If school is preparation for the real world - a real world that is increasingly technology-driven - then to ignore technology is to become obsolete.

  Adora Svitak

  Real, School, Technology

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• [D]oes the real world have any more substance than visions and hallucinations when we're having them? At any given moment, what's happening in our minds is all and everything that happens.

  Roger Ebert

  Real, Vision, Mind

  Roger Ebert (2012). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2013: 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.631, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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