Real World Quotes - Page 13

• Let me formulate the artistic disposition as follows: it is reacting with one's ideal to the flaw in oneself and in the world, and somehow making that reaction formation solid enough in the medium so that it indeed becomes an improved bit of real world for others.

  Paul Goodman

  Real, World, Artistic

  Growing Up Absurd" by Paul Goodman, (p. 176), 1956.

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• Education means the ability to think independently and creatively, and development of the skill of applying one's knowledge in dealing with people and situations in the real world.

  Oliver DeMille

  Real, Mean, Thinking

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• People that talk about living in the real world don't even enjoy living in the real world.

  Craig Stone

  Real, People, World

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• Sometimes guessing is the best you can do. In the real world, we guess all the time and it serves us well.

  Usama Fayyad

  Real, World, Guessing

  Interview with Joshuah Bearman, believermag.com. September 1, 2003.

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• I'm interested in that hybrid - the place between the real world and my imagination. There's a friction that's created between the things we imagine and the things that exist.

  Laurel Nakadate

  Real, Imagination, World

  Interview with Scott Indrisek, believermag.com. October 1, 2006.

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• I've often thought I would like to try to write a conventional novel, but I just don't know enough about the real world to write one.

  Jim Woodring

  Real, Writing, Trying

  Interview with Ross Simonini, staging.believermag.com.

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• When I sing the songs, there's a color tone and a place, and it's not a place that I remember in reality. It's usually based on a photo that I took - 'cause those photos don't look like the real world. The film distorts them, and the colors get exaggerated.

  Phil Elvrum

  Song, Real, Color

  Interview with Brandon Stosuy, believermag.com. July 1, 2009.

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• I lived in the world of poetry and ideas. I thought life was all about art and philosophy. In the military, I suddenly found out about the real world.

  Shahin Najafi

  Art, Philosophy, Military

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• La Zona is such a closed area, a dangerous, outlaw area. My time in the Zona was a time outside of society, almost out of the real world. And the girls there had such a sense of irony and sarcasm. They were also really interested in my film. They'd be like, "Thank God we live in Mexico, because our kind of prostitution has a heart. We wouldn't want to sit behind a glass cage or be sold by our own mothers. We have free will."

  Michael Glawogger

  Girl, Mother, Real

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• In the real world, illiquid assets carry a discount.

  David Einhorn

  Real, World, Assets

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• [My novels] introduce levels of intelligence ... moral doubt [and] self-doubt, which may not pertain [to real-world espionage].

  John le Carre

  Real, Self, Doubt

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• We see an ever-increasing move toward inter and trans- disciplinary attacks upon problems in the real world ... The system scientist has a central role to play in this new order, and that role is to first of all understand ways and means of how to encode the natural world into "good" formal structures.

  John L. Casti

  Real, Moving, Mean

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• All Hell is smaller than one pebble of your earthly world; but it is smaller than one atom of this world, the Real World.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Religious, Real

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• I find that a lot of actors who are good and open to challenges have lived a full life. When you walk into an audition, you have more to say for yourself because you come from the real world. It's more enticing for directors, I think.

  Idris Elba

  Real, Thinking, Challenges

  "Idris Elba, No Stringers Attached". Interview with Amy Chozick, www.nytimes.com. September 5, 2014.

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• The decision to leave [the church] is you're giving up everything you've worked for your whole life. I feel that people need to understand this has been my whole life. As time goes on, you start to lose touch with the real world. The mindset becomes us against them.

  Leah Remini

  Giving Up, Real, People

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• Kenya, being a third world country, from a young age your eyes are open to the real world. I'd like to think growing up there taught me to stand on my own two feet, make my own decisions about what I wanted to be.

  Chris Froome

  Country, Growing Up, Real

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• When you're playing a fictional character reacting to the real world, it's incredibly difficult and confusing and kind of messes with your values a bit.

  Ed Helms

  Real, Character, Confusing

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• I'm sure we all can remember back in the day when you're 17, naïve, you're sort of just this unblemished teenager. You're sort of sheltered and haven't really seen the real world and then when you do see it, you're just like... "This is the world? This is reality?"

  Ellen Wong

  Real, Teenager, World

  Source: collider.com

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• People in movies and TV seem to be completely dumb to what's going on in the real world and relationships.

  Will Gluck

  Real, People, Dumb

  Source: collider.com

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• We`re not going to have a backlash. We`re going to build a consensus. And I live in the real world, not the kind of fantasy goals that we would all like, but we would never achieve if we go about it in the blunderbuss fashion that your question would assume.

  Jerry Brown

  Fashion, Real, Goal

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• When I am writing political op-eds, I do think carefully about the impact of my words. When I am writing fiction, it's a different story. In my fiction I am more reckless. I don't care about the real world until I am done with the book.

  Elif Safak

  Real, Book, Writing

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Where the real world changes into simple images, the simple images become real beings and effective motivations of hypnotic behavior.

  Guy Debord

  Motivation, Real, Simple

  Guy Debord (2012). “Society Of The Spectacle”, p.32, Bread and Circuses Publishing

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• Despite having been awarded the dubious honor of arthood, all photography is still perceived as having one foot in the real world, a toe in the chilly waters of verisimilitude, no matter how often it is demonstrated that photographs can and do lie.

  Lucy R. Lippard

  Photography, Real, Lying

  Olivia Lahs-Gonzales, Lucy R. Lippard, St. Louis Art Museum (1997). “Defining eye: women photographers of the 20th century : selections from the Helen Kornblum collection”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

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• We've spent now about 150 years trying to convince ourselves that photographs are reliable evidence, some unimpeachable slice of the real world. That was a myth from the very beginning.

  A. D. Coleman

  Real, Years, Trying

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• Of course, the camera is a far more objective and trustworthy witness than a human being. We know that a Brueghel or Goya or James Ensor can have visions or hallucinations, but it is generally admitted that a camera can photograph only what is actually there, standing in the real world before its lens.

  Hannah Hoch

  Real, Vision, Lenses

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