Real World Quotes - Page 26

• When times are tough, constant conflict may be good politics but in the real world, cooperation works better. After all, nobody's right all the time, and a broken clock is right twice a day.

  William J. Clinton

  Real, Broken, World

  Bill Clinton's speech to the Democratic National Convention, www.washingtonpost.com. September 6, 2012.

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• Most great entrepreneurs I know are nothing like the other kids. They're almost like tangent lines - those lines that seem to go nowhere. Nothing connects them, until they get out in the real world. Then they connect just fine.

  Barbara Corcoran

  Motivational, Real, Kids

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• When I come up against the real world, I just vacillate.

  Robert Crumb

  Real, World, Come Up

  "'When I was four, I knew I was weird'". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. March 7, 2005.

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• In the real world in which we live, you always have to choose between evils. And in choosing between evils, you have to have moral criteria for how to make those choices.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Real, Evil, Choices

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• When I became my masked identity I was this incredible little nerd, but in the real world I had to be this tough kid from the neighborhood.

  Junot Diaz

  Real, Kids, Nerd

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• I don't think I've ever been an agnostic. I've always thought there's a superior power, that this is not the real world and that there's a world to come.

  Bob Dylan

  Real, Thinking, World

  Bob Dylan (2007). “Dylan on Dylan: The Essential Interviews”, Hodder & Stoughton

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• I try to get closer to reality, to get close to the contradictions. The cinema world can be a real world rather than a dream world.

  Michael Haneke

  Dream, Real, Trying

  "Michael Haneke: I try to get closer to reality, close to the contradictions". Interview with Larushka Ivan-Zadeh, metro.co.uk. November 15, 2012.

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• It can hardly be denied that such a demand quite arbitrarily limits the facts which are to be admitted as possible causes of the events which occur in the real world.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Real, Limits, Causes

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• There are few things as seemingly untouched by the real world as a child asleep.

  John Irving

  Children, Real, World

  John Irving (2012). “A Widow For One Year”, p.190, Random House

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• Trust your gut instinct over spreadsheets. There are too many variables in the real world that you simply can't put into a spreadsheet. Spreadsheets spit out results from your inexact assumptions and give you a false sense of security. In most cases, your heart and gut are still your best guide.

  Naveen Jain

  Trust, Real, Heart

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• As with real reading, the ability to comprehend subtlety and complexity comes only with time and a lot of experience. If you don't adequately acquire those skills, moving out into the real world of real people can actually become quite scary.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Real, Moving, Reading

  "We never talk any more: The problem with text messaging" by Jeffrey Kluger, edition.cnn.com. August 31, 2012.

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• I just love writing. It's magical, it's somewhere else to go, it's somewhere much more dreadful, somewhere much more exciting. Somewhere I feel I belong, possibly more than in the so-called real world.

  Tanith Lee

  Real, Writing, Somewhere Else

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• I was from my little perch in a prep school I saw the civil rights movement and it was defining the moral dimensions of the time and I was drawn to it and I read James Baldwin and read Invisible Man and these were my touch points. But it was when I got to Michigan and saw a bigger world, a real world, that I got involved.

  Bill Ayers

  Real, School, Men

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I think in the real world that's probably correct. That would give federal matching funds. It would mean no more ballot access woes.

  William Weld

  Real, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Real world movies or shows that are about things that actually happen versus having superpowers, there's a little bit of a fantasy element to it.

  Dan Payne

  Real, Elements, World

  Source: www.realstylenetwork.com

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• It's funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you watch them on a screen.

  Anthony Burgess

  Life, Real, Color

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• A heartless hand on my shoulder A push and it's over Alabaster crashes down Six months is a long time Tried living in the real world Instead of a shell But before I began I was bored before I even began

  Steven Morrissey

  Real, Hands, Long

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• Whenever serious and competent people need to get things done in the real world, all considerations of tradition and protocol fly out the window.

  Neal Stephenson

  Real, People, Needs

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• Many writers do little else but sit in small rooms recalling the real world.

  Annie Dillard

  Real, Writing, Small Rooms

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• Why do you want to be on The Real World?
  Because I want everyone to witness my youth.
  Why?
  Isn't it gorgeous?

  Dave Eggers

  Real, World, Want

  "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius". Book by Dave Eggers, 2000.

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• I remembered that the real world was wide, and that a varied field of hopes and fears, of sensations and excitments, awaited those who had the courage to go forth into it's expanse, to seek real knowledge of life amidst it's perils.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Real, World, Fields

  Charlotte Bronte (2004). “Jane Eyre”, p.40, Variocity

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• The real world is where the monsters are.

  Rick Riordan

  Life, Real, Monsters

  Rick Riordan (2013). “Demigods and Monsters: Your Favorite Authors on Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson and the Olympians Series”, p.171, BenBella Books, Inc.

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• School prepares you for the real world... which also bites.

  Jim Benton

  Real, School, World

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• In mind's special processes, a ten-mile run takes far longer than the 60 minutes reported by a grandfather clock. Such time, in fact, hardly exists at all in the real world; it is all out on the trail somewhere, and you only go back to it when you are out there.

  John L. Parker Jr.

  Running, Real, Mind

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• We care about moral issues, nobility, decency, happiness, goodness—the issues that matter in the real world, but which can only be addressed, in their purity, in fiction.

  Orson Scott Card

  Real, Issues, Fiction

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