Real World Quotes - Page 5

• Logic doesn't apply to the real world. D. R. Hofstadter and D. C. Dennett (eds.) The Mind's I, 1981.

  Marvin Minsky

  Real, Mind, World

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• Film criticism became the means whereby a stream of young intellectuals could go straight from the campus film society into the professionals' screening room without managing to get a glimpse of the real world in between.

  Judith Crist

  Real, Mean, Criticism

  Judith Crist (1968). “The private eye, the cowboy, and the very naked girl: movies from Cleo to Clyde”

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• The desert adapts. The people adapt. Live. Die. Struggle. Suffer. Create. The people in the real world beyond Demesne's ring are not all manufactured perfection. They deal.

  Rachel Cohn

  Real, Struggle, People

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• The mainstream has lost its way. Crime fiction is an objective, realistic genre because it's about the real world, real bodies really being killed by somebody. And this involves the investigator in trying to understand the society that the person lived in.

  Michael Dibdin

  Real, Trying, Fiction

  FaceBook post by Michael Dibdin from Nov 27, 2011

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• Not many people realize this, but I'm a really squeamish guy. When I watch other horror films that are really over-the-top with their blood and guts, I cannot watch it. So if my threshold to something onscreen is at that level, you can imagine how my threshold is to all the pain and suffering that is happening in the real world.

  James Wan

  Pain, Real, Blood

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In the real world of research, conventional tests of [statistical] significance seem almost worthless.

  Fischer Black

  Real, Research, World

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• The thing I love so much about the UN, is that they're so obviously corrupt. It's not like the Oil-for-Food scandal was even hard to discover, it was almost a parody of corruption. The behavior of the delegates in New York is comically corrupt as well. The amazing thing is that there are still people who want to give the UN MORE power, and to become a real world government... Sigh

  John Hamill

  New York, Real, Oil

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• We are all assumed, these days, to reside at one extreme of the opinion spectrum, or another. We are pro-abortion or anti-abortion. We are free traders or protectionists. We are pro-private sector or pro-government. We are feminists or chauvinists. But in the real world, few of us hold these extreme views. There is instead a spectrum of opinion.

  Michael Crichton

  Real, Government, Views

  "Mediasaurus" by Michael Crichton, www.wired.com. April 1, 1993.

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• What works in the real world is cooperation.

  William J. Clinton

  Real, World, Cooperation

  Bill Clinton's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.nytimes.com. September 5, 2012.

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• Peter Beinart excoriates the doughface liberals who during the Cold War put anti-imperialism before anti-totalitarianism and demanded total moral purity on the part of the United States, thus opposing any action in the real world to resist Soviet expansionism. If the Democrats were, as he advocates, to return to the Trumanesque anti-totalitarian liberalism that held sway in the party from roughly 1947 to 1972, the party and the country would be better off.

  Rich Lowry

  Country, Real, War

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• Singularitarians are the munchkins of the real world. We just ignore all the usual dungeons and head straight for the cycle of infinite wish spells.

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  Real, Wish, Usual

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• I like to bet on people, especially those who have taken risks and failed in some way, because they have more real-world experience. And they’re humble.

  Mark Pincus

  Real, Taken, Humble

  "Are You a C.E.O. of Something?". Interview with Adam Bryant, www.nytimes.com. January 30, 2010.

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• I am very happy to be alive. There is much fun to be had. Music, movies, books, paintings, drawingsI hope you have these things where you are. If you have them, what does the real world matter anyway?

  John Frusciante

  Fun, Real, Book

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• Do we believe that there is equal economic opportunity out there in the real world, right now, for each and every one of these groups? If we believed in the tooth fairy, if we believed in the Easter Bunny, we might well believe that.

  William Weld

  Easter, Real, Believe

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• Teach your students real-world writing purposes, add a teacher who models his or her struggles with the writing process, throw in lots of real-world mentor texts for students to emulate, and give our kids the time necessary to enable them to stretch as writers.

  Kelly Gallagher

  Teacher, Real, Struggle

  Kelly Gallagher (2011). “Write Like this: Teaching Real-world Writing Through Modeling & Mentor Texts”, p.21, Stenhouse Publishers

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• It's no surprise that the droll and (seemingly) all-knowing wizard behind the Chicago Style Q&A puts it all together-entertainingly-for manuscript editors in this real-world guide to job success and survival. The surprise is how urgent it is for every author, client, and boss who works with editors to embrace Carol Fisher Saller's 'subversiveness'-or suffer the next outcome from hell.

  Arthur Plotnik

  Jobs, Real, Knowing

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• Nothing makes me happier than working with real people in the real world.

  Tim Gunn

  Real, People, World

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• At its best, climbing becomes a life focus around which everything else must orbit and at its least is an excellent diversion from the real world.

  Todd Skinner

  Real, Climbing, Focus

  Todd Skinner (1993). “Modern Rock Climbing: Sport Climbing and Top Roping Beyond the Basics”, Ics Books

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• We created a show and a scenario for college students where they can take what they learn in class every day and apply it to the real world.

  Ross Martin

  Real, College, Class

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• Business is essentially applied rationality:
  a systematic process of thinking that produces a real-world result. Instead of mortgaging your life to go to business school, it's possible to dramatically increase your knowledge of business on your own time and with little cost - without setting foot inside a classroom.

  Josh Kaufman

  Real, School, Thinking

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• The Democrats say we ought to give Barack Obama credit for trying. That sounds like the nonsense of giving every kid a trophy for showing up.
  
  Friends, we're talking about leading the country, not playing on a third-grade soccer team!
  
  I realize this is the man who got a Nobel Peace Prize for what he would potentially do, but in the real world, you get the prize for producing something, not just promising it.

  Mike Huckabee

  Soccer, Country, Real

  Mike Huckabee's Speech at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida, www.politico.com. August 29, 2012.

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• Think of your career as your ministry. Make your work an expression of love, in service to mankind. Within the worldly illusion, we all have different jobs. Some of us are artists, some of us are business people, some of us are scientists. But in the real world that lies beyond all this, we all have the same job: to minister to human hearts.

  Marianne Williamson

  Jobs, Real, Lying

  Marianne Williamson (1992). “A return to love: reflections on the principles of "A course in miracles"”

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• Conventional economics is a form of brain damage. Economics is so fundamentally disconnected from the real world, it is destructive.

  David Suzuki

  Real, Brain, World

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• Remember, a negative multiplied by a negative is only positive in maths, not in the real world

  Eric Thomas

  Real, Math, Negative

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• Crazy Horse dreamed and went into the world where there is nothing but the spirits of things. That is the real world that is behind this one, and everything we see here is something like a shadow from that world.... It was this vision that gave him his great power, for when he went into a fight, he had only to think of that world to be in it again, so that he could go through anything and not be hurt

  Black Elk

  Hurt, Horse, Crazy

  Black Elk (2000). “Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux”, Bison Books

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