Real World Quotes - Page 6

• The imagination is the most real world that we know
  because we each know it first hand.

  John Frusciante

  Real, Hands, Imagination

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• Nothing happens in the 'real' world unless it first happens in the images in our heads

  Gloria E. Anzaldúa

  Real, World, Firsts

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• I don't really like politics that much. And I like the order and simplicity of sports. They have an ending. You can argue with your friends about it, but in the end you still like sports. I almost love the fantasy world of sports more than the real world.

  Norm MacDonald

  Sports, Real, Order

  "Norm MacDonald Has No Problem Paying O.J. Simpson Under the Table". Interview with Abram Sauer, www.esquire.com. April 12, 2011.

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• There are so many glamorous actresses, but you know what? In the real world, nobody looks like that.

  Rebel Wilson

  Real, Looks, World

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• Okay, so maybe sometimes the real world is smiles and miracles.

  Gary D. Schmidt

  Real, Miracle, World

  Gary D. Schmidt (2009). “The Wednesday Wars”, p.259, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Your preparation for the real world is not in the answers you’ve learned, but in the questions you’ve learned how to ask yourself.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Real, Preparation, Answers

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• The real world has consequences when you do and say things about others. We're at a point now where you better be sure who you're going after.

  Curt Schilling

  Real, World, Consequence

  "The world we live in…Man has it changed. ADDENDUM!" by Curt Schilling, 38pitches.wordpress.com. March 1, 2015.

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• There is no line between the 'real world' and 'world of myth and symbol.' Objects, sensations, hit with the impact of hallucination.

  William S. Burroughs

  Real, Impact, World

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• Success is achieved twice. Once in the mind and the second time in the real world.

  Azim Premji

  Real, Mind, World

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• The real world doesn't reward perfectionists. It rewards people who get things done.

  Ziad K. Abdelnour

  Real, People, Done

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• The same person who would never raise his hand in a lecture hall of two hundred people might blog to two thousand, or two million, without thinking twice. The same person who finds it difficult to introduce himself to strangers might establish a presence online and then extend these relationships into the real world.

  Susan Cain

  Real, Thinking, Hands

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.63, Broadway Books

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• I like that "once upon a time" quality, where the telling of a tale has an elevated sense of story. There's a whimsical quality to it. Sometimes in fairy tales more things seem possible, even though often they're real world based.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Real, Once Upon A Time, Quality

  "'The Night Circus' looks to enchant fans of 'Twilight' and 'Harry Potter'". Interview with Christian DuChateau, www.cnn.com. September 19, 2011.

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• Life would be very dreary if there were no magic. If the real world were only that veil of tears, I just don't think could get up in the morning.

  Victoria Moran

  Morning, Real, Thinking

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• There is a real world, beyond the glass, for children who look, for those whose parents encourage them to truly see.

  Richard Louv

  Nature, Children, Real

  Richard Louv (2013). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.57, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• In a real-world way, my gifts are very limited in terms of what I can do.

  Sherman Alexie

  Real, World, Way

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• I don't know if people feel this way, but I think by nature that when you start off as a young pop singer, they assume that you're a bit pampered, prissy, and precious, or that you live in a bubble and not in the real world. For me that's not the case.

  Debbie Gibson

  Real, Thinking, People

  "Debbie Gibson: Out of the Blue and on Celebrity Apprentice". Interview with Dustin Fitzharris, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 17, 2012.

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• When you get on stage, you can be anything. You are removed from reality in a way, the real world.

  Suzanne Farrell

  Real, World, Way

  "Ballerina of the Century". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. December 16, 1990.

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• It's true, I don't like the real world.

  Richard Foreman

  Real, World

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• When I go on stage man I just want people to have fun, I don't want people to think about their problems, I want people to get energy and nutrition and food from that so they can go back into the real world and work on their problems.

  Jon Fishman

  Fun, Real, Men

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• My forms are not abstractions of things in the real world. They're also not symbols. I would say that my job is to invent these forms and to put them together in a way that keeps your interest, to give the forms a quirky identity so you can engage with them, so you realize there's an inner intelligence or logic.

  Caio Fonseca

  Jobs, Real, Giving

  "Caio Fonseca Comes Out of Isolation". Interview with Meghan Dailey, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 28, 2012.

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• I'm not such an artist type that I can't handle the real world. I read the financial pages, because most people don't talk about art.

  Caio Fonseca

  Art, Real, People

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• Beware of "the real world". A speaker's apeal to it is always an invitation not to challenge his tacit assumptions.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Real, Challenges, World

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• You can always create a fraction by putting one variable upstairs and another variable downstairs, but that soes not establish any causal relationship between them, nor does the resulting quotient have any necessary relationship to anything in the real world.

  Thomas Sowell

  Real, Science, Doe

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• There are as many "real worlds" as there are people!

  Carl Rogers

  Life, Real, People

  Carl Rogers (1995). “A Way of Being”, p.120, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We are getting an education of a lifetime. We're actually out there in the real world.

  Solange Knowles

  Real, World, Lifetime

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

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