Real World Quotes - Page 7

• The real world is far too complex and unpredictable to make something like the idea of humanity controlling its own evolution or engineering itself - well, I wouldn't say impossible but it should be approached with a degree of caution.

  Ken MacLeod

  Real, Engineering, Ideas

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• Conservative policies have on the whole worked - insofar as any set of policies can be said to 'work' in the real world. Conservatives of the Reagan-Bush-Gingrich-Bush years have a fair amount to be proud of.

  William Kristol

  Real, Years, World

  "Will Obama Save Liberalism?". www.nytimes.com. January 25, 2009.

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• I think it's good that I had some experience of the real world before I became successful. You know, having to get up in the morning and going to work in construction.

  Tom Jones

  Morning, Real, Successful

  "Tom Jones: He's actually quite unusual" by Johnny Davis, www.theguardian.com. July 31, 2010.

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• I write 'by the seat of my pants.' I love to do research. I am inspired by contemporary writers and contemporary events. I live in the real world.

  Iris Johansen

  Real, Writing, Events

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• All novels are about crime. You'd be hard pressed to find any novel that does not have an element of crime. I don't see myself as a crime novelist, but there are crimes in my books. That's the nature of storytelling, if you want to reflect the real world.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Real, Book, Novelists

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• The real world is horrible.

  Lev Grossman

  Real, World, Horrible

  Interview with Jason Heller, www.avclub.com. August 26, 2009.

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• We live in an instant-coffee world. Sometimes real-world solutions take a little longer.

  Mike Conaway

  Real, Coffee, World

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• I tend to be so lost in the work that I don't notice the weather. My partner will come home and say, 'Beautiful day, wasn't it?' and I'll say, 'Was it?' as I won't have noticed the real world at all.

  Emma Donoghue

  Beautiful, Real, Home

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• I tried out for another show while I was in college so I could pay off my student loans, and it sort of led to The Real World. The same people that were casting that show were casting The Real World, so they asked me to do it.

  Trishelle Cannatella

  Real, College, People

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• Dictators are ludicrous characters, and, you know, in my career and in my life, I've always enjoyed sort of inhabiting these ludicrous, larger-than-life characters that somehow exist in the real world.

  Sacha Baron Cohen

  Real, Character, Careers

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• Come to me. Are you lost? I can see another way from where I live. The heart can see a path that's out of sight to the head-a path you'll surely overlook, left alone on your lofty perch up there, too distracted by your world to see the real world where I live. I live on the level of laughter, tears, and-yes-prayer.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Laughter, Prayer, Real

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• Nostalgia is a dangerous emotion, both because it is powerless to act in the real world, and because it glides so easily into hatred and resentment against those who have taken our Eden from us.

  Carolyn Heilbrun

  Real, Taken, Eden

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• Since films and television have staged everything imaginable before it happens, a true event, taking place in the real world, brings to mind the landscape of films.

  Elizabeth Hardwick

  Movie, Real, Mind

  Elizabeth Hardwick (1984). “Bartleby in Manhattan, and Other Essays”, Vintage

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• The most important thing in art is The Frame. For painting: literally; for other arts: figuratively - because without this humble appliance, you can't know where The Art stops and The Real World begins.

  Frank Zappa

  Art, Real, Humble

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.140, Simon and Schuster

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• The telling of stories creates the real world.

  Alberto Manguel

  Real, Stories, World

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• There is a prodigious selfishness in dreams: they live perfectly deaf and invulnerable amid the cries of the real world.

  George Santayana

  Dream, Real, Selfishness

  George Santayana (2009). “The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress”, p.274, The Floating Press

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• People who are in politics to be right all the time would be better off taking up fly-fishing. It's less dangerous. Politics that is not applied in the real world and doesn't address the real challenges and paradoxes and agonies is a hobby.

  Neil Kinnock

  Real, Fishing, Agony

  "Neil Kinnock: 'This election is about now and the future'". Interview with David Hare, www.theguardian.com. April 12, 2010.

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• No real-world human being brings to the U.S. presidency the range of attributes necessary for full success in the job.

  James Fallows

  Jobs, Real, World

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• In passing I draw attention to another English expression which often occurs in Dutch texts: "the real world". In Dutch - and I am afraid not in Dutch alone - its usage is almost always a symptom of a violent anti-intellectualism.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Real, Expression, Attention

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• Human beings of all societies in all periods of history believe that their ideas on the nature of the real world are the most secure, and that their ideas on religion, ethics and justice are the most enlightened. Like us, they think that final knowledge is at last within reach. Like us, they pity the people in earlier ages for not knowing the true facts. Unfailingly, human beings pity their ancestors for being so ignorant and forget that their descendants will pity them for the same reason.

  Edward Robert Harrison

  Real, Believe, Knowledge

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• What you learn in school is the opposite of what happens in the real world. In school, you're always worried about minimums. You have to reach 20 pages or you have to have so many slides or whatever. Then you get out in the real world and you think, 'I have to have a minimum of 20 pages and 50 slides.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Real, School, Thinking

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• It is easy to criticize, particularly in a political season. But to lead is something altogether different. The leader must live in the real world of the price that might be paid for the goal that has been set.

  Norm Coleman

  Real, Goal, Leader

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• Today's young women don't really see inequities until they go out into the real world.

  Eleanor Clift

  Real, World, Today

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• Universities used to prepare young adults for the real world. I dare say the graduates today go in without a clue and graduate without a clue. It's time to acknowledge the college degree is not worth what it was in the past. Times are changing, and so is the way we prepare our youth to survive in a competitive world.

  Dale Archer

  Real, Past, College

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• I have made a career of creating characters who fight school authority and chomp at the bit to get out into the 'real' world and live their lives, mostly because that's the kind of teenager I was.

  Chris Crutcher

  Teenager, Real, School

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