Real Quotes - Page 31

• I was horny, but I was innocent 'cause I was a real-late bloomer and not particularly attractive. In fact, homely.

  Patti Smith

  Horny, Causes, Facts

  Source: www.oceanstar.com

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• I didn't want any middle-of-the-road creep. I always wanted the toughest guy in school, the guy from south Philly who wore tight black pants. Y'know, the guy who carried the umbrella and wore white shirts with real thin black ties. I was really nuts over this guy named Butchie Magic 'cause he let me carry his switchblade.

  Patti Smith

  School, White, Ties

  Source: www.oceanstar.com

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• I really don't want somebody writing something positive about me if they don't believe in it. I'd rather somebody write something real mean. I like reading bad stuff, it gets me excited. In fact, the only reviews I keep are the bad ones 'cause I think they're the cool ones.

  Patti Smith

  Believe, Reading, Writing

  Source: www.oceanstar.com

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• I would certainly not want my child to be schizophrenic. I wouldn't want him or her to be a criminal either. If, on the other hand, I had a deaf child, it would help that I have developed a real admiration for Deaf culture.

  Andrew Solomon

  Children, Hands, Criminals

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Germany will never be a real, free thinking and free feeling friend of Israel, because it will always fall under this shadow.

  Daniel Barenboim

  Fall, Thinking, Israel

  "'The Germans Are Prisoners of Their Past'". Interview with Joachim Kronsbein and Bernhard Zand, www.spiegel.de. June 22, 2012.

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• What I've found in working less is you start to get a bit more involved in the more real politics, which is local politics that affect what's going on in your own community.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Community, Found, Locals

  "How To Be Idle: An Interview with Tom Hodgkinson". Interview with Katie Renz, www.motherjones.com. June 8, 2005.

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• Setting an aggressive enough carbon-reduction goal will result in an appropriate price for carbon and will help many a renewable technology. Consumer education will help. Most importantly, though, will be the continually declining cost trajectory of the real breakthrough in clean-technology costs driven by research and innovation. In the end, private capital is the real barometer of change.

  Vinod Khosla

  Technology, Goal, Innovation

  "Power Q&A: Vinod Khosla". Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. April 21, 2008.

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• It's crazy when you see very little reflection between what's played on the radio and what people are talking about in the streets. It lets you know how far off we are from a real movement.

  Saul Williams

  Crazy, Reflection, Talking

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• The audience makes the decision of what kind of actor they want to watch. I always have said in the last 20 years, the real boss is the audience.

  Jet Li

  Decision, Boss, Watches

  "Rogue' Set Visit: Jet Li on 'Fearless,' 'Monk in New York,' and Another Fight Breakdown!". Rotten Tomatoes Interview, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. June 9, 2006.

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• My most interesting memory is of my first real dream. I was a caterpillar, wriggling around in the earth, just the way a caterpillar would. Following my caterpillar whims, completely unaware of anyone.

  Zhuangzi

  Dream, Memories, Interesting

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Yet I'm making a book and I'm going to care immensely about what words get bound in the pages, and I want the object to look good. I won't believe in it and it won't be real to me until there's a finished book I can hold.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Believe, Book, Looks

  Interview with Peter Andrey Smith, www.believermag.com. May 2012.

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• I don't like to go to conventions, and I don't like to relate to people on a level of hero worship, because there's no real communication going on there.

  Alan Moore

  Communication, Hero, People

  Interview with Peter Bebergal, believermag.com. June 1, 2013.

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• I think sometimes it's hard to know what you feel, or to know what's real and what's not, because love or hate or any feeling is a belief. You can say you hate someone, but you don't truly know them.

  Charlyne Yi

  Hate, Thinking, Feelings

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. March 1, 2010.

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• Life is short. You die before you think you're going to. Don't waste it in college unless you're doing something real. My view.

  Tucker Carlson

  Life Is Short, College, Thinking

  "The Situation" with Tucker Carlson, www.nbcnews.com. December 6, 2005.

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• I feel bad for people who have never been addicted to anything, because they're the real losers. You want to know why? Because they don't know what it's like to really want something - and then get it again and again and again.

  Marc Maron

  Funny, Humor, Want Something

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• You get all excited to give her the ring, and it's real emotional, and you give it to her, and she cries. And a second later, you're like, 'Damn, I could have had a car.'

  Marc Maron

  Funny, Humor, Emotional

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• I'm a bitter, sad, sour young man who makes a career out of hastling people with real careers.

  Steve Martin

  Funny, Humor, Men

  "Saturday Night Live: The Best of Steve Martin". www.imdb.com. 1998.

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• If you don't remember childhood and you idealize it, you can't write books for kids because they're not real. Kids pick that up.

  Robert Munsch

  Book, Writing, Kids

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I'd worked on a series of Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul books called The Real Deal for HCI books, which featured essays and poems from teens.Finding the right authors for the series has been no easy feat, mostly because I'm looking for a perfect blend of a teen girl with an interesting story or hook, fantastic writing talent, and the confidence to commit to writing a 30,000+ word book in a matter of months. It's a huge commitment and I recognize that, so the fit has to be there from all these different angles.

  Deborah Reber

  Girl, Teenage, Book

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• What would happen if people practiced openness and honesty? If people talked about their real challenges without shame or fear of rejection? My guess is that people would feel less alone and isolated. People would be willing to share more, and as a result, society would feel more connected to each other and their experiences.

  Deborah Reber

  Honesty, People, Rejection

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• When a society doesn't know what to do with its young, it's in real trouble. When the young don't know what to do with society - at the very least, revolutions start there.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Revolution, Trouble, Young

  Interview with Alex Park, www.believermag.com. July 2013.

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• I think that public grieving is a good thing. People need to be grieved; loss needs to be acknowledged publicly, because it helps to confer a sense of reality on the loss but also because it makes it known that this was a real life.

  Judith Butler

  Loss, Thinking, Grieving

  Interview with Jill Stauffer, www.believermag.com. May, 2003.

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• I start writing, pull whatever images happen to occur to me and make up a story, instead of starting with details that are real and I know of and going from there.

  John Darnielle

  Writing, Details, Stories

  Interview with Daniel Handler, believermag.com. July 1, 2004.

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• A real feminist doesn't apologize for her beauty. You can be a sexy, beautiful woman and be the smartest person in the room.

  Olivia Wilde

  Beautiful, Sexy, Feminist

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I call [ordinary people] real people, because they have in themselves an incredible treasure - stories, a way of speaking, a way of sharing, an innocence and a perversity which I find very interesting to discover little by little.

  Agnes Varda

  People, Interesting, Ordinary

  Source: www.believermag.com

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