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I was in a self-induced depression. Welcome to me Real World. -- Natsuo Kirino
The so-called Real World. Human misery and sadness. Blind politics and general cruelty. -- Tanith Lee
Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals. -- Oscar Wilde
In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm... in the real world all rests on perseverance. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I barely ever watch TV, but when I do, I usually only watch MTV shows, like 'The Real World Sydney.' -- Ryan Sheckler
The thing that bums me out about 'The Real World' is I don't want to believe that teenagers are that stupid. -- Kathy Griffin
I'd kind of expected that kids who knew about the Real World wouldn't act like jock dipwads. Guess I was wrong. -- Lilith Saintcrow
In this very real world, good doesn't drive out evil. Evil doesn't drive out good. But the energetic displaces the passive. -- William Bernbach
I read that MTV's Real World got 40,000 applications. That's amazing, such an even number. You would have thought it would be 40,008. -- Mitch Hedberg
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
All Hell is smaller than one pebble of your earthly world; but it is smaller than one atom of this world, the Real World. -- C. S. Lewis
The casting directors that were aware of The Real World looked at me as a joke. It was so hard to get away from that. -- Jamie Chung
The casting directors that were aware of 'The Real World' looked at me as a joke. It was so hard to get away from that. -- Jamie Chung
I am single for two reasons. First, I don't date girls who watch Real World because they already think they know me. Second, a lot of girls look at me as the slutty seven. -- Steven Hill
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
The Real World' is the most predictable arc ever. They get on the show, they're all excited, we're gonna be best friends, then people start drinking and get hammered, and say stupid stuff, and that's pretty much it. -- Adam McKay
Popstars really draws you in. It's fascinating. It's interesting to watch people thrown together in that kind of a situation. Even if the egos weren't involved and they weren't trying to be world famous. It's the Real World, only better. -- Scott Patterson
I created 'America's Next Top Model' one-hundred percent. I was in my kitchen making tea one morning, and I looked out the window, and the idea popped into my head. I wanted it to be 'American Idol' meets 'Ford Supermodel of the Year' meets 'The Real World.' -- Tyra Banks
My fiance and I had a few problems working through some of the things that he saw me say and do on the 'Surreal Life.' Considering the company that I was in, Ron Jeremy and Trishelle from 'The Real World,' I think I was pretty tame. -- Traci Bingham
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
That's how people live in the real world: forcing stuff on each other. -- Haruki Murakami
In the real world of pain, how could one worship a God who was immune to it? -- John Stott
So, what's it like in the real world? Well, the food is better, but beyond that, I don't recommend it. -- Bill Watterson
I looked at 73 climate models going back to 1979 and every single one predicted more warming than happened in the real world. -- John Christy
Seniors love getting junk mail. It's sometimes their only way of communicating or feeling like they're part of the real world. -- Harry Reid
God does not love some ideal person, but rather human beings just as we are, not some ideal world, but rather the real world. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
To be matter-of-fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy - and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful. -- Robert A. Heinlein
Meditation transports one from the transient world of matter to the real world of dreamings, visions, and imaginings where idea is and concepts are born. -- Walter Russell
If, then, my awareness of the past and future makes me less aware of the present, I must begin to wonder whether I am actually living in the real world. -- Alan Watts
The thing about lucid dreams is that it's not like the real world where you are constrained by all sorts of things, including the laws of physics-you can do magic. -- Paul Davies
This is no honky-tonk parade. 1Q84 is the real world, where a cut draws real blood, where pain is real pain and fear is real fear. The moon in the sky is no paper moon. -- Haruki Murakami
I can understand why people would want to stay on the road because you create your own bubble. You almost don't live in the real world. Just to have the things that are with you is fine. -- Kylie Minogue
Most of the bad guys in the real world don't know that they are bad guys. You don't get a flashing warning sign that you're about to damn yourself. It sneaks up on you when you aren't looking. -- Jim Butcher
In the real world, those of us who are most productive, successful, and satisfied focus not on fixing feelings or manipulating thoughts, but on what needs to be done-and then doing it-no matter what thoughts or feelings arise. -- Dan Millman
My objection to supernatural beliefs is precisely that they miserably fail to do justice to the sublime grandeur of the real world. They represent a narrowing-down from reality, an impoverishment of what the real world has to offer. -- Richard Dawkins
It is only in folk tales, children's stories, and the journals of intellectual opinion that power is used wisely and well to destroy evil. The real world teaches very different lessons, and it takes willful and dedicated ignorance to fail to perceive them. -- Noam Chomsky
Nothing in these abstract economic models actually works in the real world. It doesn't matter how many footnotes they put in, or how many ways they tinker around the edges. The whole enterprise is totally rotten at the core: it has no relation to reality. -- Noam Chomsky
I know children regress after vaccination because it happened to my own son. Why aren't there any tests out there on the safety of how vaccines are administered in the real world, six at a time? Why have only two of the 36 shots our kids receive been looked at for their relationship to autism? -- Jenny McCarthy
We all have a thirst for wonder. It's a deeply human quality. Science and religion are both bound up with it. What I'm saying is, you don't have to make stories up, you don't have to exaggerate. There's wonder and awe enough in the real world. Nature's a lot better at inventing wonders than we are. -- Carl Sagan
If a man has the right to self-ownership, to the control of his life, then in the real world he must also have the right to sustain his life by grappling with and transforming resources; he must be able to own the ground and the resources on which he stands and which he must use. In short, to sustain his human right. -- Murray Rothbard
Love in the real world means saying you're sorry 10 times a day. -- Kathie Lee Gifford
The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world. -- Georges Simenon
Rational beliefs bring us closer to getting good results in the real world. -- Albert Ellis
There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world. -- A. R. Ammons
We are getting an education of a lifetime. We're actually out there in the real world. -- Solange Knowles
I get satisfaction out of seeing stuff that makes real change in the real world. We need a lot more of that and a lot less abstract stuff. -- Temple Grandin
I am a generous man, by nature, and far more trusting than I should be. Indeed. The real world is risky territory for people with generosity of spirit. Beware. -- Hunter S. Thompson
Poetry, being supremely useless, by its very existence represents a protest against the so-called 'real world' of busy-ness and moneymaking, so we must embrace, salute and support our poets. -- Tom Hodgkinson
When I am writing best, I really am lost in my world. I lose track of the outside world. I have a difficult time balancing between my real world and the artificial world. -- George R. R. Martin
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
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
When times are tough and people are frustrated and angry and hurting and uncertain, the politics of constant conflict may be good, but what is good politics does not necessarily work in the real world. What works in the real world is cooperation. -- William J. Clinton
Kenya, being a third world country, from a young age your eyes are open to the real world. I'd like to think growing up there taught me to stand on my own two feet, make my own decisions about what I wanted to be. -- Chris Froome
In the film world, we can all be heroes. In the real world, where heroism can cost you your life or the life of the ones you love, people aren't so willing to make those sacrifices. When they do, they are set apart from the rest of us. -- John Rhys-Davies
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
I just think too many nice things have happened in string theory for it to be all wrong. Humans do not understand it very well, but I just don't believe there is a big cosmic conspiracy that created this incredible thing that has nothing to do with the real world. -- Edward Witten
We all know the feeling of surrendering to the embedded biases of our devices. We let our cell phones ping us every time there's an incoming message and check our e-mail even when we'd best pay attention to what's going on around us in the real world. We text while driving. -- Douglas Rushkoff
Often the magical elements in my books are standing in for elements of the real world, the small and magical-in-their-own-right sorts of things that we take for granted and no longer pay attention to, like the bonds of friendship that entwine our own lives with those of other people and places. -- Charles de Lint
I think it's sad to me that I had to make a decision to not play the game that I feel like I'm best at and that I love. But if it was just about the game itself, I'd be there in a heartbeat. But that's not how the real world works. -- Tiffeny Milbrett
Each time I'm starting to work on a film, even if I love to settle the plot in the real world, I start to think about the plot as a fairy tale, or a dream, or a nightmare... As if it was the best way to tell the truth about characters or narration, instead of realism. -- Arnaud Desplechin
The Matrix' is a movie that is all about glamour. I could do a whole talk on 'The Matrix' and glamour. It was criticized for glamorizing violence, because, look - sunglasses and those long coats, and, of course, they could walk up walls and do all these kinds of things that are impossible in the real world. -- Virginia Postrel
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
One real world is enough. -- George Santayana
The real world is horrible. -- Lev Grossman
Nothing in this world is real -- Neale Donald Walsch
I'm interested in the real world. -- Edward Bond
In the real world, children love me. -- Jackie Chan
Logic doesn't apply to the real world. -- Marvin Minsky
Fantasy Is just another synonym for "having-your-own-crazy-world-bcause-the-real-one-is-too-cynical-to-handle-your-craziness". -- Aleena farrukh
Invisible is real. Souls have their own world. -- Alfred de Vigny
What works in the real world is cooperation. -- William J. Clinton
Online reaction is very different than real-world reaction. -- Joel Stein
The telling of stories creates the real world. -- Alberto Manguel
It's true, I don't like the real world. -- Richard Foreman
Do real and permanent good in this world. -- Andrew Carnegie
The real world is where the monsters are. -- Rick Riordan
Solve a real problem and the world is yours. -- Aaron Patzer
Tall people have a real advantage in the world. -- Chad Harbach
I spend shockingly little time thinking about real-world stuff. -- Trey Parker
The real world is much smaller than the imaginary -- Friedrich Nietzsche
In the real world, illiquid assets carry a discount. -- David Einhorn
Links have become the suburbs of the real world. -- Michael Stipe
You don't get second chances in the real world. -- Gail Simmons
Maybe the world, without us, is the real poem. -- Mary Oliver
I go to the real world, not the Internet. -- Zendaya
Public influence is the real government of the world. -- Josiah Warren
Enlightenment is the only real antidote to the world's despair. -- Marianne Williamson
In the real world, words don't automatically translate into deeds. -- Kathleen Troia McFarland
Your real job in this world is to be you. -- India.Arie
I love being able to stay real to the world. -- Kurt Sutter
Cyberspace still exists at the pleasure of the real world. -- Esther Dyson
For economist the real world is often a special case. -- Edgar Fiedler
School prepares you for the real world... which also bites. -- Jim Benton
The presence of real love in the world inspires me. -- Krishna Das
In the real world, you can make your own miracles. -- Richelle Mead
It's hard bein' real in a world that's a fallacy. -- Meyhem Lauren
Being offended is part of being in the real world. -- Courtney Love
We live in a real world. Come back to it. -- Natalie Portman
In the real world, the tests are all open book. -- Jeff Jarvis
I like the accidental nature of being in the real world. -- Beeban Kidron
When I come up against the real world, I just vacillate. -- Robert Crumb
One day the virtual world might win over the real world. -- Paul Virilio
If you want real peace in the world, start with children. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I enter the world called real as one enters a mist. -- Julien Green
To be connected to the real world is healthy and important. -- Jesse Schell
The religious world is but a reflex of the real world. -- Karl Marx
It's the real world, full of gaps and inconsistencies and anticlimaxes. -- Haruki Murakami
Okay, so maybe sometimes the real world is smiles and miracles. -- Gary D. Schmidt
The only real game, I think, in the world is baseball. -- Babe Ruth
We all suffer alone in the real world; true empathy's impossible. -- David Foster
Hitler promised not to invade Czechoslovakia, Jeremy. Welcome to the real world. -- Mark Corrigan
Nothing is as empowering as real-world validation, even if it's for failure. -- Steven Pressfield
To remain unknown in this modern world: that, indeed, is real power. -- Michael Scott
Stop searching the world for treasure, the real treasure is in yourself. -- Pablo
The artificial world that we create through images will essentially become real. -- Nicolas Winding Refn
Harper: You, the one part ofthe real world I wasn't allergic to. -- Tony Kushner
The world is illusory, Only Brahman is real, Brahman is the world -- Ramana Maharshi
I lived too much in my head instead of the real world. -- Sara Zarr
That's the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up -- Walt Disney
The world, the real is not an object. It is a process. -- John Cage

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