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The real things are apt to be deviant. -- Osamu Dazai
The challenge is to write about real things magically. -- Raymond Chandler
The real things about man are not his body... -- T. B. Joshua
The more real you get, the more unreal things get. -- Tyga
All the real things in Russia are done in the villages. -- Ernest Poole
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The more real things get, the more like myths they become. -- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Our dreams are made of real things, like a shoebox full of photographs. -- Jack Johnson
I'm still basically an idealist, which translates into getting real things done to make people's lives better. -- Charles Schumer
I write songs about real things... The subject dictates the mood and it goes from there, really. -- John Mayall
I write songs about real things... The subject dictates the mood and it goes from there, really." -- John Mayall
Write about what really interests you, whether it is real things or imaginary things, and nothing else. -- C. S. Lewis
The myth works to make the very real things people don't want to look at visible for them. -- Alexander Chee
Twitter fascinates me because it's real. It feels kind of unreal, but it makes very real things happen. -- Amanda Palmer
And all the while, I suppose," he thought, "real people were living somewhere, and real things happening to them ... -- Edith Wharton
I think right about now we have to beware of marketed Malcolms and Martins. Real people do real things. -- Chuck D
Women in general interest me. I like how women are more liable to talk about real things, personal things. -- Chuck Close
Like drinking a cup of tea, all the simple things in life are the real things that make us happy! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
I've come to the conclusion that the average person can do about four things a day, like four real things a day. -- Questlove
In the end countries, like people, are alone, and the real things that must be done have to be done without help. -- Nayantara Sahgal
We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things. -- Hesiod
The function of the actor is to make the audience imagine for the moment that real things are happening to real people. -- George Bernard Shaw
I'm someone who loves to enjoy life and tries to focus on real things and real friendships. That's why I live very simply. -- Cameron Diaz
There is an invariable law that the only way to keep the real things of life is by sharing them or giving them away. -- Alice Hegan Rice
A dream does not die on its own. A dream is vanquished by the choices ordinary people make about real things in their own lives... -- Jonathan Kozol
I try to watch only real things, which basically amounts to C-Span for me. I like real people in real situations. I learn from that. -- William Devane
Truth must be told-and things must change! If words are not about real things and do not cause things to happen, what is the good of them? -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
I love shooting with real things in the real world. I think it gives a level of drama, performance, and everything seems to rise to the occasion. -- Tony Scott
Love and work are the only two real things in our lives. They belong together, otherwise it is off. Work is in itself a form of love. -- Marilyn Monroe
To me in my childhood, elves and fairies of all sorts were very real things, and my dolls were as really children as I was myself a child. -- Annie Besant
I think my audience is smart. If there's a way to be entertained and get things out - real things, not stupid moral crap - that's the best. -- Michael Pitt
I had a feeling about what I wanted to say, and I wasn't really qualified to discuss real things out of America because I didn't grow up there. -- Johnny Marr
My life is good because I am not passive about it. I invest in what is real. Like real people, to do real things, for the real me. -- Gwyneth Paltrow
Stock prices aren't real things. They're just froth on a wave. The wave is the only real thing, which investors forget when they're watching the ticket slither by. -- Jane Bryant Quinn
Thoughts and ideas are not phantoms. They are real things. Although intangible and immaterial, they are factors in bringing about changes in the realm of tangible and material things. -- Ludwig von Mises
A lot of people question how talented I am. But I'm a real dude and I know real things and I've seen real people get their head blown off. -- Young Jeezy
I think it's really important to use your hands and get close to materials. To be up close to real things like rain and mud; to have contact with nature. -- Robin Day
So hologram means--" I finally said."It means non-corporeal, yeah. Which sucks seeing as how there are a lot of very corporeal things I'd like to do with you right now. -- Rachel Hawkins
Nobody has ever seen an electron. Nor a thought. You can't see a thought, you can't measure, weigh, nor taste it- but thoughts are the most real things in the Galaxy. -- Robert A. Heinlein
An administrator in a bureaucratic world is a man who can feel big by merging his non-entity in an abstraction. A real person in touch with real things inspires terror in him. -- Marshall McLuhan
I'm used to being the background. I'm used to having work that only lasts for a little while. I'm used to being - working in the real world, where real things are. -- Robert Barry
If there can be a better way for the real world to include the one of images, it will require an ecology not only of real things but of images as well. -- Susan Sontag
If the child is left to himself, he will think more and better, if less showily. Let him go and come freely, let him touch real things and combine his impressions for himself. -- Anne Sullivan Macy
My favorite kinds of stories are the ones that have these big crazy genre hijinks and then a real honest, meaty, emotional story where we're watching a character grapple with some real things. -- Greg Pak
The real things haven't changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong. -- Laura Ingalls Wilder
For me, film-making is combining images and sounds of real things in an order that makes them effective. What I disapprove of is photographing things that are not real. Sets and actors are not real. -- Robert Bresson
What I love about my daughter is that she is going to definitely allow me and force me to change my life and slow down and make it more about the real things in the world. -- Rufus Wainwright
When I got older I decided I wanted to be a real writer. I tried to write about real things. I wanted to describe the world, because to live in an undescribed world was too lonely. -- Nicole Krauss
I don't like honors. ... I've already got the prize: the prize is the pleasure of finding the thing out, the kick in the discovery, the observation that other people use it. Those are the real things. -- Richard P. Feynman
Can we imagine a different world? I can. That's a world where work is rational, it's in the common good, and we're actually producing real things rather than spinning our wheels in dreams of consumer heaven. -- Bill Ayers
Real people do real things. A collective of a whole bunch of people who do things in their own locale, in their own neighborhoods - the sum is bigger than the parts, and the parts will grow. -- Chuck D
the feminine journey is a story unfolding, and its epiphanies come through real things, through tangibles like walking sticks and dreams and deer antlers--all of which we might miss without taking time and space in Deep Being. -- Sue Monk Kidd
A successful argument for a government manufacturing policy has to go beyond the feeling that it's better to produce 'real things' than services. American consumers value health care and haircuts as much as washing machines and hair dryers. -- Christina Romer
I so much like real things - the realities that come naturally from the depths of us like - what shall I say? - the way trees grow, from some inner essential principle of them, just expressing itself. -- Rose Wilder Lane
In the printed page the only real things are the paper and the ink; the white spaces play the same part in aiding the eye to take in the meaning of the print as do the black letters. -- John Burroughs
All life is only a set of pictures in the brain, among which there is no difference betwixt those born of real things and those born of inward dreamings, and no cause to value the one above the other. -- H. P. Lovecraft
I don't want to be too strict, because I think kids can get rebellious, but I want to raise my daughter to be passionate about doing good things and pursuing real things and hobbies instead of frivolous materialistic stuff. -- Holly Madison
Mere inflation-that is, the mere issuance of more money, with the consequence of higher wages and prices-may look like the creation of more demand. But in terms of the actual production and exchange of real things it is not. -- Henry Hazlitt
It is the artist's job to revere beauty without being enchanted by it, to aim for it but also to aim for truth and goodness - just in case they, and not beauty, are the real things of value. -- Eric Maisel
When the child goes out, it is the world itself that offers itself to him. Let us take the child out to show him real things instead of making objects which represent ideas and closing them up in cupboards. -- Maria Montessori
My father taught me respect for quality as well as a sense of dignity - great values as we face a world going in a different direction. I try to teach my children to stay close to the real things, -- Diego Della Valle
Here was a place where real things were going on. Here was a scene of vital action. Here was a place where anything might happen. Here was a place where something would certainly happen. Here I might leave my bones. -- Winston Churchill
My father taught me respect for quality as well as a sense of dignity - great values as we face a world going in a different direction. I try to teach my children to stay close to the real things. -- Diego Della Valle
The stage is a magic circle where only the most real things happen, a neutral territory outside the jurisdiction of Fate where stars may be crossed with impunity. A truer and more real place does not exist in all the universe. -- P.S. Baber
Write about what really interests you, whether it is real things or imaginary things, and nothing else. (Notice this means that if you are interested only in writing you will never be a writer, because you will have nothing to write about...) -- C. S. Lewis
According to quantum field theory, fields alone are real. They are the substance of the universe and not 'matter'. Matter is simply the momentary manifestation of interacting fields which, intangible and insubstantial as they are, are the only real things in the universe. -- Gary Zukav
You can access that on many levels and the human spirit and the human mind responds to those themes because they recognise the veracity of them. That they are real things. Sometimes it even goes beyond logic, it's just a sense of something. -- Mel Gibson
Man enjoys living on the edge of his dreams and neglects the real things of the world which are so beautiful. The ignorant and indifferent destroy beautiful things merely by looking at the marble. Things that remake the soul of him who understands them. -- Auguste Rodin
I'm writing about real things. Real people. Real characters. You have to believe what I write about is true or you wouldn't pay any attention at all. Sometimes it's me, or a composite of me and other people. Sometimes it's not me at all. -- Lou Reed
I am interested in people who swim in the deep end. I want to have conversations about real things with people who have experienced real things. I'm tired of talking about movies and gossiping about friends. Life is crunchy and complicated and all the more delicious. -- Amy Poehler
We don't see the people who are doing real things getting enough props. We often see politicians who are everywhere but nowhere at the same goddamn time. You know the kind of person: You see them everywhere on television but nowhere in front of your face. -- Chuck D
I think references, where they fit organically, are great. It's great to do a show that's real and relatable, and so much of what is real, is using real things and instances that are specific. Specificity is the best tool you can have, as a writer. -- Mindy Kaling
... suddenly I was a kid in the hall standing outside my locker about to head to Math. But that was how it went sometimes, the English language, when you really needed it, crumbled to clay in your mouth. That's when all the real things were said. -- Marisha Pessl
There were moments ... when it seemed that all one could be asked was just to keep the ashtrays clean, the bed made, the wastebaskets emptied, as if one never got to the real things because of the constant exhausting battle to keep ordinary life from falling apart. -- May Sarton
This is what I had come for, just this, and nothing more. A fling of leafy motion on the cliffs, the assault of real things, living and still, with shapes and powers under the sky- this is my city, my culture, and all the world I need. -- Annie Dillard
There's the caveman in us. The caveman in you says, "I want direct contact. I don't want a picture." The caveman in our body says once in a while, we have to go outside. We have to meet real people, talk to real people, and do real things. -- Michio Kaku
What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave who can only marvel at the shadows and images of various objects, provided they are content and don't know what they miss, and the philosopher who has emerged from the cave and sees the real things? -- Desiderius Erasmus
My holy grail is fusion energy. Nuclear fusion has little to no radioactive waste. It's clean. It's very abundant. The fuels are everywhere. There are problems with fusion. -- Taylor Wilson
If Yucca Mountain had not been designated as a dumpsite for radioactive waste in 1987, it might easily have become a scenic overlook on the long drive between Tonopah and Las Vegas. -- Wil S. Hylton
There are many different kinds of radioactive waste and each has its own half-life so, just to be on the safe side and to simplify matters, I base my calculations on the worst one and that's plutonium. -- David R. Brower
For 50 years, nuclear power stations have produced three products which only a lunatic could want: bomb-explosive plutonium, lethal radioactive waste and electricity so dear it has to be heavily subsidised. They leave to future generations the task, and most of the cost, of making safe sites that have been polluted half-way to eternity. -- James Buchan
The international community must do a better job of controlling the risks of nuclear proliferation. Sensitive parts of the nuclear fuel cycle - the production of new fuel, the processing of weapon-usable material, the disposal of spent fuel and radioactive waste - would be less vulnerable to proliferation if brought under multinational control. -- Mohamed ElBaradei
Trends are manufactured. Real things just happen. -- Eicca Toppinen
Things don't happen that fast in real life. -- Mike Colter
Real happiness is not dependent on external things. -- William Lyon Phelps
If things are real, they're there all the time. -- C. S. Lewis
Faith sees the unseen things and makes them real. -- F. E. Marsh
Things that are real are given and received in silence. -- Meher Baba
Complex things are easy to do. Simplicity's the real challenge. -- Robert James Waller
Families in real life don't tend to resolve things neatly. -- Drew Barrymore
People love to yammer on about things that aren't real. -- Jeremy Renner
Real things in the darkness seem no realer than dreams. -- Murasaki Shikibu
When things are very real and honest, they don't go away. -- Avril Lavigne
As a comedian, I think you need to keep things real. -- Judah Friedlander
Sunrises and sunsets are real jerks about putting things in perspective. -- Josh Lieb
Real elegance is everywhere, especially in the things that don't show. -- Christian Dior
When imagination changes from hoping to knowing, it makes things real. -- Angelo Dirks
We actually have a real community of people doing useful things. -- Mitchell Baker
Technological things, that Germans and Japanese would get real excited about. -- John Badham
The actors come and you start seeing things happen for real. -- Ramin Bahrani
Real life is to be found in natural things that have meaning. -- Fennel Hudson
To be 'free' only when things are pleasant is not real freedom. -- Gil Fronsdal
Real power is measured by how much you can let things be. -- Henry David Thoreau
Real things don't frighten me just the ones in my mind do. -- Francesca Woodman
There's kind of this real social pressure to not argue about things. -- Jimmy Wales
I passed blindly many things which belong to real and political life. -- Max Beckmann
The real evidence of growing older is that things level off in importance. -- Gladys Taber
imaginary things were often the only items of real substance in people's lives. -- Brandon Sanderson
I remember things being more clearer, at one time things were more real. -- Tom Petty
Three things characterize man: person, fate, merit--the harmony of these constitutes real grandeur. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
I really love to set things in places that are real to me. -- Joyce Carol Oates
The real world doesn't reward perfectionists. It rewards people who get things done. -- Ziad K. Abdelnour
You have to understand the good in things, to detect the real evil. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
Dignity is often a veil between us and the real truth of things. -- Edwin Percy Whipple
I think worrying things are going on in England - a real apathy. -- Alan Rickman
In every spoof I make real love to the things I am spoofing. -- Mel Brooks
What is real is not the external form, but the essence of things, -- Constantin Brancusi
Perseverance, determination, commitment, and courage-those things are real. The desire for redemption drives you. -- Michael Phelps
They say nerves heal real slowly. Lots of things about us heal real slowly. -- Buck Brannaman
Things in life have no real beginning, though our stories about them always do. -- Colum McCann

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