Real Quotes
18525 Real quotes by 8756 unique authors
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Inspiration. From real life. I open my eyes and I travel and I look. And I read everything.
— Erik Spiekermann
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Art is a deception that creates real emotions - a lie that creates a truth. And when you give yourself over to that deception, it…
— Marco Tempest
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In the twentieth century, death terrifies men less than the absence of real life. All these dead, mechanized, specialized actions, stealing a little bit of…
— Raoul Vaneigem
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If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws. Now, once we observe that destruction is so useful…
— Marquis de Sade
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I'm not a big power-and-strength guy, but I have a lot of balance, and I can take hits and stay on my feet. I control…
— Marshall Faulk
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It took me a long time to figure out that real big-time success comes from taking lots of small, ordinary steps in the right direction.…
— Deacon Jones
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For most of us, karma and negative emotions obscure the ability to see our own intrinsic nature, and the nature of reality. As a result…
— Sogyal Rinpoche
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This is the real and urgent reason why we must prepare now to meet death wisely, to transform our karmic future, and to avoid the…
— Sogyal Rinpoche
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At the moment of death, there are two things that count: whatever we have done in our lives, and what state of mind we are…
— Sogyal Rinpoche
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In sports, you simply aren't considered a real champion until you have defended your title successfully. Winning it once can be a fluke; winning it…
— Althea Gibson
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What I know for sure is that you feel real joy in direct proportion to how connected you are to living your truth.
— Oprah Winfrey
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I like living in the 20th century... to me the world has never been more beautiful. I am trying to paint the real world I…
— Jeffrey Smart
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We must remind our politicians that we expect them to speak honestly and to be concerned about real issues, and not simply with the obtaining…
— Davis McCaughey
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...the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear plant...has painfully affected the Soviet people, and shocked the international community. For the first time, we confront the real…
— Mikhail Gorbachev
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We believe that part of the answer lies in pricing energy on the basis of its full costs to society. One reason we use energy…
— Richard M. Nixon
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Real wealth is ideas plus energy.
— R. Buckminster Fuller
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This is not to be cocky, but, I go over real well at Comic-Con. I've done quite a few Comic-Cons, and I enjoy the hell…
— Kristen Bell
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I've just completed Mike's [Mann] Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (i.e. from 1981 onwards)…
— Phil Jones
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...the computer models are very good at solving equations of fluid dynamics but very bad at describing the real world. The real world is full…
— Freeman Dyson
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Nobody...likes talking about enforceable international protocols and yet unless there is a real change in attitude, we have to contemplate those very unwelcome possibilities if…
— Rowan Williams
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Being often with many leading politicians, I feel frustrated that they do not listen. They already know. They fully subscribed to the idea that talking…
— Vaclav Klaus
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...climate change is real and it is caused to a significant extent by human activity.
— Julia Gillard
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The very things we wish to avoid, neglect and flee from turn out to be the 'prima materia' from which all real growth comes.
— Andrew Harvey
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The fancies that take their monstrous birth from the spinelessness and boredom of usurped wealth bring in their wake every defect ... and though rich…
— Jean Lorrain
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And while you and the rest of your kind are battling together-year after year-for this special privilege of being 'bored to death,' the 'real girl'…
— Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
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