Real World Quotes
622 quotes by 536 authors
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My whole thing is to entertain, make people laugh and to forget about the real world for awhile.
— Dan Aykroyd
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Government has really been growing, a lot of largesse, but the people in the real world aren't. And that's what has to change. Government has…
— Michele Bachmann
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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
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Values unrelated to modern reality are not just electorally hopeless, the values themselves become devalued. They have no purchase on the real world.
— Tony Blair
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For me, a good thriller must teach me something about the real world.
— Dan Brown
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For me, a good thriller must teach me something about the real world. Thrillers like 'Coma,' 'The Hunt for Red October' and 'The Firm' all…
— Dan Brown
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I'm in the real world, some people try to steal from me, and I stop them, frequently, take them to court. I love a good…
— Alan Alda
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In the real world, children love me.
— Jackie Chan
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You know, at some point there has to be parity. There has to be parity between what is happening in the real world, and what…
— Chris Christie
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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…
— William J. Clinton
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When times are tough, constant conflict may be good politics but in the real world, cooperation works better. After all, nobody's right all the time,…
— William J. Clinton
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There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world.
— A. R. Ammons
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We have had no good comic operas of late, because the real world has been more comic than any possible opera.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Poets and songwriters speak highly of spring as one of the great joys of life in the temperate zone, but in the real world most…
— Barbara Holland
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You know he can't save you, right? In the real world, that guy right there...he can't save you.
— Lil Wayne
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...the tale that's told for no other reason but companionship, which is another (and my favorite) definition of literature, the tale that's told for companionship…
— Jack Kerouac
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Outside of these doors, it is the real world. Someone tries to get you to do something wrong, run.
— Ray Lewis
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The real world is not easy to live in. It is rough; it is slippery. Without the most clear-eyed adjustments we fall and get crushed.…
— Clarence Day
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In the real world, nothing happens at the right place at the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to correct that.
— Mark Twain
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One should not understand this compulsion to construct concepts, species, forms, purposes, laws ('a world of identical cases') as if they enabled us to fix…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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