Tupac Shakur
Rapper, Actor, Activist
"I'm not perfect. But I'll always be real"
Being Real quotes
Being Real
137 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Gene Wilder
Actor, comedian
"If the physical thing you're doing is funny, you don't have to act funny while doing it...Just be real and it will be funnier"
Oscar Wilde
Writer
"To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up."
Tupac Shakur
Rapper, Actor, Activist
"The realest people don’t have a lot of friends."
Derren Brown
Illusionist
"There are things in your life which you are in control of, and those you're not. You need to not care about those things which you're not in control of, and when you come to really understand that, you can go from being really upset about something to that lovely feeling of being a kid where everything is okay."
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"IN ALL MY FILMS, IT SEEMED IMPORTANT TO ME TO REMIND THE AUDIENCE TO THE FACT THAT THEY ARE NOT ALONE, LOST IN AN EMPTY UNIVERSE, BUT THAT THEY ARE CONNECTED BY INNUMERABLE THREADS WITH THEIR PAST AND PRESENT, THAT THROUGH CERTAIN MYSTICAL WAYS, EVERY HUMAN BEING REALIZES THE RAPPORT WITH THE WORLD AND THE LIFE OF HUMANITY."
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"I am more than what you bargained for and nothin less than real."
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"In life, what more can you ask for than to be real?"
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"The strongest force in the universe is Compound Interest."
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"The strongest force in the universe is a human being living consistently with his identity."
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"Being realistic is the quickest path to mediocrity"
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"The spirit is the life of the body seen from within, and the body the outward manifestation of the life of the spirit-the two being really one."
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"...Christ did not appoint professors, but followers. If Christianity ... is not reduplicated in the life of the person expounding it, then he does not expound Christianity, for Christianity is a message about living and can only be expounded by being realized in men's lives."
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"Before all, be real. Only the truth gives to the word the Orpheus' Lyre power."
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"I just remember seventh grade as being really difficult, because there's nothing meaner than a girl at that age. You gang up on people, and it's traumatic. It wasn't so bad for me, but there's a woman I know who's still traumatized by junior high. At that age, everything seems like a huge deal, but of course that changes when you get older."
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"Things change that's the way it is."
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"Being realistic is the most commonly travelled road to mediocracy"
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"If any man should conceive certain things as being really good, such as prudence, temperance, justice, fortitude, he would not after having first conceived these endure to listen to anything which should not be in harmony with what is really good."
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"A myth doesn't have to be real to be true."
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"I don't want to dream anymore, I want my life to be real!"
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"Once human beings realize something can be done, they're not satisfied until they've done it."
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"Everything we can dream can be real."
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"If there's one thing worse than being really angry for no reason, it's suddenly remembering the reason."
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"Base your happiness on being real, not on illusions and expectations."
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"There should be in eloquence that which is pleasing and that which is real; but that which is pleasing should itself be real."
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