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"If we examine ourselves carefully we shall see most of us have an enormous amount of unfinished business...We have to be free so that we can just step across the line and that's it. That is what real freedom is."
"The unencumbered stage encourages the truth operative in everyone. The less seen, the more heard. The eye is the enemy of the ear in real drama."
"On acoustic guitar I tend to stay in the key of D for some reason. On electric guitar I keep basic: C, G, D, and A. The key of D minor is also real good for me."
"Our idea of a real problem is someone else's idea of an ultimate dream. Put the 'problem' in perspective"
"Look at those words, 'role' and 'model.' Both of those are fake words, to play a role and to model, that's fake. I'm real. Being real, I drink, I hang out, I party"
"I dunno when I started writing really. I was, like, filling out applications and stuff real early. Last name first, first name last, sex. 'occasionally' , stuff like that. Then I was writing letters, filling out forms, writing on bathroom walls."
"Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did."
"The electron is a theory. But the theory is so good we can almost consider them real."
"But the real glory of science is that we can find a way of thinking such that the law is evident."
"But I really believe that when you give people authentic identity, which is what Facebook does, and you can be your real self and connect with real people online, things will change."
"[The child] takes his play very seriously and he expends large amounts of emotion on it. The opposite of play is not what is serious but what is real."
"I don't want to dream anymore, I want my life to be real!"
"When you touch the pain of the world as real, there is a solidarity, an engagement with the Gospel, a living faith that blossoms forth."
"To me, the Seventies were very inspirational and very influential... With my whole persona as Snoop Dogg, as a person, as a rapper. I just love the Seventies style, the way all the players dressed nice, you know, kept their hair looking good, drove sharp cars and they talked real slick."
"Real meditation is not done by us. It is done by our Inner Pilot, the Supreme, who is constantly meditating in and through us. We are just the vessel, and we are allowing Him to fill us with His whole Consciousness."
"The Hindu religion appears ... as a cathedral temple, half in ruins, noble in the mass, often fantastic in detail but always fantastic with a significance crumbling or badly outworn in places, but a cathedral temple in which service is still done to the Unseen and its real presence can be felt by those who enter with the right spirit."
"By 2003, every fool was getting into real estate. The checkout girl at my local supermarket handed me her newly printed real estate agent business card."
"A great property manager is key to success in real estate."
"If you do not like Real Estate, all you have to do is make hamburgers, build a business around that hamburger, and franchise it."
"The real beginning of influence comes as others sense you are being influenced by them - when they feel understood by you - that you have listened deeply and sincerely, and that you are open."
