"At some point I believe one has to stop holding back for fear of alienating some imaginary reader or real relative or friend, and come out with personal truth."
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"You have been told that Real Life is not like college, and you have been correctly informed. Real Life is more like high school."
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"Neorealism taught us to follow the characters with the camera, allowing each shot its own real interior time. Well, I became tired of all this; I could no longer stand real time. In order to function, a shot must show only what is useful."
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"I look at how my kids view exercise. They have a complete understanding that nutrition and exercise go hand in hand. I didn't think like that when I was a kid. But they have a real consciousness about it that I'd like to think comes from the years of attention we've put into this."
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"When you're really trying to make serious change, you don't want people to get caught up in emotion because change isn't emotion. Because change isn't emotion. Its real work and organization and strategy - that's just the truth of it. I mean, you pull people in with inspiration, but then you have to roll up your sleeves and you've got to make sacrifices and you have got to have structure."
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"For me, relationships are the real action movies. Bombs are exploding every day and the kitchen is Ground Zero."
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"We don't need to justify love; it is there or not there. Real love is accepting other people the way they are without trying to change them."
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"I have this propensity to just come out and say things. That's how I am in real life."
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"Youth is terrible: it is a stage trod by children in buskins and a variety of costumes mouthing speeches they've memorized and fanatically believe but only half understand. And history is terrible because it so often ends up a playground for the immature; a playground for the young Nero, a playground for the young Bonaparte, a playground for the easily roused mobs of children whose simulated passions and simplistic poses suddenly metamorphose into a catastrophically real reality."
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"But which was the real me? Let me be perfectly honest: I was a man of many faces. (p.33)"
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"Birth of the Cool' became a collector's item, I think, out of a reaction to Bird and Dizzy's music. Bird and Diz played this hip, real fast thing, and if you weren't a fast listener, you couldn't catch the humor or the feeling in their music. Their musical sound wasn't sweet, and it didn't have harmonic lines that you could easily hum out on the street with your girlfriend trying to get over with a kiss."
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"I do make conversion, if conversion means really turning people to God - to have a clean heart and to love God. That's the real conversion."
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"What I've found is that the religion that matters, the real religion is love."
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"During my boxing career, you did not see the real Muhammad Ali. You just saw a little boxing and a little showmanship. It was after I retired from boxing that my true work began."
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"It is the mysterious touch of the ideal that animates and sustains the real, and through it alone we can discover and affirm the ideal."
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"By simply capitalizing on core strengths and knowledge, companies and entrepreneurs can engage in an emerging business model that will enable them to create - and demonstrate - real, sustainable social impact in society."
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"The essence of capitalism is expressed in two of its basic features: a) profit maximization and b) market competition. In their abstract formulations none of them was supposed to have anything conspiratorial against the poor. But in real life they turn out to be the "killers" of the poor - by making rich the richer and poor the poorer."
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"A real love letter is absolutely ridiculous to everyone except the writer and the recipient."
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"Real prayer is union with God."
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"The winter's frost must rend the burr of the nut before the fruit is seen. So adversity tempers the human heart, to discover its real worth."
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