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Philip Johnson Architect
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"Ninety-eight percent are boxes, which tells me that a lot of people are in denial. We live and work in boxes. People don't even notice that. Most of what's around us is banal. We live with it. We accept it as inevitable. People say, "This is the world the way it is, and don't bother me." Then when somebody does something different, real architecture, the push-back is amazing. People resist it. At first it's new and scary."

People Real Scary
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Philip Morrison Physicist
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"One thing I definitely experienced up here (New York), that maybe I have to sort of cop to feeling defensive about, is since the election, people in my cohort, who are sensitive to portrayals of people in the movie as classist, have had no problem coming up with those sorts of [middle-American] stereotypes about a phantom real person they can blame for re-electing George Bush."

People Real New York
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Plato Philosopher
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"When two friends are in the mood to chat, we have to go about it in a gentler and more dialectical way. By 'more dialectical,' I mean not only that we give real responses, but that we base our responses solely on what the interlocutor admits that he himself knows."

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Prince Fielder Baseball Player
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"There are maybe one or two hours a day when I think I can play, but I get over that real quick once I realize the risk and my wife tells me, "Just take a seat.""

Thinking Real Play
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Peter Gabriel Musician
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"There has always been a strong relationship between music and religion. It is because they both plug directly into the heart and can have real power for good or evil."

Real Strong Music
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Calvin Coolidge Politician
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"I think the Senate ought to realize that I have to have about me those in whom I have confidence; and unless they find a real blemish on a man, I do not think they ought to make partisan politics out of appointments to the Cabinet."

Thinking Men Real
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Calvin Coolidge Politician
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"Under our institutions each individual is born to sovereignty. Whatever he may adopt as a means of livelihood, his real business is serving his country. He cannot hold himself above his fellow men. The greatest place of command is really the place of obedience, and the greatest place of honor is really the place of service."

Mean Real Country
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Calvin Coolidge Politician
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"There has been abroad many times some criticism of our Government, of our people, and our ways, but that has demonstrated, I think, that when they are in real trouble and real difficulty over there, they turn to us as a nation that will be fair with them--one in whose judgment and in whose character they can rely; and that not withstanding differences that have seemed to exist, they are willing to abide by the faith that they have in us, and I think that is a very substantial accomplishment."

Real Character Pride
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Calvin Trillin Author, Humorist
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"I suppose it's possible that the Sundance Kid didn't like to make much of his birthdays — they may have struck him as just another reminder that his draw was getting slower by the year—but what if he truly liked a major celebration? What if he looked forward every year to marking the day of his birth with what they used to call in the West 'a real wingding, with pink balloons and a few survivors'?"

Years Real Kids
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Barbara Kingsolver Author, Biologist
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"I didn't study writing in school, I studied biology as an undergraduate and graduate student. So I think that I write fiction in the scientific way. I love invention, obviously; I love creation of character. But I do feel very rooted in the real world, even in the way that I create characters."

Writing Real School
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Barbara Kingsolver Author, Biologist
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"The substance of grief is not imaginary. It's as real as rope or the absence of air, and like both those things, it can kill."

Real Air Grief
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Barbara Kingsolver Author, Biologist
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"Over the last decade our country has lost an average of 300 farms a week. Large or small, each of those was the lifes work of a real person or family, people who built their lives around a promise and watched it break."

Real Country Animal
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Barbara Kingsolver Author, Biologist
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"I don't *ever* write about real people. Art is supposed to be better than that. If you want a slice of life, look out the window."

Writing Art Real
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Abigail Disney Filmmaker
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"There's a real difference between a documentary that was all about facts and history and information. People just don't get as engaged in that kind of documentary - they don't fall in love, they don't cry, they don't forget who they are, they don't ride with you. As we realized we had richer, vérité kind of people, what we wanted to do is focus in on the vérité story."

Real Differences Falling In Love
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Abigail McCarthy Politician
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"I don't think life offers any greater experience than the joyful sense of recognition when one finds in a new acquaintance a real friend, or when an old relationship deepens into friendship, or when one finds an old friendship intact despite the passage of years and many absences."

Thinking Real Friendship
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Edgerrin James Football Player
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"I want to be remembered as a person who kept it real, who did what he wanted to do, but never did nothing stupid and never tried to offend nobody else. I'm always being myself."

Want Real Stupid
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Edgerrin James Football Player
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"I keep things real simple because I know where I came from and I don't ever want to go back to that way of living."

Want Real Simple
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Edward Kennedy Politician
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"The real transgression occurs when religion wants government to tell citizens how to live uniquely personal parts of their lives. The failure of Prohibition proves the futility of such an attempt when a majority or even a substantial minority happens to disagree. Some questions may be inherently individual ones, or people may be sharply divided about whether they are. In such cases, like Prohibition and abortion, the proper role of religion is to appeal to the conscience of the individual, not the coercive power of the state."

People Real Government
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