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"I equals all of the ifs added up over time. The ifs, those are the possibilities; that's infinite for all of us. Every day there are just millions of them. Time, that's finite for each of us; there is no question there. Maybe if you divide choices by the amount of time you have, the real I can emerge, depending upon those choices."
"To look like you are a real sports fan, when there is a game on TV just yell, Oh, come on! every now and then at the TV."
"The enjoyment of freedom which could be exercised without any motivation would be the real hallmark of a maniac."
"Success always has a price; success, with integrity, is the real bottom line."
"True friendshipship is like phosphorescence-it glows best when the world around you goes dark."
"Either you're a person wondering if you have a soul, or you're a soul who knows that being a person isn't real."
"Why should I hate someone on the basis of their religion, when I can take a little time to get to know them and hate them for a myriad of real reasons."
"Look, we're Americans: optimistic, addicted to the quick fix, constantly on the hunt for the new and exotic. It's much easier for us to accept a guy with a big white beard hawking his own custom blend of saw palmetto and squirrel dandruff that it is to hear a real doctor telling us to lay off the big macs, and get off our fat asses and take a walk every decade or so."
"You don't need to be right all the time. Your child wants a man for a father, not a formula. He wants real parents, real people, capable of making mistakes without moping about it."
"Jesus could weep. Sometimes when you look at the ugliness that makes you weep, you know that the heart of God is also weeping. Jesus is for real. He does not give up on anyone, least of all on me."
"We are given an autonomy and the real autonomy... and God would much rather we went freely to hell than compel us to go to heaven."
"Without forgiveness, there is no future. Forgiveness is not nebulous, impractical and idealistic. It's thoroughly realistic. It's real political in the long run."
"A real important thing is that, though I rely on my husband for love, I rely on myself for strength."
"I think the fact that I look totally artificial, but I am totally real, has its own kind of magic in it."
"I would honestly say that with all the awards and all the other things that I've done in my life, Dollywood is one of the greatest dreams that I've ever had come true - I am so proud of that I can't even begin to tell you, Dollywood is real special to me."
"I just can't stand to look plain, 'cause that don't fit my personality. I may be a very artificial-looking person, but the good news is, I'm very real on the inside."
"I'm not like a real person. I love being artificial. I think there's a little magic in the fact that I'm so totally real, but look so artificial at the same time."
"My music is so mine, it's hard to turn it over to someone else. I have to be really involved in the production. It's like someone else taking care of your kids - if they don't treat them well, you're going to be pissed off. I'm actually co-producing [Backwoods] with my guitar player of 20 years, Kent Wells. We make a good combination... I think we're going to have a real good record."
"I may look fake but I'm real where it counts."
"Anyone who knows or cares anything about real country music will agree that George Jones is the voice of it."
