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Alonzo King Choreographer
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"So many dancers feel that what they look like is more important than who they are. This is a real danger for dancers who focus for years on appearances and think of themselves as merely a body. The choreographer can't work with them in the realm of ideas. It's a huge problem if they haven't been connecting internally. If they've decided that what's inside is of little value, they can only try to approximate some kind of look."

Thinking Years Real
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Will Smith Actor, Producer, Rapper
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"Something hurts, lean in. You just lean into that point until it loses its power over you. There's a certain amount of suffering that you have to be willing to sustain if you want to have a good life. And the real trick is to be able to sustain it with your heart open and still be loving."

Real Hurt Good Life
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"It must be a good thing to die conscious of having performed some real good, and to know that by this work one will live, at least in the memory of some, and will have left a good example to those that come after. A work that is good-it may not be eternal, but the thought expressed in it is, and the work itself will certainly remain in existence for a long, long time; and if afterwards others arise, they can do no better than follow in the footsteps of such predecessors and do their work in the same way."

Real Long Memories
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Ray Bradbury Author
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"It doesn't matter what you do, he said, so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away. The difference between the man who just cuts lawns and a real gardener is in the touching, he said. The lawn-cutter might just as well not have been there at all; the gardener will be there a lifetime."

Men Real Cutting
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Voltaire Philosopher, Writer
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"It is the poverty connected with our species which subordinates one man to another. It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence."

Men Real Poverty
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Tim Allen Actor, Comedian
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"Real men don't use instructions, son. Besides, this is just the manufacturer's opinion on how to put this together."

Men Real Son
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Simone Weil Philosopher, Activist
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"Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating."

Real Evil Happiness
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Rumi Poet, Philosopher
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"Knowledge that is acquired is not like this. Those who have it worry if audiences like it or not. It's a bait for popularity. Disputational knowing wants customers. It has no soul... The only real customer is God. Chew quietly your sweet sugarcane God-Love, and stay playfully childish."

Real Knowing Sweet
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Raymond Williams Cultural Critic, Writer
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"The real dividing line between things we call work and the things we call leisure is that in leisure, however active we may be, we make our own choices and our own decisions. We feel for the time being that our life is our own."

Real Choices Decision
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Maria Montessori Educator, Physician
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"There is no description, no image in any book that is capable of replacing the sight of real trees, and all of the life to be found around them in a real forest."

Real Book Sight
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John Adams Founding Father, Politician
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"But what do we mean by the American Revolution? Do we mean the American war? The Revolution was effected before the war commenced. The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people; a change in their religious sentiments, of their duties and obligations ... This radical change in the principles, opinions, sentiments, and affections of the people was the real American Revolution."

Real War Religious
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Pema Chodron Buddhist Teacher, Author
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"If we knew that tonight we were going to go blind, we would take a long, last real look at every blade of grass, every cloud formation, every speck of dust, every rainbow, raindrop-everything."

Real Clouds Dust
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Carl Jung Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst
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"I believe that we have no real access to who we really are except in God. Only when we rest in God can we find the safety, the spaciousness, and the scary freedom to be who we are, all that we are, more than we are, and less than we are."

Believe Real Safety
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Bell Hooks Author, Feminist, Social Activist
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"I think our culture doesn't recognize passion, because real passion has the power to disrupt boundaries."

Thinking Real Passion
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David Bowie Musician, Actor
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"I've always been very chauvinistic, even in my boy-obsessed days. But I was always a gentleman. I alwaysd treated my boys like real ladies. Always escorted them properly and, in fact, I suppose if I were a lot older - like 40 or 50 - I'd be a wonderful sugar daddy to some little queen down in Kensington. I'd have a houseboy named Richard to order around."

Real Boys Queens
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"If you worship money and things, if they are where you tap real meaning in life, then you will never have enough, never feel you have enough. It's the truth. Worship your body and beauty and sexual allure and you will always feel ugly. And when time and age start showing, you will die a million deaths before they finally grieve you. On one level, we all know this stuff already. It's been codified as myths, proverbs, clichés, epigrams, parables; the skeleton of every great story. The whole trick is keeping the truth up front in daily consciousness."

Real Grieving Skeletons
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