- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
Real Quotes
On staying grounded in what's real.
This set plays with double meanings, from researchers chasing clever ideas over practical relevance to a footballer's memories of a transfer away from a famous Spanish club. For more on genuine feeling, see Like.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone in the Chinese economic world knows that the country is not going to move out of cheap-workhouse status, toward the realm of 'real' rich-country corporate power and prosperity, unless (among other changes) it begins removing these price distortions.
- Attention
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- Nov 07, 2020
In song the same rule applies as in dramatic verse: the meaning must yield itself, or yield itself sufficiently to arouse the attention and interest, in real time.
- Practice
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no objection to the proposal: in order to learn to be a poet, I shall try to write a sonnet. But the thing you must try to write, when you do so, is a real sonnet, and not a practice sonnet.
- Beat
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- Nov 07, 2020
My last real job was selling air time for CBS affiliates. I quit that when I was 28, and that was the last real job I had. I beat the system. I've been able to do this full-time for almost 15 years.
- Nov 07, 2020
My real education began when I entered the University of Chicago in September 1951 as a graduate student.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
Increasingly, the real estate developers can't get bank loans for their project financing in China. They're now going into the Hong Kong market to raise money in the bond market at very, very high rates, as high as 15, 20 percent.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was very immature - who isn't at age 12? Let's be real. Once I kind of figured myself out and grew as a person, I now have a ton of different friends and learned who I was.
- Coolness
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being hip, being popular, being cool, that's really easy. Until you have to make tough decisions. And when you have to make tough decisions, that veneer of coolness comes off real quick.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Basically the real decision making in the Labour party is old white men, assisted by young, posh men.
- Poets
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- Nov 07, 2020
Rarest of the real poets are born poets. They are the oddballs, not the professors.
- Losing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Losing your capital is like losing your trousers. It is a real humiliation, and one not to be soon repeated.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
People were telling me it was refreshing I was real because previous 'X Factor' winners were too afraid to say anything. I decided to go against the grain. But I took it too far.
- Deduction
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- Nov 07, 2020