- 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
- Ambition
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I started out, everyone seemed to be adopting these names... Johnny Rotten, Sid Vicious. I wasn't really Rotten or Vicious or Nasty, so I wanted something a bit more funny - yet something that seemed real rock 'n' roll... something that acknowledged my ambition.
- Blue
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you get real stage fright, it comes like a sledgehammer out of the blue in the middle of something that you know you've done too many times before, and there's no rhyme or reason for it. It's something quite different from being nervous. It's almost paralysing.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Then there are actors my age like Ethan Hawke, he's in 'Moby Dick,' I love his work. I've been lucky. Alfred Molina, he has real class.
- Integrity
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- Nov 07, 2020
All musicians start out with ideals but hanging on to them in the face of media scrutiny takes real integrity. Tougher still is to live up to the ideals of your dedicated fans.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's nice to be able to play a guy who gets to say all the things that you don't get to say in real life.
- Nov 07, 2020
Yes, I'm a real southern boy.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
People could live very happily without the Turner Prize, but they could not live without real communication and emotion.
- Dead
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- Nov 07, 2020
Now that I'm older, a real source of interest is the ages of the dead, the number; the day is off to an optimistic start when the departed are all older than I.
- Patriotism
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- Nov 07, 2020
A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
A real job is a job you hate.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
So, what's it like in the real world? Well, the food is better, but beyond that, I don't recommend it.
- Proud
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- Nov 07, 2020
Conservative policies have on the whole worked - insofar as any set of policies can be said to 'work' in the real world. Conservatives of the Reagan-Bush-Gingrich-Bush years have a fair amount to be proud of.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
That was real baseball. We weren't playing for money. They gave us Mickey Mouse watches that ran backwards.
- Circle
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- Nov 07, 2020
George Klein says that Elvis had five real friends outside of his circle, and I was blessed to be one of them. I spent a lot of time with Elvis in Vegas and at Graceland.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020