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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
- Being
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My style of comedy is very real and bittersweet, and sort of always on the verge of kind of being tragic.
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Constitutional' is just a real pip of a word. Positively rolls off the tongue. In fact, it's downright fun to say. 'Con-stit-too-shun-al.' It's the verbal equivalent of skipping down the street with an ice cream cone in your hand. It's like a semantic bag of Lays potato chips. You simply can't just say it once.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The nice thing about baseball is that all of the possible outcomes are known - it's not quite as messy as the real world. That makes the game an excellent playground for probability.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not saying I talk to cartoon characters all the time, but the characters are very real to me. In a very non-insane way.
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Batman' is pretty much real world-centric.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Enjoying fiction requires a shift in selfhood. You give up your own identity and try on the identities of other people, adopting their perspectives so as to share their experiences. This allows us to enjoy fictional events that would shock and sadden us in real life.
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The real problem with natural selection is that it makes no intuitive sense. It is like quantum physics; we may intellectually grasp it, but it will never feel right to us.
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Imagination tends to be truly useful if accompanied by the power of mental control - if the worlds in one's head can be purposefully manipulated and distinguished from the real one outside it.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
What's the subject of life - to get rich? All of those fellows out there getting rich could be dancing around the real subject of life.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My view was that the campaign had been a sacred thing, that it had been a real compact, because I was there and I saw the connection that Clinton made with people, and the connection that they made with him.
- Nov 07, 2020
My real priorities were my family - my kids and Bruce - and my work with the E Street Band.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm an intuitive musician. I have no real technical skills. I can only play six chords on the guitar.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I do know is that traditional gender roles are very real and flipping the norm is difficult for even the strongest, funniest, smartest men.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a real pet peeve for women who play damaged characters but don't look damaged.
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I grew up in a family of fighter pilots, and I have a real kindred spirit to that kind of fast-moving aggression and momentum.
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- Nov 07, 2020