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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
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Albert Brooks. Julia Louis-Dreyfus. Larry David. The best comedic actors play broad and real simultaneously, coming across as both larger than life and all too human.
- Appearance
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- Nov 07, 2020
An ocean of ink - real and virtual - has been spilled critiquing the appearance of female politicians.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first real experience of ambition was as party leader. It was my ambition for Labour to win, in which event I would be prime minister.
- Nov 07, 2020
I feel strongly that I need to try to make my shows as real as possible. What you see is what you get.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never got into 'Star Wars.' Maybe because they made no attempt to portray real physics. At all.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have seen many teachers in real life, which come from the same background and morality and treat their profession like just another one rather than a noble profession.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
For whatever reason, Coach Schwartz and I weren't all that close at first. We didn't have that kind of relationship, really. I don't know why, maybe because I was a rookie, but I never felt real comfortable just popping my head in his office and sitting down to talk.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Out' was my real breakthrough, the novel that became a hit in Japan and sold a lot of books, so it was sort of an obvious choice for being the first book to be translated into English.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
Be present. Be meditative. Form real friendships. Stay away from business networking events or friendships where there is always an underlying business angle.
- Positive
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- Nov 07, 2020
The real metric of success isn't the size of your bank account. It's the number of lives in whom you might be able to make a positive difference.
- Fiddling
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- Nov 07, 2020
Don't wallow in brainstorming. Time spent fiddling with a business plan or filling up whiteboards with ideas is time that you could spend actually launching your business and seeing if the idea floats. Launching gives you real, solid feedback, instead of the imaginary 'what if' scenarios dreamed up in a conference room.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
Shareholders need to have a real interest in the companies they own. Too many are simply too busy - they are asleep at the wheel.
- Better Off
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- Nov 07, 2020