All Quotes

The real harm of term extension comes not from these famous works. The real harm is to the works that are not famous, not commercially exploited, and no longer available as a result.
‐‐ Lawrence Lessig

The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
‐‐ Umberto Eco

The real heroes are those who fight for the common interest, and not for their personal well-being.
‐‐ Edward Asiminei

The real heroes were my good buddies who died during the battles.
‐‐ Ira Hayes

The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie.
‐‐ Joseph Brodsky

The real important thing about Digital-Original publication goes beyond the fact that authors make more money off each sale than through traditional publishing. It's that we get to bypass a system of gatekeepers who have more than 'quality' as criteria for what they choose.
‐‐ Michael A. Stackpole

The real important things are kindness and a sense of humor. I've been fortunate to have dated and could have easily married women who have those qualities, and time and circumstances didn't work out. Timing plays a big part.
‐‐ Hill Harper

The real influence on my work was reality, that of my country and Latin America in general.
‐‐ Mario Benedetti

The real intimidating stuff is the scene where you show up for the first day. You kind of square off, and that is where you look each other in the eye.
‐‐ Ron Livingston

The Real is ever-present, like the screen on which the cinematographic pictures move. While the picture appears on it, the screen remains invisible. Stop the picture, and the screen will become clear. All thoughts and events are merely pictures moving on the screen of Pure Consciousness, which alone is real.
‐‐ Ramana Maharshi

The real issue behind these people who are gun grabbers, the truth is - based on fact - the reason why is, they want control. They want control of the people. That's what socialism is and communism.
‐‐ Luke Scott

The real issue for the public is to figure out which narrative do we want. We can have a bigger government, if that's the public's choice. It'll just require higher taxes on every American. Do you want that, or do you want smaller government, smaller taxes?
‐‐ Glenn Hubbard

The real issue is, are you available to the folks you represent? And I am.
‐‐ Elizabeth Esty

The real issue is not talent as an independent element, but talent in relationship to will, desire, and persistence. Talent without these things vanishes and even modest talent with those characteristics grows.
‐‐ Milton Glaser

The real issues I don't think most people touch. The Clinton jokes are all about Monica Lewinsky and all that stuff and not about the important things, like the fact that he wouldn't ban landmines.
‐‐ Tom Lehrer

The real Jack Johnson was both more and less than those who loved or those who hated him ever knew. He embodied American individualism in its purest form; nothing - no law or custom, no person white or black, male or female - could keep him for long from whatever he wanted.
‐‐ Geoffrey Ward

The real joy is in constructing a sentence. But I see myself as an actor first because writing is what you do when you are ready and acting is what you do when someone else is ready.
‐‐ Steve Martin

The real key is to live in an environment where the mind feels free to choose the right thing instead of being compelled by habit and inertia to choose the wrong thing.
‐‐ Deepak Chopra

The real key to making money in stocks is not to get scared out of them.
‐‐ Peter Lynch

The real killers in the business world aren't the ones who aim for the top, it's the ones who aim for two notches below the top.
‐‐ Douglas Coupland

The real kiss of death - particularly with my father - is the extraordinary popularity of his work.
‐‐ Jamie Wyeth

The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way.
‐‐ Henry Miller

The real leaders cannot appear in the peaceful time; nor can the serious opposition emerge from within the peaceful atmosphere. Without an open confrontation, there is no opposition!
‐‐ Vladimir Bukovsky

The real Liberace - and I'll preface this by saying that I didn't know the real one - was a man who didn't come from much. His father left him and his family for another woman. His father was a musician, which I thought was pretty interesting.
‐‐ Richard LaGravenese

The real Likud knows how to make peace, to give up territory, and on the other hand is conservative and responsible. My world view is that of the real Likud that truly came and safeguarded the Land of Israel.
‐‐ Moshe Kahlon

The real literary editors have mostly been fired. Those that remain are all 'bottom line' editors; everything depends on the money.
‐‐ Lawrence Ferlinghetti

The real lover is the man who can thrill you just by touching your head or smiling into your eyes - or just by staring into space.
‐‐ Marilyn Monroe

The real lover of cats is one who demands a clearer adjustment to the universe than ordinary household platitudes provide; one who refuses to swallow the sentimental notion that all good people love dogs, children, and horses while all bad people dislike and are disliked by such.
‐‐ H. P. Lovecraft

The real luxury travel of the modern age is not through space; it's through time.
‐‐ Nancy Gibbs

The real magic is in making the intangible idea, the creative impulse, manifest and live in our reality.
‐‐ Mark Ryan

The real Malala is gone somewhere, and I can't find her.
‐‐ Malala Yousafzai

The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
‐‐ Henry Ward Beecher

The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.
‐‐ Thomas Paine

The real mariachis in Mexico are singers like Agustin Lara and Pedro Infante and Jorge Negrete - the Golden Era of Mexican Filmmaking. Mariachis sing very soft and very beautiful. That's old-school mariachi. They are caressing the songs.
‐‐ Jaime Camil

The real Mary Poppins got lost when Hollywood turned her into a cream puff.
‐‐ Anita Diament

The real me now may not be thin but she's got the cake and, if she likes, can eat it too.
‐‐ Arabella Weir

The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness.
‐‐ Nikos Kazantzakis

The real meditation practice is how we live our lives from moment to moment to moment.
‐‐ Jon Kabat-Zinn

The real menace in dealing with a five-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five-year-old.
‐‐ Jean Kerr

The real message of the Dance opens up the vistas of life to all who have the urge to express beauty with no other instrument than their own bodies, with no apparatus and no dependence on anything other than space.
‐‐ Ruth St. Denis

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.
‐‐ Naveen Jain

The real Michael Jackson that has not been seen... with children, one in diapers, the other two toddlers.
‐‐ Geraldo Rivera

The real middle class India that has always been looking for a voice that is its very own. I write about it because I belong to it.
‐‐ Chetan Bhagat

The real minimum wage is zero.
‐‐ Thomas Sowell

The real minister's name that we honor is Jesus, not Schuller.
‐‐ Robert H. Schuller

The real movement of history, it turns out, is fueled not by matter but by spirit, by the will to freedom.
‐‐ Gertrude Himmelfarb

The real names of our people were destroyed during slavery. The last name of my forefathers was taken from them when they were brought to America and made slaves, and then the name of the slave master was given, which we refuse, we reject that name today and refuse it. I never acknowledge it whatsoever.
‐‐ Malcolm X

The real opportunity is to harness the inventive power of the world to locally design and produce solutions to local problems.
‐‐ Neil Gershenfeld

The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.
‐‐ Mahatma Gandhi

The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude.
‐‐ Albert Camus