Best 120 quotes in «being real quotes» category

I grew up being really insecure and dumped on, over-feeling certain things in a negative way. So I thought I had something to prove.

I have a sneaking suspicion that leading an examined life and being really tan aren't consistent with one another.

I'm always being realistic.

I'm just gonna be real grateful to be on any freaking movie set for the rest of my life.

I'm pretty sure there's a lot more to life than being really, really, ridiculously good looking. And I plan on finding out what that is.

I'm pleased to say that it [ a paper on the history of Attica] got much recognition with a 99 grade. It was shown to the Attica Historical Society, who enthusiastically responded to it and read it at one of their annual meetings resulting in an article in the local newspaper about this excellent paper being presented. As I now look back at it, I think of that as being really my first book and did indicate that I did have interest in research.

IN ALL MY FILMS, IT SEEMED IMPORTANT TO ME TO REMIND THE AUDIENCE TO THE FACT THAT THEY ARE NOT ALONE, LOST IN AN EMPTY UNIVERSE, BUT THAT THEY ARE CONNECTED BY INNUMERABLE THREADS WITH THEIR PAST AND PRESENT, THAT THROUGH CERTAIN MYSTICAL WAYS, EVERY HUMAN BEING REALIZES THE RAPPORT WITH THE WORLD AND THE LIFE OF HUMANITY.

I'm still reading some scripts and I model as well, so I'm still doing that. But I don't want to do like just anything so we're being really selective about the stuff I'll do.

I remember being really grateful that David Lynch had actually even thought of casting me, because I was a huge fan of his.

I remember being a teenager and being really impressed by "let's sit around and b*tch" people, and I have so little time for those people nowadays.

I never imagined when I wrote my first book on Strauss that the unscrupulous elite that he elevates would ever come so close to political power, nor that the ominous tyranny of the wise would ever come so close to being realised in the political life of a great nation like the United States. But fear is the greatest ally of tyranny.

In my experience, it tends to be a real reflection of someone's intelligence, confidence and sensitivity when they can just be real.

I only really fake it anymore with sommeliers who are being really snotty to me and I don't want to take their grief and so I try to do something to kind of throw them off or put them on the defensive, even if I don't know what I'm talking about

I remember being really interested in the sad parts of Los Angeles, of which there are many, and knowing we weren't up in the citadel on the hill, but we also weren't on the bottom. I was very interested in the poetry of failure as a child.

I remember being really young and having this voice inside that told me to trust my gut. And my gut has been really, really strong in my life. It's pretty vocal and it leads me.

I thought he wanted it, anyway," I say. "Not like this," Haymitch says. "He wanted it to be real.

I think being really connected to a higher power, of having a spirituality to me, has been really good for me and I pray all the time.

I think it is impossible for one human being really to know another without first knowing and being at peace with himself.

I think the fact that I am living my dream and being really productive and embarking on all my lifelong aspirations is proof enough that if I can do it, anyone can. I try to tell everybody to dream big and go after their dreams.

I was giving up--being realistic, as people liked to say, meaning the same thing. Being realistic made me feel bitter.

It's rather difficult to think of anybody being really interested in me. But you know, man, I am totally together.

Ive always loved musical films; I find them really thrilling and exciting; it was part of what made me want to be an actress, that feeling of being really transported.

It seems to me, that's the only thing that ends up being really fulfilling or satisfying - your career.

It's very unbalanced actually, to be real. Everything's like deserted.

It takes skill to be real. Time to heal each other

Just as the worst slave-owners were those who were kind to their slaves, and so prevented the horror of the system being realized by those who suffered from it, and understood by those who contemplated it, so, in the present state of things in England, the people who do most harm are the people who try to do most good.

I wasn't trying to make a following. I was just trying to make interesting music. That's not being modest, that's just being realistic.

I would say being in that institution - that psyche ward, or whatever it was. That was really creepy because it was a real place from like the early 1900s.

Just because something is a metaphor doesn't mean it can't be real.

Let's be real: It's just TV; it's just entertainment

Nobody in real life ever takes me seriously.

Monotheism owes its existence not to philosophic speculation about the nature of reality or knowledge or virtue, but to acceptance of reality identified with a supreme being.

Life can be real tough... you can either learn from your problems, or keep repeating them over and over.

No human being really begins on the day which appears in the passport as their date of birth. We all begin much much much earlier.

Nothing trains you better to write fiction than being really good at writing about your own interiority.

One of the traps of auditioning is walking into that room feeling as though you're a guest in someone's house, and being really careful not to spill wine on the carpet. What you have to do is walk in there as though you're the host.

Once human beings realize something can be done, they're not satisfied until they've done it.

Scary is good. Kids like going to a movie and being really scared rather than fake scared.

Ride the energy of your own unique spirit.

People are being really picky about the upcoming election. I read that Americans do not want the next president to be a first-term senator, be over 65, or have a former president in the family. Then the Secret Service said, 'Hey, whoever slips through slips through. No promises.'

... professing myself moreover convinced that the general's unjust interference, so far from being really injurious to their felicity, was perhaps rather conducive to it, by improving their knowledge of each other, and adding strength to their attachment, I leave it to be settled, by whomsoever it may concern, whether the tendency of this work be altogether to recommend parental tyranny, or reward filial disobedience.

The best thing is being really close. The worst thing is being really close.

Sooner or later, many idealists transform themselves into disheartened realists who mistakenly believe that giving up is the same thing as being realistic.

The cause, then, philosophically speaking, is the sum total of the conditions, positive and negative, taken together; the whole of the contingencies of every description, which being realized, the consequent invariably follows.

There are problems that just end up being really hard and by definition the only problems that come to my desk are the ones that nobody else can solve.

The pressure... It's not real unless you let it be real.

The realest people don’t have a lot of friends.

There are things in your life which you are in control of, and those you're not. You need to not care about those things which you're not in control of, and when you come to really understand that, you can go from being really upset about something to that lovely feeling of being a kid where everything is okay.

There's something interesting about being really intimate and familiar with Israel, but still being American - that really thin piece of glass between me and my experiences.

There is a generation begging for you to be real... and to be real now.