Even if I ain’t the famous-est, the richest, the best – as long as I know I kept it real and didn’t backstab nobody – I sleep good at night.
One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.
The real Antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity.
In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.
Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle.
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.
There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.
When you meet your best friend in real life, or you meet your soulmate, you just know it, and you feel it.
There’s a real wisdom to not saying a thing.
Ever since the economic crisis in 2008, millions of people have accepted cuts in all sorts of things – from real wages and living standards to benefits and hospital care – without any real opposition. The cuts may be right, or they may be stupid – but the astonishing thing is how no-one really challenges them.
The real key to making money in stocks is not to get scared out of them.
To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.
I blew through all my money and made some very bad decisions. I had this scam artist scam me real bad and was embezzled over $175,000.
America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.
Dreaming means ‘rehearsing’ what you see, playing it over and over in your mind until it becomes as real to you as your life right now.
And for me, the real world involves everything: risk, danger, beauty, energy, all we meet with in the real world.
I was feeling real good and real manly. Until a real cowboy walked by and told me I had my hat on backwards. So much for my career as a cowboy.
Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
