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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.

USC Film School always had a real sense of drama and lineage.

Quotes by Robert Zemeckis

All of us make mistakes. The key is to acknowledge them, learn, and move on. The real sin is ignoring mistakes, or worse, seeking to hide them.

Quotes by Robert Zoellick

Bill Evans is a real serious jazz pianist who, in my book, crossed over boundaries in terms of color. He used the piano as his canvas.

Quotes by Roberta Flack

I don't do much lying in real life because I don't get away with it.

Quotes by Robert Webb

Every fight, I try to get out there and set an example to show the rest of the world we have fighters from Australia, and we're for real, and we're here to stay.

Quotes by Robert Whittaker

I'm quite influenced in this by one of my heroes, Montaigne, who thought a man's real task was to render as honest an account of himself as he could.

Quotes by Robert Sheckley

The silent majority really is a liberal majority, even though the word liberal has taken a real beating over the last 20 years by radical conservatives.

Quotes by Robert Reich

When you make an exploitation film, you always want to have a real issue. That's how they were always done.

Quotes by Robert Rodriguez

Poetry is not easy. Or should I say, real poetry is not easy.

Quotes by Robert Pinsky

Faith is caused by an encounter with something very real but which has extraordinary qualities which intimate the divine; the belief is due to an encounter which specially mirrors some divine quality.

Quotes by Robert Nozick

In the late 60s and early 70s, I did get interested in voices, and in narration and embodying the voice, making the poem sound like a real person talking.

Quotes by Robert Morgan

Computer hackers do not need to know each other's real names, or even live on the same continent, to steal millions in mere hours.

Quotes by Robert Mueller

On this thin, scarcely real and yet so perceptible sensation the whole world hung as on a faintly trembling axis, and this in turn rested on the two people in the room.

Quotes by Robert Musil

There's not a system better than another. There are some people better than others. I'm not anti-democracy, but there's no real system yet that has proven itself to be the right one.

Quotes by Robert Lepage

The more I learned about real pirates, the more exciting they seemed to me. They appeared to be even more dramatic than pirates of the movies or TV shows.

Quotes by Robert Kurson

Once you discover that real pirates are more interesting than fictional ones, you can't look away.

Quotes by Robert Kurson

I'm comfortable reading science and dissecting it and discerning the difference between junk science and real science.

Quotes by Robert Kennedy, Jr.

When times are bad is when the real entrepreneurs emerge.

Quotes by Robert Kiyosaki

Real estate investing, even on a very small scale, remains a tried and true means of building an individual's cash flow and wealth.

Quotes by Robert Kiyosaki

Often, in the real world, it's not the smart that get ahead but the bold.

Quotes by Robert Kiyosaki

Frequently Asked Questions

Is there a quote about cryptography or technical research?
Yes. One quote observes that a lot of people working in cryptography have no deep concern with real application issues, and are more focused on discovering things clever enough to write papers about. It's a candid critique of research for its own sake. Browse Know quotes for more insight-driven lines.
Does this page include the same baseball confession found on other topic pages?
Yes - one quote here reads: "I never threw the spitter, well maybe once or twice when I really needed to get a guy out real bad." It shows up here because it uses real as an intensifier, alongside its baseball subject matter.
Is there a quote about a football transfer between clubs?
Yes. One quote reflects on being sold from Real Madrid to Inter, saying the speaker would have preferred to have remained in Spain. It's a personal look at how a transfer can feel from the player's side. For more on preferences and personal choices, see Like quotes.
Is there a quote about the movie "Scream"?
Yes - one quote notes that in 'Scream,' there is very real drama that would be in almost any drama, pointing out that even a horror franchise can carry genuine emotional weight. For more reflections on everyday life and entertainment, browse Life quotes.
What does "real" mean across these different quotes?
It covers a lot - real-world application in research, real bad as an intensifier in baseball slang, the real experience of being transferred between football clubs, and the real drama within a horror movie. For more quotes that return to familiar words in new contexts, see Always quotes.

A film quote points to drama that feels real rather than staged, tying the theme back to authenticity in storytelling. Explore related pages such as Know and Life.