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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.

I wanted college to be a real American adventure for me.

Quotes by Mark Kurlansky

In real life, I'm far more lighthearted than I come across on the records.

Quotes by Mark Lanegan

I was in trouble with the law from when I was real young.

Quotes by Mark Lanegan

At Chicago Hope they have a technical staff that works real hard to make that O.R. as realistic as possible.

Quotes by Mark Harmon

It's a real challenge to complete a story arc and end up with a cool punchline in 120 characters.

Quotes by Mark Hoppus

I don't need the fillers, additives, excessive amounts of sugars, fats, salts and other measures taken to taint the natural goodness of real food.

Quotes by Mark Hyman

Most schools have only a microwave or deep fryer, hardly the tools needed to feed our children real, fresh food.

Quotes by Mark Hyman

I want to show that I'm a real teenager, not some fantasized Hollywood kid.

Quotes by Mark Indelicato

In my opinion, right now there's way too much hype on the technologies and not enough attention to the real businesses behind them.

Quotes by Mark Cuban

Much as soldiers come back, they've been in combat or the edge of it and suddenly that adjustment back to civilian life is a real challenge.

Quotes by Mark Dayton

The narrative oftentimes is that everything that comes out of the hood is 'real,' and so I thought, 'I'll base it on the absurd, the not real. I'll twist the idea of real on its head and see if I...

Quotes by Mark Bradford

My memories of being nine or ten years old are especially vivid, since this is the time when you have a real sense of who you are - before the self-conscious preteen years start.

Quotes by Marissa Moss

I loved playing with the mix of fantastical inventions and real ones. I hope kids will start logbooks to record their own creations.

Quotes by Marissa Moss

The real war is not between the West and the East. The real war is between intelligent and stupid people.

Quotes by Marjane Satrapi

No matter how fast or how slow you get to the quarterback, it all goes to slow motion when you get there. Everything just stops. You don't see anything but the quarterback. You don't hear anything but the quarterback's breath....

Quotes by Mario Williams

If you're going to buy pasta, you should buy dry pasta. If you're going to make it you can make the real thing, but you shouldn't buy fresh pasta.

Quotes by Mario Batali

The difference between 'Molto Italiano' and 'The Babbo Cookbook' is that the ingredient lists in 'Molto' are about half or even a third the size. In 'Babbo,' they are very long, they are very real. That's exactly how we make...

Quotes by Mario Batali

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

Quotes by Mario Benedetti

Governor Romney is a real hardliner on illegal immigration.

Quotes by Mario Diaz-Balart

My real achievement is my daughter and my three beautiful grandchildren.

Quotes by Marilyn Horne

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.