You five and ten cent women with nothing in your heads, I got a real gal I’m loving and Lord I’ll love her ’til I’m dead.
Any real Bob Dylan fan would sleep with Jonah Lehrer.
I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live models, paintings, photographs, staged setups, architecture, grids, graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work.
I don’t think I’ve ever been an agnostic. I’ve always thought there’s a superior power, that this is not the real world and that there’s a world to come.
The real power is in the hands of small groups of people and I don’t think they have titles.
If you want to find out who your real friends are, sink the ship. The first ones to jump aren’t your friends.
Marilyn Monroe wasn’t even her real name, Charles Manson isn’t his real name, and now, I’m taking that to be my real name. But what’s real? You can’t find the truth, you just pick the lie you like the best.
Marilyn is real. I wake up and I am Marilyn.
It’s not like I turn off Marilyn Manson and I’m an everyday guy who goes and has another job and doesn’t think about any of this stuff. Marilyn Manson is the most real thing that can come from me.
But what’s real? You can’t find the truth. You just pick the lie you like best. As long as you know that everything’s a lie, you can’t hurt yourself.
I would start drinking something terrible if I were in a situation where I was surrounded by lies or quiet or secrets. It’s just not a real life.
I’m not a bit changed – not really. I’m only just pruned down and branched out. The real me – back here – is just the same.
Even when I’m alone I have real good company – dreams and imaginations and pretendings. I like to be alone now and then, just to think over things and taste them. But I love friendships – and nice, jolly little times with people.
Maybe the bride-bed brings despair, For each an imagined image brings And finds a real image there...
The real reward for doing your best work is not the money you make but the leader you become.
The real trick in life is to turn hindsight into foresight that reveals insight.
Better to have 3 real friends than 100,000 digital ones.
Remember, there are no real failures in life, only results. There are no true tragedies, only lessons. And there are no problems, only opportunities waiting to be recognized as solutions by the person of wisdom.
The real secret to a life of abundance is to stop spending your days searching for security and to start spending your time pursuing opportunity.
Never sacrifice happiness for the sake of achievement. The real key to life is to happily achieve.