I’m a collector of cartoons. All the Disney stuff, Bugs Bunny, the old MGM ones. It’s real escapism, it’s like everything’s alright. It’s like the world is happening now in a far away city. Everything’s fine.
This extravagant dwelling, as domineering as it was distant, brought home to me the intimateconnection between tyranny and abstraction, and put me in mind of John Berger’s observation that “abstraction’s capacity to ignore what is real is undoubtedly where most evil begins.”
I am going to say something I have never said before and this is the truth. I have no reason to lie to you and God knows I am telling the truth. I think all my success and fame and I have wanted it, I have wanted it because I wanted to be loved. That’s all. That’s the real truth.
The deeper I go into myself, the stronger I become, because I realize that my real self is much bigger than any fear.
The main thing that I hate the most is ignorance, like the prejudice problems of America. I know it is worse in some other countries. But I wish I could borrow, like from Venezuela or Trinidad, the real love of color-blind people and bring it to America.
I truly love my fans. Truly, truly from the heart. That’s the real truth. I love them.
Nothing’s real, but all is possible if God is on my side.
I love putting on an outfit or a costume and just looking at myself in the mirror. Baggy pants or some real funky shoes and a hat and just feeling the character of it. That’s fun to me.
I play to win, whether during practice or a real game.
Sometimes I wonder what it will be like to look back on all this. Whether it will seem real.
I like to talk about my obsession with french fries because I don’t want people to think that ‘Let’s Move’ is about complete, utter deprivation. It’s about moderation and real-life changes and ideas that really work for families.
People have notions of what a wife’s role should be in this process, and it’s been a traditional one of blind adoration. My model is a little different – I think most real marriages are.
You never have real changes unless you have a time of crisis.
Only a crisis – actual or perceived – produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around.
Only a crisis, actual or perceived, produces real change.
Economics has become increasingly an arcane branch of mathematics rather than dealing with real economic problems.
The real tragedy of minimum wage laws is that they are supported by well-meaning groups who want to reduce poverty. But the people who are hurt most by higher minimums are the most poverty stricken.
There’s no doubt in my mind that Ronald Reagan was by far the greatest. Because he had real principles and he stuck by them. He made clear what he was going to do, and he did it. He didn’t back down.
Desire sets our compass, but real life steers our course.
For better or for worse, I’ve watched people die in front of me. I see how they are in the end. And they’re not cynical. In the end, they wanna hold somebody’s hand. And that’s real to me.