5,320 Quotes About Real


  • Author Jim Hightower
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    Populism is at its essence [...] just determined focus on helping people be able to get out of the iron grip of the corporate power that is overwhelming our economy, our environment, energy, the media, government. [...] One big difference between real populism and what the Tea Party thing is, is that real populists understand that government has become a subsidiary of corporations. So you can't say, let's get rid of government. You need to be saying let's take over government.

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  • Author Jim Horning
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    Tribes will be defined by social enclaves on the internet, rather than by geography or kinship, but the world will be more fragmented and less tolerant, since ones real-world surroundings will not have the homogeneity of ones online clan.

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  • Author Joe Haldeman
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    Rationalism doesn't require "belief," only observation. The real, measurable world doesn't care what you believe.

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  • Author John Hartford
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    You read about somebody, and doesn't really matter whether or not they really exist - the point is that you get into them like real characters.

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  • Author John Hawkes
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    It's nice to sometimes get things out of life, rather than stealing from other artists. I'm trying to steal from the real people.

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  • Author John Hodgman
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    A lot of media that that I want to consume, I don't want to have to own forever and ever. It's not like real estate.

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  • Author John Hodgman
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    Panic is an incredibly catalyzing creative force. And almost out of sheer necessity, I found I had to talk about myself and my real life as it is effectively lived by me.

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  • Author John Hodgman
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    Most people presume my mustache is not real because it's much darker than my regular hair.

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