#real thing

I don't know who's left to hear us. But if there are people who want the real thing, we've got it. My band rocks, and I plan to keep doing it 'till nobody shows up to see it anymore. ↗

— Ronnie Hawkins

#band #doing #got #hear #i

More than anything, people want the reality of the discussion at hand. If what is going on in that building is the real thing, if the transforming love and power of Jesus Christ is being experienced, you can sit on a metal folding chair or in a plush theater seat. ↗

— Bill Hybels

#being #building #chair #christ #discussion

Your political reputation affects how likely allies are to trust you, and what kind of deals they'll offer at the negotiating table. There's also some emotional response in there, so factions do bear grudges. Just like the real thing. ↗

— Mike Simpson

#allies #also #bear #deals #emotional

Out of the thousands who are known or who want to be known as poets, maybe one or two are genuine and the rest are fakes, hanging around the sacred precincts, trying to look like the real thing. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#genuine #hanging #known #like #look

When you've been raised in care, rap music isn't just about guns and sexism. They're talking about real things you can hang on to, problems of identity that you have sympathy with. It's not just about the music, with rap: when I was in care, it meant a whole lot more than that. ↗

— Samantha Morton

#been #care #guns #hang #i

And I taught acting for years, and without knowing it that was the real thing that started bending me toward directing. ↗

— Sydney Pollack

#bending #directing #i #knowing #me

The real thing is, you should be seeing these plays in the Theatre. That's what they were written for. That's where the enjoyment is. Studying them is no enjoyment whatsoever. ↗

— Tony Randall

#plays #real #real thing #seeing #should

As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow. ↗

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

#always #artist #authentic #bad #decent

Our dreams are made of real things, like a shoebox full of photographs. ↗

— Jack Johnson

#full #like #made #our #our dreams

I don't know the first real thing about the dating game. I don't know how to talk to a specific person and connect. I just think you have to go to person by person and do the best you can with people in general. ↗

— Jason Schwartzman

#about #best #connect #first #game