#real thing

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. ↗

— Mario Batali

#dry #fresh #going #make #pasta

I think it's really important to use your hands and get close to materials. To be up close to real things like rain and mud; to have contact with nature. ↗

— Robin Day

#contact #get #hands #i #i think

What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave who can only marvel at the shadows and images of various objects, provided they are content and don't know what they miss, and the philosopher who has emerged from the cave and sees the real things? ↗

— Desiderius Erasmus

#cave #content #difference #emerged #images

We don't see the people who are doing real things getting enough props. We often see politicians who are everywhere but nowhere at the same goddamn time. You know the kind of person: You see them everywhere on television but nowhere in front of your face. ↗

— Chuck D.

#enough #everywhere #face #front #getting

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

I didn't want to see George Hamilton playing me, I wanted the real thing. ↗

— Robert Evans

#hamilton #i #me #playing #real

There's only one requirement of any of us, and that is to be courageous. Because courage, as you might know, defines all other human behavior. And, I believe - because I've done a little of this myself - pretending to be courageous is just as good as the real thing. ↗

— David Letterman

#because #behavior #believe #courage #courageous

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

I do like a little romance... just a sniff, as I call it, of the rocks and valleys. Of course, bread-and-cheese is the real thing. The rocks and valleys are no good at all, if you haven't got that. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

#course #good #got #haven #i

I think right about now we have to beware of marketed Malcolms and Martins. Real people do real things. ↗

— Chuck D.

#beware #i #i think #marketed #now