#real thing

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

The next couple of jobs will determine, at least from a business point of view, if I'm a guy who's actually the real thing or I'm a guy who's had a nice moment. ↗

— Josh Brolin

#business #couple #determine #guy #had

The people who go get an LL album want to hear LL. They don't want to hear LL trying to sound like DMX or whoever else is out there. That's not what they want to hear from me, because if they want to hear that they can go get the real thing. ↗

— LL Cool J

#because #else #get #go #hear

If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier. ↗

— Jessamyn West

#anything #drill #easier #people #properly

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

I prefer the mystic clouds of nostalgia to the real thing, to be honest. ↗

— Robert Wyatt

#honest #i #mystic #nostalgia #prefer

I have a real thing for Mexican directors. And I love Guillermo del Toro and Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu. ↗

— Emma Watson

#directors #i #i love #love #mexican

Russell Crowe is very difficult, but it's worth it. He's the real thing. I can tell you this. Russell Crowe was just as difficult before he was an international star as he was afterwards. ↗

— Taylor Hackford

#before #crowe #difficult #i #i can

I think an ashtray is the most fantastically real thing. ↗

— Damien Hirst

#fantastically #i #i think #most #real