#real thing

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

The first real thing I heard was Three O'Clock Blues by B.B. King. That's where it all began for me. ↗

— Robin Trower

#blues #clock #first #heard #i

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

— Damien Hirst

#fantastically #i #i think #most #real

The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#cannot #drawings #imagination #models #only

I write songs about real things... The subject dictates the mood and it goes from there, really. ↗

— John Mayall

#dictates #goes #i #i write #mood

We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things. ↗

— Hesiod

#how #know #many #real #real things

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

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#like #real #real thing #reputation #shadow

An administrator in a bureaucratic world is a man who can feel big by merging his non-entity in an abstraction. A real person in touch with real things inspires terror in him. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#administrator #big #bureaucratic #feel #him

My life is good because I am not passive about it. I invest in what is real. Like real people, to do real things, for the real me. ↗

— Gwyneth Paltrow

#am #because #good #i #i am