#real

The journey from teaching about love to allowing myself to be loved proved much longer than I realised. ↗

— Henri Nouwen

#allowing #i #journey #longer #love

I liked Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer, and that is the kind of character that I would like to have played. That would have been more in tune with who I really was. ↗

— Keith Thibodeaux

#character #finn #huckleberry #huckleberry finn #i

It might be a bad thing, not to know what's going on in the world. I can't say I really approve of it. ↗

— Sharon Olds

#bad #bad thing #going #i #know

I've heard all kinds of crazy rumors about myself. I've even heard that I'm pregnant! I've become real good about laughing things off - I figure I'd better get used to it. ↗

— Carrie Underwood

#become #better #crazy #even #figure

I was always in the popular crowd, but I really had atrocious teeth. I was encouraged to 'do well in school, 'cause no one's going to marry you!' ↗

— Gabrielle Union

#atrocious #cause #crowd #encouraged #going

Just like I find men who talk sports who don't really know sports annoying, I think men might find women who don't really have a true passion and knowledge of sports maybe not so attractive. ↗

— Gabrielle Union

#attractive #find #i #i think #just

I think anything that requires real global breakthroughs requires a degree of intensity and sustained effort that cannot be done part time, so it's something you have to do around the clock, and that doesn't compute with our existing educational system. ↗

— Peter Thiel

#around #breakthroughs #cannot #clock #compute

The realities are that, you know, as a black man, you know, Barack can get shot going to the gas station, you know. ↗

— Michelle Obama

#black #gas #gas station #get #going

There's very little admirable about being a pirate. There's very little functional about a pirate. There's very little real about a pirate. ↗

— Will Oldham

#admirable #being #functional #little #pirate

Well, one thing I'm really interested in, when I'm writing, is being accurate. ↗

— Sharon Olds

#being #i #interested #one thing #really