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“I didn't realize, when I decided to be a comic, that a black person had never been allowed to stand flat-footed in America and talk to white folks. It never happened before.”

Persons America Black Realizing White Happened Decided Folks Comic Flats Black Person

Author:Dick Gregory

“You have to realize, when you're a comedian, that you have to have a thick skin. And trust me, being onstage in front of people is already difficult enough. Somebody's personal attack in an email is not as hard as getting onstage.”

People Hard Enough Difficult Realizing Fronts Skins Comedian Thick Email Trust Me Thick Skin Personal Attacks

Author:Dane Cook

“It's weird making a drawing of painting. I start to realize that charcoal is this incredibly fragile material. I'm making images of paintings out of dust.”

Realizing Painting Materials Drawing Dust Fragile Charcoal

Author:Robert Longo

“I started realizing I have enough history that some of it has been forgotten.”

Has Beens Enough Realizing Forgotten

Author:Robert Longo

“One thing about me, when I make a decision about something, I realize when you make choices in life, that dictates your life.”

Choices Realizing Decision One Thing Life Choices

Author:Chris Tucker

“Before you're famous it's stuff that seems like it'd be really cool, but once you get it, you realize it's not bad, but it's kind of hollow and meaningless.”

Kind Seems Stuff Realizing Meaningless Hollow Really Cool

Author:Tucker Max

“Feminism or the family? Carried to excess maybe. I have insisted that women cannot be defined solely in those terms. But for a great many women - not all, because we are only beginning to realize and affirm the diversity of women themselves - choosing motherhood makes motherhood itself a liberating choice.”

Choices Term Realizing Feminism Diversity Motherhood Defined Great Men Excess Liberating

Author:Betty Friedan

“What I like to do with music is make people feel better. Make people realize that all humans have the same problems, more or less. A lot of people deal with the same thing. A lot of times people think problems are specific to them and they if they hear a song about a problem common to them, they feel good because they know that someone else has gone through it.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Feels Humans Problem Song Realizing Deals Common Gone Music Is Feel Good Feel Better Make People Feel Better

Author:Jack Johnson

“As I get older, the character evolves tremendously because I'm married and have kids now and realize certain things are not funny anymore. I threw them out of my act.”

Character Kids Certain Realizing Married Evolve

Author:Larry the Cable Guy

“The main thing I like about New Yorkers is that they understand that their lives are a relentless circus of horrors, ending in death. As New Yorkers, we realize this, we resign ourselves to our fate, and we make sure that everyone else is as miserable as we are. Good town.”

Humor Funny Realizing Fate Horror Towns Miserable Circus Relentless New Yorkers

Author:Kyle Baker

“Anything that looks like an idea is probably just something that has accumulated, like dust. It looks like I have ideas because I do books that are all on the same subject. That is just because the pictures have piled up on that subject. Finally I realize that I am really interested in it. The pictures make me realize that I am interested in something.”

Looks Book Ideas Realizing Subjects Photography Dust

Author:Lee Friedlander

“I think when you work on fossils, and you realize that a species is there, and it's abundant for quite a long period of time, and then at some point it's no longer there - and so, when you look at that bigger picture, yes, you realize that either you change and adapt, or, as a species, you go extinct.”

Thinking Looks Long Realizing Periods Bigger Species Fossils Adapting Long Periods Of Time Bigger Picture

Author:Louise Leakey

“Another foreign-policy triumph for Reagan was his 1984 visit to China, where he met for more than three hours with Mao Zedong before realizing that Mao was dead.”

Funny Three Realizing Hours Policy Mets China Triumph Foreign Policy Mao Reaganomics

Book:Dave Barry Slept Here: A Sort of History of the United States

Source: Dave Barry Slept Here: A Sort of History of the United States

“Now all of us deplore this vast military spending. Yet, in the face of the Soviet attitude, we realize its necessity. Whatever the cost, America will keep itself secure. But in the process we must not, by our own hand, destroy or distort the American system. This we could do by useless overspending. I know one sure way to overspend. That is by overindulging sentimental attachments to outmoded military machines and concepts.”

“One of the things that I noticed in war was how difficult it was for our soldiers, at first, to realize that there are no rules to war. Our men were raised in sports, where a referee runs a football game, or an umpire a baseball game, and so forth.”

Men Firsts War Running Games Sports Difficult Realizing Football Baseball Raised Soldier Umpires Football Game Baseball Games Referee

Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower

“I learned all those jokes in second grade. Second grade is really where they tell you those horrific jokes, racist jokes and misogynistic jokes that you have no idea what they mean, and you just memorize them because they have a very strong effect, they make people laugh in this kind of nervous, horrible way, and it's only later that you realize that you've got a head full of crap.”

People Way Kind Mean Ideas Strong Realizing Laughing Effects Jokes Horrible Nervous No Idea Grades Racist Very Strong Crap Making People Laugh Horrific Racist Jokes

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“Regular people don't even realize how much artists mean to them. Artists represent a lot to the average person. People listen to music all day on their iPods, so as artists, we become a real fixture in people's lives. As an artist, you can't take it personal. It's like your big brother teasing you.”

People Mean Persons Real Bigs Artist Realizing Brother Like You Average Listening To Music Tease Ipods Average Person Fixture

Author:Nicki Minaj

“Cincinnati at that time was also beginning to realize it had major cartooning talent in Jim Borgman, at the city's other paper, and I didn't benefit from the comparison.His footsteps seemed like good ones to follow, so I cultivated an interest in politics, and Borgman helped me a lot in learning how to construct an editorial cartoon. Neither of us dreamed I'd end up in the same town on the opposite paper.”

Ends Interest Realizing Cities Talent Paper Benefits Majors Opposites Towns Comparison Cartoon Constructs Footsteps Editorials Interest In Politics

Author:Bill Watterson

“Newtonian physics is over. You don't act on the world to change the world. You realize the world is a projection of your inner self. If you change, the world changes.”

Ifs World Self Realizing Physics Changing The World Over You Projection Inner Self

Author:Marianne Williamson

“When you understand spiritual law, then you realize that everything you give, good or bad, will in fact come back to you tenfold and that's just the way it is. You give someone flowers and the person you are ultimately giving to is yourself.”

Way Giving Persons Facts Spiritual Law Realizing Flower

Author:Marianne Williamson

“The secret of success is to realize that the crisis on our planet is much larger than just deciding what to do with your own life.”

Realizing Secret Planets Crisis Our Planet Secret To Success Deciding What To Do

Author:Marianne Williamson

“The goal of this generation's pioneers should be to restrict procreation and limit consumption. They should also take every opportunity to make themselves happy, realizing that the key to self-generated happiness (the only reliable kind) is the refusal to take oneself too seriously.”

Should Kind Self Opportunity Goal Realizing Generations Keys Limits Oneself Consumption Refusal Pioneers This Generation Procreation

Author:Tom Robbins

“I can't compose or play music; I'm not that fortunate. But I can write and I can talk and sometimes when I'm doing either of these things I realize that I've written a sentence or uttered a thought that I didn't absolutely know I had in me... until I saw it on the page or heard myself say it.”

Knows Writing I Can Sometimes Play Realizing Saws Written Heard Pages Sentences Fortunate

Author:Christopher Hitchens

“I spent a lot of time at the New York Public Library, the main branch. I was one of those people. If you ever spend a good amount of time there, you realize there are people who spend the entire day there. They're bookish homeless people.”

People Ifs Realizing New York Amount Library Branches Homeless Public Library Homeless People

Author:Lisa Yuskavage

“A writer, or a beginning writer, is faced by the huge walls of self-consciousness. Most people think, "What if I say the wrong thing? What if I don't sound erudite and sophisticated? I'll be considered a fool." In time, with a lot of practice, you realize that's your foolishness is your gift.”

People Ifs Thinking Self Sound Realizing Consciousness Practice Huge Wall Fool What If Sophisticated Foolishness Wrong Things Self Consciousness Erudite Beginning Writers

Author:Richard Bach

“I had experiences along the way that helped me to realize that letting go was the way that worked for me to find something that I, personally, as a reader, love to read.”

Way Realizing Reader Letting Go Love To Read

Author:Richard Bach

“The Bible has the answers to our everyday life. Many times people don't realize how practical it is.”

People Realizing Answers Everyday Practicals Everyday Life

Author:Joyce Meyer

“There have been directors that I did not enjoy working with, but for the most part I realize that I have been unbelievably spoiled in my career because I have worked with some of the greatest, greatest directors ever.”

Has Beens Enjoy Realizing Careers Directors Spoiled

Author:Meryl Streep

“Ironically, it is the talented who have high aspirations, which are possible but exceedingly difficult to realize, who are especially vulnerable to self-dissatisfaction despite notable achievements.”

Self Difficult Realizing Achievement Despite Vulnerable Aspiration Notable Dissatisfaction Self Efficacy

Author:Albert Bandura

“It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.”

Should Important Realizing Teacher Habit Importance

Book:Talks to Teachers on Psychology; And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals

Source: Talks to Teachers on Psychology; And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals

“When you awaken spiritually, in fact, you can use thought much more effectively than before, but you realize there is a depth to your Being, a vibrantly alive stillness that is much vaster than thought. It is consciousness itself, of which the thinking mind is only a tiny aspect.”

Thinking Mind Facts Use Realizing Consciousness Alive Aspect Depth Tiny Stillness Thinking Mind

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“You need no time to open yourself to the power of now and so awaken to who you are beyond name and form and realize that in the depth of your being, you are already complete, whole, one with the timeless essence of all life.”

Needs Whole Form Names Realizing Essence Who You Are Depth Timeless Power Of Now

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“Especially for those of us living in the Western culture, death to a large extent is still a taboo subject. It's considered something dreadful that shouldn't be happening. It's usually denied. The fact of death is not faced. What we don't realize in Western culture is that death has a redemptive dimension.”

Stills Facts Culture Realizing Subjects Happenings Western Dimensions Denied Taboo Western Culture

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“Through death you find yourself, because you no longer identify with form. You realize you are not the form with which you had identified neither the physical nor the psychological form of "me". That form goes. It dissolves and who you are beyond form emerges through the opening where that form was. One could almost say that every form of life obscures God.”

Form Realizing Who You Are Opening Psychological Finding Yourself

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“No practice can take you to liberation. That is important to know. It can be a little step that is useful until you realize you don't need it anymore, because after a certain point it becomes a hindrance.”

Knows Needs Littles Important Certain Realizing Steps Practice Liberation Hindrance

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“Now if a teacher gives you a practice, he or she would perhaps point out when you don't need it anymore or you realize yourself when you don't need it anymore.”

Ifs Needs Giving Realizing Practice Teacher

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“Strictly speaking, "you" cannot become enlightened, because who you take yourself to be is like a ripple in the ocean of consciousness - or a little wave if you're a VIP - and the ripple doesn't become enlightened until it realizes that its ripple-identity is ultimately a misperception, that it is the ocean taking on a fleeting ripple-form.”

Ifs Littles Form Realizing Consciousness Identity Ocean Wave Enlightened Fleeting Ripple Misperception Vip

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“The most difficult thing in the world, it seems to me, is to realize that I am a child of God; to keep that in my mind all the time.”

World Mind Children Seems Difficult Realizing Difficult Things Child Of God

Author:Maya Angelou

“I firmly believe that usually, the person who hurt you doesn't realize what they've done or how much it hurt you. So, continue to pray for the person or situation that caused your pain and anger. Ask God to give you understanding about why they did what they did.”

Giving Believe Persons Done Pain Asks Understanding Realizing Hurt Situation Praying It Hurts

Author:Joyce Meyer

“Rich people are so eccentric, and I don't think people really realize. Especially by the turn of the century, they were living like rappers.”

People Thinking Turns Realizing Rich Century Rapper Rich People Eccentric

Author:Riki Lindhome

“People don't realize how much the food industry has infiltrated all aspects of our children's lived experience, including their experience at school. There are sponsored curricula by food companies, they're also in our schools with logos sponsoring sports teams.”

People Children School Sports Realizing Company Team Industry Aspect Our Children Including Logos Sports Team Food Industry

Author:Anna Lappe

“Sometimes when I teach a student something that I think is really simple, I realize I'm teaching them something they can do 90 percent of really easily and the last 10 percent is going to take them 10 years.”

Thinking Years Sometimes Lasts Can Do Realizing Simple Teach Teaching Students Percent

Author:Bruce Molsky

“The crucifixion saved him [Jesus]. He never had to deal with the fact that the kingdom of God wasn't ever going to come. His disciples, of course, had to deal with it, and little by little they had to realize that it's a metaphorical thing. Well, that's not what Jesus meant. I'm fairly sure he meant it literally. But he must have been the most fascinating man.”

Men Wells Littles Has Beens Facts Courses Jesus Realizing Deals Saved Kingdoms Fascinating Disciple Kingdom Of God Crucifixion Metaphorical

Author:Philip Pullman

“I think once you sort of cross over and you realize what books can be - and if they mean something to you - there's just no stopping you.”

Ifs Thinking Mean Book Realizing Crosses Stopping

Author:Molly Ringwald

“We the people, so to speak, need to realize that if we can keep ourselves fed, we might get through this long dark tunnel of power down, and mitigate the consequences of CO2.”

People Ifs Needs Long Might Speak Realizing Dark Consequence Down And Feds Tunnels Co2

Author:Wes Jackson

“I want to do my own thing, and I'm trying to get closer to realizing that as a filmmaker.”

Want Trying Realizing My Own Filmmaker

Author:Charlie Kaufman

“Art itself is underserved when we don't realize the power of it.”

Art Realizing

Author:Saul Williams

“It took me a long time to realize that football isn't martyrdom, but a game that's enjoyable, and one in which getting better at it is supposed to be fun. Perhaps it would have been better if I had understood this as a young man.”

Ifs Men Long Has Beens Young Games Fun Realizing Football Long Time Understood Supposed To Be Get Better Young Man Enjoyable Martyrdom

Author:Oliver Kahn

“When you're dreaming, you don't know it's a dream. You might even interpret a dream in your dream - and then wake up and realize it was all a dream. Perhaps a great awakening will reveal this to be a dream as well.”

Knows Wells Dream Might Realizing Wake Up Awakening Your Dreams

Author:Zhuangzi

“Throughout my whole life money has always been a problem. But I didn't realize that we were poor when we were kids!”

Whole Problem Kids Realizing Poor Whole Life

Author:Charlyne Yi

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