"I don't ever want to be a sentimentalist. I prefer to be a realist. I'm not a romantic really."

-- James Earl Jones

#Want Quotes #Realist Quotes

“All you need do is listen to very smart people and sift out the ideas that are unworthy or implausible, and I wouldn't pretend for a moment that I hadn't made lots of mistakes and there are companies, perhaps, that we had been investors in.”
“I have a belief that if I wear my placenta in a necklace, there's a possibility of me gaining second sight - like being psychic. I would be wearing it whether or not I was in the public eye.”

Source : Interview with Matt Diehl, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 19, 2010.
“Recovering from a gunshot wound is not a vacation. You need to, like, write that on your hand or something.”
“We need sometimes to escape into open solitudes, into aimlessness, into the moral holiday of running some pure hazard in order to sharpen the edge of life, to taste hardship, and to be compelled to work desperately for a moment at no matter what.”
“My wife wanted my children to have some Chinese culture and education. She believes the children need to learn two languages and two cultures.”
“I’m one of those very lucky people who absolutely love what they do for a living. There is no career better suited to my eccentricities, strengths, and passions than that of a children’s book author.”
“The hibachi is coming to a city near you. I'm cooking chicken and shrimp, but if you want to throw a double team my way, filet mignon gets cooked too”

Source : "Win in New York" by Gilbert Arenas, www.nba.com. December 7, 2006.
“I could even feel how perishable all my moments really were, how all my life they had come to me begging to be lived, to be cherished even.”

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