dreams
Quotations
Quotations on the topic of ‘dreams’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).
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“Tell me about yourself – your struggles, your dreams, your telephone number.” -Peter Arno
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“When your dreams tire, they go underground and out of kindness that’s where they stay.” -Libby Houston
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“There are no dreams too large, no innovation unimaginable and no frontiers beyond our reach.” -John S. Herrington
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“I would go to bed every night and have dreams about having a time machine and somehow I’d have the ability to move through time and space freely, and save Anne Frank.” -Jeff Mangum
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“Ground not upon dreams you know they are ever contrary.” -Thomas Middleton
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“They should hold themselves absolutely upon the immovable foundation of truth and nature, whereby alone they can save themselves from misapprehensions and from the danger of being entirely carried away from reality into mere dreams and fictions.” -Ethan A. Hitchcock
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“The ideal of all Kosovo is membership in the E.U. and a permanent friendship with the United States. I believe and I am convinced our dreams will come true.” -Atifete Jahjaga
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“We need affordable space travel to inspire our youth, to let them know that they can experience their dreams, can set significant goals and be in a position to lead all of us to future progress in exploration, discovery and fun. Thanks to the X Prize for the inspiration.” -Burt Rutan
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“Books that distribute things… with as daring a freedom as we use in dreams, put us on our feet again.” -Marsilio Ficino
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“When a child, my dreams rode on your wishes, I was your son, high on your horse, My mind a top whipped by the lashes Of your rhetoric, windy of course.” -Stephen Spender
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“I adore this adventure, I adore working with youth. For me it’s a daily challenge, working to help these youths realize their dreams.” -Patrick Roy
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“All my dreams are coming true all across the board for some reason.” -Jay Electronica
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“America allows us to be able to dream, then gives us the ability to achieve those dreams.” -Rick Mears
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“Wide awake I can make my most fantastic dreams come true.” -Lorenz Hart
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“I appreciate everything that has been done for me. After a difficult start, I’ve just followed my dreams.” -Victor Ortiz
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“My mom taught me to go after my dreams. I have this faith in myself that I must have gotten from her.” -Amy Jo Johnson
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“After all those days in the cotton fields, the dreams came true on a gold record on a piece of wood. It’s in my den where I can look at it every day. I wear it out lookin’ at it.” -Carl Perkins
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“Let us keep the dance of rain our fathers kept and tread our dreams beneath the jungle sky.” -Arna Bontemps
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“You don’t get old until you replace dreams with regrets.” -Troy Dumais
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“My new life goes beyond my dreams because my dream was Formula One and I achieved it. I’m a driver, I feel like a driver. I have won this race because I am alive.” -Maria de Villota
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“War is eternity jammed into frantic minutes that will fill a lifetime with dreams and nightmares.” -John Cory
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“In our dreams we are always young.” -Sarah Louise Delany
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“But I am delighted to be a Dodger, I grew up a Dodger fan and now my dreams have really come true.” -Milton Bradley
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“I look up to people who succeed in accomplishing their dreams.” -Joanna Noelle Levesque
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“Dreams have as much influence as actions.” -Stephane Mallarme
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“There’s a logic to dreams that doesn’t necessarily follow linear narrative. You don’t know why things happen, it’s your subconscious pushing you, to give you information.” -Justin Theroux
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“I’ve been blessed by doing classic plays on Broadway, which was one of my great dreams forever.” -Michael Emerson
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“It is possible for a kid from east Texas, raised in south central LA and Carson, who believes in his dreams, commits himself to them with his heart, to touch them and to have them happen.” -Forest Whitaker
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“People have to remain positive and believe in those dreams. It’s really important.” -Kirsty Coventry
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“Our citizens and those who have gone before us charted the broad outlines of where we need to go, and they would envy our opportunity to translate those dreams into action. And I believe they will judge us very harshly should we fail to act.” -Dave Freudenthal
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“In my wildest dreams I never thought – well, I never thought I’d work.” -Steve Carell
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“Dreams grow holy put in action.” -Adelaide Anne Procter
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“Dreams take you beyond what you think you can do in life.” -Vikram Chatwal
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“We can bring to characters dark and bright sides that nobody even dreams about.” -Sonia Braga
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“It’s not too late, I can still live my dreams.” -Diana Nyad
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“If you choose not to pursue your dreams, you’ll still be a part of a dream – only it will be someone else’s.” -Mike Hawkins
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“Dreams from 1991 are becoming reality. We will build good relations between nations and people. We will strive towards mutual respect and equality of every individual, sex, race and national or any other minority.” -Janez Drnovsek
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“I love my early movies, but naturalism is an artist’s early style. Now I want to deal with feelings, dreams, an acceptance of irrationality.” -Irvin Kershner
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“We are selling dreams. We are merchants of happiness.” -Bernard Loiseau
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“Every actor dreams of getting a big break, a big opportunity.” -Liam McIntyre
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“The armored cars of dreams, contrived to let us do so many a dangerous thing.” -Elizabeth Bishop
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“To become truly immortal, a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these barriers are broken, it will enter the realms of childhood visions and dreams.” -Giorgio de Chirico
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“Our fathers had their dreams we have ours the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist.” -Olive Schreiner
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“As I’ve grown – dare I say it – older, I had hopes of indulging my dreams of being a sailor.” -Jimmy Webb
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“I think L.A.’s terrific. You fly an hour and a half and you’re in the mountains in three feet of powder. I also think it’s a much better city if you’re working as an actor. If you’re not working and you don’t see your dreams coming true, there can be a lot of heartache.” -Scott…
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“If a man dreams that he has committed a sin before which the sun hid his face, it is often safe to conjecture that, in sheer forgetfulness, he wore a red tie, or brown boots with evening dress.” -Arthur Machen
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“In the fifties I had dreams about touching a naked woman and she would turn to bronze or the dream about hot dogs chasing donuts through the Lincoln Tunnel.” -Robert Klein
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“I have lived with my husband more than I have with my parents… I live beside him, and know his worries, his hopes, and his dreams for his nation. We believe that things happen by design, not in an arbitrary way. And we believe it is our duty to make things happen.” -Mozah bint Nasser…
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“We don’t have an eternity to realize our dreams, only the time we are here.” -Susan Taylor
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“In my dreams I am not crippled. In my dreams, I dance.” -Louise Brooks
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“When you’re a kid, you have these big ideas and these big dreams to make a change, or maybe you feel like you can’t make a difference.” -AnnaSophia Robb
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“They were using the dolls to project their dreams of their own futures as adult women.” -Ruth Handler
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“The London Games will be designed for the athletes and we will provide them with the very best venues and the very best conditions to pursue their sporting dreams in London.” -Sebastian Coe
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“American dreams are strongest in the hearts of those who have seen America only in their dreams.” -Pico Iyer
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“In my childhood, America was like a religion. Then, real-life Americans abruptly entered my life – in jeeps – and upset all my dreams.” -Sergio Leone
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“Hollywood has always been a cage… a cage to catch our dreams.” -John Huston
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“I’ve succeeded beyond my wildest dreams – financially and the amount of fun I have in my life.” -Phil Hartman
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“Deep down, I’m a Texas girl looking for that big romance every girl dreams about. Biologically, I look forward to being a cornerstone of a family. I’ll be in my glory when I have a child on my knee.” -Renee Zellweger
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“I’m a journeyman actor, and I don’t ever want to forget that. With romantic-lead dreams.” -William Sanderson
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“O reason, reason, abstract phantom of the waking state, I had already expelled you from my dreams, now I have reached a point where those dreams are about to become fused with apparent realities: now there is only room here for myself.” -Louis Aragon
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“I don’t remember my dreams. I’m one of those weird people. I know there are tricks and things you can do, but I never remember my dreams.” -Jayma Mays
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“One of the dreams of Zionism was to be a bridge. Instead, we are creating exclusion between the East and the West instead of creating bridges we are contributing to the conflict between East and West by our stupid desire to have more.” -A. B. Yehoshua
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“As far as my dreams go, all I want to do is be a working actor, and I happily achieved that.” -Lucas Grabeel
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“IN April 1882 my father died and I was at once whirled out of my land of dreams into a very different sphere.” -Edward Carpenter
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“I had dreams of catching the ball for the final out in the World Series and being mobbed by my teammates. Well, I guess all my dreams didn’t come true.” -Robin Yount
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“Right now, I have some big dreams. But at the same time, if I get annoyed and harassed by the media, I’ll just quit. I don’t care. We’re set for life. I have quite a temper.” -Anna Benson
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“If you have a dream, just lie about it. Lie your way unto your dreams.” -Joel McHale
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“I’m following my dreams and doing what I love as a designer. I did not want to be one of those kids with a famous last name that doesn’t do anything. That is very unfulfilling to me and I’m very happy.” -Nicky Hilton
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“Las Vegas is a very strange place. It’s a place of broken dreams.” -Concha Buika
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“I had dreams, but I didn’t have the sense that they would necessarily work out. They seemed very far-fetched.” -Greta Gerwig
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“The Oval Office symbolizes… the Constitution, the hopes and dreams, and I’m going to say democracy. And when you have a dress code in the Supreme Court and a dress code on the floor of the Senate, floor of the House, I think it’s appropriate to have an expectation that there will be a dress…
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“I worry whether it’s not really the best way to live one’s life – trying to fulfill the dreams you had as a child. Maybe it’s quite a backwards approach.” -Joe Cornish
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“The name Air Supply sort of came from nowhere. I get a lot of my things in dreams and I just had a dream about it one night, and I woke up and said that’s just got to be the name. That was in 1975.” -Graham Russell
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“Art is for entertainment purposes, but it’s also to reflect our dreams, our hopes, the present, the future the past – whether it’s good or bad.” -Amber Valletta
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“My dreams for the future are simple: work, a happy, healthy family, a lovely long motorcycle ride, and continuing the struggle to awaken people to the need for serious human rights reform.” -Mike Farrell
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“Dreams can be like charades in which we act out words rather than see or speak them.” -Jane Roberts
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“I just want to be myself and go for my own dreams and goals.” -Natalie du Toit
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“I think what every skater dreams of is not only skating the best program they can possibly skate, but, y’know, having the crowd roar at the end, and it was just so loud I couldn’t even hear my music.” -Sarah Hughes
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“Seems like half my anxiety dreams are about airports.” -Lois McMaster Bujold
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“To see your friend’s dreams come true, there’s really nothing that can make you happier.” -Josh Hopkins
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“The Olympics is about letting people believe in their own dreams.” -Kyle Shewfelt
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“Gradually it occurred to me that we spend a great deal of life asleep and that dreams are little narratives, little stories. I thought, ‘Who’s choreographing this stuff?’” -Sue Monk Kidd
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“I think I usually have quite ordinary dreams. Sometimes my dreams take me to other dimensions. I can travel in my mind especially when I’m dreaming I focus my mind on what I want to dream. If I want to fly, I focus on flying.” -Uri Geller
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“Our dreams are a second life. I have never been able to penetrate without a shudder those ivory or horned gates which separate us from the invisible world.” -Gerard De Nerval
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“Hopefully kids will look at me and see that your dreams can come true.” -Roy Keane
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“Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.” -Matthew Prior
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“Jazz to me is a living music. It’s a music that since its beginning has expressed the feelings, the dreams, hopes, of the people.” -Dexter Gordon
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“The idea of being able to serve as an example, based upon how to process, how to think, how to realize our own dreams, we can pass that down to our children.” -Stedman Graham
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“Horror, for me, has to involve some sort of fantasy. Horror is something that is in your dreams or your nightmares.” -Cassandra Peterson
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“It’s surreal to know my dreams are coming true.” -Mario Vazquez
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“I want to find someone who’s really into something like I’m really into something, so that I can support them and we can both cheer each other on. I’ve got a lot of dreams I want to achieve, and I hope someone can cheer me on as I’ll cheer them on in their dreams.” -Hunter…
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“I put a lot of faith in dreams. I know that big movie roles and opportunities are going to happen.” -Krista Allen
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“Hollywood is the dream factory, and no one dreams about older women.” -Amy Heckerling
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“If there is one place on the face of earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India.” -Romain Rolland
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“No man’s brain is so dull, and no man’s eye so blind, that they cannot catch food for dreams.” -Donald G. Mitchell
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“Dreams can still come true you need a great deal of energy and determination, and a little bit of luck.” -Stefano Gabbana
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“I never felt I would be part of the international scene for 50 caps in my wildest dreams.” -Kenny Cunningham
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“When you’re a young English person who wants to be an actress and you have dreams, you dream of being Vanessa Redgrave or Judi Dench.” -Janet McTeer
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“The man who never dreams, goes slowly mad.” -Thomas Dolby
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“To be here today is just beyond my wildest dreams.” -Rick Yune
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“As soon as I became old enough to make my dreams my reality, I became a firm believer that the subconscious and the world outside of our flesh and blood is essentially the truth.” -Melissa Auf der Maur
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“Perhaps, all writers walk such a line. In general – as we all do in our dreams – I believe I put something of myself into all the characters in my novels, male as well as female.” -Rose Tremain
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“The Hispanic community values entrepreneurship and family-owned businesses, and we deserve a leader in Washington who is dedicated to creating an environment where our values, our goals and our dreams of prosperity can become reality.” -Mario Diaz-Balart
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“And the Republican Party especially associates the market with the idea of progress, goodness, family, and points us toward the mall as an answer to all our personal dreams.” -Arlie Russell Hochschild
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“Our theme for this year’s festivities, Dreams and Challenges of Asian Pacific Americans, speaks to the many generations of Asian Pacific Americans who worked hard to overcome economic hardship, racism and other barriers in their pursuit of the American dream.” -Lucille Roybal-Allard
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“As I watched bookstores close, I began to wonder how that felt for the owners. Owning a bookstore was their dream and now they’re struggling and seeing those dreams fall apart.” -Karen Kingsbury
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“I grew up with not a lot of money and I definitely shopped at Goodwill. But even in my most unfortunate state, I was really blessed compared to a lot of the rest of the world. I had a really great chance to follow my dreams and have them actually come true.” -AnnaLynne McCord
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“I love to fly. I always wanted to fly. It’s been one of my dreams since I was 3 years old. I remember saying to my mom, 3 years old, every day, ‘I can fly!’ Living on the ninth floor, it was dangerous.” -Elena Anaya
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“Follow your passion, be prepared to work hard and sacrifice, and, above all, don’t let anyone limit your dreams.” -Donovan Bailey
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“In the year since we brought things into the open with a clean breath of fresh air at City Hall, we have learned about corrupt spending practices and unethical conflicts of interest that waste your money… and keep Dallas from being the great city of our dreams.” -Laura Miller
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“I was very inspired by Les Blank’s film ‘Burden of Dreams.’ I think what’s unique about his film and the two I’ve made is that they’re close examinations of filmmakers and how their own emotional experiences reflect in the material they’re rendering, and vice versa – how that material sometimes colors their own lives.” -George…
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“The Washington black community was able to succeed beyond his wildest dreams. I mean, we had our own newspapers, our own restaurants, our own theaters, our own small shops, our own clubs, our own Masonic lodges.” -Ed Smith
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“Most of my actor friends don’t believe it’s possible to let go of it and be happy, and for a while that was true for me. For the first two years I ached, every day. And I had such bad dreams. But then I made the decision to start working on my little shop and…
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“All books are either dreams or swords, you can cut, or you can drug, with words.” -Amy Lowell
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“My dream life is just to go back to my job full-time. And be with my family. You know, regular dreams, common dreams that everyone has.” -Carla Bruni
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“Real shapes and real patterns are things you would observe in nature, like the marks on the back of a cobra’s hood or the markings on a fish or a lizard. Imaginary shapes are just that, symbols that come to a person in dreams or reveries and are charged with meaning.” -Jim Woodring
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“What are the Democrats, the party of Jim Matheson, telling them? The message of the Democrats is that the Amercian dream is over. ‘The government is all you have. Give up your dreams, and the government will save you, the government will heal you, the government will be your hope and change.’ We know here…
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“The percentage you’re paying is too high priced While you’re living beyond all your means And the man in the suit has just bought a new car From the profit he’s made on your dreams.” -Steve Winwood
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“I have my own production company called Urban Dreams.” -Chaske Spencer
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“Each has its lesson for our dreams in sooth, come they in shape of demons, gods, or elves, are allegories with deep hearts of truth that tell us solemn secrets of ourselves.” -Henry Timrod
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“I understand it’s my role to realize people’s dreams. I’m O.K. with that so long as my songs are my own. No one can take my songs away from me.” -Ayumi Hamasaki
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“Today I know that there is still work to be done, but along the way my I am achieving my dreams.” -Candace Parker
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“I really want to live in New York. That’s the city of my dreams.” -Joel Kinnaman
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“I would like to see anyone be able to achieve their dreams, and that’s what this organization does.” -Sergey Brin
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“The dialogue between client and architect is about as intimate as any conversation you can have, because when you’re talking about building a house, you’re talking about dreams.” -Robert A. M. Stern
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“Believe in and follow your dreams.” -Kristanna Loken
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“I love working with kids, talking with them and listening to them. I always encourage kids to reach beyond their dreams. Don’t try to be like me. Be better than me.” -Florence Griffith Joyner
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“If there were dreams to sell, what would you buy?” -Thomas Lovell Beddoes
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“Acting is fantastic, but to be able to create a whole world on celluloid is amazing. It’s like taking your dreams straight from your head and projecting them onto a screen.” -Amber Benson
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“This may sound strange but I had dreams as a kid of doing exactly what I ended up doing in my life.” -Corey Hart
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“The only book by a modern president that bears serious comparison with Obama’s ‘Dreams From My Father’ is Jimmy Carter’s short campaign autobiography, ‘Why Not the Best?,’ published in 1975.” -Jonathan Raban
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“When you stop having dreams and ideals – well, you might as well stop altogether.” -Marian Anderson
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“Here Fashion is a despot, and no one dreams of evading its dictates.” -Marguerite Gardiner
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“If you were to ask my agent, they would confirm this: I’m drawn to locations. What really drew me to ‘The 4400,’ aside from the fact that it was sci-fi, was the fact that it was shot in the city of my dreams: Vancouver.” -Billy Campbell
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“There has been enough suffering in our country, there has been enough of children whose dreams die before they have a chance to grow and there has been enough of our elders who, having served their nation, are forced into indignity in their old age.” -John Agyekum Kufuor
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“Just really, really believe in what you’re trying to do. Don’t let people alter that. Let people advise you and lead you down paths to make smart business decisions. But trust your instinct and trust that overwhelming drive that made you put all your dreams and everything on the line.” -Luke Bryan
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“Let your dreams outgrow the shoes of your expectations.” -Ryunosuke Satoro
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“Then I was working in a store in Newark, New Jersey, and I saw an actor in person, and I got so excited. My whole day changed. That’s when I decided to challenge myself to make my dreams become a reality.” -Derek Luke
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“I would love to spend all my time writing to you I’d love to share with you all that goes through my mind, all that weighs on my heart, all that gives air to my soul phantoms of art, dreams that would be so beautiful if they could come true.” -Luigi Pirandello
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“You’ve got to have a dream… if you don’t have any big dreams, nothing happens.” -Ian Rush
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“Man is firmly convinced that he is awake in reality he is caught in a net of sleep and dreams which he has unconsciously woven himself.” -Gustave Meyrink
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“Have you ever wondered why young people take to music like fish to water? Maybe it’s because music is fun. Plan and simple. It opens up their minds to dream great dreams about where they can go and what they can do when they get older.” -Isaac Hayes
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“It’s not like I had big dreams to go to California and become an actor. I loved doing my shows at school and community theater, and I probably would have settled in New York because it was closer. I was going to go to NYU.” -Christine Taylor
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“Looking back 25 years later, what I may say is that the facts have been far better than the dreams. In the long course of cell life on this earth it remained, for our age for our generation, to receive the full ownership of our inheritance.” -Albert Claude
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“I was so lucky to have parents who supported me, 100%, with whatever I was doing, both financially and emotionally. Having that they made my life so much easier. Instead of becoming a bartender and trying to survive while trying to pursue your dreams, I didn’t have to worry about that aspect. I could just…
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“It’s not my job to dream your dreams. It’s my job to make your dreams become a reality.” -Blanche Lincoln
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“My mother dreamed dreams for Joaquin and for me long before we could dream them for ourselves.” -Julian Castro
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“And they were writing scripts where Christine had hit the glass ceiling. And I always thought Christine would never hit the glass ceiling. I thought her dreams would take her. Maybe her dreams wouldn’t take her where she wanted, but she still had her dreams.” -Sharon Gless
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“Dreams say what they mean, but they don’t say it in daytime language.” -Gail Godwin
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“You’ve got to have dreams to keep you going.” -Steve Waugh
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“I’m very ambitious. I live in reality but I have dreams I want to fulfill – I want to be a director, and I’ve already started my own production company. But I also have a measure of success that I keep to myself. It’s something very personal to me.” -Alex Pettyfer
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“When I was a kid, I have two dreams. I want to be a baseball player. Hometown, Hiroshima, has a Japanese baseball franchise team called Hiroshima Carps. You know, and then I want to be a sushi chef. I want to make own restaurant – sushi restaurant.” -Masaharu Morimoto
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“People with disabilities have abilities too and that is what this course is all about – making sure those abilities blossom and shine so that all the dreams you have can come true.” -Mary McAleese
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“If our dreams were more regular, more connected, more stable, they would also have more practical importance for us.” -Ernst Mach
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“When I grew up, I only had two dreams. One was to be a cowboy and another was to be in the military. I grew up extremely patriotic and riding horses.” -Chris Kyle
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“Humanity needs dreams to be able to survive the miseries of daily existence, even if only for an instant.” -Oscar Niemeyer
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“One of the things I’ve started doing lately is tracking my dreams. I feel like there’s a lot of information there and you can really bring those emotions to the situations that may feel mundane or familiar. That gives them new life and gives you a new relationship with it – if that makes any…
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“I wanted to raise the voice of a lot of the people that I knew growing up, and this was, for the most part, poor people who had extraordinary dreams but also very amazing obstacles.” -Edwidge Danticat
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“I have actual dreams of Bruce Springsteen calling me up on stage to wear a bandanna and play rhythm guitar next to Little Steven.” -Tom Perrotta
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“Sexual dreams aren’t usually about sex.” -Pamela Stephenson
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“He’s dreaming with his eyes open, and those that dream with their eyes open are dangerous, for they do not know when their dreams come to an end.” -Hugo Pratt
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“We had common interests in the beauty of the French language. We both had a tremendous love of jazz. We shared dreams of getting married and having a family, living in the country, leading an idyllic life.” -David Amram
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“Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.” -James Lane Allen
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“Thanking you once more, I want to wish you the best of luck for your future life and to conclude by saying to you: Dream your dreams and may they come true!” -Felix Bloch
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“My hero’s, my dreams, and my future lie in Yankee Stadium and they can’t take that from me.” -Derek Jeter
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“College baseball, I love it. I love to work with the younger kids who are trying to live out their dreams, if in fact that’s what they plan on doing after college to take the next step.” -Roger Clemens
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“My childhood dreams were focused on being part of the effort to make humanity a multiplanetary species.” -Peter Diamandis
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“I can have my goals, and I can have my dreams. My goal is to make the finals and improve my position. I want to run all decent races. I don’t want to look back and say I ran a terrible race.” -Oscar Pistorius
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