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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“I think basically becoming famous has taken the place of going to Heaven in modern society, hasn’t it? That’s the place where your dreams will come true. It’s an act of faith now they think that’s going to sort things out.” -Jarvis Cocker
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“When violence becomes imbedded in a region, then this affects everything. It affects your dreams, your fantasies and relationships, and your religion becomes violent, too.” -Karen Armstrong
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“There’s a line I have that our family was designed more for public than for private. But there are definitely some things that are only mine. I am someone who dreams at night, and you don’t know what I’m dreaming.” -Carrie Fisher
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“My father, his spirit is with me constantly, and I’m a believer in that world and the world of dreams and that stuff.” -Ziggy Marley
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“I’ve never been bashful to say that I’m not really interested in Formula One. When I lived in England, it’s all I wanted to do and I thought that anything else would somehow be a compromise to my dreams. But then when I came back to the States, I realised how much I loved being…
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“One day it just hit me. This is it. You are not in love. So either stay in it because you have a child or be brave and find the man of your dreams and marry him for real.” -Brandy Norwood
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“Dreams are where we visit the many lands and landscapes of human possibility and discover the one where we feel at home. The great religious leaders were all dreamers.” -Jonathan Sacks
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“Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but there are bad dreams as well as good dreams. We’re dreamers, you see, but we’re also realists, of a sort.” -William Gibson
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“As you look back at your life, there are just a million different things that have happened, just in the right way, to allow you to make your dreams come true. And you know, someone has all that under control.” -Michael P. Anderson
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“In a couple, sometimes, one or both people have to give up their personal life, dreams and ambitions for the good of the family.” -Monica Bellucci
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“Men never cling to their dreams with such tenacity as at the moment when they are losing faith in them, and know it, but do not dare yet to confess it to themselves.” -William Graham Sumner
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“Take what you can from your dreams, make them as real as anything.” -Dave Matthews
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“I am consumed with the fear of failing. Reaching deep down and finding confidence has made all my dreams come true.” -Arsenio Hall
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“Even having to do the amount of press that I have to do is dreadful and gives me so much anxiety. After having done this whole slew of press for ‘Big Love,’ now I’ll have anxiety dreams for like a week and a half about all the stupid things I said.” -Chloe Sevigny
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“Barack Obama knows that to create an economy built to last, we need to focus on middle-class families. Families who stay up on Sunday nights pacing the floor, like my dad did, while their children, tucked in bed, dream big dreams. Families who aren’t sure what Monday morning will bring, but who believe our nation’s…
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“When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live.” -Greg Anderson
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“The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality.” -James A. Michener
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“Everyone wants to look their best, everyone has dreams of wanting to look like something else. But we are who we are.” -Samantha Morton
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“I say to my colleagues never confine your best work, your hopes, your dreams, the aspiration of the American people to what will be signed by George W. Bush because that is too limiting a factor.” -Nancy Pelosi
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“Prime Minister Sharon, Prime Minister Abbas, I urge you today to end the designs of those who seek destruction, annihilation and occupation, and I urge you to have the will and the courage to begin to realize our dreams of peace, prosperity and coexistence.” -King Abdullah II
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“I’m not certain, but I have a little gypsy blood in me. And my mother always told me that her grandma could give someone the evil eye, and I’d better not cross her because she had some of that blood in her. Mother always believed that she could predict the future, and she had dreams…
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“The atmosphere is much too near for dreams. It forces us to action. It is close to us. We are in it and of it. It rouses us both to study and to do. We must know its moods and also its motive forces.” -Cleveland Abbe
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“We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.” -Jesse Jackson
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“As a young man you don’t notice at all that you were, after all, badly affected. For years afterwards, at least ten years, I kept getting these dreams, in which I had to crawl through ruined houses, along passages I could hardly get through.” -Otto Dix
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“I’m a big fan of dreams. Unfortunately, dreams are our first casualty in life – people seem to give them up, quicker than anything, for a ‘reality.’” -Kevin Costner
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“Instead of plotting the demise of the traditional family, as some politicians and religious leaders would have you believe, gay people mow their lawns and watch ‘American Idol’ and video their children’s concerts and have the same hopes and dreams that their straight counterparts do.” -Jodi Picoult
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“Seems like God don’t see fit to give the black man nothing but dreams – but He did give us children to make them dreams seem worthwhile.” -Lorraine Hansberry
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“Like all young reporters – brilliant or hopelessly incompetent – I dreamed of the glamorous life of the foreign correspondent: prowling Vienna in a Burberry trench coat, speaking a dozen languages to dangerous women, narrowly escaping Sardinian bandits – the usual stuff that newspaper dreams are made of.” -Russell Baker
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“Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.” -Alphonse Karr
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“I’m living out my dreams and I love what I do.” -Ashley Tisdale
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“Today, I’m very happy about myself, because I realized my dreams. I learned how to understand what people want.” -Roberto Cavalli
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“Within our dreams and aspirations we find our opportunities.” -Sugar Ray Leonard
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“Dream the impossible because dreams do come true.” -Elijah Wood
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“The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It’s over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam.” -J. G. Ballard
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“Women are not in love with me but with the picture of me on the screen. I am merely the canvas on which women paint their dreams.” -Rudolph Valentino
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“Dreams become reality when we put our minds to it.” -Queen Latifah
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“The readers are the ones who let us live our dreams. I try to write books which are really compelling – that you’d take on vacation and rather than going out, you’d read in your hotel room because you had to find out what happened. Hopefully that’s what readers are responding to.” -Harlan Coben
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“Men don’t come up to you to just talk. We come up to you with a plan. We’re looking across the room at you, and we don’t care about your hopes and dreams. We don’t care about what your future holds. We saw something we wanted.” -Steve Harvey
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“It’s not like I don’t have my own wants and dreams anymore – it’s just that the kids come first. It’s primal.” -Angie Harmon
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“From time immemorial artistic insights have been revealed to artists in their sleep and in dreams, so that at all times they ardently desired them.” -Paracelsus
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“A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams.” -Umberto Eco
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“I worked on my voice for Sweet Dreams, but only to match my speaking voice to Patsy’s actual singing voice. That was my way into that character.” -Jessica Lange
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“Dreams are the seeds of change. Nothing ever grows without a seed, and nothing ever changes without a dream.” -Debby Boone
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“My dreams were always small and puny. All I ever needed was a little house with a little picket fence by the sea. Little did I know that I would live in Malacanang Palace for 20 years and visit all the major palaces of mankind. And then also meet ordinary citizens and the leaders of…
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“Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.” -Jean Genet
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“My life has been a continuous fulfillment of dreams. It appears that everything I saw and did has a new, and perhaps, more significant meaning, every time I see it. The earth is good. It is a privilege to live thereon.” -Liberty Hyde Bailey
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“Literature for me isn’t a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy.” -Antonio Tabucchi
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“I love watching people’s dreams come true.” -Jessica Simpson
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“You can’t break my spirit, it’s my dreams you take.” -James Blunt
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“Big dreams create the magic that stir men’s souls to greatness.” -Bill McCartney
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“I believe history will come to view 9/11 as an event on par with November 22, 1963, the date on which John F. Kennedy was murdered, cutting short a presidency that was growing ever more promising. Dreams died that day in Dallas it is easy to imagine the 1960s turning out rather differently had President…
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“You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands – your own.” -Mark Victor Hansen
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“Only in dreams, in poetry, in play do we sometimes arrive at what we were before we were this thing that, who knows, we are.” -Julio Cortazar
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“Our politics are our deepest form of expression: they mirror our past experiences and reflect our dreams and aspirations for the future.” -Paul Wellstone
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“Ironically, it is exactly because we are a city that embraces freedom, that welcomes everyone and encourages their dreams, that New York remains on the front lines in the war on terror.” -Michael Bloomberg
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“Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow.” -Langston Hughes
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“If you’re the type of person who has to fulfill your dreams, you’ve gotta be resourceful to make sure you can do it. I came out to California when I was 21, thinking my New York credentials would take me all the way. I came back home a year later all dejected and a failure.”…
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“People ask how can a Jewish kid from the Bronx do preppy clothes? Does it have to do with class and money? It has to do with dreams.” -Ralph Lauren
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“We must not let our passions destroy our dreams.” -Thomas S. Monson
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“I mean, I’m 48 years old and I’ve been through a lot in my life – you know, loss, whether it be death, illness, separation. I mean, the failed expectations… We all have dreams.” -Annie Lennox
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“My life turned out to be beyond my greatest dreams.” -Anthony Hopkins
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“My mother taught me that we all have the power to achieve our dreams. What I lacked was the courage.” -Clay Aiken
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“Dreams come true without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.” -John Updike
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“Death is the mother of Beauty hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.” -Wallace Stevens
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“Our dreams are firsthand creations, rather than residues of waking life. We have the capacity for infinite creativity at least while dreaming, we partake of the power of the Spirit, the infinite Godhead that creates the cosmos.” -Jackie Gleason
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“Dreams do come true, even for someone who couldn’t speak English and never had a music lesson or much of an education.” -Lawrence Welk
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“Believe it or not, lots of people change their majors and abandon their dreams just to avoid a couple of math classes in college.” -Danica McKellar
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“Of all our dreams today there is none more important – or so hard to realise – than that of peace in the world. May we never lose our faith in it or our resolve to do everything that can be done to convert it one day into reality.” -Lester B. Pearson
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“It has been my observation that parents kill more dreams than anybody.” -Spike Lee
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“Sigmund Freud said we act out our own dreams, but if you are only an actor you are not acting out your own dream. You are simply participating in someone else’s dream.” -John Malkovich
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“I have those dreams that you can’t put into words.” -Harry Connick, Jr.
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“So many financial dreams are thwarted by the failure to act upon good intentions.” -Suze Orman
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“I think when you move past your fear and you go after your dreams wholeheartedly, you become free.” -LL Cool J
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“We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans.” -Max Beerbohm
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“Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams.” -Amos Bronson Alcott
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“My imagination completely controls me, and forever feeds the fire that burns with dark red light in my heart by bringing me the best dreams. I’ve always had a wild imagination, a big heart and a tortured soul so I feel that dark fantasy, love and horror are in my blood.” -Kim Elizabeth
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“Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.” -Jean Baudrillard
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“Never in my wildest dreams did I entertain the idea that I would become a fashion designer.” -Giorgio Armani
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“I might be writing what people expect me to write, writing from that place where I might be ruled by economic considerations. To overcome that, I started working with my dreams, because I’m not so censored when I use dream material.” -Kathy Acker
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“I envy people with dreams and passions, but I don’t think that way. I still don’t have a ‘bliss’ to follow. For people like me – I suspect that’s most people – holding out for a ‘dream’ or a ‘passion’ is paralyzing. I just like having work I enjoy that feels meaningful. That’s hard enough……
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“Genius is an African who dreams up snow.” -Vladimir Nabokov
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“Acting is also working with people who invite you into their dreams and trust you with their innermost being.” -Catherine Deneuve
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“I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams.” -Susan Sontag
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“We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed.” -Doris Lessing
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“Dreams get you into the future and add excitement to the present.” -Robert Conklin
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“I’ve woken up from dreams and the whole song is there. I’m listening to it in my dreams. I consciously have to wake myself up and get a tape recorder because I hear it like a record.” -Lenny Kravitz
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“As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale – my dreams become the substances of my life.” -Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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“Through hard work, perseverance and a faith in God, you can live your dreams.” -Benjamin Carson
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“We’re special because dreams that are impossible anywhere else, come true here. That’s not just my story. That’s your story. That’s our story.” -Marco Rubio
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“She still talks to me now, only now she talks to me in my dreams. And I can’t wait to go to sleep tonight because we have a lot to talk about. I love you.” -Jamie Foxx
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“Do It Under the Influence Yourself! That’s what we’re shooting for! Get drunk and make your dreams come true.” -Aziz Ansari
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“Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.” -Paul Gauguin
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“I couldn’t find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself.” -Ferdinand Porsche
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“I’ve had quite a lot of luck with dreams. I’ve often awoken in the night with a phrase or even a whole song in my head.” -Brian Eno
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“I think there’s a time as a writer when you want to see the best things in life, and you go out wherever you go with your dreams as a writer or a composer.” -Tori Amos
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“In my dreams, I could be a Princess, and that’s what I was. Like most little girls, I believed nothing less than a Prince could make my dreams come true.” -Loretta Young
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“The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality.” -Marya Mannes
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“Not all lucid dreams are useful but they all have a sense of wonder about them. If you must sleep through a third of your life, why should you sleep through your dreams, too?” -Stephen LaBerge
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“There’s always going to be dreams and goals I have, but I never really tell people what they are.” -Tyra Banks
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“Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one’s rage whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them.” -Georges Bataille
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“Every comedian dreams of hosting ‘The Tonight Show’ and, for seven months, I got to. I did it my way, with people I love, and I do not regret a second.” -Conan O’Brien
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“Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations reality is therefore abandoned.” -Emile Durkheim
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“Without peace, all other dreams vanish and are reduced to ashes.” -Jawaharlal Nehru
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“At first, dreams seem impossible, then improbable, and eventually inevitable.” -Christopher Reeve
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“We should be dreaming. We grew up as kids having dreams, but now we’re too sophisticated as adults, as a nation. We stopped dreaming. We should always have dreams.” -Herb Brooks
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“A runner must run with dreams in his heart, not money in his pocket.” -Emil Zatopek
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“There are a lot of things that are personally uncomfortable to show, especially me without makeup and completely bloated or crying. But I’ve realized that it’s time for me to show my audience that you don’t have to be perfect to achieve your dreams.” -Katy Perry
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“To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.” -Walter Scott
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“But what I was going to say was, I just figured I’m going to go boldly in the direction of my dreams, say it as Thoreau would say, and just see where it takes me.” -Demetri Martin
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“The follow your dreams thing is really important because so many people are railroaded into taking other paths by their family, their friends, people who should be supportive going, ‘What are you talking about?’ Even just seemingly regular career paths, but if it’s not what people expect for you they kind of react funny.” -Joan…
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“I think when you’re in a relationship where you really care for the other person, when they achieve their dreams it’s better than when you do yourself.” -Nicole Kidman
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“Whatever dreams I have wished have come true.” -Annette Funicello
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“No one may speak for the dead, no one may interpret their mutilated dreams and visions.” -Elie Wiesel
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“Winners, I am convinced, imagine their dreams first. They want it with all their heart and expect it to come true. There is, I believe, no other way to live.” -Joe Montana
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“I am so excited to let fans in on how important my relationship with my family is to me. I hope to motivate mothers and daughters to build lifetimes of memories together and inspire kids around the world to live their dreams.” -Miley Cyrus
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“‘Do What You Gotta Do’ is a positive, inspirational song that says no matter what it is whether you’re up against challenges or trying to get your dreams and aspirations met, you should do what whatever you have to do shy of killing yourself or someone else.” -Angie Stone
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“A successful life is one that is lived through understanding and pursuing one’s own path, not chasing after the dreams of others.” -Chin-Ning Chu
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“In our increasingly secular society, with so many disparate gods and different faiths, superhero films present a unique canvas upon which our shared hopes, dreams and apocalyptic nightmares can be projected and played out.” -Tom Hiddleston
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“To this day, some of my closest friends say, ‘Gaga, you know, everything’s great. You’re a singer your dreams have come true.’ But, still, when certain things are said to you over and over again as you’re growing up, it stays with you and you wonder if they’re true.” -Lady Gaga
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“Everybody past a certain age, regardless of how they look on the outside, pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives.” -Doug Coupland
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“To be given the opportunity to help shape new artists’ careers and mentor them to see their dreams come to fruition is a task I welcome with open arms.” -Christina Aguilera
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“To every people the land is given on condition. Perceived or not, there is a Covenant, beyond the constitution, beyond sovereign guarantee, beyond the nation’s sweetest dreams of itself.” -Leonard Cohen
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“I’m aware of the mystery around us, so I write about coincidences, premonitions, emotions, dreams, the power of nature, magic.” -Isabel Allende
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“Dreams are like paper, they tear so easily.” -Gilda Radner
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“When we see the face of a child, we think of the future. We think of their dreams about what they might become, and what they might accomplish.” -Desmond Tutu
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“It is one of the blessings of this world that few people see visions and dream dreams.” -Zora Neale Hurston
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“Rude contact with facts chased my visions and dreams quickly away, and in their stead I beheld the horrors, the corruption, the evils and hypocrisy of society, and as I stood among them, a young wife, a great wail of agony went out from my soul.” -Victoria Woodhull
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“There’s a joy and a pain about directing where the dreams you have are becoming concrete but the attention to detail, the need for time is such that it’s overwhelming at times, and the stream of responsibility.” -William Shatner
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“Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life?” -Havelock Ellis
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“Take pleasure in your dreams relish your principles and drape your purest feelings on the heart of a precious lover.” -Giotto di Bondone
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“A friend told me that teenage girls are always looking for someone to pin their dreams on. That doesn’t make it any less weird though.” -Orlando Bloom
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“It takes someone with a vision of the possibilities to attain new levels of experience. Someone with the courage to live his dreams.” -Les Brown
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“I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts, or my thoughts the result of my dreams.” -David Herbert Lawrence
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“I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It’s totally for myself. I never in my wildest dreams expected this popularity.” -J. K. Rowling
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“Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.” -Virginia Woolf
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“To the degree we’re not living our dreams, our comfort zone has more control of us than we have over ourselves.” -Peter McWilliams
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“Dream small dreams. If you make them too big, you get overwhelmed and you don’t do anything. If you make small goals and accomplish them, it gives you the confidence to go on to higher goals.” -John H. Johnson
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“The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed.” -Charlotte Bronte
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“A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams.” -Simone Weil
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“Though we may have desires or bold goals, for whatever reason, most of us don’t think we can achieve something beyond what we’re qualified to achieve. Why, I ask, do we let reality interfere with our dreams?” -Simon Sinek
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“All of us gave it all we’ve got, overcame a whole lot just being on the show and learned a lot about ourselves. We’re just normal people trying to do what we love and follow our dreams.” -Carrie Underwood
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“Freedom and democracy are dreams you never give up.” -Aung San Suu Kyi
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“My fear is that I go up to the girl of my dreams and say ‘I’m sorry, but I’ve got to say hello to you,’ and she slides the stool back and gets up and walks away, saying, ‘Not for me, Bub. I don’t want anything to do with you.’” -John Mayer
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“People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams.” -Norman Cousins
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“Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams.” -Georg C. Lichtenberg
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“Dreams can become a reality when we possess a vision that is characterized by the willingness to work hard, a desire for excellence, and a belief in our right and our responsiblity to be equal members of society.” -Janet Jackson
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“I just kind of wake up with a new idea and new dreams every day, and I follow that dream, as they say.” -Dolly Parton
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“I did commit to myself that I would not jump back into being the workaholic that I can be before I gave myself an honest opportunity to create the marriage of my dreams and to create the beginning of the family of my dreams, and that took a hot second.” -Alanis Morissette
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“We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true they ruin our dreams.” -Eric Hoffer
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“But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?” -H. P. Lovecraft
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“The world is seldom what it seems to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.” -Samuel Johnson
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“Most new jobs won’t come from our biggest employers. They will come from our smallest. We’ve got to do everything we can to make entrepreneurial dreams a reality.” -Ross Perot
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“When the legends die, the dreams end there is no more greatness.” -Tecumseh
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“Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams.” -Charles Baudelaire
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“The way to kill a man or a nation is to cut off his dreams, the way the whites are taking care of the Indians: killing their dreams, their magic, their familiar spirits.” -William S. Burroughs
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“There are many talented people who haven’t fulfilled their dreams because they over thought it, or they were too cautious, and were unwilling to make the leap of faith.” -James Cameron
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“The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dreams shall never die.” -Edward Kennedy
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“I want my boys to have an understanding of people’s emotions, their insecurities, people’s distress, and their hopes and dreams.” -Princess Diana
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“A horse is the projection of peoples’ dreams about themselves – strong, powerful, beautiful – and it has the capability of giving us escape from our mundane existence.” -Pam Brown
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“Follow your dreams. Just make sure to have fun too.” -Chris Brown
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“Lonesome. Lonesome. I know what it means. Here all by my lonesome, dreaming empty dreams. Weary. Weary at the close of day, wondering if tomorrow brings me joy or sorrow.” -Leon Redbone
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“Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.” -William Butler Yeats
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“The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.” -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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“You know, the man of my dreams might walk round the corner tomorrow. I’m older and wiser and I think I’d make a great girlfriend. I live in the realm of romantic possibility.” -Stevie Nicks
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“You have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams. Imagination plus innovation equals realization.” -Denis Waitley
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“We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.” -Jimmy Carter
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“You have many years ahead of you to create the dreams that we can’t even imagine dreaming. You have done more for the collective unconscious of this planet than you will ever know.” -Steven Spielberg
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“My own dreams fortunately came true in this great state. I became Mr. Universe I became a successful businessman. And even though some people say I still speak with a slight accent, I have reached the top of the acting profession.” -Arnold Schwarzenegger
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“Dreams are illustrations… from the book your soul is writing about you.” -Marsha Norman
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“Lose your dreams and you might lose your mind.” -Mick Jagger
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