Mortimer Zuckerman Quotes
These days the American dream of home ownership has turned into a nightmare for millions of families. They wake every day to the reality of a horrible decline in the value of the home that has meant so much to them.
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It just seemed like an unattainable dream to go down to Los Angeles and to land a professional working, acting gig on a show that you really love with a character you really connect with. That doesn't seem possible; that seems insane.
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There comes a point when a dream becomes reality and reality becomes a dream.
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Most of my books begin with a nap on my couch here, when I dream up characters and story lines, and then I write on my laptop in the recliner and handle the business side of email at my desk, which is sagging in the middle - maybe from so many words?
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I have this dream of what I ultimately want my life to be like, and it involves a lot of quaint activities like cooking and canoeing and camping and hiking.
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To act: that is what the writer would like to be able to do, above all. To act, rather than to bear witness. To write, imagine, and dream in such a way that his words and inventions and dreams will have an impact upon reality, will change people's minds and hearts, will prepare the way for a better world.
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For a long time, I've had a recurring dream - I dream I don't have to write any more, that I'm free. I'm not free, alas; I'm still clearing the same terrain, with the impression that it's never finished.
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My dream was to set up my own e-commerce company. In 1999, I gathered 18 people in my apartment and spoke to them for two hours about my vision. Everyone put their money on the table, and that got us $60,000 to start Alibaba. I wanted to have a global company, so I chose a global name.
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I'm an example of someone who never made it to university. I did have this dream to be a musician. I felt that this dream had an expiration date.
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The United States is no longer first in the world in upward mobility. We can reverse that trend by giving our young children an equal start in life as they begin their journey to fulfill the American Dream.
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I say, 'If I'm able to go out there and achieve a dream, then anybody can do it.'
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Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.
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I'd like to be involved in 'SNL' somehow. I mean, being a permanent cast member is a stretch! That's pretty damned hard, but to host it one day would be a dream come true. And I would like to play the DC Comics villain Harley Quinn.
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You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.
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I constantly have a devil on my shoulder telling me that what I'm doing is really horrible, and then somehow the lightning strike happens, and everything comes together.
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The American dream belongs to all of us.
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I wouldn't dream of following a fashion... how could one be a different person every three months?
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Daddy, daddy, daddy, All I want is you. You can have me, baby - but my lovin’ days is through. A certain amount of impotence in a dream deferred.
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I had a dream, which was not all a dream.
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Usually, the best ideas come from having to fix a really hard problem.
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As a member of the bipartisan Climate Solutions Caucus, I'm committed to finding consensus on legislation to address our environmental and energy challenges.
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A true artist is someone who gives birth to a new reality.
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I have often found that mental patients who are given love, creativity, and community find the peace that they are reaching out for.
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These days the American dream of home ownership has turned into a nightmare for millions of families. They wake every day to the reality of a horrible decline in the value of the home that has meant so much to them.
