Barry Neil Kaufman Quotes
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It is impossible for human beings not to view something subjectively.
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Scientists have proven that it's impossible to long-jump 30 feet, but I don't listen to that kind of talk. Thoughts like that have a way of sinking into your feet.
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Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.
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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.
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Doing voices in animated movies has been one of my dreams. You get to go and act, and you don't have to put on makeup.
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You don't dream about things that are impossible; that are out of your range.
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I have a hard time waiting for things to happen.
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Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary.
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My father is a very successful man in the corporate world, and I am his only son. He had certain dreams for me. I was scared to tell him that I wanted to be an actor.
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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 that came true.
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What is most amusing and can happen only in India is that the most posh and big households that I've seen in Mumbai, the 'big city', will have their balconies and windows festooned with rows of baniyans and tauliyas hanging on them.
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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.
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My dreams are all follies.
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It was a lovely opportunity for the first time in my whole career to stand up and thank people who are really responsible for me getting to realize my dreams.
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A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.
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Prince and I happen to think alike.
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I've got heaps of dreams.
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No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.
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When you do bad things, bad things happen to you.
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Even in my dreams, I’m an idiot who knows he’s about to wake up to reality.
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I never write about the road. I never write about hotels or anything like that.
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I am not a man who believes that we Germans bled and conquered thirty years ago [to be] pushed aside when great international decisions are made. If that were to happen, the place of Germany as a world power would be gone for ever. I am not prepared to let that happen.
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In two weeks the sheeplike masses of any country can be worked up by the newspapers into such a state of excited fury that men are prepared to put on uniforms and kill and be killed, for the sake of the sordid ends of a few interested parties. Compulsory military service seems to me the most disgraceful symptom of that deficiency in personal dignity from which civilized mankind is suffering today.
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All dreams appear impossible until somebody makes them happen.
