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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Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary.
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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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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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Sustaining an audience with a web series is an impossible task.
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I had my freedom, and I had my comfortable life, but I couldn't accept the fact that the politicians were making it increasingly difficult for my kids and millions of others to achieve their dreams as I had achieved mine. So, in 2012, I ran for president.
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I once saw a lump of Greenland breaking off into the sea and moving south, which of course will affect the atmosphere and us generally, and it'll happen more and more.
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We like the idea of childhood but are not always crazy about the kids we know. We like it, that is, when we are imagining our ownchildhoods. So part of our apparent appreciation of youth is simply envy.
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Whatever prevents you from doing your work has become your work.
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Dear Bea— I've been wading through a pile of "Due before 3" mimeos—but now at last I know what to do with them: into the wastebasket! I'm also hep to the jargon. I know that "illustrative material" means magazine covers, "enriched curriculum" means teaching "who and whom," and that "All evaluation of students should be predicated upon initial goals and grade level expectations" means if a kid shows up, pass him. Right?
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All dreams appear impossible until somebody makes them happen.
