Benjamin Zander Quotes
Imagine Martin Luther King saying, 'I have a dream ... But I don't know if the others will buy it.'
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It would be the ultimate dream for me to win an Academy Award, be in love and have kids. Then I would say, 'Life is great! I have done everything I wanted.'
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I would enjoy flying to Mars. This was the dream of the first cosmonauts. I wish I could realize it! I am ready to fly without coming back.
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I can't tell you how lucky I feel to be able to collaborate with some of my dream producers.
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There comes a point when a dream becomes reality and reality becomes a dream.
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It is horrible to say, but I was stigmatized by being a bridal designer for a long time. I am amazed I have been able to move beyond it. I had really all but given up trying, but I did it because it was my lifelong 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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Our dream as actors is to tell interesting stories about interesting people.
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You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.
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What could a smartphone do for me that would make people go out and buy another one?
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Like, you can find your dream, if you firmly believe. You have to have the innocence, and you have to have the daringness to trust.
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The state of New Jersey is really two places - terrible cities and wonderful suburbs. I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves. It's very romantic in that way, but a bit naive. I like to play with that in my work.
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I don't dream at night; life has given me the stuff I need to be able to dream during the day. I'm very lucky.
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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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I don't buy cars I can't drive.
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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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I speak fluent Hebrew and even dream in Hebrew when we visit there, once or twice a year.
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A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.
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Only in America can someone start with nothing and achieve the American Dream. That's the greatness of this country.
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You are my love story, and I write you into everything I do, everything I see, everything I touch and everything I dream, you are the words that fill my pages.
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I suppose if I have an epitaph it would be: "Curiosity Did Not Kill This Cat." I don't see retiring in the sense that we view it - I don't see how I could. Dying at the microphone or at the typewriter would not be bad.
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A young man's passion, a jaded siren's last chance for love, a world gone mad, cheap thrills, fast cars, expensive wines, the triumph of victory, the overthrow of ontologically incipient hegemony, and gum! I have no idea if this book has any of them! But I liked the part about the bunny.
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You try not to become so emotionally attached to your character, but you do.
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Imagine Martin Luther King saying, 'I have a dream ... But I don't know if the others will buy it.'
