Bernard Moitessier Quotes
There are two terrible things for a man: not to have fulfilled his dream, and to have fulfilled it.
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If I can create some space that people haven't experienced before and if it stays with them or gives them a dream for the future, that's the kind of structure I seek to create.
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It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.
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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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I'm older and wiser, but I still dream of doing new things and creating new things.
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I've been extremely fortunate in my life. So I actually believe that I'm the living embodiment of living the American dream.
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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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In 'Roma,' I wanted to get across the idea that underneath Rome today is ancient Rome. So close. I am always conscious of that, and it thrills me. Imagine being in a traffic jam at the Coliseum! Rome is the most wonderful movie set in the world... As was the case with many of my film ideas, it was inspired by a dream.
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If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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To win a gold medal at Olympic Games has long been my dream ever since I started my career as a table tennis player.
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Each role that I've played has had a piece of a dream role in it.
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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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From my mother's sleep I fell into the State,And I hunched in its belly till my wet fur froze.Six miles from earth, loosed from its dream of life,I woke to black flak and the nightmare fighters.When I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose.
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I can't express enough to anyone who is fighting for whatever their dream is, whether it's to become a doctor, or a teacher, or a photographer - it doesn't matter - it's such a hard, hard road.
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It's been great; the whole experience was surreal to me. To go from 'EastEnders' to 'X-Men' was like a dream. I could never have thought when I left 'EastEnders' that I would get this good a gig and so soon.
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'Roc The Life' is a song I wrote with The Dream, who made 'Umbrella,' 'Single Ladies' and loads more.
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It's our heritage: we Democrats, we dream a lot.
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Doing something that is your passion, in my case related to music and art, being a performer playing shows around the world, that is a dream come true.
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The American dream is you come here, you believe in democracy, you believe in the Constitution, you work hard, you can make it.
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Meryl Streep is my favorite actor of all time, period. That would be a dream to be in something with her. I just think there's so much I can learn from her.
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Science knows it doesn't know everything; otherwise, it'd stop. But just because science doesn't know everything doesn't mean you can fill in the gaps with whatever fairy tale most appeals to you.
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Now we can cross the Shifting Sands.
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I've seen that phenomenally successful people believe they can learn something from everybody. I call them 'mavericks with mentors.' Richard Branson, for instance, is a total maverick but he surrounds himself with incredibly successful, smart people and he listens to them.
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There are two terrible things for a man: not to have fulfilled his dream, and to have fulfilled it.
