Coleman Barks Quotes
Build a far mosque where you can read your soul-book and listen to the dreams that grew in the night.
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I'm somebody who gets a lot of inspiration from dreams.
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Surreal fiction is a sophisticated art form. Events happen divorced from conventional logic, as events in a dream may happen. But unlike dreams, everything in the story contributes to an overall coherent point, impression or emotion.
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If dreams are like movies, then memories are films about ghosts.
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I gave up school. I gave up a really, really good job. I gave up a lot of stuff. I cut a lot of people out of my life so I could just focus on my fighting dreams.
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After realizing that we would eventually be able to build molecular machines that could arrange atoms to form virtually any pattern that we wanted, I saw that an awful lot of consequences followed from that.
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I just want to be myself and go for my own dreams and goals.
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I really started dreaming... and broke out of my shyness when I got to Howard University. My first acting class was an Intro to Acting class with Professor Bay, who really broke me out of my shell, encouraged me to follow my dreams and make them a reality.
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Here's the miracle: I grew up thinking, 'Wouldn't it be great to write 'Superman' someday? Wouldn't it be great to create my own show, or work on 'Lensman,' or 'Forbidden Planet?' Those were very literally the goals I set for myself, the dreams that I thought I didn't have a chance in hell of ever actually achieving. But it's happened.
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I tell kids to pursue their basketball dreams, but I tell them to not let that be their only dream.
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What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust.
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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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You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny, and hope that whatever your art is that you're putting out there, if it's received, great, I respect you for receiving it. If it's not received, great, I respect you for not.
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Does the imam have a legal right to build the mosque at Ground Zero? The answer is yes. But is it the right thing to do? The answer is no. And most Americans, and most moderate Muslims, join with me in that call.
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I propose to build for eternity.
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Nothing happens unless first we dream.
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My biggest point to everybody is you have a responsibility to build your own network.
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I can't sing but I can understand wanting to keep a balance, trying to pursue dreams, while creating a stable environment for my children.
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For most of our history, no one dared to tell Americans, 'you don't build that.'
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I didn't teach you that. Catch the ball with your glove.
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I have a tendency to be awfully big-hearted and it's very hard for me to say no, even when I need to.
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Villains never know they are villains in a picture so I play this like I'm the nicest guy in the world.
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If a client insists on getting a recommendation from you, always give him at least two alternatives so that he still has to make choice.
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I wanted to clear up the slum of legs… I wanted to make the chair all one thing again.
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Build a far mosque where you can read your soul-book and listen to the dreams that grew in the night.
