Les Brown Quotes
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I'm somebody who gets a lot of inspiration from dreams.
M. Ward
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Learn from your dreams what you lack.
W. H. Auden
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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.
Nancy Kress
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The first 'D' is to dream: dream big - not for yourself, but for the country and for the world. The second 'D' is to discover: discover your full potential and the opportunities that surround you; and the third 'D' is to do. 'Do' means to act on your dreams and make best use of the opportunities you have discovered.
Kailash Satyarthi
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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.
Paige VanZant
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What's my audience? British society. Am I received relatively well? Yes. Is there within that... if you break it down, challenges with Muslim communities? Of course there are.
Maajid Nawaz
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It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them.
Man Ray
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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.
Rachel Griffiths
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Work is both my living and my pleasure.
Harlan Howard
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Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.
Victor Hugo
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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.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.
Samuel Butler
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We live because of the dreams.
Marat Safin
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Would any one believe that I am master of slaves by my own purchase? I am drawn along by the general inconvenience of living without them.
Patrick Henry
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Barbour is a brand that I have grown up with and been associated with since I was living near the borders of Scotland.
Sam Heughan
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People are possibly not spelling 'Leicester' correctly everywhere round the globe, but they are at least saying it correctly now.
Gary Lineker
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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.
Gary Johnson
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I'm definitely a glass-is-always-half-full, not half-empty, kind of person. Which is why I love living in America.
Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
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No young kid growing up dreams of someday becoming a businessman. He wants to be a fireman, a sponsored athlete or a forest ranger The Lee Iacoccas, Donald Trumps, and Jack Welchs of the business world are heroes to no one except other businessmen with similar values.
Yvon Chouinard
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We may say we're looking for love, following dreams, chasing the dollar, but aren't we just looking for a place where we belong? A place where our thoughts, feelings, and fears are understood? - Ridley Jones.
Lisa Unger
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Chess is infinite, and one has to make only one ill-considered move, and one's opponent's wildest dreams will become reality.
David Bronstein
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Artificial lighting, air-conditioning, and automobiles, all powered by fossil fuels, swaddle us in our giddy modernity. In our ergonomic chairs and acoustical-panel cubicles, we sit cozy as kings atop 300 years of flaming carbon.
Charles C. Mann
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The feeling was really pretty good on the second run, it's unbelievable, that's for sure.
Marcel Hirscher
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Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.
Les Brown