Dream Quotes
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A Chinaman of the T'ang Dynasty—and, by which definition, a philosopher—dreamed he was a butterfly, and from that moment he was never quite sure that he was not a butterfly dreaming it was a Chinese philosopher. Envy him; in his two-fold security.
Tom Stoppard
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Film is more of a dream when you're younger. I found it almost impossible to see how you would get into the industry having no connections, nobody in the family being anywhere near it and never meeting anybody that had been on a set.
Ben Wheatley
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There are almost no limits to the discoveries of how the human brain operates in illness and health, in sleep and waking and dreaming, in calm and under tension. The question is how far man can put these discoveries to use without using them not for cure but for power.
Max Lerner
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I think you have to repudiate torture and I think you have to end what's going on at Guantanamo and you have to live up to American values. Basically you restore - what the American dream brought to the world stage was respect for the individual and the idea that people aren't pawns that rulers can push around but they have rights.
Wesley Clark
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We have revolutionary thought whenever the feeling "life is a dream" becomes geared to an impulse to awaken from it.
Northrop Frye
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It is more helpful to think of dreams as reflections of the present rather than as pictures of the future. A dream of a car out of control, for example, does not indicate that a car accident will occur in the future. It does mean, however, that the dreamer is feeling out of control in his or her life right now. It is important not to be superstitious about dreams.
Charles McPhee
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My advice for upcoming actors is to never give up. If it's in you, keep following your dream no matter what. Perseverence is the key.
Chad Lindberg
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And from that hour his poor maimed spirit, only remembering the place where it had broken its wings, cancelled the dream through which it had since groped, and knew of nothing beyond the Marshalsea.
Charles Dickens
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Our theme for this year's festivities, Dreams and Challenges of Asian Pacific Americans, speaks to the many generations of Asian Pacific Americans who worked hard to overcome economic hardship, racism and other barriers in their pursuit of the American dream.
Lucille Roybal-Allard
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My dream is to become a farmer. Just a Bohemian guy pulling up his own sweet potatoes for dinner.
Lenny Kravitz
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Our life is no dream, but it should and will perhaps become one.
Novalis
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I'm a journeyman actor, and I don't ever want to forget that. With romantic-lead dreams.
William Sanderson
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I had a dream. I put this choir together, this young choir together. I’m a choirmaster, a young one, and I’m hungry to have the best one in the world.
Ricky Dillard
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To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.
Bette Davis
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This dream of our youth will fade out as the splendor Fades from the skies when the sun sinks to sleep.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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When I was a young boy I wanted to play for Newcastle United, I wanted to wear the number nine shirt and I wanted to score goals at St James' Park. I've lived my dream and I realise how lucky I've been to have done that.
Alan Shearer
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If I could steal someone's dream myself, I'd have to go for one of Orson Welles.
Christopher Nolan
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People little dream of how their affairs react on the body. There is a mental correspondence for every disease.
Florence Scovel Shinn
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I wanted to tell a dream-come-true story about going from a closeted gay kid who loved pop culture to an out adult man making pop culture. I went from being told when I was 21 that I should never go on TV because of my crossed eyes to winding up being a 'Housewives' whisperer and talk-show host.
Andy Cohen
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I confess I do not know why, but looking at the stars always makes me dream.
Vincent Van Gogh
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The American dream is, in part, responsible for a great deal of crime and violence because people feel that the country owes them not only a living but a good living.
David Abrahamsen
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What a young musician's dream, to say, "Look at those chrome drums. Look at that 22-inch ride cymbal. I'll have those." It was one of those unparalleled exciting days of your life.
Neil Peart Rush
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Babies aren't really born of their parents. They are born of every kind word, loving gesture, hope, and dream their parents ever had.
Julia Roberts
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If you're going to let pressure stop you from fulfilling your dreams, you're robbing yourself.
Quinton Jackson