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" Dreams are the touchstones of our character. "
Henry David Thoreau
Dreams
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" When I was either 7 or 8 years old, I did a sketch every day of my teacher and what she wore. At the end of the year, I gave her the sketchbook. For me, the sketching of dresses was about fantasy and dreams. "
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" I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man. "
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" When I look back over my life it's almost as if there was a plan laid out for me - from the little girl who was so passionate about animals who longed to go to Africa and whose family couldn't afford to put her through college. Everyone laughed at my dreams. I was supposed to be a secretary in Bournemouth. "
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" How many things there are concerning which we might well deliberate whether we had better know them. "
Henry David Thoreau
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Better
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" I never, in my wildest dreams, could I have thought that the first role I get out of school would lead to an Oscar nomination. "
Lupita Nyong'o
" In my childhood, America was like a religion. Then, real-life Americans abruptly entered my life - in jeeps - and upset all my dreams. "
Sergio Leone
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Life
" I was more independent than any farmer in Concord, for I was not anchored to a house or farm, but could follow the bent of my genius, which is a very crooked one, every moment. "
Henry David Thoreau
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Moment
House
" Chances have been taken, opportunities granted, and because of such, I find myself in a position where some of my biggest dreams are in arm's reach. "
Karen Civil
Opportunities
Myself
Reach
" It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear. "
Henry David Thoreau
Speak
Another
Hear
" One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams. "
E. V. Lucas
Bed
Dreams
Hand
" I've always followed my heart and pursued my dreams, and I imagine that people find that inspiring. I hope that is the effect I have on my fans and people in general. I definitely want to project a positive energy out into the world. "
Britney Spears
Heart
Positive
People
" The work of an advertising agency is warmly and immediately human. It deals with human needs, wants, dreams and hopes. Its 'product' cannot be turned out on an assembly line. "
Leo Burnett
Human
Work
Dreams
" All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man. "
Henry David Thoreau
Wisdom
Some
Wise
" I've said it before, but it's absolutely true: My mother gave me my drive, but my father gave me my dreams. Thanks to him, I could see a future. "
Liza Minnelli
Drive
Dreams
Mother
" I know God loves me. I tell people all the time I'm one of his favorite childs. I had to believe in something bigger than me - bigger than man. I had to believe that God would send somebody across my path to keep my dreams alive. "
Darlene Love
Man
Path
Time
" The more closely you get in touch with your dreams, the more able you are to make them real. The more vividly you consider how you want your world to be, the more real and effective tools you will have for making it so. "
Ralph Marston
Tools
Dreams
World
" The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities. "
Samuel Johnson
Dreams
Man
Seems
" My dreams were always small and puny. All I ever needed was a little house with a little picket fence by the sea. Little did I know that I would live in Malacanang Palace for 20 years and visit all the major palaces of mankind. And then also meet ordinary citizens and the leaders of superpowers. "
Imelda Marcos
Dreams
Live
Meet
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David A. Bednar
Example
Dreams
Variety
" I'm fortunate enough to be living my dreams and a lot of other peoples' dreams. "
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Fortunate
Enough
Dreams
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Hope
Air
You
" There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted. "
Henry David Thoreau
Odor
Goodness
Bad
" We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will. "
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Man
Alone
Him
" I have been interested in dreams, really since I was a kid. I have always been fascinated by the idea that your mind, when you are asleep, can create a world in a dream and you are perceiving it as though it really existed. "
Christopher Nolan
Create
Dream
Dreams
" They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar. "
Henry David Thoreau
Without
Nor
Cellar
" Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul. "
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Buy
Soul
Required
" It has been my observation that parents kill more dreams than anybody. "
Spike Lee
Been
Parents
Observation
" Men secretly respect a woman who is strong, has confidence and has dreams of her own. There's nothing more attractive to a man than a woman who has dignity and pride in who she is. "
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Woman
Confidence
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