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" Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them. "
John Updike
Without
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" I know it's cliche to say, 'When you do something you love you never work a day in your life.' But it is true: When you do something you love, life gets to be a little bit easier and enjoyable. So I just want people to follow their dreams. "
Tika Sumpter
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" People's real hopes and dreams can be distorted and misdirected and packaged until you're not sure what you really want or what you even really need. "
Tracy Chapman
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" We see people in the Middle East begin to have dreams of new Ottoman Empire where everyone will be subjected to some of what we've seen happen in those countries where we helped bring about an Arab Spring that's turned into a Winter Nightmare. "
Louie Gohmert
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" Strivers achieve what dreamers believe. "
Usher
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" An aging writer has the not insignificant satisfaction of a shelf of books behind him that, as they wait for their ideal readers to discover them, will outlast him for a while. "
John Updike
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Aging
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" New York is a city with virtually no habitable public space - only private spaces expensively maintained within the general disaster. "
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" Writing makes you more human. "
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" I dreamed I was a butterfly, flitting around in the sky; then I awoke. Now I wonder: Am I a man who dreamt of being a butterfly, or am I a butterfly dreaming that I am a man? "
Zhuangzi
Sky
I Am
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" You can plant a dream. "
Anne Campbell
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Plant
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" Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned. "
Emile Durkheim
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" I believe history will come to view 9/11 as an event on par with November 22, 1963, the date on which John F. Kennedy was murdered, cutting short a presidency that was growing ever more promising. Dreams died that day in Dallas; it is easy to imagine the 1960s turning out rather differently had President Kennedy lived. "
Jon Meacham
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" We're being told that America is a zero sum game - that the dreams of immigrants come at the expense of those native born and that the religious freedom of some threatens the security of others. But we know this is a lie. "
Reshma Saujani
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Freedom
America
" I have had a dream indicating rather clearly that I am on the way to being hetero, though I don't accept it with much enthusiasm either awake or in the dreams. "
Alan Turing
I Am
Accept
Dream
" The dreams of the 1960s began to disappear in the 1970s. The economy collapsed, and so did the optimism of the Metabolists. "
Toyo Ito
Optimism
Disappear
Dreams
" Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than the one with all the facts. "
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Facts
Never Give Up
Powerful
" No person has the right to rain on your dreams. "
Marian Wright Edelman
Your Dreams
Rain
Right
" I think dreams can come true, but not necessarily like fairy-tales. It's not always so perfect like that. "
Patrick Dempsey
Always
Dreams
Perfect
" I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask them where they're goin', and hook up with them later. "
Mitch Hedberg
Ask
Up
Dreams
" If you choose not to pursue your dreams, you'll still be a part of a dream - only it will be someone else's. "
Mike Hawkins
Dreams
Your Dreams
Choose
" In fiction, imaginary people become realer to us than any named celebrity glimpsed in a series of rumored events, whose causes and subtler ramifications must remain in the dark. An invented figure like Anna Karenina or Emma Bovary emerges fully into the light of understanding, which brings with it identification, sympathy and pity. "
John Updike
Sympathy
Understanding
Light
" I learned to dream through reading, learned to create dreams through writing, and learned to develop dreamers through teaching. I shall always be a dreamer. Come dream with me. "
Sharon Draper
Me
Dream
Writing
" I'd really like to get the girl, shoot the gun, drive the car, have fun. I even have these kind of action dreams, where I'm the action guy. "
Kevin Bacon
Fun
Have Fun
Girl
" I have marvelous dreams! I meet Buddha, I meet Jesus, I meet Mohammed. I constantly dream of space, stars and planets: we are the children of stardust. "
Brian Blessed
Stars
Dream
Dreams
" I like 'Donnie Darko;' it's a cool take on dreams and sleep. "
Mike Birbiglia
Cool
Dreams
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" I have dreams of becoming a professional pastry chef and having a little bakery - that's how much I love baking. I love to cook in general, but my heart lies in desserts. "
Kim Barnouin
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Heart
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" It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live. "
J. K. Rowling
Forget
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Dreams
" When I was a kid, I wanted to be serious, like Daniel Day-Lewis. No one really dreams of being a comic actor, do they? Now I realise how stupid that is - and it's because comic acting isn't taken seriously enough. It's a discipline. You know instantly - either you're funny and getting the laughs, or you're not. "
Chris O'Dowd
Discipline
Stupid
Dreams
" We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans. "
Max Beerbohm
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Start
American Dream
" For a long time, I was under the impression that 'Terry and the Pirates' was the best comic strip in the United States. "
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Time
Impression