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" If you can't read, it's going to be hard to realize dreams. "

Booker T. Washington

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" When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live. "

" Before I went to work for 'Playboy,' I planned to apply to Yale to get a public policy master's. I felt drawn to go into politics. Even before that, my dream was to wind up either in the Senate or on the Supreme Court. I had big dreams as a little girl. "

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" Hollywood is the dream factory, and no one dreams about older women. "

" When I was 11 years old, I was bullied. It mainly started when I moved to California to pursue my dreams of being an actress. Kids back home in Texas, who I thought were my friends, were saying things behind my back. They said that I would never make it because I wasn't talented or pretty enough to be on TV. "

Raini Rodriguez

" I believe the reason we sleep is not just to allow our body to rest but that it is to allow this inner wisdom to speak to us through symbols. This includes the body or somatic problems as well as psychological ones. Dreams and drawings are useful in diagnosing physical conditions. "

" 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. "

" I tell people I'm too stupid to know what's impossible. I have ridiculously large dreams, and half the time they come true. "

" We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed. "

" There are a lot of people who have dreams, goals, and hopes, but there aren't a lot who get to see them realized. "

" Our dreams are firsthand creations, rather than residues of waking life. We have the capacity for infinite creativity; at least while dreaming, we partake of the power of the Spirit, the infinite Godhead that creates the cosmos. "

" I only remember the end of my dreams, like waking up at a steering wheel, or falling. "

" The Brown decision promised that every child, regardless of the color of his or her skin, would have unequivocal access to quality education and an equal opportunity to pursue his/her dreams. "

" It's when children are 15, 16 or 17 that they decide whether they want to be a doctor, an engineer, a politician or go to the Mars or moon. That is the time they start having a dream, and that's the time you can work on them. You can help them shape their dreams. "

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

" I believe dreams represent the purest form of fantasy we unleash through our subconscious. They represent the truest freedom we can experience. Totally unrepressed and totally creative. "

" There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up. "

Booker T. Washington

" It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams. "

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

" I love 'Memory Keeper's Daughter,' but in some ways I think 'The Lake of Dreams' is a stronger book. I was able to tell the story I wanted to tell. That's all you can ever do as a writer. From there on you have no control over it. "

" My heroes, my dreams, and my future lay in Yankee Stadium. And they can't take that away from me. "

" But I am delighted to be a Dodger, I grew up a Dodger fan and now my dreams have really come true. "

" I knew I wanted to do something creative. I didn't think I'd have the luxury of doing something like that, because I didn't know anyone who had pursued anything they really adored, but I had dreams for singing or writing. "

" Dreams do come true, even for someone who couldn't speak English and never had a music lesson or much of an education. "

" 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. "

" It was taunted as reality. It was dangled as a carrot. In terms of people's hopes and dreams, to say that that is less of a reality than the daily grind they find themselves in is maybe not correct. "

" Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them. "

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" All my life, I've had these flashbacks, these dreams, nightmares, daymares, like visions, where I relive certain plays. Only the bad plays. I see them over and over, as if somebody's rewinding a tape and forcing me to watch. "

Colin Kaepernick

" Dreams are illustrations from the book your soul is writing about you. "

" I spend a lot of time thinking about this business of letting go - letting go of the children God gives to us for such a brief time before they go off on their own; letting go of old homes, old friends, old places and old dreams. "

" I don't read good books anymore, it seems; I just buy them and put them on the shelf and every now and then walk over and pet them. I'm like the optimistic dieter who fills her closet with clothes two sizes too small and dreams of the day she can wear them. I know just what I want to do when I retire. "