Here, we’ve compiled a list of the best Dream Quotes from famous persons: Michael Dell, John Henry Newman, Shawn Mendes, David Lynch, A. P. J. Abdul Kalam. The wide variety of quotes available makes it possible to find a quote to suit your needs. You’ve likely heard some of the Dream Quotes before, but that’s because they truly are great.
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You don’t have to be a genius or a visionary or even a college graduate to be successful. You just need a framework and a dream.
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I love Australia; it was a really, really nice experience for me. It’s such a beautiful place. The people are beautiful – like, really beautiful – and they are beautiful in terms of their personalities. It’s a great place to be. It’s like you are in a little bit of a dream world.
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I hope I’ll have the opportunity to debate how we reform and update our immigration system. I will relate my own story and that of the countless immigrants whose American Dream stories have helped build our country into the greatest nation in the world.
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I had this rare privilege of being able to pursue in my adult life, what had been my childhood dream.
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Private dreams are the most powerful. You have to dream of success to make it happen, and if you don’t believe in yourself, nobody else will. But that doesn’t mean you have to go around telling everyone about it.
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I can think. I can sleep. I can move. I can ride my bike. I can dream.
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The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.
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If you can dream it, you can do it.
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When the soul drifts uncertainly between life and the dream, between the mind‘s disorder and the return to cool reflection, it is in religious thought that we should seek consolation.
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I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.
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My dream is to be a doctor. I’m almost working in a laboratory, because I’m trying new techniques, new directions and fabrics, new weaving.
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You’ve got to believe. Never be afraid to dream.
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You have to dream intentionally. Most people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer, you have to dream while you are awake, intentionally.
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I envy people with dreams and passions, but I don’t think that way. I still don’t have a ‘bliss‘ to follow. For people like me – I suspect that’s most people – holding out for a ‘dream’ or a ‘passion’ is paralyzing. I just like having work I enjoy that feels meaningful. That’s hard enough… but it’s enough.
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As much as I dream, I have nightmares.
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You shouldn’t dream your film, you should make it!
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I’m living my dream.
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You dream of your first NFL start when you’re a little kid, playing football in the backyard, but until you get there, you never know what to expect.
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Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.
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To make a masterpiece would be my life’s dream.
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Although the dream is a very strange phenomenon and an inexplicable mystery, far more inexplicable is the mystery and aspect our minds confer on certain objects and aspects of life.
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I always say The Weeknd and Post Malone are two huge dream collaborations. Ariana Grande would be cool.
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I try not to look too far ahead. I’m more about living day to day and working hard. I think it’s great to visualize a dream, but it’s more important to make it come true with your efforts.
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People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they’re all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error.
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When we dream alone it is only a dream, but when many dream together it is the beginning of a new reality.
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I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.
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I think the American Dream says that anything can happen if you work hard enough at it and are persistent, and have some ability. The sky is the limit to what you can build, and what can happen to you and your family.
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I think the most important thing that I think everyone in America must have is belief that wherever they live, whatever station they have in life, that the American dream is alive and well. I think the fracturing of trust and confidence is in the American dream.
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As a kid, you obviously dream of being a professional footballer. I would watch players like Ronaldo of Brazil and pretend to be him in the playground. But I don’t think about trying to become one of the best in the world or anything like that. I just play football.
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As an actor, what you dream of is being able to portray people that people empathize with and understand and really feel for.
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Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream.
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As a child you dream of playing for your country, but when it really happens you do not know how to react.
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I think my dad’s dream really was just to have a good family, treat them well, to keep them together, and he did everything in his power and it just fell apart on him.
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If you have a dream, it’s definitely achievable through hard work, through dedication, sacrifice, everything.
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Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Your life may change, but your dream doesn’t have to. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it.
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I’m really living my dream.
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Better reality than a dream: if something is real, then it’s real and you’re not to blame.
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The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.
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My uncle used to say, ‘You’ll go on and become the dream of the family.’ That’s how I got my name.
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India can live without nuclear weapons. That’s our dream, and it should be the dream of the U.S. also.
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There is not a week that goes by that I don’t have a dream that I am back in the business.
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I love entrepreneurship because that’s what makes this country grow, and if I can help companies grow, I am creating jobs; I am setting foundations for future generations. It sends the message that the American Dream is alive and well.
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Usefulness! It is not a fascinating word, and the quality is not one of which the aspiring spirit can dream o’ nights, yet on the stage it is the first thing to aim at.
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There are those who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is the American Dream.
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I can honestly say – and it’s a big surprise to me – that I have never had a dream about being on the moon.
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This is a universal human dream – that brains, not brawn, will rule – and the fact that America has the world’s finest institutions of higher education may be our greatest single national asset.
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A goal is a dream with a deadline.
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Surround yourself with smart, dedicated people – to build something isn’t a one-man show. It’s more important to have smart people who really believe in what you’re doing than really experienced people who may not share your dream.
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Every human heart cries and yearns for the same thing: a chance to fulfill his or her own dreams and desires. Even the poorest man has a dream.
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I do dream about Afghanistan. I wake up and think I’m still there.
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I’ve always said, ‘I didn’t have a Plan B in life.’ I was in pursuit of my dream from the very beginning. It’s all about desire and passion. At all costs.
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We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake.
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When we make college more affordable, we make the American dream more achievable.
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You have to fight to reach your dream. You have to sacrifice and work hard for it.
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Sigmund Freud said we act out our own dreams, but if you are only an actor you are not acting out your own dream. You are simply participating in someone else’s dream.
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It started back in 2002, when there was hardly any reality television. ‘Survivor‘ had just started. My hope and dream was that ‘The Bachelor‘ would last one or two nights on network TV, so I might meet somebody in the network and then I could get a real job.
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It isn’t a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream.
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If you have a dream, you can spend a lifetime studying, planning, and getting ready for it. What you should be doing is getting started.
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If you choose not to pursue your dreams, you’ll still be a part of a dream – only it will be someone else’s.
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To me, the American Dream is being able to follow your own personal calling. To be able to do what you want to do is incredible freedom.
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Imagine a safe city with all the affordable housing we need, a city that uses its resources to help lift the marginalized up and into stability. This is the Portland I imagine. This is the Portland I dream about every single day.
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I think every girl’s dream is to find a bad boy at the right time, when he wants to not be bad anymore.
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I don’t know if we are the best team in the world. I am lucky to be playing alongside some of the best players around. It’s a dream.
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That’s what you dream about. How you not going to think about making the big play, the game-changing play?
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When you are born and brought up in Udupi, you end up as a doctor or an engineer. Else you are thought to be a dull head. I had to complete my engineering and worked in the IT industry for a few years to get myself the financial support to pursue my dream of acting.
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So be encouraged and dedicate yourself to your dream and if your dream should come my way one day then we will dance upon the boards of life.
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If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.
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Education is the gateway to the American Dream. But today our immigration laws make higher education – a virtual requirement for financial security – out of reach for more than one million undocumented students.
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Any man who puts a pair of gloves on deserves respect because lots wouldn’t dream of it. To get in there and go one-on-one, you need your hand shaking afterwards. Many men wouldn’t get involved.
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By disgracing and degrading the presidency of the United States, by fleeing the White House like a diseased cur, Richard Nixon broke the heart of the American Dream.
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It’s every manager‘s dream, I suppose, to build a team by coaching young players of 15 to 17. That’s why I started a youth scheme.
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I like to dream, but I like to make things happen.
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My objective is to fulfil the dream of Bangabandhu through building a hunger- and poverty-free Golden Bangladesh being imbued with the spirit of the War of Liberation.
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My dream is to make everyone love video games.
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Peter Pan has been one of my dream roles since I was a child.
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Football was always my dream. I started playing at the age of five, and I’m still playing now.
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Sometimes, to stimulate your imagination you have to be careful you don’t have too much information. You can Google something, and it’s in your face, pow! You don’t have time to dream any more about it.
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Having the right people around you all the time is important. I do take the acting seriously. But this is all fun. I look at it like smoke and mirrors. I still think it’s a dream, but I ain’t pinching myself yet.
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If you can dream it, you can do it.
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A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.
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You take on the responsibility for making your dream a reality.
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If you don’t really have a dream, you can’t really push yourself; you don’t really know what the target is.
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I wouldn’t dream of working on something that didn’t make my gut rumble and my heart want to explode.
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Coming from a small town it was tough to dream big. When I grew up in a small town in Georgia, my biggest dream was one day to be able to go to Atlanta.
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Personally, I’d like to become a person who never loses her passion and always has a dream to follow.
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God’s dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made for togetherness, for goodness, and for compassion.
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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.
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For all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.
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My dream as a passionate cook has been to go to Le Cordon Bleu. Never could my most incredible dream have lived up to the experience. The food, the lesson, the chef, the ingredients – all the best of the best. I see why Le Cordon Bleu is world-renowned.
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Throughout my childhood, and thanks to Arsenal‘s former striker Thierry Henry and other French players, I always dreamed of playing for this club, so that dream has been fulfilled.
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You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.
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I didn’t have a dream of being a press secretary, I had a dream of being a playwright; I had a dream of being a novelist and a poet.
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Just dream big. Go for it. There’s nothing holding you back. You can have ups and downs, but if you believe in something, keep the faith; keep fighting. And don’t let people put you down.
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Hope is a waking dream.
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I don’t want to go into a marriage just because of my age – too many people make that mistake. But of course I’d like to be married one day – I dream of having children because I adore kids so, so much.
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My personal life is lived as ‘me,’ but my professional life is lived as other people. In other words, when I go to the office, I lie down, dream, and become ‘someone else.’ That’s my job.
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You have to fight to reach your dream. You have to sacrifice and work hard for it.
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Make every thought, every fact, that comes into your mind pay you a profit. Make it work and produce for you. Think of things not as they are but as they might be. Don’t merely dream – but create!
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That’s my motto: dream, believe, achieve.
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Talk about it only enough to do it. Dream about it only enough to feel it. Think about it only enough to understand it. Contemplate it only enough to be it.
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To be honest, writing comics is a dream come true – the form is unparalleled and is home to some of the most original and innovative storytelling around.
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All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
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The American dream comes from opportunity. The opportunity comes from our founding principles, our core values that’s held together and protected by the Constitution. Those ideas are neither Republican, Democrat, conservative, liberal, white, or black. Those are American ideologies.
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A dream will always triumph over reality, once it is given the chance.
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There are certain sounds that have a loaded past. Like the sound of a harp, if you go back to old movies, represents a dream sequence; it transports you there.
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No, I ain’t a star – I’m just a kid from Brooklyn, living his dream.
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The best part is it’s a dream come true. I’ve always wanted to be a working actor, and the good part of it… it’s all good! I work long hours, but it’s amazing. They pay me. That’s amazing! I get to kiss Keri Russell, and that ain’t too bad.
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Sometimes, you follow your dreams. I say to the young people, ‘If you have a dream, chase it.’
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My dream has come true, now that I have passed it on.
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Since I was a kid it was a dream to play for Man United, and to be there at Old Trafford is the biggest dream of my career.
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You have to give people something to dream on.
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You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
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The American Dream is that any man or woman, despite of his or her background, can change their circumstances and rise as high as they are willing to work.
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It doesn’t matter that I didn’t win a trophy because I did it my way and I lived the dream.
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There is nothing like a dream to create the future.
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The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.
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Much of India that we dream of still lies ahead of us: housing, power, water and sanitation for all; bank accounts and insurance for every citizen; connected and prosperous villages; and, smart and sustainable cities.
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Dream in a pragmatic way.
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To accomplish great things we must first dream, then visualize, then plan… believe… act!
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I think anyone can do anything they dream of if they put their mind to it and put in the work.
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It is teamwork that makes the dream work.
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Music is able to make a person dream. When you dream, you dream of something good, something beautiful, and when you dream, you always dream of yourself better than you are.
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Among the difficulties I encountered, economic problems were the worst. I found that financial hardships could limit one’s ability to realize one’s dream, no matter how desperate and earnest you are.
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My dream is to produce thousand Mary Koms.
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My dreams are huge, man. I dream all day every day. Do I want to get into restaurants one day? Yeah! Do I want to get into hospitality and have my own hotels? Yeah, I do!
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My songs are the door to every dream I’ve ever had and every success I’ve ever achieved.
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When you cease to dream you cease to live.
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The promise of the American Dream requires that we are all provided an equal opportunity to participate in and contribute to our nation.
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You see things; and you say ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say ‘Why not?’
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There is no such thing as death; life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves.
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How many people do you know who’ve had their dream come true? You’re looking at one.
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It may be those who do most, dream most.
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The ugly duckling is a misunderstood universal myth. It’s not about turning into a blonde Barbie doll or becoming what you dream of being; it’s about self-revelation, becoming who you are.
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Yeah, my dream would be to work for 6 months and then have 6 months to play, just snowboarding, surfing, and going to cool places to listen and be alone and kinda chill out.
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Music is a way to dream together and go to another dimension.
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Perhaps life is just that… a dream and a fear.
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What we believe at Quantic Dream is that there is a space for adult games: meaningful experiences for a mature audience.
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It’s been a dream of mine to play for the U.S. national team.
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I’d forget the piece just before I went out to do the concerto, the panic was too great. This was not anything that gave me pleasure. This was fulfilling somebody else’s dream.
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What it meant for me to win the Emmy is I found it. It’s not just the award. It’s what it’s going to mean to young girls – young brown girls, especially. When they saw a physical manifestation of a dream, I felt like I had fulfilled a purpose.
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A dream is the bearer of a new possibility, the enlarged horizon, the great hope.
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Art is nothing but the expression of our dream; the more we surrender to it the closer we get to the inner truth of things, our dream-life, the true life that scorns questions and does not see them.
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Life is only a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves.
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Never, and I mean never, allow anyone else‘s ideas of who you can or can’t become sully your dream or pollute your imagination. This is your territory, and a ‘Keep Out’ sign is a great thing to erect at all entrances to your imagination.
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To do justice to a lifelong dream of being a writer, I must give it the intense concentration and focus I gave to track. To do both with excellence is not possible. It is with a sense of sadness and joyous anticipation that I leave track and move on.
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Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.
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I don’t want to get corny, but my career really has been the personification of the American dream.
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I think the key is basically just your determination. As far an artist is concerned, it’s just about your drive and your dream.
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The American dream is still to own your home.
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Just dream big. Go for it. There’s nothing holding you back. You can have ups and downs, but if you believe in something, keep the faith; keep fighting. And don’t let people put you down.
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The American Dream is really money.
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The more you dream the more you achieve.
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This is for all of you out there tonight, reaching for a dream – don’t ever give up! Never ever listen to anyone, when they try to discourage you, because they do that, believe me!
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The new millennium began with a great global dream. World leaders gathered at the United Nations in 2000 and adopted, among others, a historic goal to reduce poverty by half by 2015. Never in human history had such a bold goal been adopted by the entire world in one voice, one that specified time and size.
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It is every woman’s dream to be some man’s dream woman.
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It is a dream since a child to drive for the red cars.
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Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.
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I guess the bigger you dream, the further you have to fall if you don’t get it, so it can be a bit of a scary thing to be that ambitious.
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Music gives people the ability to dream, to leave their troubles behind for a moment and experience something beautiful. You create dreams and that’s a beautiful thing!
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Rapping is my dream, but my kids make me happy.
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My advice to anyone with a dream is to never stop pursuing it.
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My dream is to save women from nature.
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As a guy from Northern Ireland who supported Celtic and worked in football, I’m living my dream here.
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It takes a person who is wide awake to make his dream come true.
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Every one has her own love life. Every one has a dream to get a perfect life partner. But this is not so easy in real life. In fact, one doesn’t love; it happens.
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I dream for a living. Once a month the sky falls on my head, I come to, and I see another movie I want to make.
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I feel that I am a citizen of the American dream and that the revolutionary struggle of which I am a part is a struggle against the American nightmare.
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I think it’s important to have a dream and to follow your heart.
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Rightfully given near-deity status in the early days of industrial America, the J.P. Morgans, Rockefellers, Carnegies, and Vanderbilts of the world not only ran our country, they were also revered – and often despised – as larger-than-life personalities who could perform feats mere mortals could only dream of.
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A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.
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Death seems to be a long way off. Is this not shallow thinking? It is worthless and is only a joke within a dream. It will not do to think in such a way and be negligent. Insofar as death is always at one’s door, one should make sufficient effort and act quickly.
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You always have to dream big and think big.
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I obviously work really hard. But I also have the capacity to dream really big and have the discipline to materialize those dreams.
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If you have a dream, never stop preparing for that.
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I always say, ‘To have a big dream requires the same effort as having a small dream. Dream big!’
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I’d like to be a geneticist to be honest, but there are limits to what I can do now. For my dream to come true I’d have to be 20 years old again, heading off to a blue chip university.
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Be willing to be uncomfortable. Be comfortable being uncomfortable. It may get tough, but it’s a small price to pay for living a dream.
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As a kid, I was always pretending to score the goal in the FA Cup final, and I managed to live my dream.
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Broadband access is the great equalizer, leveling the playing field so that every willing and able person, no matter their station in life, has access to the information and tools necessary to achieve the American Dream.
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I never dreamed about being an actor, because that was out of reach. Coming from a small town that was big in farming, and also big in clothing factories, you don’t dream about being a professional football player or an actor.
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I started out as a child actor. Back then, I didn’t have a manager or company, and I couldn’t even dream of having a stylist. My mom made and bought the clothes I would wear. I think that was probably when I first got into fashion.
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Sleep my friend, and you will see that dream is my reality.
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Don’t dream it, be it.
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It’s always a dream come true to do music with your pops. And your son.
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I always thought I wanted to play professionally, and I always knew that to do that I’d have to make a lot of sacrifices. I made sacrifices by leaving Argentina, leaving my family to start a new life. I changed my friends, my people. Everything. But everything I did, I did for football, to achieve my dream.
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It’s important to have a dream no matter how old you are.
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Personally, I really enjoy sci-fi. I watch it, I read comic books, and I play video games. I love this kind of world, so to be able to work in it is a dream. I enjoy it.
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A dream doesn’t become reality through magic. It takes sweat, determination, and hard work.
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The design process usually starts as a fantasy, with ideas that I dream of and visualize. These ideas become a reality by bringing various ingredients together, from the lifestyle of my bride, her age and sex appeal, to the textures of the finest fabrics and embroideries that we produce in my family factories in India.
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There’s always ways of motivating yourself to higher levels. Write about it, dream about it. But after that, turn it into action. Don’t just dream.
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Space is an inspirational concept that allows you to dream big.
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My gut told me ‘Kanaa’ was worth taking up, and it’s a dream role for any actor.
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I want people who go through tough times, hard times, or didn’t have everything right-things didn’t fall in their lap or go in their favor-to know that they can still achieve their dream and go to the highest of the highs.
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Every setback means you’re one step closer to seeing the dream come to pass.
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I actually had a dream, which I believe is right from God, about My Pillow.
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Your grandparents came of age in the Great Depression, when everyday life was about deprivation and sacrifice, when the economic conditions of the time were so grave and so unrelenting it would have been easy enough for the American dream to fade away.
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I’ve always wanted to assist Gautham. I’m happy that I actually got an opportunity to write for him. It’s a dream come true to be associated with him.
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There is one candidate in this election who will protect that dream. One leader who will fight hard to keep the promise of America for the next generation. And that’s why we must stand up and make Mitt Romney the next president of the United States.
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Hollywood always represents this big dream and fairy tale in people’s minds, but to me, it’s just hard work. Of course, we play fairy tale on the red carpet. It’s all Cinderella. But when the clock strikes midnight, I turn into a gray mouse and I go home, and I take my dress off and it’s over. That’s Hollywood.
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If you will it, it is no dream.
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To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.
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The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality.
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Hope is but the dream of those who wake.
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Every time I have a dream, somehow I accomplish it.
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It’s always been a dream to audition for ‘American Idol.’ But you have to be 15 or older.
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I started with no money. I had to borrow money in the beginning. I’m always a dreamer. I dream and envision what to do, then my wife will help me realize those dreams. I always conceptualize.
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All you have to do is to dream big and try to fulfil it.
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My life has been a dream. If someone had to write a story about it, it would seem a little unreal. It’s the kind of story I would read and say, ‘Nah, that’s not possible.’
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If you don’t follow your dream, who will?
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You can plant a dream.
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To realize the American dream, the most important thing to understand is that it belongs to everybody. It’s a human dream. If you understand this and work very hard, it is possible.
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If you don’t have a dream, how are you going to make a dream come true?
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If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
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What is the American dream? The American dream is one big tent. One big tent. And on that big tent you have four basic promises: equal protection under the law, equal opportunity, equal access, and fair share.
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Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.
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I dream about food.
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I was living my dream as a WNBA player.
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What you want to do, and what you can do, is limited only by what you can dream.
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The American dream belongs to all of us.
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What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter – a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue.
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I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
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I always wanted to be in the NBA, but I never really thought about being the No. 1 pick until high school. So once it happened, it’s like a dream come true and more.
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Sometimes I feel like I don’t dream big enough.
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Teamwork makes the dream work, but a vision becomes a nightmare when the leader has a big dream and a bad team.
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It was so weird that I would end up directing ‘The Greatest Game Ever Played,’ because, y’know, I’m not a big golfer myself. But I grew up around the game. My mom and dad kind of built their dream house off the 11th fairway of Shady Oaks Country Club in Fort Worth.
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The strongest argument against totalitarianism may be a recognition of a universal human nature; that all humans have innate desires for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The doctrine of the blank slate… is a totalitarian’s dream.
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If you have a dream, don’t let anybody take it away, and always believe that the impossible is possible.
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Dream big, but don’t be upset if it doesn’t happen.
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Space is an inspirational concept that allows you to dream big.
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Most people talk; we do things. They plan; we achieve. They hesitate; we move ahead. We are living proof that when human beings have the courage and commitment to transform a dream into reality, there is nothing that can stop them.
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I do not have bad days. I don’t wake up in the morning and think that I’m going to get AIDS. I don’t dream bad dreams about it. If I did, I’d be giving in to the negativity.
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Cinema is not only about making people dream. It’s about changing things and making people think.
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You cannot give up on the American dream. We cannot allow our fears and our disappointments to lead us into silence and into inaction.
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Everything about doing ‘Jurassic World’ was a dream come true.
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The American Dream is a term that is often used but also often misunderstood. It isn’t really about becoming rich or famous. It is about things much simpler and more fundamental than that.
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I would say if you have a dream, follow it. It doesn’t really matter whether you are a woman or from India or from wherever.
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Because winning a gold medal had been a dream of mine since a young age, I needed to empty my mind during the preparation for the Olympics by telling myself that it would be OK not to win a gold medal.
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What if nothing exists and we’re all in somebody’s dream?
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In the end, the American dream is not a sprint, or even a marathon, but a relay. Our families don’t always cross the finish line in the span of one generation. But each generation passes on to the next the fruits of their labor.
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It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.
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Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.
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The dream is to win a Grand Slam and that is what I’m playing for and training for. It’s tough, but I believe that maybe one day I’ll be lucky enough to win one.
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Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
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I think a lot of the American people feel more than a little disappointed that the high-water mark for human exploration was 1969. The dream of human space travel has almost died for a lot of people.
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It was a dream come true to play for the University of Pittsburgh. My experience as a Panther is something that influences my life every day and I want to pay that forward.
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Within the soul of America is freedom of mind and spirit in man. Here alone are the open windows through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit. Here alone is human dignity not a dream but an accomplishment. Perhaps it is not perfect, but it is more full in realization here than any other place in the world.
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It’s always good to dream big, right?
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My dream was always to be a composer, but fashion came very easily.
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Yesterday is but today’s memory, and tomorrow is today’s dream.
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I really wanted to buy a Range Rover. It was a big dream, and the day I bought it, I was very happy, but by evening, I was immune to it. That’s when I realized that excitement, if it’s happiness, is not in reaching the goal but in the process. Thus process trumps over realization.
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They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
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If proud Americans can be who they are and boldly stand at the altar with who they love then surely, surely we can give everyone in this country a fair chance at that great American Dream.
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You can’t put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.
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Some people dream of success, while other people get up every morning and make it happen.
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My day job may be exhausting, but cooking is my peace. My dream is to have a big family with lots of grandkids. And we’ll get together every Sunday for a hearty dinner at our house, and we’ll all live in flavorful bliss, happily ever after.
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How do you go from where you are to where you wanna be? And I think you have to have an enthusiasm for life. You have to have a dream, a goal. And you have to be willing to work for it.
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Made with Pencils is grounded in the creativity of a few, propelled by the financial support of many, and most importantly, it’s empowering generations to come. A simple idea, a heartfelt desire, and a world of possibility. A pencil, a promise, and a dream.
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You can’t escape the taste of the food you had as a child. In times of stress, what do you dream about? Your mother’s clam chowder. It’s security, comfort. It brings you home.
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Barcelona have always been a dream club for me.
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The more you can dream, the more you can do.
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In Algeria, I had begun to get into literature and philosophy. I dreamed of writing-and already models were instructing the dream, a certain language governed it.
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If you have a dream, just lie about it. Lie your way unto your dreams.
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I have accomplished my childhood dream: to be in show business. Everybody should be so lucky to have their dreams come true. I’ve been truly blessed.
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Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.
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Southern California, where the American Dream came too true.
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If you will it, it is no dream.
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This is something you always dream about, being in this position to win a championship.
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My director Shakun Batra, I believe, is one of the finest in the industry and he has been the dream director I’ve always wanted to work with.
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Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.
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I would say to always follow your dream. And dream big because my whole career, including any of the things that I’ve accomplished, I never thought in a million years that I would be here. So it just proves that once you believe in yourself, and you put your mind to something, you can do it.
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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.
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I still dream about being on the space station with the feeling of being weightless. The weightlessness is the most amazing, relaxing and natural feeling.
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If your world doesn’t allow you to dream, move to one where you can.
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Everyone has a dream deep in their heart, which is a center of what they want to do. If they had all the money, and they had the time and they were guaranteed that they’d be successful, that dream is what they would love to do.
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When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing this dream.
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I dream in color, and I have visions of feelings and energies that I would love to feel.
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If we cannot see the possibility of greatness, how can we dream it?
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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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I believe in hard work, but I believe in vindication as well. You have a few nightmares, I imagine, before you reach your dream.
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The American Dream is still alive out there, and hard work will get you there. You don’t necessarily need to have an Ivy League education or to have millions of dollars startup money. It can be done with an idea, hard work and determination.
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As far as being a WWE Superstar, that was my dream.
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Believe it or not, cricket was my first love. I would genuinely have swapped the dream of a winning goal at Wembley for a century against the Australians at Lord‘s.
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Architects have to dream. We have to search for our Atlantises, to be explorers, adventurers, and yet to build responsibly and well.
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A dream will not become an innovation if there is no realization.
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I think the American Dream used to be achieving one’s goals in your field of choice – and from that, all other things would follow. Now, I think the dream has morphed into the pursuit of money: Accumulate enough of it, and the rest will follow.
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I am the American Dream. I am the epitome of what the American Dream basically said. It said you could come from anywhere and be anything you want in this country. That’s exactly what I’ve done.
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I think of myself not just as a dreamer, but as a dream chaser.
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Doing Shakespeare in the Park has always been a dream. Everyone else says Hamlet, but I want to play Romeo.
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Where much is expected from an individual, he may rise to the level of events and make the dream come true.
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It has long been a childhood dream of mine to have a farm.
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You have to dream dreams to live dreams.
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It’s always been a dream of mine to have my own show.
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May not music be described as the mathematics of the sense, mathematics as music of the reason? The musician feels mathematics, the mathematician thinks music: music the dream, mathematics the working life.
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Dream big work hard.
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A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.
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People say, ‘Dream big!’ – but you have to think about the logistics. It’s not just coming up with a great idea; it’s how you can sell or market or promote that great idea.
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Writing itself is a dream. There are days of self doubt and deadlines and wondering how you’re going to pay the bills until you write that bestseller. But it’s still the best job I’ve ever had. I’ve also been able to help a lot of people and even inspire a few and that feels great.
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Being a Real Madrid player is the greatest dream you can imagine.
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The dream is to keep surprising yourself, never mind the audience.
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We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving, and we all have the power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing.
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No blessing goes uncontested. It will take a long time to get your dream.
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A college degree is the key to realizing the American dream, well worth the financial sacrifice because it is supposed to open the door to a world of opportunity.
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With each dream accomplished, bigger ones are put in their place.
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Everyone’s dream can come true if you just stick to it and work hard.
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Being a kid growing up with Kurosawa films and watching Sergio Leone movies just made me love what it could do to you, and how it could influence you – make you dream.
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Just get a bag and drop a dream in it, and you’ll be surprised what happens.
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I always had a dream to play for India but I never let it put pressure on me.
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I always tell everybody that I feel I am living my dream.
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I don’t have dreams. How can I say it? I myself am a dream.
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Life is never easy for those who dream.
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My dream is to map every archaeological site in the world because, if we can do that, then we have this massive global data base that all sorts of global heritage organizations and heritage organizations within countries can use, and they can use that information to protect what’s there.
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My goal is to show young women and girls that our voices and ideas matter, and you are never too young to dream big!
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Teamwork makes the dream work, but a vision becomes a nightmare when the leader has a big dream and a bad team.
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When I won the first Grammy, there was no other feeling like that feeling. It just made me feel like I came so far, like that was just a dream a few years before that, and then it was happening right then.
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Life is too short to be living somebody else’s dream.
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If the dream is a translation of waking life, waking life is also a translation of the dream.
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I think we all need to be able to dream in all colors.
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All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
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That’s what we do in this country. That’s the American Dream. That’s freedom, and I’ll take it any day over the supervision and sanctimony of the central planners.
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I feel not unlike a small boy, waking from a bad dream to find reality not much of an improvement.
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The road to success is not easy to navigate, but with hard work, drive and passion, it’s possible to achieve the American dream.
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Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don’t have time for all that.
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Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.
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A dream doesn’t become reality through magic. It takes sweat, determination, and hard work.
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You want to be drafted high, but to be drafted high into an organization like the Kansas City Chiefs, it’s like a dream to me.
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At 15, I was playing with the C team at Reims and I wanted to leave. It’s a difficult age for a kid – I wanted to go out with my mates, party… girls… that happens to everyone. Luckily, my mum told me: ‘You don’t know what you want, it’s football – it’s your dream and it could be a great job.’ She was right.
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An economically peaceful and prosperous Sri Lanka is the dream of youth of the nation. My message for the youth is to collectively work for an inclusively developed Sri Lanka.
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It’s not easy to leave your hometown and your family and your support system and come out to Los Angeles to – to pursue a dream where the odds are not in your favor.
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The great dream merchant Disney was a success because make-believe was what everyone seemed to need in a spiritually empty land.
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If you have a dream, give it a chance to happen.
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But you have to do what you dream of doing even while you’re afraid.
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The Olympics show that your dream can come true if you work hard. It’s not impossible.
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Deserve your dream.
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We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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Sometimes you have to not just dream about what could be – you get out and push and you pull and you preach. And you create a climate and environment to get those in high places, to get men and women of good will in power to act.
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Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
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The Rocky Mountains realize – nay, exceed – the dream of my childhood. It is magnificent, and the air is life-giving.
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Don’t hold on to the past; it won’t help in moving forward. Dare to dream big.
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Hope will be found by understanding that diversity is the essence of the American Dream and why we need each other to fulfill it.
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There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness.
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We all dream. We dream vividly, depending on our nature. Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we’re atheist.
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Dream and give yourself permission to envision a You that you choose to be.
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I dream for a living.
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I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.
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My dream role would probably be a psycho killer, because the whole thing I love about movies is that you get to do things you could never do in real life, and that would be my way of vicariously experiencing being a psycho killer. Also, it’s incredibly romantic.
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I think the American Dream should be about a greater progressive legislation that allows for what I call a necessary future world of cooperational humanism.
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Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.
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My dream as a producer is to be able to build a company that can be a safe haven for artists, for directors and for writers and actors to do what they do best and let them have final edit. I’d like to build something to that effect.
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Nothing happens unless first we dream.
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High school dropouts are forfeiting their opportunity to pursue the American Dream.
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The people of Southwest have always been my pride, my joy and my love. Their indomitable dedication and esprit de corps have taken Southwest from a three-airplane dream to a 500-airplane reality.
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Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
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I have short goals – to get better every day, to help my teammates every day – but my only ultimate goal is to win an NBA championship. It’s all that matters. I dream about it. I dream about it all the time, how it would look, how it would feel. It would be so amazing.
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It’s good to dream, and I was born a dreamer.
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Certainly driving a Ferrari is, at the same time, a dream come true, a huge responsibility and a great honor.
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In a way, J.F.K. was the high point of the American dream. In order to go to the moon and back, all we did was say we could – and we did.
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If you ask me whether the election of Barack Obama is the fulfillment of Dr. King’s dream, I say, ‘No, it’s just a down payment.’
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I can’t remember my dreams more than a couple of seconds after I wake up. It’s frustrating because sometimes I dream that I’m watching a really good movie.
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The truth is I studied fine arts in Switzerland. I was just interested. I had no dream of being a movie star.
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All the aggressive actions I do to myself I would never dream of doing in my own life – I am not this kind of person. I cry if I cut myself peeling potatoes. I am taking the plane, there is turbulence, I am shaking. In performance, I become, somehow, like not a mortal.
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I don’t know why I got so lucky. I have to pinch myself often and say, ‘Is this just a dream?’
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I am living proof that the American dream still exists. It is still alive and well. There is only one trick, you have to be willing to roll up your sleeves and work very, very hard.
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I always wanted to be a rock star. That was my childhood dream. That’s what I told everybody I was going to be when I grew up.
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Personally, I really enjoy sci-fi. I watch it, I read comic books, and I play video games. I love this kind of world, so to be able to work in it is a dream. I enjoy it. It’s all good.
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Anyone who has spent any time in space will love it for the rest of their lives. I achieved my childhood dream of the sky.
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You’re never, ever too old to catch your dream.
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At the heart of every being lies creation‘s dream of a principle that will one day give organic form to its fragmented treasures. God is unity.
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The ultimate dream in life is to be able to do what you love and learn something from it.
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It’s every little girl‘s dream to have an exact look-alike doll. It’s amazing.
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I said it was my dream to drive in F1.
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I am an American, not an Asian-American. My rejection of hyphenation has been called race treachery, but it is really a demand that America deliver the promises of its dream to all its citizens equally.
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Nothing happens unless first we dream.
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Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end.
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Sometimes I get to put on posh frocks and be Madam Glamour, the vendor of my wares. My lovely friend Kath, a stylist, puts me into things I’d never dream of. But my real life is very different. It’s very, very home-based – an intense domestic life, that’s the core of everything.
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Shape your heart to front the hour, but dream not that the hours will last.
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That’s always – that’s been another dream of mine, to do a Broadway play. An award winning Broadway play.
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Students can’t dream big when classrooms lack books, microscopes, and robotics kits – or even paper, pencils, and paste.
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He’s dreaming with his eyes open, and those that dream with their eyes open are dangerous, for they do not know when their dreams come to an end.
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I grew up watching ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer‘ and used to dream that I would grow up to be just like her. In a way, ‘Teen Wolf‘ has a lot of those kinds of characters. We’re just kids by day, and yet we’re trying to fight demons and werewolves and bad people and save people that we love.
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The road to success is not easy to navigate, but with hard work, drive and passion, it’s possible to achieve the American dream.
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My dream of politics all my life has been that it is the common business, that it is something we owe to each other to understand and discuss with absolute frankness.
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You can’t just sit there and wait for people to give you that golden dream. You’ve got to get out there and make it happen for yourself.
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I came from a very poor family and my main dream in life was to break out of this poverty.
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What I love about AT&T is that they are just as passionate as I am about rebooting the American dream.
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My family had this dream where we would meet producers and songwriters, and it was not what we thought it would be.
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I am living my dream because I get to work with my kids and watch them find their happiness. It’s so rewarding – we brainstorm around a conference table and have a really great time doing it.
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Happiness, I do not know where to turn to discover you on earth, in the air or the sky; yet I know you exist and are no futile dream.
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I got to Africa. I got the opportunity to go and learn, not about any animal, but chimpanzees. I was living in my dream world, the forest in Gombe National Park in Tanzania. It was Tanganyika when I began.
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New York was no mere city. It was instead an infinitely romantic notion, the mysterious nexus of all love and money and power, the shining and perishable dream itself.
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And because no matter who you are, if you believe in yourself and your dream, New York will always be the place for you.
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To make the Billboard Hot 100 is my dream.
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Doing ‘I’m A Celebrity‘ is a childhood dream come true.
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Inside every adult there’s still a child that lingers. We’re happiness merchants – giving people the opportunity to dream like children.
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The dream he needed most was the dream that frightened him more.
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A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams.
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Each year on the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s birth, America has the opportunity to reflect on our nation’s progress towards the realization of his dream.
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My dream was to play for Alabama – football, basketball.
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All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
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We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream!
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You never know who you’re talking to. Don’t limit a young student’s dream, because that’s how we change the world.
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You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith.
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One of the huge imbalances in life is the disparity between your daily existence, with its routines and habits, and the dream you have within yourself of some extraordinarily satisfying way of living.
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All the traditional STEM fields, the science, technology, engineering, and math fields, are stoked when you dream big in an agency such as NASA.
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Your experience is a dream; so is my experience. This stuff about how the frontal cortex is repressed during dreaming, lucid dreaming presents an obvious contradiction to it. The only difference is sensory input.
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I have dual citizenship; it just so happens I live in America. I would like to go back to Wales. I’m obsessed with my childhood, and at least three times a week dream I am back there.
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That is one of the things I dream about for myself: to receive the ‘golden ball’ someday.
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Up until the time I was 14 years old, I was sure that I was going to be a big-league baseball player. But that dream came to a rude awakening when I got cut from my high school baseball team.
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My ultimate dream is just to become world champion, and not only once. So that’s my dream, and it doesn’t matter with which team it is.
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I came to America with a dream and I made it. The dream became reality. America is built for success.
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You see things; and you say ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say ‘Why not?’
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The American Dream is a phrase we’ll have to wrestle with all of our lives. It means a lot of things to different people. I think we’re redefining it now.
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If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
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I live in a craftsman house, but I’m a big fan of modernist and mid-century furniture and architecture, too. But my dream is to do a truly original chair design, something that is all these different things but is my own, too.
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Every night of our lives, we dream, and our brain concocts visions which are, at least until we wake up, highly convincing. Most of us have had experiences which are verging on hallucination. It shows the power of the brain to knock up illusions.
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No, there’s nothing half so sweet in life as love’s young dream.
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To try to crack into Hollywood, it’s a dream come true.
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I did school plays, and then, at the age of 18, I applied to drama school in London, and I got in. I’ve been very lucky that no one so far has stopped me from being able to live my dream – the industry or my parents.
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America is the student who defies the odds to become the first in a family to go to college – the citizen who defies the cynics and goes out there and votes – the young person who comes out of the shadows to demand the right to dream. That’s what America is about.
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Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream world into reality.
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If you dream it, it can happen.
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Dream, struggle, create, prevail. Be daring. Be brave. Be loving. Be compassionate. Be strong. Be brilliant. Be beautiful.
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A superhero represents infinite possibility. It represents the peak of aspiration and courage. And if you see yourself reflected as a superhero, you will give yourself permission to dream anything.
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If our freedom is taken, the American dream will wither and die.
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The more you can dream, the more you can do.
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Yesterday is but today’s memory, and tomorrow is today’s dream.
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Hope is but the dream of those who wake.
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If your dream is to tell stories, interesting stories, play interesting people, that’s the bottom line. The people that I play have to be extraordinary.
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Dream more than others think practical.
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When you’re mid-season, in very intense situations, it’s hard not to take that home with you. Especially when you’re sleeping, you can’t control what you dream about. And it sneaks into the unconscious.
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Does self-acceptance ultimately require another person, or is there a kind of love that does not dabble in the dream of a perfect twinship?
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One night in 1974, I made the comment, ‘Here I am, this fat kid, the son of a plumber. I don’t look like a body builder; fist fight in a parking lot, it doesn’t matter. I’m getting ready to sell out this building. I’m going to sell out Madison Square Garden one day. This is the American Dream. I’m living it.’
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A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing.
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When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep.
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If your dream is only about you, it’s too small.
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What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is little enough; for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.
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I’m going to make my own heaven. I’m going to struggle for it. I’m going to fight to earn everything I dream about.
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I’m really living my dream so if I were to change anything up, I probably wouldn’t be where I am.
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Gene sometimes… well, he has his dream list.
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I’ve said publicly, and it’s true, I’ve had a lot of wonderful things come my way. But personally, the greatest thing I ever accomplished was when I was named the starting quarterback at Ole Miss. That was my childhood dream, as it was thousands of kids in Mississippi.
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There’s no limit to what free men and free women in a free market with free enterprise can accomplish when people are free to follow their dream.
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I have been lucky to meet some incredible people who do not possess what you would traditionally class as power, but through their charisma, passion, and strength of character, they are able to achieve things that ‘richer or more powerful people‘ could only dream of.
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We need to restore U.S. leadership to a world order that is rules-based in order to protect our American dream here at home.
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I dream of instruments obedient to my thought and which with their contribution of a whole new world of unsuspected sounds, will lend themselves to the exigencies of my inner rhythm.
693
If you can dream it, you can do it.
694
My childhood dream was always to be on Broadway. I wanted to end up in TV and film. It’s kind of flipped, and I’m not mad about it, but my childhood dream is Broadway and I want to end up there.
695
When I hear the words ‘Women should be barefoot and pregnant and in the kitchen,’ I think, ‘What. A. Dream.’ There are no negative connotations to it.
696
To have your childhood dream realized is a really big deal.
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698
I’ve always said the World Cup is a dream for any player.
699
When I realized that my big dream was going to come true – ‘Night Shift‘ was a success, ‘Splash‘ was a success, I got the job to do ‘Cocoon‘ – suddenly, I was underway. And I knew my name was rising up the lists. I was going to have a career. I was going to be able to direct movies until I screwed it up.
