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"Remember when I told you about the American dream? That if you worked hard enough and tried hard enough and kicked yourself in the butt, you'd succeed? Well, I think I did, I think I did."
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"An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world."
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"Follow the dreams that your heart visualizes, as what you actually see is just an illusion of temporary contentment."
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"Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness."
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"Our imagination and hope become a reality if we have the courage to believe and take action to realize them."
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"Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams."
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"Dream in a pragmatic way."
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"I would wonder if you could be a hero or heroine if you did not live in deep time, that is, Past, present, and future all at once."
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"Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes."
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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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"In a dream you are never eighty."
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"I lost money, coaching jobs, a shot at the Hall of Fame."
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"I'm a human being I'm not a piece of property. I am not a consignment of goods."
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"But I want you to know that what I'm doing here I'm doing as a ballplayer, a major league ballplayer."
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"Customary though it may be to write about that institutionalized pastime as though it existed apart from the general environment, my story does not lend itself to such treatment."
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"Remember when I told you about the American dream? That if you worked hard enough and tried hard enough and kicked yourself in the butt, you'd succeed? Well, I think I did, I think I did."
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"All the grand work was laid for people who came after me. The Supreme Court decided not to give it to me, so they gave it to two white guys. I think that's what they were waiting for."
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"People try to make a Greek tragedy of my life, and they can't do it. I'm too happy."
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"I'll also say, yes, I think the change in black consciuosness in recent years has made me more sensitive to injustice in every area of my life."
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"If you destroyed the underpinnings of this great American sport, you are a hated, ugly, detestable person."
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"I was told by the general manager that a white player had received a higher raise than me. Because white people required more money to live than black people. That is why I wasn't going to get a raise."
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