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Dream Quotes



"I always have to dream up there against the stars. If I don't dream I will make it, I won't even get close."


"The American Dream, the idea of the happy ending, is an avoidance of responsibility and commitment."


"It's not the size of the dreamer, it's the size of the dream."


"I dreamed my shoulders held up the sky for a thousand hawks that squawked and cawed and beat their feathered wings against the hotness of the day. I supported their flight, watching and marveling, until sweat dripped from my body, and groans crossed my lips over fatiguing muscles. Choosing to let the sky fall, I awoke. My eyes opened to a cast of hawks gripping me in their talons. They supported my weight, hauling me high above the clouds through a blue expanse of heaven. And though they struggled-squawking and flapping wearily-never once did a single bird release its hold."


"My stars and my stripes are your dream and your labors."


"We must give Oklahoma families the opportunity to thrive and prosper. We must give all Oklahomans the tools necessary to pursue the American dream. And then, we must get out of the way."



"I dream a lot. I do more painting when I'm not painting. It's in the subconscious."


"Hollywood... was the place where the United States perpetrated itself as a universal dream and put the dream into mass production."


"The future... seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done."


"Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy."


"Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of."


"Every little job becomes a dream, and you don't recall it anymore, and maybe you might have a deja vu moment, but it's like something you dreamed earlier."


"I was as impatient about finding my dream man as I was about everything else I wanted."


"We must not let our passions destroy our dreams."


"Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned."


"Field of Dreams is the only movie - and I saw it in the theater - on an afternoon when I was on location somewhere, and there were like 12 people in the theater. I was just so devastated; I couldn't get out of my seat. And I sat and watched it a second time."


"However, anyone to whom this happens should not leave his room upon awakening, should speak to no-one, but remain alone and sober until everything comes back to him, and he recalls the dream."


"It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them."


"What I really dream of is that somebody would blow everything I've done out of the water in a beautiful way, which would clear the way for something better to come along."
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