Meindert DeJong famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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if you just go on dreaming then it stays a dream and becomes stale and dead. But first to dream and then to do isn't that the way to make a dream come true
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The restlessness and the longing, like the longing that is in the whistle of a faraway train. Except that the longing isn't really in the whistle—it is in you.
-- Meindert DeJong
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Be fanatics. When it comes to being and doing and dreaming the best, be maniacs.
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My biggest dream to connect people through music has come true. In a world where there are enough reasons to separate us, the Oscars have unified us.
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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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I've got heaps of dreams.
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The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.
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It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.
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It is often wonderful how putting down on paper a clear statement of a case helps one to see, not perhaps the way out, but the way in.
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The present enables us to understand the past, not the other way round.
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I'm not an athiest. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.
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She didn't know then that life has a way of backing you into a corner. You make your choices when you're far too young to understand their implications, and with each choice you make the field of possibility narrows. You choose a career and other careers are lost to you. You choose a mate and commit to loving no other.
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