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“I had this totally impossible dream of being an actress. Trust me, just because I'm lucky enough to be doing this doesn't make any of this less of a pipe dream. And nothing gets my juices flowing like a really great performance. To see someone on stage, I get really excited.”

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Author:Olivia Thirlby

“To hell with the truth! As the history of the world proves, the truth has no bearing on anything. It's irrelevant and immaterial, as the lawyers say. The lie of a pipe dream is what gives life to the whole misbegotten mad lot of us, drunk or sober.”

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Book:Plays:

Source: Plays:

“The lie of a pipe dream is what gives life to the whole misbegotten mad lot of us, drunk or sober.”

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Book:Contour in Time: The Plays of Eugene O'Neill

Source: Contour in Time: The Plays of Eugene O'Neill

“Microkernels are not a pipe dream. They represent proven technology.”

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Author:Andrew S. Tanenbaum

“I'm not trying to sell pipe dreams to people. I'm not giving them some fake utopia. I'm not telling them it's easy. If it was easy, everyone would do it. But you don't fight the fights you can win, you fight the fights that need fighting. That's the most important part.”

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Author:Immortal Technique

“I suppose we all share this pipe-dream of being able to reach out a hand and find anything at will; what is amazing is that we think that good filing could somehow make it comes true. On the contrary: putting a letter into a filing system is like releasing your ferret in the Hampton Court maze.”

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Author:Katharine Whitehorn

“I think there's a real tension between capitalism and morality. That's not to say these systems aren't powerful and useful, but to assume that capitalism can somehow assure moral behavior or character, that's just a pipe dream.”

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Author:Michael Pollan

“We're part of the unfolding world, surfing the chaotic waves”

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Author:Rudy Rucker

“Generally speaking, followers will not commit themselves for very long to a leader who is not also a pragmatist. As most of us have discovered, dreams are only powerful when we believe they can come true. Pipe dreams belong in the realm of fantasy; leaders' dreams belong in the realm of possibility.”

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Book:The Language of leadership

Source: The Language of leadership

“Professional accountability is a good thing. Without it, excellence is merely a pipe dream and even average performance isn't a realistic expectation.”

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Author:Leon F. "Lee" Ellis

“There were times when I would suddenly realize making music is a crazy pipe dream. I would see bands that did super well in South Africa still struggling to survive, or even people on the international level who are doing well but financially can't really support themselves.”

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Author:St. Lucia

“I don't want kids to be distracted by pipe dreams.”

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Author:Kimberly Elise

“Maybe, through the stories I share about my life and others and the medical research that has been dedicated to the world of positive psychology, they'll relate to the power of a positive perspective and change the world one person at a time. Pipe dream, of course, but I love the thought of being given the chance to inspire!”

“No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.”

“If you are not willing to work hard and establish discipline in your life, then all your dreams are merely pipe dreams.”

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Book:Success is a Choice: Ten Steps to Overachieving in Business and Life

Source: Success is a Choice: Ten Steps to Overachieving in Business and Life

“Oh you only fight the fights you can win? You fight the fights that need fighting!”

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Author:Martin Sheen

“Unfortunately, in the field of evolution most explanations are not good. As a matter of fact, they hardly qualify as explanations at all; they are suggestions, hunches, pipe dreams, hardly worthy of being called hypotheses.”

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Author:Norman Macbeth

“Every team begins the year with the goal of going to the NCAA tournament. Until somebody takes that dream away, you pursue it. The reality is, we're a long way off from being in the NCAA tournament. For us to do that is a pipe dream. But if we were to win our last four, we're 8-8 in the best conference in the country. We'd have an opportunity.”

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Author:Dan Monson

“Illusions and pipe dreams on the one hand And straight reality is always cold”

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Author:Van Morrison

“Satan represents indulgence, instead of abstinence! Satan represents vital existence, instead of spiritual pipe dreams! Satan represents undefiled wisdom, instead of hypocritical self-deceit! Satan represents all of the so-called sins, as they all lead to physical, mental, or emotional gratification!”

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Author:Anton Szandor LaVey

“Let us, above all, be clear that, without a convincing program of debt relief to start the new millennium, our objective of halving world poverty by 2015 will be only a pipe dream.”

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Author:Kofi Annan

“The very notion that millions of workers displaced by the re-engineering and automation of the agricultural, manufacturing, and service sectors can be retrained to be scientists, engineers, technicians, executives, consultants, teachers, lawyers and the like, and then somehow find the appropriate number of job openings in the very narrow high-tech sector, seems at best a pipe dream, and at worst a delusion.”

“It's a waste to chase the pipe dream of a magical tiny theory that allows us to make quick and detailed calculations about the future. We can't predict and we can't control. To accept this can be a source of liberation and inner peace. We're part of the unfolding world, surfing the chaotic waves.”

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Author:Rudy Rucker

“It is a pipe dream to think that that bill is going to the floor and be voted on.”

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Author:Peter Roskam

“I don't want to base my life on a symbol, he said resolutely. I want reality, and the Christian faith has always been rooted in reality. What's not rooted in reality is the faith of liberal scholars. They're the ones who are following a pipe dream, but Christianity is not a pipe dream.”

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Author:Gregory A. Boyd