I didn’t tell any of my friends that I wanted to be a comedian, because I was superstitious. I thought if I told people, it wouldn’t happen. So I kept it all in my head for years and years.

It’s every girl’s dream to be a cover girl!

I got a chain letter by fax. It’s very simple. You just fax a dollar bill to everybody on the list.

Perhaps one day I will go into space.

Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves. That’s why you have state secret laws. Citizens are not supposed to know what their government is doing to them.

Live the life you’ve dreamed.

Writers are always writing about infidelity. It’s so dramatic. The wickedness of it, the secrecy, the complications, the finding that you thought you were one person but you’re also this other person. The innocent life and the guilty life. My God, it’s just full of stuff for a writer. I doubt it will ever go out of fashion.

I booked my first studio at like 12 or 13. Somewhere in that season of my life, singing along with the radio became me wanting to be on radio, you know.

I’ve had quite a lot of luck with dreams. I’ve often awoken in the night with a phrase or even a whole song in my head.

No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.

Someday I want to have children and give them all the love I never had.

My songs are the door to every dream I’ve ever had and every success I’ve ever achieved.

I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense… I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash.

I take inspiration from everyone and everything. I’m inspired by current champions, former champions, true competitors, people dedicated to their dream, hard workers, dreamers, believers, achievers.

My experience of malaria was just taking anti-malarials, which give you strange dreams, because I don’t want to get malaria.

Some day I shall be President.

Before finding music, I didn’t have too many aspirations. I wanted to hang out, make a little money from whatever I had to do.

Keep people off-balance and in the dark by never revealing the purpose behind your actions. If they have no clue what you are up to, they cannot prepare a defense.

If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I’m still waiting, it’s all been to seduce women basically.

I always thought Johnny Carson was just brilliant, and I used to watch him and all the comics that would be on the show every night – and I’d dream about it being me.

When I grow up, I want to be like Balvin.

I hope my story inspires everyone out there to keep hustling and chasing their dreams.

I just enjoy it, I am living a life that I never even dreamt of.

Super-envious of the fact that Daft Punk can wear robot helmets and be one of the most famous bands in the world, while also understanding that will never be my situation.

I love dresses, and I’ve definitely thought about designing them someday. I just want to make sure that I wait until the time is perfect and I can do it right.

I’m looking forward to becoming a marvelous – excuse the word marvelous – character actress. like Marie Dressler, like Will Rogers.

There are people in the world who have skills and strength and talent that I will never have. Never. These notions that you can ‚be whatever you want to be as long as you want it bad enough‘ are not true. They are fairy tales.

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.

I always entertain great hopes.

If I could have worked from the time I was born until I was 18 and never had to work again, I would have done it.

Do all you can to make your dreams come true.

We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.

The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.

I want to elongate my cricketing career as a consistent player. I have personal goals I would like to achieve someday.

My family has very strong women. My mother never laughed at my dream of Africa, even though everyone else did because we didn’t have any money, because Africa was the ‚dark continent‘, and because I was a girl.

Writing is a solitary experience. I’m extremely superstitious. If I talk about the book or name the title out loud before finishing, I feel the energy I need to write will be drained. It’s so intimate, I can’t even share it with my wife.

As a young kid, I really wanted to be rich.

I miss my singing career very much.

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

I’ve only wanted paper and beautiful colors. It was my dream, and it still is my dream. And books. They’re all I need, and the rest I can do without.

I always wished for this, but it’s almost turning into more of a nightmare than a dream.

Dream in a pragmatic way.

A man’s face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man’s thoughts and aspirations.

I can honestly say – and it’s a big surprise to me – that I have never had a dream about being on the moon.

Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.

To this day, some of my closest friends say, ‚Gaga, you know, everything’s great. You’re a singer; your dreams have come true.‘ But, still, when certain things are said to you over and over again as you’re growing up, it stays with you and you wonder if they’re true.

When I was in college, I wanted to be involved in things that would change the world.

Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.

The very word ‚secrecy‘ is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings.

If you were to ask me what I want to do – I don’t want to be a celebrity, I want to make a difference.

The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.

It seemed like a very small possibility for me to become an artist. I didn’t have the need to be on the stage; I didn’t feel the need to be heard. I just needed to write.

The only superstition I have is that I must start a new book on the same day that I finish the last one, even if it’s just a few notes in a file. I dread not having work in progress.

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.

Sometimes I’m fascinated with how famous my work could be while I’m not so famous.

I don’t let the left hand know what the right hand is doing.

If you can’t read, it’s going to be hard to realize dreams.

I booked my first studio at like 12 or 13. Somewhere in that season of my life, singing along with the radio became me wanting to be on radio, you know. And writing Langston Hughes replica poems became me wanting to write like Stevie Wonder.

I always feel like it’s two key ingredients when it comes to following your dreams, making something happen that the average person deems difficult. If you truly believe it, that’s step one. Step two, is, you know, the hard work that goes along with it.

Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.

The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous.