Nightmare Quotes - Page 17

• It's important to balance the drudgery with inspiration. It's a nightmare if you are just existing in the present project - you don't feel a sense of your own growth.

  Peter Wolf

  Inspiration, Growth, Balance

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• If a symbolic language dies, it tortures us like a nightmare, like a thousand piece orchestra grating on our nerves and tearing our mind to pieces.. .It is a corpse with no symbolic power or strength.

  Asger Jorn

  Mind, Orchestra, Nerves

  "Asger Jorn" by Arken Museum of Modern Art, (p. 166), 2002.

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• I've not only pursued the American dream, I've achieved it. I suppose we could say the last few years, I've also achieved the American nightmare.

  Kenneth Lay

  Dream, Years, Lasts

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• When you get into politics, you find that all your worst nightmares about it turn out to be true, and the people who are attracted to large concentrations of power are precisely the ones who should be kept as far away from it as possible.

  Ken Livingstone

  Power, Worst Nightmares, People

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• Surrealism in painting amounted to little more than the contents of a meagerly stocked dream world: a few witty fantasies, mostly wet dreams and agoraphobic nightmares.

  Susan Sontag

  Dream, Witty, World

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.46, Macmillan

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• I did Wall Street, and then everything that happened with An Education took me up until March. I didn't want to work during that because there was just so much stuff. I didn't realize you had to go to so many parties. It was a nightmare! I had to go to all these parties! The glamour!

  Carey Mulligan

  Wall, Party, Want

  Source: collider.com

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• The nightmare of the Cold War was nuclear weapons in the hands of an irrational person. I don't want to live through that nightmare.

  Rudy Giuliani

  War, Hands, Nuclear

  "He's Ready! Rudy Giuliani Talks with Sean Hannity". "Hannity & Colmes", www.foxnews.com. February 6, 2007.

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• It's a nightmare if you're working with someone you don't get on with, especially if you have to be in love with them.

  Kit Harington

  Ifs

  Source: collider.com

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• You're capable of such beautiful dreams and such horrible nightmares.

  Carl Sagan

  Beautiful, Dream, Horrible

  "Fictional character: Alien". "Contact", www.imdb.com. 1997.

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• Aesthetically, I don't really like the blond, tan thing. I am pale. So I may as well embrace the pale. Long, blond hair and a bad spray tan is the stuff of my nightmares.

  Rachael Taylor

  Hair, Long, May

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Legalized drugs would cause dislocations in the US economy - the prison industry for example and tens of billions spent annually on drug enforcement. But because the US economy is so large, this would be a minor blow, hardly as severe as the ultimate nightmare for the US economy, global peace, which would shutter its death industry commonly called the military/industrial complex.

  Charles Bowden

  Military, Blow, Drug

  Source: therumpus.net

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• We gotta ditch conservatism and people that believe it, we gotta move on. Otherwise, if we don't, we're just delaying our nightmare, postponing the nightmare. That's Ford O'Connell.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Believe, Moving, People

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• History is that nightmare from which there is no awakening.

  James Joyce

  Awakening

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• I went to an arts school as a kid. We had to take dance every other day, along with drama, music and visual arts. However, wearing black tights was something I dreaded... and still have nightmares about it to this day. I think I was a pretty good dancer. I suppose that training helped me land parts in musicals... or has just given me nightmares!

  Jake Epstein

  Art, Drama, School

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• The interests behind fracking are very powerful and they've managed to control the dialogue for a while, because they have forced people to sign disclosure agreements; people who have had negative experiences who are not able to speak out because they've signed disclosure agreements with the gas companies. Things like this. They've managed to strangle the opposing viewpoint, but it does seem like the people who are against fracking have started to gain some traction and the realities of what an environmental nightmare it is are starting to become known.

  Joan Osborne

  Powerful, Reality, Agreement

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• How do we give credible hope to the billion poorest people in the world? It requires compassion to get ourselves started, and enlightened self-interest to get serious... If economic divergence continues, combined with global integration, it will build a nightmare for our children.

  Paul Collier

  Children, Compassion, Self

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• When I was 14, I almost had a big green leprechaun tattooed on my forearm. Thank God I didn't - it would have been a nightmare to cover up as an actor. I went with a group of mates and, being Irish, thought a leprechaun would be perfect.

  Jonas Armstrong

  Perfect, Thank God, Groups

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The “Vasco da Gama's era” ends in a nightmare in which men-Westerners and non-Westerners alike-are bewildered by this confusion and the old fancy of the apprenti sorcier becomes tragically actual.

  Carlo M. Cipolla

  Men, Confusion, Fancy

  Carlo M. Cipolla (1966). “Guns, sails and empires: technological innovation and the early phases of European expansion, 1400-1700”

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• The Nightmare Before Christmas is my number one biggest influence artistically in every way.

  Amy Lee

  Numbers, Way, Influence

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• Commercial roadways in communities that lack zoning laws, for example, are often an aesthetic nightmare not because of insufficient competition, and not because merchants are stupid or lack taste. Rather, the problem is that any individual merchant's sign won't be noticed unless it's bigger and more garish than those of rival merchants.

  Bob Frank

  Stupid, Law, Community

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I have a nightmare about Tony [Blair] and Gordon [Brown] killing each other. Not every month, but now and then. I also have a recurring dream about losing.

  Alastair Campbell

  Dream, Months, Killing Each Other

  "Alastair Campbell on spin, Iraq and a recurring nightmare about Tony Blair and Gordon Brown". Interview with Simon Kelner, www.independent.co.uk. March 25, 2016.

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• Really, a nightmare just really has to evoke some sort of, we call it, dysphoric emotion or something uncomfortable. You could be sad, you could be unhappy; you could be scared, anxious. But traditionally, the definition is you have to awaken from this nightmare.

  Shelby Harris

  Unhappy, Definitions, Emotion

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• When it comes to the reason why we have nightmares, we're still debating that. It's a new area of research, nightmares. And the way I like to think about it is, our brain - we have stress during the day and our brain needs to learn to process this stress.

  Shelby Harris

  Stress, Thinking, Brain

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• There's some debate as to whether you need to awaken from them because there are some patients who are actually starting to say, "I had these horrible nightmares, but I never woke up from them." But they can still recall them when they get up in the morning. So there's still some debate in the field.

  Shelby Harris

  Morning, Needs, Fields

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• There's no violence worse than the violence of Iraq. For the last fifty years Iraq has been living a nightmare of violence and terror. It's been a horrible experience and people in Iraq will need a lot of time and work to get over the disastrous effects. But first we have to think about how to stop the violence, so that the bloodshed stops. In spite of everything, on the personal level I don't easily lose hope.

  Hassan Blasim

  Thinking, Years, Iraq

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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