Dream Suppression Quotes

People don't stand up and protect their dreams because they get spoofed in a way.

The way to kill a man or a nation is to cut off his dreams, the way the whites are taking care of the Indians: killing their dreams, their magic, their familiar spirits.

Anytime I mentioned I wanted to be an actress, my friends were not that supportive.

It was the one dream he'd never permitted himself to consider.

We control the content of our dreams.

These ballot initiatives remind us that America is the land where people are free to dream whatever they want, so long as that dream doesn't make Midwesterners feel icky!

I'm a big fan of dreams. Unfortunately, dreams are our first casualty in life - people seem to give them up, quicker than anything, for a 'reality.'

Just to keep bad dreams at bay, she took a swig out of a bottle that smelled of apples and happy brain-death.

You need to recognize that the risk of moving toward your dreams is much lower than the slow, everyday punishment you inflict on yourself by suppressing your dream

What happens to a dream deferred?

I was always a closet lover of acting. My mom was very practical. She never, ever restricted our dreams, always told us we could do or be anything. Then I said, 'Maybe I want to be an actor'. And she said, 'Maybe not that'.

People who are most afraid of their dreams convince themselves they don't dream at all.

Cat, you asked me before to find out if those dream -suppression pills had any side effects. I’ve checked with Pathology, and they said you might experience depression, mood swings, irritability, paranoia, and chronic fatigue. Have you noticed any of that?

I have lived most of my life with the conviction that I don't dream, because I never could retrieve a dream.

When young people grow up with fear as the norm, they don't have the luxury to dream.

America is not so much a nightmare as a non-dream. The American non-dream is precisely a move to wipe the dream out of existence. The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set up by the non-dreamers.

When you punish a person for dreaming his dream, don't expect him to thank or forgive you.

Your parents and people close to you, whenever you want to do something or you want to follow a dream, they'll try and stop you. It's not out of their hating, it's just protection. They want to try and preserve you. Like 'oh what If he fails?' From the culture we're from, they want to protect you.

He didn't want me to become a musician, he wanted me to be a doctor, because he said singing was too hard.