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• I had a nightmare last night. I dreamed Dolly Parton was my mother and I was a bottle baby.

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Hilarious, Mother

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• Those nations of artists, finding their own individualism, and kind of standing against the world: to me that's the ultimate nightmare. I want to get lost and diffused in the world.

  Robert Wyatt

  Artist, World, Want

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• I could not possibly improve on the sentiment, but I don't think it ought to depend on the current austerities. Isn't Christmas a moral and aesthetic nightmare whether or not the days are prosperous?

  Christopher Hitchens

  Christmas, Thinking, Austerity

  "'Tis the Season To Be Incredulous" by Christopher Hitchens, www.slate.com. December 15, 2008.

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• He stopped when he heard Wellsie's voice coming out of the study. "… some kind of nightmare. I mean, Tohr, he was terrified… No, he fudged when I asked him what it was, and I didn't press. I think it's time he sees Havers. Yes… UAH-Hugh. He should meet Wrath first. Okay. I love you, myhellren . What? God, Tohr, I feel the same way. I don't know how we ever lived without him. He is such a blessing.

  J.R. Ward

  Love You, Mean, Blessing

  J.R. Ward (2011). “J.R. Ward The Black Dagger Brotherhood Novels 1-4”, p.1248, Penguin

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• Ten thousand million nightmares, temptation by the score, I used to get so high, and still I wanted more. You think my time is wasted in search of who I am, I tried so hard to kill the boy inside the man.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Boys, Men, Thinking

  Song: Can You Hear Them?, Album: Down To Earth

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• Tatoo your name across my heart, so it will remain / not even death could make us part / what kind is it / It could be a sweet dream or a beautiful nightmare / either way I don't want to wake up from you.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Beautiful, Dream, Sweet

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• My nightmare of nightmares is being overdressed for a casual event - I've done it! You have to have a real sense of what you want to communicate.

  Nina Garcia

  Real, Done, Want

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• In fact I have nightmares about having children. I want to carry a baby and feel the life within me and in my dream, I do. But every time after it's born, there's this incredible fear, this pounding pulse of fear. It's a real bad nightmare.

  Sharon Gless

  Dream, Baby, Children

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• Conservatives tend to see the world more in terms of good-versus-evil and, for some of them, the nightmare is a disarmed citizenry that can be preyed upon by criminals. They know that having a gun in the house would increase the risk of an accident for a member of their family, but they're willing to take that risk.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Gun, Evil, House

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• My childhood was really comfortable and secure, but school was a nightmare. I was a lot taller than the other girls and they called me Gitte the giraffe.

  Brigitte Nielsen

  Girl, School, Childhood

  "Brigitte Nielsen" by Nick McGrath, www.theguardian.com. July 30, 2011.

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• I used to look at horror movies as being really real and it would totally freak me out and give me nightmares. Now I watch and think, 'whoa how'd they do that?

  Evan Peters

  Real, Thinking, Giving

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

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• Welcome to my nightmare, I think your going to like it.

  Alice Cooper

  Thinking, Insanity, Welcome

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• Horror, for me, has to involve some sort of fantasy. Horror is something that is in your dreams or your nightmares.

  Cassandra Peterson

  Dream, Fantasy, Horror

  "EXCLUSIVE: Cassandra Peterson Talks Elvira's Movie Macabre" by B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com. June 13, 2011.

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• [.....] most of the environmental hype [regarding global warming] is really to help bring about Karl Marx's dream (nightmare) of a Communist world." [by reduction, and ultimately elimination of private property rights

  Kent Hovind

  Dream, Rights, Hype

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• A vision without action is called a daydream; but then again, action without a vision is called a nightmare.

  Jim Sorensen

  Vision, Action, Daydreaming

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• There exists among the intolerable degraded, the perverse and powerful desire to force into the arena of the actual those fantastic crimes of which they have been accused, achieving their vengeance and their own destruction through making the nightmare real.

  James A. Baldwin

  Powerful, Real, Evil

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• You can't really describe how difficult it is to deal with. It is any athlete's worst nightmare to be accused of cheating by taking drugs. It really is very difficult to put into words how it makes you feel.

  Greg Rusedski

  Sports, Cheating, Athlete

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• To the covetous man life is a nightmare, and God lets him wrestle with it as best he may.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, May, Life Is

  Henry Ward Beecher (1871). “Lectures to young men, on various important subjects”, p.87

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• No task is a long one but the task on which one dare not start. It becomes a nightmare.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Procrastination, Long, Tasks

  Charles Baudelaire (1956). “The Essence of Laughter: And Other Essays, Journals, and Letters”

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• What I really remember is that people camped out everywhere, and the fact everybody expected it might turn into a big nightmare with all sorts of hassles because back in those days everybody was smoking pot and taking acid.

  Johnny Ramistella

  People, Smoking, Might

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• The worst nightmare I ever had about Vietnam was that I had to go back. I woke up in a sweat, in total terror.

  Oliver Stone

  Sweat, Worst Nightmares, Vietnam

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• We've painted ourselves into a corner where the only choice is real nightmare - triage, epidemic disease, famine, fascism, the collapse of human rights - or a leap to an entirely different level. We've taken business-as-usual off the menu. Now only the extreme possibilities loom.

  Terence McKenna

  Real, Taken, Hippie

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• There is only one prospect worse than being chained to an intolerable existence: The nightmare of a botched attempt to end it.

  Arthur Koestler

  Sad, Suicidal, Ends

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• But we have to understand why we do what we do, not just do what we do. Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.

  Pinball Clemons

  Bad Ass, Vision, Action

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• It is a good viewpoint to see the world as a dream. When you have something like a nightmare, you will wake up and tell yourself that it was only a dream. It is said that the world we live in is not a bit different from this.

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo

  Dream, Different, Wake Up

  Miyamoto Musashi, Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Inazo Nitobe (2010). “Honor: Samurai Philosophy of Life - The Essential Samurai Collection; The Book of Five Rings, Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai, Bushido: The Soul of Japan.”, p.82, Bottom of the Hill

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