Nightmare Quotes - Page 20

• Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind. We wallow in nostalgia but manage to get it all wrong. True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories... but American-style nostalgia is about as ephemeral as copyrighted d?j? vu.

  Florence King

  Memories, Style, Mind

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• If you can't feel secure - and teach your children to feel secure - about
  1-in-610,000 nightmare scenarios - the problem isn't the world. It's you.

  Bryan Caplan

  Children, World, Problem

  "The 'Zero-Probability Fallacy' Fallacy". econlog.econlib.org. January 27, 2010.

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• I'm really anti-option, so computers have been my nightmare with recording. I don't want endless tracks; I want less tracks. I want decisions to be made.

  Ian MacKaye

  Track, Decision, Want

  "Ian MacKaye" by Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. February 20, 2007.

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• For many, the American Dream has become a nightmare.

  Bernie Sanders

  Dream, American Dream

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

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• Dream or nightmare, we have to live our experience as it is, and we have to live it awake. We live in a world which is penetrated through and through by science and which is both whole and real. We cannot turn it into a game simple by taking sides.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Dream, Real, Simple

  Jacob Bronowski (1975). “Science and Human Values”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• History is not a nightmare from which. I am trying to awaken, but rather, a glorious tale which I wish to be cast in.

  Peter Maneos

  Wish, Trying, Language

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• I don't think I suffered with depression, I don't think I'm a depressed type of person - I just think I suffered a depression to do with snooker, and I just couldn't handle it. I could go out and play, but take me out of there and I couldn't do life. It was a nightmare, my life just felt like a bit of a nightmare.

  Ronnie O'Sullivan

  Thinking, Play, Type

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

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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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• I also think that we [Americans] are operating out of fear in our country. It's not that terrorism is not a threat, but it's not an existential threat. It is not the preeminent threat facing most Americans on any given day, and yet the power of nightmares is so strong.

  Jeremy Scahill

  Country, Strong, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• Americans are very enthusiastic. We have a new generation of moviegoers who love great horror films. I am a very imaginative man, and for me, it's easy to speak with my dark side. I have very beautiful, interesting nightmares.

  Dario Argento

  Beautiful, Dark, Men

  "Dario Argento, Master of Horror, Unleashes Dracula 3-D Trailer" by Xaque Gruber, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 30, 2012.

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• I still have nightmares of dead comrades, a long time ago, talking to me. 'Emmanuel, don't forget about us, don't give up, keep telling our story.'

  Emmanuel Jal

  Giving Up, Don't Give Up, Talking

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• The traditions of the dead generations weigh like a nightmare upon the living.

  Karl Marx

  Generations, Tradition

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• One didn't stop to talk with creatures from one's nightmares.

  Guy Gavriel Kay

  Creatures

  Guy Gavriel Kay (2016). “The Summer Tree: Book One of the The Fionavar Tapestry”, p.253, Hachette UK

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• To call New York's traffic at holiday time a nightmare is to understate.

  Dick Cavett

  New York, Holiday, Traffic

  Dick Cavett (2014). “Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic Moments, and Assorted Hijinks”, p.116, Henry Holt and Company

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• Have you noticed ... there is never any third act in a nightmare? They bring you to a climax of terror and then leave you there. They are the work of poor dramatists.

  Max Beerbohm

  Inspirational, Poor, Terror

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• Everything I was afraid of when I was growing up, I've become. I've taken on my nightmares, like the devil and the end of the world, and I've become those things.

  Marilyn Manson

  Growing Up, Taken, Devil

  "A Dangerous Man? Marilyn Manson Says He’s Become His Own Nightmares". Interview with Dan Aquilante, nypost.com. November 17, 2000.

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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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• I’m willing to look my own nightmare on film, but if it endangers my life, then I’m willing to put my life before movies.

  John Travolta

  Looks, Film, Willing

  "New Again: John Travolta". Interview with Margy Rochlin, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 15, 2012.

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• Parking is a nightmare for me... I still have sensors on my car that help me park.

  Jordana Brewster

  Car, Parks, Helping

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

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• A cold, calculating nightmare. Sharp as a finely honed blade. 'The Lucid Dreaming' cuts, separating the flesh before you even know you've been injured. It makes you bleed as a reader.

  Del Howison

  Dream, Cutting, Flesh

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• You know that thing when you're not asleep but you're not awake, and you can't move your body? I had that kind of nightmare, and I felt like all my teeth were crumbling in my mouth. Now I have this fear of all my teeth being knocked out of my mouth somehow!

  Nicholas D'Agosto

  Moving, Teeth, Crumbling

  "Hot Guy to Know: Nicholas D'Agosto". Interview with Kara McGrath, www.seventeen.com. August 8, 2011.

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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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• It is much nicer to live in perfect mind, free from pain and agony. How painful it is to be unenlightened. Buddha called it "the nightmare of the day."

  Frederick Lenz

  Pain, Agony, Perfect

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• Stardom equals financial success and financial success equals security. I've spent too much of my life feeling insecure. I still have nightmares about being poor, of everything I own just vanishing away. Stardom means that can't happen.

  Steve McQueen

  Mean, Insecure, Feelings

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