"Designing a house is like doing a movie: Once you're done, you want to say, 'I hope you all enjoy it.'"

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"If someone decides to be a musician now, it means because there is no hope of money at the end of it, it means they really want to be a musician. And if someone is writing now, there is no hope for money at the end of it."

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"Hope founded upon a human being, a man-made philosophy or any institution is always misplaced... because these things are unreliable and fleeting."

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"Everyone who feels stuck in the Obama economy is right to focus on the here and now. And I hope you understand this too, if you're feeling left out or passed by: You have not failed, your leaders have failed you."

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"My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope."

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"About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment."

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"I am a beneficiary of the American people's generosity, and I hope we can have comprehensive immigration legislation that allows this country to continue to be enriched by those who were not born here."

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"A radical inner transformation and rise to a new level of consciousness might be the only real hope we have in the current global crisis brought on by the dominance of the Western mechanistic paradigm."

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"The cause of my life has been to oppose superstition. It's a battle you can't hope to win - it's a battle that's going to go on forever. It's part of the human condition."

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"Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions."

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"I had in mind a message, although I hope it doesn't intrude too badly, persuading Americans, and especially Southerners, of the critical importance of land and our vanishing natural environment and wildlife."

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"If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen."

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"Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness."

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"The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope."

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