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Valentine's Day itself, like most holidays in the modern era, has been heavily influenced by commercialism that focuses on the appeal of romantic fantasies.

~Aberjhani

Topics: Appeal Been Day Era Fantasies Holidays Influenced Itself Like Modern Most Romantic Valentine Valentine's Day

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You know you're a hopeless record nerd when your time travel fantasies always come around to how cool it would be to go back to 1973 and buy all the great funk and jazz and salsa records that came out that year on tiny obscure labels and are now really rare and expensive.

~Adam Mansbach

Topics: Always Around Back Buy Came Come Cool Expensive Fantasies Funk Go Great Hopeless How Jazz Know Labels Nerd Now Obscure Out Rare Really Record Records Time Time Travel Tiny Travel Would Year You Your

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I don't want the child in me to die. Fortunately, I'm lucky enough that my profession allows me to pursue my boyhood fantasies even as an adult.

~Ajith Kumar

Topics: Adult Boyhood Child Die Enough Even Fantasies Fortunately Lucky Me Profession Pursue Want

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I suppose I had my rock star fantasies while I was singing into my hairbrush in the bathroom mirror, but I never really consciously said, 'OK, this is what I'm going to do for a living and I'm going to be Weird Al.'

~Al Yankovic

Topics: Al Bathroom Fantasies Going Had Living Mirror Never Ok Really Rock Rock Star Said Singing Star Suppose Weird While

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Fantasies can be great, but we shouldn't make the wedding a fantasy, because the wedding is the gateway to married life. It shouldn't be a moment of illusion; it should be a moment of preparation.

~Alain De Botton

Topics: Because Fantasies Fantasy Gateway Great Illusion Life Make Married Married Life Moment Preparation Should Wedding

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Getting inside the mind of a terrorist wasn't difficult at all. Even as children, human beings fabricate elaborate revenge fantasies. We're not a particular species. Check out popular video games.

~Alan Dean Foster

Topics: Beings Check Children Difficult Elaborate Even Fabricate Fantasies Games Getting Human Human Beings Inside Mind Out Particular Popular Revenge Species Terrorist Video Video Games

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A lot of the films I like are more than fantasies - they're movies fascinated by the technology of space exploration, and they try to honor the laws of physics. I watched the Gregory Peck movie 'Marooned' over and over when I was a kid.

~Alfonso Cuaron

Topics: Exploration Fantasies Fascinated Films Honor Kid Laws Like Lot More Movie Movies Over Physics Space Space Exploration Technology Than Try Watched

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Sadism is not an infectious disease that strikes a person all of a sudden. It has a long prehistory in childhood and always originates in the desperate fantasies of a child who is searching for a way out of a hopeless situation.

~Alice Miller

Topics: Always Child Childhood Desperate Disease Fantasies Hopeless Infectious Long Out Person Sadism Searching Situation Strikes Sudden Way Who

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Children have a very good idea of how to distinguish between fantasies and realities. It's just they are equally interested in exploring both.

~Alison Gopnik

Topics: Between Both Children Distinguish Equally Exploring Fantasies Good Good Idea How Idea Interested Just Realities Very

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We are witnessing a very slow and painful cultural shift. Some male gamers with a deep sense of entitlement are terrified of change. They believe games should continue to cater exclusively to young heterosexual men with ever more extreme virtual power fantasies.

~Anita Sarkeesian

Topics: Believe Cater Change Continue Cultural Deep Entitlement Ever Extreme Fantasies Gamers Games Heterosexual Male Men More Painful Power Sense Shift Should Slow Some Terrified Very Virtual Witnessing Young

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