"He wants to enslave you.' 'I shudder at the thought of being free."
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"We are advocates of the abolition of war, we do not want war; but war can only be abolished through war."
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"People who want to be famous are really loners. Or they should be."
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"It doesn't interest me to be Harrison Ford. It interests me to be Mike Pomeroy and Indiana Jones and Jack Ryan. I don't want to be in the Harrison Ford business. I take what I do seriously, but I don't take myself seriously."
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"All artists are vain, they long to be recognized and to leave something to posterity. They want to be loved, and at the same time they want to be free. But nobody is free."
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"A brand is a storehouse of trust that matters more and more as choices multiply. People want to simplify their lives."
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"I don't need anybody to market or promote me. If people don't want to hear this music, then it's not for them. You cannot please everybody."
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"I like nudging readers into a slightly different perspective, but in a sly way - I want to be the writer who slips a stiletto in and out, to make so swift and clean a cut, it's not until a chapter ends that the reader looks down and sees she's bleeding and asks what happened."
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"What I want to do is create more taxpayers, not more taxes."
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"He says he had to go help someone in a desperate situation. Who, exactly, he refuses to say. He doesn’t know when he’s going to be back, but suggests we put off the wedding for a few days. The rotter! How dare he just zoom off and not tell me where he’s going, or who he’s going to help, or what exactly he’s up to!” Yeah, how dare he go out and be all heroic and stuff when you want him here slobbering over your big boobs."
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"Don't let thoughts of me hold you back. Just do what you want to do. Otherwise, I might end up taking you with me, and that is the one thing I don't want to do. I don't want to interfere with your life."
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"You turn if you want to. The Lady's not for turning."
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"That's basically what the drive is: "I want to be famous, I want to be noticed, and I want to be approved of." That's basically what you're after. "Give me attention, give me applause, give me an audience. A. A. A. Straight As." That's all you're looking for."
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"We want people to feel with us more than to act for us."
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"If you want immortality, then deny form. Whatever has form has mortality. Beyond form is the formless, the immortal."
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"It took me a long, long time to learn what I now know, and I don't want that to die with me."
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"It isn't sufficient just to want - you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want."
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"What I wasn't prepared for were the feelings of anxiety that it stirred in me. I wasn't prepared for the initial feeling of I don't want to have to do that again. I was scared."
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"I don't want to prove anything; I merely want to live, to do no one harm but myself. I have the right to do that, haven't I?"
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"Where true inner freedom is, there is God. And where God is, there we want to be."
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