"In my next life I want to live backwards. Start out dead and finish off as an orgasm."
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"Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince the person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise."
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"If you do not know where you want to go, it doesn't matter which path you take."
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"But like infection is the petty thought: it creeps and hides, and wants to be nowhere--until the whole body is decayed and withered by the petty infection... Thus spoke Zarathustra."
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"I have never believed that man's freedom consisted in doing what he wants, but rather in never doing what he does not want to do."
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"Logic can take you from point A to point B. Imagination can take you wherever you want"
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"Only those who want nothing are masters of Nature."
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"It's funny, isn't it? When you are young you just want to be old, and then later you wish you could go back to being a kid."
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"As we get past our superficial material wants and instant gratification we connect to a deeper part of ourselves, as well as to others, and the universe."
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"If we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice."
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"If you want to sell a steak, you can't just have the sizzle, you gotta have sauce."
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"Achievement happens when we pursue and attain what we want. Success comes when we are in clear pursuit of Why we want it."
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"You can be anything you want to be, just turn yourself into anything you think that you could ever be."
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"I am happy to make money. I want to make more money, make more music, eat Big Macs and drink Budweisers."
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"Yes, if you want to say that I was a drum major, say that I was a drum major for justice. Say that I was a drum major for peace. I was a drum major for righteousness. And all of the other shallow things will not matter. I won't have any money to leave behind. I won't have the fine and luxurious things of life to leave behind. But I just want to leave a committed life behind. And that's all I want to say."
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"God wants a child's heart and a grownup's head."
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"I just say whatever I want to whoever I want whenever I want wherever I want however I want."
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"Most of us follow our conscience as we follow a wheelbarrow. We push it in front of us in the direction we want to go."
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"I want to be remembered as someone who was sincere. Even if I made mistakes, they were made in sincerity. If I was wrong, I was wrong in sincerity."
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"A gentleman is someone who does not what he wants to do, but what he should do."
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