"Nobody wants a fat lead singer."
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"If I ever grow up, I don't want to be around for it."
"If you want to be loved, love."
"The reason they want you to fit in... is that once you do, then they can ignore you."
"Women need to shift form thinking "I'm not ready to do that" to thinking "I want to do that- and I'll learn by doing it."
"I want nothing from love, in short, but love."
"You've got to want to be married to the person you're married to."
"If you want to feel happy, do something for yourself. If you want to feel fulfilled, do something for someone else."
"Attachment is a manufacturer of illusion and whoever wants reality ought to be detached."
"If you want to be happy, practise it every day"
"Guys, particularly in the West, go to the gym and train for hours and hours to pick up something that is heavier than them. Why would you want to do that?"
"God does not care If I am bad or good- He wants my love, Not my sainthood."
"What do you want to do sadhana for? The aim should not be the satisfaction of egoism: "I want to be a great yogi; I shall have so much power and with that power I shall establish myself in the world." All such thoughts must be thrown far away."
"Everything has changed and we're all living in one city now. What happens somewhere affects things everywhere, so I have to be careful and whatever stories I work on, I want them to have redeeming moral values."
"She’s not for you, nor you for her; at least, not in the way you both want."
"What you want is what you cannot have. What you cannot have is what you want."
"My life is God's life in me for Him to do with what He wants."
"If you carefully consider what you want to be said of you in the funeral experience, you will find your definition of success."
"I have so much that I want to do. I hate wasting time."
"It's always great when you want scientific fact to get a really good science fiction writer to talk to you about it."