"The reason one writes isn't the fact he wants to say something. He writes because he has something to say."
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"I don't care about truth. I want some happiness."
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"The farmers may be the backbone of the country, but who wants to be a backbone?"
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"I want to get physical, let's get into physical, let me hear your body talk, your body talk."
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"I said from the very beginning, I don't want a big house, I don't want big grounds, I don't want the trouble with the maintenance and all of that."
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"If you want to change the world, be that change."
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"Be the change that you want to see"
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"You want to remain hungry and stay in a good place as a competitor; at the same time, you want to be confident but not cocky. You have to realize that you can lose. We have to stay hungry, because losing is the worst thing that can happen now. That's a road we don't want to go down."
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"You can't get what you want all the time in life."
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""I’m not Catholic, I’m not Orthodox…" and I wouldn’t even say Rastafarian, that still divides people, I don’t want to divide people so anything that I say is something that must be so big and great that it did encompass everyone and it’s love."
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"When you develop a game plan to get what you want, you will develop a belief that you can get it."
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"Many people who want to be great aren't willing to do the work to make it possible!"
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"I don't want anyone who doesn't want me."
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"If you want to feel good, you have to go out and do some good."
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"I don't want to be a tree; I want to be its meaning."
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"I don't pray really, because I don't want to bore God."
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"I don't pray because I don't want to bore God."
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"I want to hear the artist. I want to hear them give me something that I can relate to, other than the fact that everything's about bragging."
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"Now, you integration-minded Negroes are trying to force yourselves on your former slave master, trying to make him accept you in his drawing room; you want to hang out with his women rather than the women of your own kind."
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"It's joyful to give. But for people who want to take advantage of you, you're kind of an easy mark."
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