"Moments are so fleeting; I want to hold on to the good ones."
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"Our natural egoism leads us to judge people by their relations to ourselves. We want them to be certain things to us, and for us that is what they are; because the rest of them is no good to us, we ignore it."
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"People who ask for your criticism want only praise."
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"Why would I want to be president? I'm the king of Disneyland."
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"I guess the verdict is in - I am not a sociopath. It's not effective or productive not to be nice. It would undermine the goals I want to achieve on any given day."
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"Clearly, there are a thousand and one scenarios for how someone can slip through the cracks. I'll walk down the street and see a homeless person, and I'll want to stop them and say, How did this happen? Where's your mother? Are you physically ill? Mentally ill?"
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"He that keeps not crust nor crum Weary of all, shall want some."
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"Women are not In their best fortunes strong, but want will perjure the ne'er-touched vestal."
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"Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything."
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"Some grief shows much of love, But much of grief shows still some want of wit."
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"Like anything else, you can use the Internet for good or ill. You can get out of it what you want to. There's no evil about it. The way I see it, it's a liberation."
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"If you want a good argument against democracy, spend five minutes with a voter."
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"When the Academy called, I panicked. I thought they might want their Oscars back and the pawn shop has been out of business for a while."
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"One of the wonderful things about making a film of any genre is that you have dialogue. You can take up a position. If you want to say something about your position, you can just say it. You don't have to spend massive amounts of screen time."
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"I want to retreat back to living off the land and just being in nature, experiencing life in the most pure, natural way possible."
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"I wouldn't not want to be a director and write as I wouldn't not to want to be a writer and direct movies."
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"What does culture want? To make infinity comprehensible."
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"As a scholar I am interested in the philosophy of language, semiotics, call it what you want, and one of the main features of the human language is the possibility of lying."
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"If the kids did want to get into showbiz then so be it, but I would never project anything on to my children."
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"Better to have fewer wants than greater riches to supply increasing wants."
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