"True artists are prophets. I don't want to be that prophetic in that sense because it's so lonely."
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"I'm not a trend person. I don't want to look to my right and see somebody in the same thing."
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"Whoever is across the net, I want to win. Whoever that person is, that's the day I want to win."
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"If you want success, you have to work hard at it and realize that it takes time; it doesn't come to you overnight."
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"I'm sick of doing bad things and liking it and then wondering what's wrong with me. I want it to be over. I want to start again."
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"Sometimes,” he says, sliding his arm across my shoulders, “people just want to be happy, even if it’s not real."
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"And sometimes, if you want the truth, you have to demand it."
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"We have to tell each other the little things, the bad things. Maybe they’ll hurt for a while, but at least they won’t become big things. If we don’t, we’re just going to keep hurting each other. And I don’t want to do that anymore."
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"One of the most difficult tests for the creator: he must always remain unconscious, unaware of his best virtues, if he doesn't want to rob them of their candor and innocence."
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"If you want to civilize a man, begin with his grandmother."
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"I love it when people say things to me in public and want to meet me, because I want to meet them! Early on, my manager told me, 'If you want to sell 500,000 records, then go out there and meet 500,000 people.'"
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"All I want to do is sit on my ass and fart and think of Dante."
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"A man in pursuit of greatness feels no little wants."
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"The disease with which the human mind now labors is want of faith"
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"Discontent is want of self-reliance; it is infirmity of will."
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"And so the reliance on Property, including the reliance on governments which protect it, is the want of self-reliance."
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"The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible."
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"You're afraid, you will just keep making the fear. If you want to change it, you change from your soul."
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"When I look at my life, I see that I wanted to be free of the physical plane, the psychological plane, and when I got free of those I didn't want to go anywhere near them."
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"I want to paint what I feel, and feel what I paint."
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