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"We should probably stop trading derivatives, anything more complex than regular options ... I am an options trader, and I don't understand options. How do you want a regulator to understand them?"
"I want them poor and they deserve to be poor. You can't have capitalism without punishment."
"It's a big honour to have people be excited about a movie that you make. That's the one thing that you want."
"It's quite a stark contrast between the candidates, in how they will change things for women. Hillary Clinton wants to appoint Supreme Court Justices who will protect Roe v Wade. [Donald] Trump wants to punish women for getting abortions and defund Planned Parenthood."
"It's so much unwanted interest in your privacy that you don't want to invite anymore."
"I don't want to be a leader that is one-dimensional or two-dimensional because he's not willing to be open."
"I just want to go for it. In every aspect of my life and careers, I just want to give it all I have."
"I want every girl, every child, to be educated."
"I'm addicted to winning. The more you win, the more you want to win."
"Tyson is a lot better than I thought, a lot better. People can talk about Spinks all they want... Tyson is the true champion."
"Foreigners don't want to invest any more in France - and this is not working."
"It'll take you eternities to get rid of me,' she adds sadly, which makes me jealous, I want her to say I'll never get rid of her - I wanta be chased till eternity till I catch her."
"Write what you want bottomless from bottom of the mind."
"What is he aching to do? What are we all aching to do? What do we want?” She didn’t know. She yawned. She was sleepy. It was too much. Nobody could tell. Nobody would ever tell. It was all over. She was eighteen and most lovely, and lost."
"The India I want, I'll never tire of repeating, is a more just and less poor India, one entirely free of foreign influences. If I thought the country was already marching toward these objectives, I'd give up politics immediately and retire as prime minister."
"I know exactly what I want to write. I do not write until I do. Usually I write it all down only once. And that goes relatively quickly, since it really depends only on how fast I type."
"I want knowledge. Not belief. Not surmise. But knowledge. I want God to put out His hand, show His face, speak to me."
"I don't want to earn a living. I want to live."
"If you want to be a doormat you have to lay yourself down first."
"I want to be good. I can't bear the idea of my soul being hideous."
