"Well, one must be serious about something, if one wants to have any amusement in life."
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"Missionaries are going to reform the world whether it wants to or not."
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"If you want to be loved, be loveable."
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"I didn't want to whisper and giggle about [puberty] anymore. I felt incredibly self-conscious. I felt like I was losing myself, and I was losing who I was. And that really scared me."
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"I don't want people in China to have deep pockets but shallow minds."
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"I want my kids to have a deep, inner feeling that it's alright to be happy, that you don't have to be constantly manufacturing problems that you don't really have."
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"I'd prefer if people had no impressions of me. As a kid, I had to tell my own family, "Please, just don't talk about me!" Because they always got it wrong. Always. I just didn't want them to tell anyone anything about me."
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"Hide my head I want to drown my sorrow / No tomorrow, no tomorrow."
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"I have friends, some of whom are spectacularly good writers, who really want someone to edit them. I don't register that impulse. It's like the impulse for wanting a dog."
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"People want to forget the impossible. It makes their world safer."
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"The cutthroat avenues of rock 'n' roll, I am fed up with. I don't want anything to do with it."
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"If you truly love someone, then the only thing you want for them is to be happy....even if its not with you."
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"This is what I want. This is the only thing I've ever wanted. Everything else—every single second of every single day that has come before this very moment, this kiss—has meant nothing."
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"I like to laugh. I like to have a good time. I don't like to be so serious about things, so I would want a guy who would want to laugh and have a good time, too."
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"I finally decided that I'm a creature of emotion as well as of reason. Emotionally, I am an atheist. I don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't exist, but I so strongly suspect he doesn't that I don't want to waste my time."
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"You can't find someone who doesn't want to be found."
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"I don't want an uneventful and safe life, I prefer an adventurous one."
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"I wouldn't want to be just pigeonholed as an extravagant director."
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"That boy is your company. And if he wants to eat up that tablecloth, you let him, you hear?"
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"What I used to play was rhythm guitar before I saw Jack Bruce. I said, That's what I want to do in life. He was definitely the main influence"
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