"If they want to know if prostitutes are positive, they should test the Vice cops."
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"I am dead. I have no desire for you. My body no longer wants the one who doesn’t love."
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"Sometimes if you want to know for sure whether the stove is hot, the only way to find out is to touch it."
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"It is said that the camera cannot lie, but rarely do we allow it to do anything else, since the camera sees what you point it at: the camera sees what you want it to see."
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"Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?"
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"If Despotism failed only for want of a capable benevolent despot, what chance has Democracy, which requires a whole population of capable voters."
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"The person who takes the banal and ordinary and illuminates it in a new way can terrify. We do not want our ideas changed."
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"I have eclectic tastes in the movies I want to do."
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"I'm not an anarchist any more. I still love the Sex Pistols, but I don't want to be a punk rocker all the time, but I do want to carry on exploring new forms of acting."
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"I do not like the world as it is; so I am trying to make it a little more as I want it."
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"I, for one, love strength, daring, fortitude. I do not want people to kill the fight in them; I want them to fight for right things."
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"The few who profit from the labor of the masses want to organize the workers into an army which will protect the interests of the capitalists."
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"It's strange to think that I can go places and people want to hear my music. I guess that's all I ever wanted."
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"The worst speak something good; if all want sense, God takes a text, and preacheth patience."
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"Judge not the preacher; for he is thy judge: If thou mislike him, thou conceiv'st him not. God calleth preaching folly. Do not grudge To pick out treasures from an earthen pot. The worst speak something good. If all want sense, God takes a text, and preaches patience."
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"Everybody knows that if they're happy then usually the people around them are happy, or that people around them happy make them a little happier; that's a proved thing, like "I give to you and you give to me"; they all know that but they haven't thought about it to the point of every action that they do. That's what it is with every action that you do, there's a reaction to it, and if you want a good reaction then you do a good action, and if you want a bad one, then you punch somebody."
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"If there's a God, I want to see Him. It's pointless to believe in something without proof."
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"More than just an end to war, we want an end to the beginnings of all wars."
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"I want to be an artist, not... a celluloid aphrodisiac."
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"If you want to be happy, be happy."
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