"Success is something you attract by the person you become. If you want to have more, you must become more."
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"You know, I`ve had so many conversations over the last several months with people who have come up to me and said that they`re going to go vote for the first time because they want to vote against Donald Trump because he`s scaring them."
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"Pixar is going in the direction of the early Disney. And it's also corporate, where they have four or five projects in the works. I don't want to get into that subject."
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"Great possessions and great want of them are both strong temptations."
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"A vain man can never be utterly ruthless: he wants to win applause and therefore he accommodates himself to others"
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"Seldom in the business and transactions of ordinary life, do we find the sympathy we want."
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"The misfortune in the state is, that nobody can enjoy life in peace, but that everybody must govern; and in art, that nobody will enjoy what has been produced, but that every one wants to reproduce on his own account."
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"Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want"
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"I want to change my way of seeing, NOT my way of feeling. I was perfectly happy about my feelings."
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"We don't want to be like the leader in the French Revolution who said There go my people, I must find out where they are going so I can lead them."
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"She had the kind of fingers you want to interlace with your own."
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"One has to completely humiliate oneself to be what the Beatles were . . . . It happened bit by bit, until . . . you're doing exactly what you don't want to do with people you can't stand -- the people you hated when you were ten."
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"When you're doing stand-up, you want to stand onstage and, to the extent that you can, uncomplicatedly entertain."
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"It is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all he has to say in the fewest possible words, or his reader is sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words, or his reader will certainly misunderstand them. Generally, also, a downright fact may be told in a plain way; and we want downright facts at present more than anything else."
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"Next to selfishness the principal cause which makes life unsatisfactory is want of mental cultivation."
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"When you realize you're essentially you're God, there ain't nothing on earth more powerful than you, you can do anything you want."
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"There is nothing on earth that could ever make me want to relive certain years of my life when I was young."
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"I heard from my cat's lawyer today; my cat wants $12,000 a week for Tender Vittles."
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"Audiences have proved time and again that they don't want a steady diet of any entertainer airing his social views - especially if he's a comedian."
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"I have been blessed in my life and want to return my gratitude unto my Lord."
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