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"I have very high expectations of myself. I'm a very competitive person but competitive with myself. I want to be the best that I can be and if that means that I'm eventually better than everyone else then so be it."
"She obeys me, but only because she wants to. It's the only justification for obedience, Ged observed."
"If what you want to tell me is neither True nor Good nor even Useful, why tell it to me at all"
"I am always saying "Glad to've met you" to somebody I'm not at all glad I met. If you want to stay alive, you have to say that stuff, though."
"I’m not sure what I’ll do, but— well, I want to go places and see people. I want my mind to grow. I want to live where things happen on a big scale."
"If you have to talk to more than three people about the same problem, you don't want help, you want attention."
"Go to the pine if you want to learn about the pine, or to the bamboo if you want to learn about the bamboo. And in doing so, you must leave your subjective preoccupation with yourself. Otherwise you impose yourself on the object and you do not learn."
"I once sent him a song and asked him to mark a cross wherever he thought it was faulty. Brahms returned it untouched, saying 'I don't want to make a cemetery of your compositions.'"
"My best advice to any young person is, if you want kids, be careful who you have them with. That's my mantra."
"Capitalism has worked very well. Anyone who wants to move to North Korea is welcome."
"I don't have to 'freedom-kiss' my wife when what I really want to do is French-kiss her."
"We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class, of necessity, in every society, to forego the privileges of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks."
"Experience teaches you how to do things you never want to do again."
"I want to show that you don’t have to be older to live your dreams; you can do it at any age"
"I realize I'm not different. I want what everyone wants. I want what they all want. I want all the things. I just want to be happy."
"I went with an exorcist for a bit. I just want to know really practical things, like how do you hold someone possessed by the devil."
"If you want to love you must serve, if you want freedom you must die."
"To be a winner you must want to win but must know of the chance of losing and must not fear of it."
"Amazon.com strives to be the e-commerce destination where consumers can find and discover anything they want to buy online."
"Painting pictures in our mind of what we want serves as the foundation for greater living and greater relationships."
