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"I want to do # stage again, because there just aren't words for how great it is. People say that all the time, "There's nothing like live theater, blah blah," but it's really true. I see a show and I know how they feel, and it feels great."
"Love is big; love can hold anger, love can even hold hatred. It's about the intention of what you want it to do."
"We're all going to change. Otherwise, it's boring. Who wants to stay the damn same all their life?"
"What I want to be best at is being a dad. There's no room for sucky dads, and that's another thing I'm proud of my bandmates for - they're all really good parents."
"I don't want to please everybody. I'd get a little worried if I did something and everybody was pleased with it."
"I do not want to make teaching films. If I did, I would create a separate organization. It is not higher education that interests me so much as general mass education."
"Success is having people love you that you want to have love you."
"What we really want to do is buy businesses that we would be happy to own forever."
"If I knew where I was going to want to live the next five or 10 years I would buy a home and I'd finance it with a 30-year mortgage... It's a terrific deal."
"It's a nightmare to administer some of this sort of thing, but I want to tell the shareholders of Berkshire, to the percent we own marketable securities or things for which there are market, even if those markets - I want to tell them what it's all about."
"Resist the temptation to compare yourself to others. This is crucial in order to be able to manifest whatever you want."
"If you want to be a voice for peace in the world, begin by making peace a permanent condition of your own life."
"Money - like health, love, happiness, and all forms of success that you want to create for yourself - is the result of living purposefully. It is not a goal unto itself."
"I want the world to be better because I was here."
"You play a part in every aspect of your life going the way you want or not going the way that you want. It has very little to do with other people."
"Everyone wants to be perceived a certain way, to gain the things that they have decided are the things that they want in their life."
"My research clearly reveals that if we want to put inner-city workers to work immediately, we just can't rely on the private sector. They don't want to touch them; they don't want to hire them."
"I have no way and therefore want no eyes I stumbled when I saw. Full oft 'tis seen our means secure us, and our mere defects prove our commodities."
"If you go to a magic show, you don't want to see logic."
"I neither want it [brandy] nor need it, but I should think it pretty hazardous to interfere with the ineradicable habit of a lifetime."
