"All I want is compliance with my wishes, after reasonable discussion."
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"I'm twelve years old. I run into a synagogue. I ask the rabbi the meaning of life. He tells me the meaning of life but he tells it to me in Hebrew. I don't understand Hebrew. Then he wants to charge me $600 for Hebrew lessons."
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"I never ever see a film of mine after I release it to the public. I see it when I shoot it in my dailies and while I'm editing it, re-editing it and reshooting it and all that. By the time it's finished I never want to see it again."
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"If you want to be a better web hacker, hang out with a painter."
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"And I want to rock your gypsy soul Just like way back in the days of old And magnificently we will fold into the mystic"
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"I don't want to be a propagandist, no matter how good the cause. I want to tell stories. It's just that the stories have to square with my consciousness as a woman and my conscience as a human being."
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"Dear Mother, I am getting on nicely in my work at the bank, and like it ... I want to find out something about the science of money while I am at it; it is an extraordinarily interesting subject."
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"As for monkeys, I would have five, and they would be named: See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil, Do Pretty Much Whatever The Hell You Want, and Expensive Attorney."
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"How high a price we pay for the burden of habit! I am fitted for life here where I do not want to be, I want to live there but am unfit for it, and on both counts I am miserable."
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"For it is better to suffer a little want than to have too much."
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"Your best servant is the person who does not attend so much to hearing what he himself wants as to willing what he has heard from you."
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"My ambition is to enjoy my life and to do exactly what I want to do. And I'll do that. I will be free."
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"How is it wrong to put everything you have into getting what you want most in the world?"
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"I do trust you, is what I want to say. But it isn't true -- I didn't trust him to love me despite the terrible things I had done. I don't trust anyone to do that, but that isn't his problem; it's mine."
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"I want to keel over on stage playing King Lear at age 99 or something like that."
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"One of my goals from really early on was that if I was ever fortunate enough to be successful in music, I would want to stay the same person and the same songwriter."
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"The more ugly, old, nasty, ill, and poor I become the more I want to get my own back by producing vibrant, well-arranged, radiant colour."
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"I want to become actor not because I want money and become more famous. No I don't want that. It is not that l want stardom, I want to contribute to good cinema."
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"We seldom learn the true want of what we have till it is discovered that we can have no more."
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"He that has once concluded it lawful to resist power, when it wants merit, will soon find a want of merit, to justify his resistance to power."
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