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"I often think, no one wants to read this. No one wants to hear this. My own work makes me cringe sometimes, cringe in a "there's nothing I can do because it had to come out like this" kind of way."
"when we travel, most of us take too much. I always work on the assumption that I'm going to take everything with me because I don't want the second wife to have anything if the plane crashes."
"I want to think quietly, calmly, spaciously, never to be interrupted, never to have to rise from my chair, to slip easily from one thing to another, without any sense of hostility, or obstacle. I want to sink deeper and deeper, away from the surface, with its hard separate facts."
"People ask me to predict the future, when all I want to do is prevent it."
"Everything is generated through your own will power. You don't have to do anything you don't want to do. This is a democracy. You go where you want to go and do what you want to do."
"Man is free the moment he wants to be."
"How could I be anything but a dissenter? Who wants the opinion of a group?"
"Let him who would move and convince others, be first moved and convinced himself."
"The best way to compile inaccurate information that no one wants is to make it up."
"When someone is not playing well it's natural to want to make a change. I've just learned to drown out all the noise and make a decision based on the merits and what each individual kid has earned the right to do."
"We assume that others are receiving the kind of appreciation we want for ourselves, and we proceed on the assumption that since we are not loveable as we are, we must become lovable under false pretenses, as if we were something better than we are."
"Only it seems to me that once in your life before you die you ought to see a country where they don't talk in English and don't even want to."
"There are certain things I will automate, but when it comes to quality control, I want to keep a very close eye."
"It's funny, our beauty standard has become harder and tougher because we live in a tough age. I don't think anyone wants to walk down the street and feel vulnerable. You want to walk down the street and feel like you're in control."
"We feel most small, we feel most challenged when we're only focusing on ourselves. Because even when you fulfill yourself, meaning you get what you think you want, you still find yourself in a position where it's never enough."
"People die and people cry people want me dead."
"I want to run with the best, that's how I've always lived."
"Intimacy is extremely important to me and I want it to be extremely important to the readers."
"I try to live [the Golden Rule] and I certainly expect it of some particular others. But I'll be damned if I want most folk out there to do unto me what they do unto themselves."
"Living is giving....If you spend your money on yourself, you are just surviving. But if you want your life to count, if you want to really live - give."
