"Why do I act like this, agreeing when I really disagree, letting people force me to do things I don't want to do?"
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"The people are that part of the state that does not know what it wants."
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"Those who most obstinately oppose the most widely-held opinions more often do so because of pride than lack of intelligence. They find the best places in the right set already taken, and they do not want back seats."
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"To those waiting with bated breath for that favorite media catchphrase, the U-turn, I have only this to say, ‘You turn if you want; the lady’s not for turning."
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"For better or worse, there is not a situation in one's daily life that does not have feminist subtext, superstructure, implications and one is constantly aware of it, even when you want to rest it stands up and hits you in the face."
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"People get all upset about torture, but when you get right down to it, it's really a pretty good way of finding out something a person doesn't want you to know."
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"I believe myself to be a worthwhile and inventive performer in my own right. [And] I want to be known for what I do best."
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"You should never be in the company of anyone with whom you would not want to die."
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"I don't do a comic book thinking there is a movie. I just want it to be as good a comic book as it can be."
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"I want to become a very good writer."
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"For want of a naile the shoe is lost, for want of a shoe the horse is lost, for want of a horse the rider is lost."
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"I don't want to be a film star. I don't even want to be a pop star. I just want to live in peace."
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"Do what you want to do, and go where you're going to. Think for yourself, 'Cause I won't be there with you."
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"Everybody says I can't act. They said the same thing about Elizabeth Taylor. And they were wrong. She was great in A Place in the Sun. I'll never get the right part, anything I really want. My looks are against me. They're too specific."
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"For me the university has always been an ideal context for spiritual formation. I always felt that if you want to offer spiritual formation at the university, you can."
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"Always keep your foes confused. If they are never certain who you are or what you want, they cannot know what you are like to do next."
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"Philosophers are as jealous as women; each wants a monopoly of praise."
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"Be easy and condescending in your deportment to your officers, but not too familiar, lest you subject yourself to a want of respect, which is necessary to support a proper command."
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"What we are is seldom what we want to be, while what we want to be is either denied us or changes with the seasons."
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"I'm not for real revolutions, because they always bring you the opposite of what you want. You very seldom get what you want if you have a violent revolution."
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