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"I don't have time, you know - I want to be able to get it [information] instantly on the internet and not have to think about it. Well, there is that phenomenon as well."
"I want to be advertised and the easiest way is to do something obnoxious and do it well."
"Nobody wants to open a business near a Superfund site and risk being sued"
"I love to compete. I want to get out there and kick your ass in the business world. That is what inspires me."
"The monstrous thing is not that men have created roses out of this dung heap, but that, for some reason or other, they should want roses."
"A man can reach into anything and turn it to his cause. It's not want, or desire, just certainty. Only be assured that whatever you reach into will reach into you in turn."
"A thousand times, when the train slowed or stopped, I thought of jumping off. I wanted to die in a ditch. I wanted to disappear. I wanted a different history and geography. In rhythm with the wheels I said I want I want I want I want I stayed on the train."
"I want to learn more about the world. It makes me want to get up and go."
"I don't want to fail the audience. I don't want to let them down."
"I get tired of talking when I want to be silent."
"I travel because I want to know. Books and documentaries will only get you so far. If you want to know, you will have to go."
"Anyone who wants to help me doesn't. Anyone who wants to kill me might. Anyone who wants to love me better not."
"New ways I go, a new speech comes to me; weary I grow, like all creators, of the old tongues. My spirit no longer wants to walk on worn soles."
"Poets and writers who are in love with the superlative all want to do more than they can."
"Yes - en I's rich now, come to look at it. I owns myself, en I's wuth eight hund'd dollars. I wisht I had de money, I wouldn' want no mo'."
"People don't want gadgets, they want services."
"I want to sit on my couch and drink and not change my pants for days at a time."
"We want the world and we want it..."
"Good people are found not changed. They can change themselves, but you can't change them. You want good people, you have to find them. If you want motivated people, you have to find them, not motivate them."
"Do whatever you have to do as quickly as you can, so you can do whatever you WANT to do, for as long as you can."
