"I want all my senses engaged. Let me absorb the world's variety and uniqueness."
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"I want to be a good human being. I'm doing my best, and I'm working at it."
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"Public education was not founded to give society what it wants. Quite the opposite."
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"If you want to make a chili, you're going to break some cows."
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"All we want is justice for John Crawford and everyone responsible for John Crawford's death should be held responsible, the criminal justice system refused to hold those accountable so the civil system must."
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"When we have got it, we want something else."
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"I want death to find me planting my cabbages, but careless of death, and still more of my unfinished garden."
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"People want to feel hopeful."
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"Even my husband is happier when I'm happy. He has always said, "You figure out what you want to do," because he's discovered that personal happiness is connected to everything."
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"I don't want to do anything to embarrass my family or my church because the town that I come from is so small. There are certain things that I just can't be part of because of my foundation."
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"Love is invisible and comes and goes where it wants, without anyone asking about it."
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"Humans hardly know what they want, how they want it, or when they want it."
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"I don't want anyone to have to interview me. I wish I didn't have to talk too much about myself."
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"I don't want to be grotesque, but when you're 330 pounds, it's hard to wipe your a-. You know?"
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"I have to lie, if I don't want to take madmen seriously and become a madman myself"
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"I don't wanna talk about Teo [Macero]. He's a helluva musician, a brilliant musician, but he's just not for me, that's all. I can elaborate on it, but I don't want to do that."
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"You want to retire from a job you're not that all enamoured with. I love what I do. I want to keep doing it till I can't get out of bed doing it."
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"Why would I want four or five more inches? I use my speed."
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"You can't go and anticipate what it is that you want to see. You just have to be present. Be where you are."
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"You want to be greedy when others are fearful."
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