"I don't want to be a spokesperson."
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"I can have oodles of charm when I want to."
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"I want to be great, or nothing. I won't be a commonplace dauber, so I don't intend to try any more."
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"Every single thought I have and every sentence I speak is an affirmation. It is either positive or negative. Positive affirmations create positive experiences, and negative affirmations create negative experiences. My new affirmation habit is to only speak of the good I want in my life. Then, only good will come to me. I use my affirmations wisely."
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"If I want to be loved as I am, I have to be willing to love others as they are."
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"Nordenson describes wrestling with work as with a large force that wants to have its way with you, even as you want to have your way with it. This wrestling, sinewy and particular as its wrestler, enlarges us as we read our way into her life with its incisive insights and explorations. Can one wrestle meditatively? This author has learned the art and we are the benefactors."
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"I want to do a record with Monica Lewinsky."
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"You want to love everyone equally, and that's worse than impossible--it's wrong."
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"You love me so much, you want to put me in your pocket. And I should die there smothered."
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"I prefer unlucky things. Luck is vulgar. Who wants what luck would bring? I don't."
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"I love smiles. That is a fact. How to develop smiles? There are a variety of smiles. Some smiles are sarcastic. Some smiles are artificial-diplomatic smiles. These smiles do not produce satisfaction, but rather fear or suspicion. But a genuine smile gives us hope, freshness. If we want a genuine smile, then first we must produce the basis for a smile to come."
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"I think God wants us to love Him more, not to love others less."
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"I want to control our own energy by developing oil and natural gas but also the energy sources of the future."
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"I just want to say that the only thing less popular than putting money into banks is putting money into the auto industry."
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"The ego wants to want more than it wants to have."
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"I don’t want money. What the hell’s money good for? You can’t drive it and you can’t eat it and it won’t even fix a flat."
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"Every Canadian who wants to learn should have the opportunity to do so."
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"In true love you want your partner to be happy. In false love you want your partner."
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"I just want to go to university and have fun - I want to be an ordinary student. I'm only going to university. It's not like I'm getting married - though that's what it feels like sometimes."
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"The last thing you want to do as a creator is take something of someone else's when you love him."
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