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"Wouldn't the sentence 'I want to put a hyphen between the words Fish and And and And and Chips in my Fish-and-Chips sign' have been clearer if quotation marks had been placed before Fish, and between Fish and and, and and and And, and And and and, and and and And, and And and and, and and and Chips, as well as after Chips?"
"You don't want to be the first person to tell your 5-year-old, like, 'You're going to have a life filled with disappointments and letdowns - enjoy!'"
"We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come."
"I don't want other people to decide who I am. I want to decide that for myself."
"Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do."
"If you really want to get along with somebody, let them be themselves."
"I don't want to live in a nanny state where people are telling me where I can go and what I can do."
"I want to spend my time with people who don't look to be respected. But such good people won't want to spend their time with me."
"When I die I just want to be remembered as a Christian."
"Doesn't anything socialistic make you want to throw up? Like great public schools, or health insurance for all?"
"No matter what it is, if you really want it, and if you get out of the way of it, it will happen. It must be. It is Law. It can be no other way. It's the way this Universe is established. If you want it and you relax, it will happen."
"But grace can be the experience of a second wind, when even though what you want is clarity and resolution, what you get is stamina and poignancy and the strength to hang on."
"I can do anything I want to do really, I might as well."
"I just want to live happily ever after, every now and then."
"The Lord wants double edged artistry, praising God's name and setting things straight."
"I'm going to do what I want to do. I'm going to be who I really am. I'm going to figure out what that is."
"A world without leopards, well, who would want to live in it?"
"There's only one very good life and that's the life you know you want and you make it yourself."
"We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness - not by each other's misery."
"You must let suffering speak, if you want to hear the truth"
