"What Iran wants and what North Korea wants is respect."
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"When I look at things, I always see the space they occupy. I always want the space to reappear, to make a comeback, because it's lost space when there's something in it."
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"Every day in America, about 25,000 people buy a quarter-inch drill. But nobody in America wants a quarter-inch drill. What they want are holes."
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"There are different gradations of personhood in different poems. Some of them seem far away from me and some up close, and the up-close ones generally don't say what I want them to say. And that's true of the persona in the poem who's lamenting this as a fact of a certain stage of life. But it's also true of me as me."
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"I don't read reviews and I don't know what to do with opinions, so I just lose them. They take up space, they become a process of manufacturing a persona, which I want to avoid."
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"Everything depends on liking the people and trusting the people. You have to assume that whatever they do will be as good as you want the thing to be and just go ahead with that."
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"If one wants to lead a good life, A HUMAN LIFE, one must work."
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"When I was in London a Kachin youth criticized me for not condemning the Burmese military for their offensive in Kachin State. I answered "condemnation is not the solution." We want to build reconciliation, not condemnation."
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"I felt that it was my duty not to senselessly waste my time. And since I didn't want to waste my time, I tried to accomplish as much as possible."
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"I don't want to say that in a place that's negative about what the fear is. I just want to be a realist."
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"I want people to emphasize life before death as opposed to life after death."
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"Willy Loman: I don't want change, I want Swiss cheese!"
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"I want to go on living even after my death, And therefore I am grateful to God For giving this gift... Of expressing all that is in me."
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"I'm looking very much forward to growing older. I want to be an exhausted older woman but with a very full life behind me and one still going."
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"It is natural to want to have a future."
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"Painting is a slow process; it takes time to get there, you learn little by little and always want the next painting to be better than the last. For me, success is about this, seeing the slow progress in my work."
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"We allow each other to pursue our goals. I wouldn't want to be married to someone who was not happy with what they were doing with their life and Bono wouldn't either."
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"Think beyond your lifetime, if you want to do something truly great."
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"I am not interested in what a man can't do. I want to know what he CAN do."
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"When I'm dead I don't want a funeral. I want people to remember me alive."
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