"There's no question this is where I want to live. Never has been."
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"Incoming is not the thing you want to hear at Christmas."
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"You want to be a bit compulsive in your art or craft or whatever you do."
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"Carbon tax has the advantage of basically being able to subsidize one set of activities that you want with another set of activities that you don't want. It's like a cigarette tax."
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"Sight is a promiscuous sense. The avid gaze always wants more."
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"To injure another creates bondage and hides the truth. Negative virtues are not enough; we have to conquer Maya, and then she will follow us. We only deserve things when they cease to bind us. When the bondage ceases, really and truly, all things come to us. Only those who want nothing are masters of nature."
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"What we want is progress, development, realisation."
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"Brave, bold people, these are what we want."
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"When they asked me what I wanted to be I said I didn’t know. "Oh, sure you know," the photographer said. "She wants," said Jay Cee wittily, "to be everything."
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"I find ways to make things affordable. If the kids want the looks, they can be able to go afford it."
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"All we really want is love's confusing joy."
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"It's very rare in our lives that we're like "Ooh, I'm going to really screw this family up." You just don't. You work from a place of need, like I want to finish this movie or I want to feel loved at that moment or I need empathy right now. And then, you do things that are questionable."
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"But if you do, then it's a high class problem to have. And if you do, you're the architect of that problem. There's no one else to blame but yourself. You've kept doing the same kinds of movies and that's what they want to see."
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"If you want to ascend like the Prophet to the sky of immortality, know this very well: Fasting is your Arabian stallion."
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"Don't insist on going where you think you want to go. Ask the way to the spring."
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"There is some kiss we want with the whole of our lives."
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"I feel like doing basic, casual pieces and then doing really elevated, more unexpected things is becoming more possible. I feel like I do eventually want to be able to address more categories, like active or evening."
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"I want to be silverly beautiful."
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"I want to kill myself, to escape from responsiblity, to crawl abjectly back into the womb."
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"If there's something good, then I'm going to want to work. If there's something that I feel like I'd be compromising myself on, then I'd pass."
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