"Don't aim for success if you want it, just do what you love and believe in, Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier and it will come naturally."
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"I'm definitely gonna be the People's champion ... but I just ain't gonna be the champ the way you want me to be the champ. I'm gonna be the champ the way I wanna be."
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"We must become holy, not because we want to feel holy, but because Christ must be able to live his life fully in us."
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"We have no salaries. When one says he is from a good Catholic family and says he wants to help us, why should we refuse his offer?"
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"I take a situation, analyse it, break it down, put it in the form I want it to be in, and then I toss it away. Let somebody else go deal with it."
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"When I'm finished playing, I want people to say, 'He handled this well, he kept his cool.'"
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"All genuinely noble women prefer truth to falsehood. As the Russians with their Czar, they are unwilling to see their idol degraded; they want to be proud of the domination they accept."
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"One thing I always tell people. If you want to be gold medalist, you partner one."
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"Freud said he didn't know what women wanted. I know what women want. They want a whole lot of people to talk to."
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"Whatever he might have denied me was unimportant; it was the fact that he could deny me anything at all, even what I didn't want"
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"I went [to war] because I couldn't help it. I didn't want the glory or the pay; I wanted the right thing done."
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"Well, I am happy, and I won't fret, but it does seem as if the more one gets the more one wants."
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"Youth, health and freedom were meant to be enjoyed and I want to try every pleasure before I am too old to enjoy them."
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"If I dwell on what I don't want, then I will get more of it. I affirm only the good in Life."
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"The best thing about New York is everything is available. Whatever you want, New York has got it!"
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"The people I admire most are those who are sensitive and want to create something or discover something, and do not see life in terms of power."
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"Ah, but you see, I didn't want to be fair."
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"We are all like Scheherazade's husband, in that we want to know what happens next."
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"Most people say, 'Well, Earl, you sing the blues,' or however they want to categorize it. I just sing songs."
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"And woman is the same as horses: two wills act in opposition inside her. With one will she wants to subject herself utterly. With the other she wants to bolt, and pitch her rider to perdition."
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