"The last thing that I want to do is to have the United States be a foil."
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"It's up to [Angela Merkel] whether she wants to stand again and then ultimately, it'll be up to the German people to decide what the future holds. If I were here and I were German and I had a vote, I might support her."
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"You are not seeking to attain some future state. That is the fallacy of many spiritual seekers. They have an image of some state - enlightenment, or whatever they call it - they want to achieve."
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"The ego wants to want more than it wants to have. And so the shallow satisfaction of having is always replaced by more wanting."
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"The light is too painful for someone who wants to remain in darkness."
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"Significant things often happen when you are present. Things come to you, and then you respond to what is required. The response very often comes without a premeditated idea of what you want. It is simply a response to the situation."
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"Whatever you want to achieve is secondary: the business, the exchange of information, whatever it may be. Yes, you do that also, but there is a deeper foundation - meeting that human being in a state of shared presence."
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"People like givers, people want to help givers. I get stuff all the time."
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"What the people of the world want most and have always wanted is bread and peace."
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"You never want to judge your character."
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"It got to the point where I started hiding because I didn't want to be photographed. (On living with Robert Mapplethorpe)"
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"One of my great goals when I first started taking photographs or showing them publicly is that people might want one for over their desk. That's my goal."
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"I still don't want to be put in the feminist bag. I'm a humanist."
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"I wanted to see who this Yeats person was, and I said to my mother, 'I want a book by this person.' And she bought it for me, and a lot of it was over my head, but I had it."
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"We learned we wanted too much. We could only give from the perspective of who we were and what we had. Apart, we were able to see with even greater clarity that we didn’t want to be without each other."
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"If your label won't let you have the cover you want or sing the songs you want, then leave!"
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"Ultimately, I want to make everyone horny."
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"You don't want to OD on improvisation."
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"I'm more concerned with the work people do than their gender. When I was younger, I was pretty judgmental. Things had to be a certain way. Now I just want to see the work. It doesn't matter who does it."
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"I have a feeling of reverence about my father being in his 80s - a feeling that I want to whisper, take soft steps, not intrude too much. He's like a stately old cathedral to me now."
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