"Id love to have William Faulkner, Beethoven and Bach over. I want to find out what makes those guys tick!"
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"Most artists don't know a hit. You can say I want this one to be a hit but it never become that way. The public decides that for you."
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"I did not want vocal groups. I was not interested in singing with a group because there's too much problem with groups in the first place."
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"I wouldn't want [gay marriage] to go to the United States Supreme Court now because that homophobe Antonin Scalia has too many votes on this current court."
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"Everyone can do a character the way they want to do it, unless the director tells them not to, which isn't very common. I like to do my characters, if it's not specific in the script, as myself."
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"These are the times when a genius wants to live."
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"It is the man who does not want to express an opinion whose opinion I want."
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"When I lay down the reins of this administration, I want to have one friend left. And that friend is myself."
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"I do not understand that because I do not want a negro woman for a slave I must necessarily want her for a wife. My understanding is that I can just let her alone."
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"We want, and must have, a national policy, as to slavery, which deals with it as being wrong."
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"I want in all cases to do right."
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"Many years ago, I contracted an intimacy with a Mr. William Legrand. He was of an ancient Huguenot family, and had once been wealthy; but a series of misfortunes had reduced him to want."
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"I want to be remembered as a person who kept it real, who did what he wanted to do, but never did nothing stupid and never tried to offend nobody else. I'm always being myself."
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"I keep things real simple because I know where I came from and I don't ever want to go back to that way of living."
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"My total goal in life is to have fun. I just want to be out and around, chillin'."
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"I want to make my mark in the NFL. This is the highest level, and this is where it goes down in history."
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"Thoughts shut up want air, And spoil, like bales unopen'd to the sun."
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"Groan under gold, yet weep for want of bread."
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"Man wants little, nor that little long."
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"I want to show you that you can leap tall buildings, walk through walls, and change reality."
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