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"This is the real unwritten rule: You don't want what you know you shouldn't. And I haven't just broken that rule. I have wrecked it, smashed it, and still... And still I want."
"Because I-I'm someone who wants to kiss you. Be with you." Eli says as if it is obvious, as if I know what is written on his heart."
"I want to lie down on the bench then, or better yet, on the grass, rest on something living and see if I can hear the dead underneath."
"I want it all quickly 'cause I don't want God to stop and think and wonder if I'm getting more than my share."
"We're Americans. We celebrate success. We just don't want the game to be rigged."
"People want real. And there are a lot of women out there doing that."
"If we don’t want to define ourselves by things as superficial as our appearances, we’re stuck with the revolting alternative of being judged by our actions."
"I just want to find somebody special, somebody that I click with."
"Everybody always resolves to start exercising, but they never do. You know why ? Because it's January. Who wants to go jogging in the freezing cold ?"
"I get to do stand-up every single day. I love that live energy exchange between the audience and myself, and to get to say the things I want to say and comment on."
"I talked to Beyonce and she wants to learn how to speak Arabic and she wants to jump out of an airplane. I don't want to do that. I just don't want to wash my hair every day."
"One of the things that happens in the business is that success is a very strange thing in that if you are involved in something very successful the next person wants you to repeat it."
"All young people want to kick up their heels and defy convention; most of them would prefer to do it at a not too heavy cost."
"I don't want to have to earn love by giving up my ability to make decisions that determine how I live."
"I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don't retire before I go senile, then I'll do more damage than good at that point."
"Didja ever get one of them girls who just wants to watch the show?"
"I do not want to see BP nickel and diming these businesses that are having a tough time."
"I feel that there is an alternate ending that leaps off too far into fantasy and there is an alternate ending that leaps off too far into pessimism, but that, in fact, the novel as it has developed should, if it's functioning correctly, have equipped you as the reader to make your own decision about where you want to go with that, about where you're going to fall on that continuum. So, the novel is taking you directly up to the point that you have to choose, and it's letting you do that."
"You have been compelled to cultivate your reflective faculties, for want of occasions for frittering your life away in silly trifles."
"If I can not dance, I want no part in your revolution."
