"Those who have not, and live in want, are a menace, Ridden with envy and fooled by demagogues."
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"I've been to the studio several times, and it's not that I'm not happy with what I've got, but each time I come away, I feel that I've learned something that I want to work on."
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"I don't need my sexuality celebrated, and I certainly don't need it to be criticized. I didn't necessarily want it to be observed, but here we are."
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"I don't want to sound like 'chirpy Evan' who's just bouncing around with his unrealistic views and doesn't understand what's going on."
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"Of course you don't want your kids swearing. But remember how fun it was to cuss when you were in the first grade?"
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"I want to keep making records as long as I can and that's the beginning and end of my concern about selling records."
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"I want God to be first in my life, so I'm putting Him first in my life today."
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"I think that if you can roast a chicken, you can get whatever you want out of a woman."
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"Every woman wants to be first to someone sometime in her life and that desire is the explanation for many strange things women do."
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"It is our freedom to progress that makes us all want to live and to go on."
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"Everybody wants something."
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"All serious writers want the obvious rewards: fame, money, women, love -- and most of all, an audience!"
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"What I want to be is an actor, not a star."
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"I swear I only want to hear about you, to know what you've been doing. It's a hundred years since we've met-it may be another hundred before we meet again."
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"To have you here, you mean-in reach and yet out of reach? To meet you in this way, on the sly? It's the very reverse of what I want."
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"...It was one of the great livery-stableman's most masterly intuitions to have discovered that Americans want to get away from amusement even more quickly than they want to get to it."
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"I want to spend as much time as I can with my family, yet I'm aware of having to bring home the bacon."
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"Where is the good will in the thought, I was going to throw this in the garbage, do you want to wear it?"
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"As I die, and my life flashes before my eyes, I want to see who made faces at me when I turned my head. That's all I want to see."
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"No one has ever thought this: Now that I'm out of therapy and have fixed my mental problems, I think I want to be a ventriloquist."
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