"I never quit until I get what I want."
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"Nobody takes a picture of something they want to forget."
"It's made me want to find a hole in the world, in the shape of me, and just fill it up"
"I want to do other things like more fashion campaigns."
"If the garbage man calls, tell him we don't want any."
"Just wear what you want, if you like something that's all that matters. Dress for yourself not for other people."
"No music is so charming to my ear as the requests of my friends, and the supplications of those in want of my assistance."
"Some people are desperately looking for scapegoats, they just don't want to see the truth!"
"If we listen human instinct actually tells us what we need, but advertising makes us want things we don't need and things we can't have."
"I love really good food and I don't ever want to spend too much for it, but I like hanging out and having really good, tasty, interesting food."
"Sometimes I’m terrified of my heart; of its constant hunger for whatever it is it wants. The way it stops and starts."
"I've learned I don't like being around people too much. It's hard to stand around and make conversation with people I've learned. But I do want to be the guy that can do it easily."
"To be what you want to be, you must give up being what you are."
"I'm not waiting for times to change I want to live like a free-roaming soul on the highway of our love."
"Now, if someone wants to spit on me, I just roll up the window of my BMW 540i."
"If you want to deserve Hell, you need only stay in bed. The world is iniquity; if you accept it, you are an accomplice, if you change it you are an executioner."
"Patience, grasshopper," I counseled. "You don't want to seem overeager." "Right, that's why I said tomorrow," he said. "I want to see you again tonight. But I'm willing to wait all night and much of tomorrow."
"There is nothing more dangerous than to build a society with a large segment of people in that society who feel that they have no stake in it; who feel that that have nothing to lose. People who have stake in their society, protect that society, but when they don't have it, they unconsciously want to destroy it."
"I don't mind playing absolute bastards... I just don't want to play the grouch."
"Sometimes I need to be a stranger to myself. Only then my soul can show me not what I want, but what I need to see."