"I want to commit a crime during a reenactment, and turn it into an enactment."
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"I want to make a revolving door that says 'Pull' on it, just see how obedient people are."
"Don't forget to turn your clocks back today if you don't want your clocks to be set to the right time."
"As a creative person, you want to have a foothold and sense of progress."
"A musical is the same as a burlap sack, I would not want to be in either"
"Poor mind, from the senses you take your arguments, and then want to defeat them? Your victory is your defeat."
"In my writing, I want to be laid bare as a human being."
"We don't get what we want, we get what we expect."
"If you want to know the state of your personal consciousness, just look around and see what is happening to you."
"When you become defensive, blame others, and do not accept and surrender to the moment, your life meets resistance. Any time you encounter resistance, recognize that if you force the situation, the resistance will only increase. You don't want to stand rigid like a tall oak that cracks and collapses in the storm. Instead, you want to be flexible, like a reed that bends with the storm and survives."
"If I want low-impact aerobics, I'll masturbate. If I want high-impact aerobics, I'll masturbate again."
"If everyone who wants to see an end to poverty, hunger and suffering speaks out, then the noise will be deafening."
"Serve others. The failing recipe for happiness and success is to want the good of others." "happiness is when I see others happy. Happiness is a shared thing. I feel very diminished happiness if it is something I enjoy myself."
"Serve others. The failing recipe for happiness and success is to want the good of others."
"I don't often want to speak. I try to be a reasonable person and to be diplomatic, but you go to that place and you see the settlements, you see what has happened to the land that was owned by the Palestinians."
"Every situation of justice is an occasion where someone is being humiliated and they want to restore their dignity."
"One of the things we might want to learn when considering the failings of others is not to gloat because someone else has tripped up."
"All people would really want peace and all would want to be sure that they would not be taken advantage of."
"People want much the same things, but they have been formed by history to have a particular perception of the other."
"It was a relief to be able to do my own band, because I was very responsible for all this amazing music I didn't want to mess up before."