"All I want, is for you to love me. Not because of what I can do or what I look like, or because I love you - just because I am."
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"Do ye want me?" he whispered. "Sassenach, will ye take me - and risk the man that I am, for the sake of the man ye knew?"
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"I want to hold you like a kitten in my shirt, and still I want to spread your thighs and plow ye like a rotting bull. I dinna understand myself."
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"Oh, womanly sympathy, love AND food?" I said, laughing. "Don't want a lot, do you?"
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"My parents sacrificed so much for all of us. It makes me want to give back to them by being the best I can be."
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"I sincerely believe that energy grows from itself and the more energy you expand the more you create within yourself. I also believe that energy is habit -- which can be created quite easily. In other words, use your energy and more energy flows and then it is very hard to stop it -- as if one would ever want to!"
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"Accountability only works if you want it to."
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"In terms of a comedy plan I don't really have a list of what I want accomplish. I'm just riding the wave! I think I will always come back to stand-up and comedy in all its forms. I just don't think it will ever be the one sole thing I do."
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"I was approached about having my own network many, many years ago. There were some people who wanted to start up a network, and I didn't want to get that involved in the business aspect of it."
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"I figure if I keep my health, I have no intention of retiring. I love to work. I want to be like Bob Hope."
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"I have always been a firm believer in working hard for what is right and for making your own breaks if you want things to change."
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"People say you shouldn't have plastic surgery because if God wanted you another way he would have made you that way, but I say that's a lot of crock. If God didn't want plastic surgeons, he wouldn't have given them hands to work with."
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"You always want your people to be proud of what you have accomplished."
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"Wouldn't it be something if we could have things we love in abudance without their losing that special attraction the want of them held for us."
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"... for I know I shall be interrupted-- I shall want to be, really, because life is too exciting to sit still for long."
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"I don't want to throw rice. I want to throw rocks."
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"I got kind of scared when I thought they wanted me to do something... I didn't want to be naked on the front of a magazine unless everybody would know it was a joke. I wouldn't want to be naked even then."
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"Zaphod did not want to tangle with them and, deciding that just as discretion is the better part of valor, so was cowardice is the better part of discretion, he valiantly hid himself in a closet."
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"He felt a spasm of excitement because he knew instinctively who it was, or at least knew who it was he wanted it to be, and once you know what it is you want to be true, instinct is a very useful device for enabling you to know that it is."
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"Change is a process: future is a destination. People want a sense of hope, possibility and pride about Britain."
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