"The question should be who do we want to be when we grow up, not what."
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"But I'm someone who the more afraid I am, the more I want to do it to get the fear over with."
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"I get asked if I mind when someone burns my music. I'm just flattered that people want to."
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"Herman Cain said he wants people to know that there's more between his ears than pepperoni and pizza sauce. He says there's also a few napkins and crazy bread."
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"According to a new poll, nearly six out of 10 Republicans want Mitt Romney to run for president. So do 10 out of 10 Democrats."
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"Utah could elect its first black Republican woman to Congress. In other words, Utah finally got one black person and the first thing they want to do is send her to Washington."
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"Some scientists want to replace the handshake with the fist bump. Others want to replace the fist bump with the 'tush push.'"
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"Everybody wants to make something they think is a surefire winner, though nobody knows what a surefire winner is, in my opinion."
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"You always want to quit while you are ahead. You don't want to be like a fighter who stays too long in the ring until you're not performing at your best."
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"[FBI] philosophy is "Go ahead and make the story you want to make, and hopefully we'll love it." So that's that."
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"Ideally, we'd want an Irishman coming in for the job, but, ideally it doesn't really matter."
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"We want revenge. We played well against them last time, and we feel like it's our turn."
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"I just want to be like other people that are normal."
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"I want to be a professional."
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"No man has ever paid a single bill in my life - I didn't want it."
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"I only want an easy mind, sir; not crushed by crowded obligations."
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"You ask rather too many questions. I have given you answers enough for the present: now I want to read."
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"Is there not a terrible hollowness, mockery, want, craving, in that existence which is given away to others, for want of something of your own to bestow it on?"
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"South Carolina State Rep. Mike Pitts wants to ban money."
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"I can't think of any poet-recluses outside of one dead Jeffers. [Robinson Jeffers] The rest of them want to slobber over each other and hug each other. It appears to me that I am the last of the poet-recluses."
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