"What men really want is not knowledge but certainty."
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"They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom. Those who continually search for happiness will never find it. Happiness is made, not found. To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness."
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"If you want peace, look for it where it is, not in conflict."
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"I only want to sleep . . . and never wake."
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"No. I don't want to need anybody. I want someone to need me ... I want someone to need me."
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"A child forgets a time of hunger but never forgets the aching want of other things."
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"I don't feel like I have to please anyone. I feel free. I feel like I'm an adult. I'm grown. I can do what I want. I can say what I want. I can retire if I want. That's why I've worked hard."
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"We are all the same and we all want the same things: the right to be happy, to be just who we want to be and to love who we want to love."
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"I hold a lot of things in. I'm always making sure everybody is okay. I usually don't rage; I usually don't curse. So for me, it's a great thing to be able to scream and say whatever I want."
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"I want to be a legend, like Celine Dion."
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"I don't ever want to believe my own press clippings, good or bad."
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"Of my mental cycles, I devote maybe 10 percent to business thinking. Business isn't that complicated. I wouldn't want to put it on my business card."
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"I kinda like this Jay-Z thing, where he’s retired, but he keeps doing shows. I think I beat him to that. If you say you’re retired, people don’t bother you so much, and then if you want to do something, you can do it."
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"If you walk up to some random person on the street, grab them by the shoulder, and say 'Did you just see what I saw?!', you'll find that no-one wants to talk to you."
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"To people who want to be rich and famous, I'd say, "Get rich first and see if that doesn't cover it.""
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"I've been lucky, I've had movies that made a lot of money, so I don't feel like I have to kill every time out. I don't want that pressure. I don't need it."
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"I think we're all sort of imprisoned by - or at least bound to - the choices we make... You want to say no at the right time and you want to say yes more sparingly."
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"I knew that's where I was going. I knew we were going to Italy. You couldn't make this movie in America at this price. I knew it was going to be big. I knew there was going to be a ship involved and that there was going to be a set as big as the ship. I thought, well, here we go. But I knew that was where he was headed. He had been going this way for some time. All directors, once they have some success, they want to spend a whole heck of a lot of money. (Something else can't hear.)"
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"You want people to feel like they belong to something. And not be elitist. You don't want us to be elitist."
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"If your partner wants to be private, you have to respect that."
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