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"What I enjoy about my work is that it's all things that I wanted to see as an audience member so there's part of me that understands what an audience wants to see in that respect."
"Anybody who is capable of doing terrible things, you don't want them out in the world, but you can't help but respect their ingenuity and their savvy and their intelligence as they go about their dastardly deeds."
"Who listens to golfers? They're boring. If I want to wear camouflage on the golf course during a tournament, I will. And I have."
"I want to keep playing good golf."
"I'm mostly just getting used to the idea that people want to hear what I have to say."
"Why do I want somebody to tell me what to do, tell me what I'm doing wrong? I want to be the boss."
"If I want to be up for an Academy Award, I'm either going to have to play a tour de force of some kind or have a tracheotomy just before the nominations."
"Love asks for nothing. Only personalities want something."
"I don't just want someone who says they love me; I want someone who practices that love for me every day."
"Who we are matters immeasurably more than what we know or who we want to be."
"Everybody values their train, but they want to zero-out other people's trains."
"If we really knew who God created us to be we would never want to be someone else."
"My feeling about the Internet or anything else is that the more it tends to become a cult, the more I want to call it into question."
"Failure, it is thought, is what sells, and what people want to hear and read about. I am not so sure."
"I want to know the thoughts of God. Everything else is just details."
"Fantasie is belangrijker dan kennis, want kennis is begrensd."
"I want to know all God's thoughts."
"I want to Gods thoughts, the rest are details."
"I want to know what God thinks. The rest are details."
"If you want the answer to anything, go sit in Nature for awhile"
