"All we really want to do is dance."
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"We only see what we want to see; we only hear what we want to hear. Our belief system is just like a mirror that only shows us what we believe."
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"Just remember that you don't have to be what they want you to be."
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"I am a very private person. No one ever knows anything about me as I don't think it is necessary. I tell people as much as I want them to know about me."
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"The perfect date is the one where anything and everything goes wrong, but at the end of it, all you want is to see them again."
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"What you want to ignite in others must first burn inside yourself."
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"I don't want no drummer. I set the tempo."
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"No one wants the truth if it is inconvenient."
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"If you feel a sense of social responsibility, first of all keep working on yourself. Being peaceful yourself is the first step if you want to live in a peaceful universe."
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"The past is a place you can learn from, not a place you want to live."
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"I turned against the left wing because they don't like genetics, because genetics implies that sometimes in life we fail because we have bad genes. They want all failure in life to be due to the evil system."
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"If you want to be happy, try only to please God, not people."
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"There's a lot of trials and tribulations you have to go through to get what you want, especially if you feel like it belongs to you."
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"Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate."
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"There's a sadness to all kinds of music if you want to hear it. There's also happiness to it if you want to hear it."
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"I get from the soil and spirit of Texas the feeling that I, as an individual, can accomplish whatever I want to, and that there are no limits, that you can just keep going, just keep soaring. I like that spirit."
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"There's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I'm too tough for him, I say, stay in there, I'm not going to let anybody see you."
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"What I want is to live of that initial and primordial something that was what made some things reach the point of aspiring to be human."
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"I don't know what I want, but I know what I don't want"
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"If the U.S. is going to defend itself, why shouldn't we do the same? We only want to be treated equally, nothing more."
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