"You don't go into politics unless you want to win."
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"I don't want my marriage or my guns registered in Washington."
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"I think if Russia is really an honest signatory to the chemical weapons ban, if Syria wants to be, ultimately someone has to be responsible for killing civilians. And that's the hard part out of this."
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"If you want to put somebody down, analogize them to the n - - ."
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"When you get successful, you can do pretty much whatever you want."
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"You don't get the pay-off when you're playing a quiet character, so sometimes you want to just throw out all your work and say, "Okay, let me do something really funny or gimmicky, just so that I can get some attention in this scene.""
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"I did want to mark the fact that it was the first African-American to win the Lead Actress category.I thought it was so progressive."
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"If you're a boxer, you want to get the ring with a Mike Tyson or Muhammad Ali type. When you're acting, you want to get in with Meryl Streep, and that's what I did."
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"I want to get a big, lifted truck with mudflaps on the back. Where I'm from, it's an agricultural area, so that's just how I've been raised."
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"We scarcely wish to analyse what we feel to be so large and deeply human."
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"And now more than anything I want beautiful prose. I relish it more and more exquisitely."
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"After all, when you seek advice from someone it's certainly not because you want them to give it. You just want them to be there while you talk to yourself."
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"Oh. I see. People don't want to see what can't possibly exist."
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"What your soldier wants - really, really wants - is no-one shooting back at him."
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"Ordinary fortune-tellers tell you what you want to happen; witches tell you what’s going to happen whether you want it to or not. Strangely enough, witches tend to be more accurate but less popular."
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"Because no man wants to be a coward in front of a cheese."
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"I don't want to hurt you, Mistress Weatherwax," said Mrs Gogol. "That's good," said Granny. "I don't want you to hurt me either."
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"Humanity's a nice place to visit, but you wouldn't want to live there."
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"Apes had it worked out. No ape would philosophize, "The mountain is, and is not." They would think, "The banana is. I will eat the banana. There is no banana. I want another banana."
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"Because some stories end, but old stories go on, and you gotta dance to the music if you want to stay ahead"
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