"Mass attention is almost unattainable and it's not clear that you want it."
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"God wants someone to defend him."
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"I realized I loved you, and I didn't want to be married to somebody I didn't love. I wanted to be married to you. It isn't all that complicated."
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"You want me to describe Elvis, wow!"
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"I spent a lot of my life holding back my cries, and I want to change that because it's not good for me."
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"You don't want to be outside during blackfly season."
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"I don't want someone photographing my cellulite - I can't take it!"
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"I want to be successful, but I don't really have what it takes to do it comfortably."
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"I did not want to be a Champion growing up, just a fast skater."
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"You're still the one I run to, the one that I belong to, you're still the one I want for life."
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"Ultimately, I am responsible for how I live my life now, and what I make out of it. In fact, I am actually grateful for what I've gone through and wouldn't change a thing-although I admit I wouldn't want to live it over again either. Once was enough."
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"At an Olympics Game, you want to enjoy it, especially if you know it's going to be your last one."
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"I want to get away from the high school thing and do other types of roles."
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"I don't really want to be fat, so I stop before I am. I'm not a vegetarian, but I might go through a phase when I'm not interested in eating protein for a week or so, and then I might go through a phase when I eat nothing but steak."
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"I'm not big on plastic surgery for me but I don't fault it for someone who wants it for them. You have to do what makes you feel good, but it's not my thing."
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"If you want to communicate, use the telephone"
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"We also don't always know what we want. And in those cases it can actually make us worse off because it's actually easier to figure out what you want and to figure out how the options differ if you have about a handful of them than if you have a hundred of them."
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"When companies try to guess what consumers want, they essentially make the choice for consumers."
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"Knowledge should be a public good, and I want my ideas to have as much exposure as possible."
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"My child's first word was "more," but and it's all about, "I want." "I'm going to tell you what I want and what I don't want." It's about my desire to express my preferences. And that is really innate."
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