"They don't want you to win."
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"Change happens when you understand what you want to change so deeply that there is no reason to do anything but act in your own best interest."
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"Real journalism is publishing something that somebody else does not want published - the rest is just public relations."
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"Ads are baked into content like chocolate chips into a cookie. Except, it’s actually more like raisins into a cookie - because nobody f---ing wants them there."
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"And it hurts so much to want something you can't have."
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"You will not achieve happiness if you don't work hard; and it's a shame not to want to work hard."
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"The Navajos have a saying they live by: 'A land where there is time enough and room enough.' I want that, too."
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"If you want to improve your understanding, drink coffee."
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"You can't stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it."
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"I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go"
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"If you want to change the world, change yourself."
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"I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it."
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"Adam was but human—this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent; then he would have eaten the serpent."
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"Careful, luv. I might be angry with you, but that doesn't mean I don't still want you. So if you do that again, I'll shag you right here, right now, and sod anyone who wants to watch"
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"Each person makes their own decision about what it is that is happening, whether they like it or don't like it, whether they want to lend their energy to it or not or what, you know."
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"If we want to help poor people out, one way to do that is to help them explore and use their own capability. Human being is full of capacity, full of capability, it's a wonderful creation, but many people never get a chance to explore that, never know that she or he has that."
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"I don't come from a film background. I haven't learned anything about films or film-making. But I have a thirst to know everything about my profession. I want to learn about cinematography, about editing, about music recordings, about post-production. So when people in the know talk, I willingly listen."
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"Whatever you want to do is more than possible. It’s what you haven’t dreamt of yet that will blow your mind"
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"We will have to want peace, want it enough to pay for it, before it becomes an accepted rule."
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"What I really want out of life is to discover something new, something mankind didn’t know was possible to do."
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