"The end is here, and you don't want be here. You are the best in the world at something, and you know you are not going to be that great at anything else."
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"A headline last year, after the death of Saddam Hussein, read: 'Tyrant is hanged'. My auntie looked at the newspaper and sobbed, 'Who's going to present "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?"'"
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"I just want to be more regular."
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"I don't want to spend my life doing jobs that I don't care about."
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"I don't like politicians, and I don't like politics. I definitely don't want to be associated with any of them."
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"Want to know where the action in a culture is? Watch where new language is turning up and where the lawyers collect, usually in that sequence."
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"As a director myself, you want to have colleagues and collaborators that respect your authority as the director. I'm very comfortable with that, and I've done a lot of work in second unit."
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"It should be the right of the individual to decide whether he wants to belong to a union."
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"I don't know why anyone would want to study the expansion of the universe."
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"Jesse Helms wants me to move to the right, Lowell Weiker wants me to move to the left, and Teddy Kennedy wants me to move back to California."
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"Everyone has a conflict inside of them - the conflict between what you should do and what you want to do."
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"I wanted to be a songwriter.I didn't so much want to be a performer.I more grew into that just from being a songwriter."
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"It's a little dangerous for me to get outside myself and think about how I want people to see me."
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"I'm a radical reformist, because between where we are and where I want to go there's a great deal of work, and I won't see the end of this."
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"Eventually, I want to finish my degree."
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"One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse yourselves."
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"I want to save my soul, that timid wind."
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"Dissimulation, secretiveness, appear a necessity to the melancholic. He has complex, often veiled relations with others. These feelings of superiority, of inadequacy, of baffled feeling, of not being able to get what one wants, or even name it properly (or consistently) to oneself — these can be, it is felt they ought to be, masked by friendliness, or the most scrupulous manipulation."
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"How to transcend the senses without disturbing the health is what we want to learn."
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"First get rid of the delusion "I am the body," then only will we want real knowledge."
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