"Working because you want to is the best sort of play."
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"Sovereign," like "love," means anything you want it to mean; it's a word in dictionary between "sober" and "sozzled."
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"I enrich myself by telling others to give to me so they can bribe God to get what they want."
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"Knock! knock! who's there? me! me who? that's right? what's right? meehoo! that's what I want to know! what's what you want to know? me who? yes, exactly! exactly what? yes, I have exactlywatt on a chain! exactly what on a chain? yes! yes what? no, exactlywatt! that's what I want to know! I told you-exactlywatt! exactly what? yes! yes what? yes it's with me. what's with you? exactlywatt-that's what with me. me who? yes! go away! knock knock..."
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"I want to be like Tom Freston. Tom just flies around everywhere, gets to make movies, gets to start TV shows, hang out with cool people and do whatever he wants."
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"If you want to get in shape, go to the # gym every single day, change your clothes and take a shower. If you can do that every single day for a month, pretty soon you'll start doing something while you're there."
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"Do you know what people want more than anything? They want to be missed."
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"Competition and the market are like water, they go where they want"
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"If you want to dig a big hole, you need to stay in one place."
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"To make a product, to market an idea, to come up with any problem you want to solve that doesn't have a constituency with an otaku, is almost impossible... There's a hot sauce otaku, but there's no mustard otaku."
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"I hope I'm better looking than Yoda, but - I'm really interested in people who have something to say, a change they want to make and can't figure out why they can't make it spread."
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"You can't solve problems for someone whose problem is that they don't want problems solved."
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"Where you have a villain in the piece or the antagonist, whatever you want to call them, there has to be humanity at the core of it or it's faintly ridiculous. Nobody is just villain through and through. You have to feel something for them."
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"Honestly, I don't always want to get up in the mornings, but I do anyway."
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"It's a bad place when you see sometimes how coaches treat people. I don't even want to say players. I want to say people. They're people before they become a player."
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"I'm an internationalist. I want to help others, not just kill terrorists."
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"I want you to put more life into your dying."
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"I don't ever want to be the type of person to tell you what to think or what to believe. Whatever stage in your life that you are in, I want you to organically reach whatever conclusions that you possibly reach."
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"I didn't realize that diets don't work, and I did not want to diet. I didn't want to do anything that required dieting."
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"I want to see more women as producers."
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