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"That's what I mean about Catholicism - your sexual life is supposed to be dead if you're a good Catholic. That's wrong. It's human nature to be sexual, so why would God want you to deny your human nature?"
"Make no mistake, Madonna is always in control of the image she wants you to see."
"You do have to continue, as you grow as a human, checking in and going is this what I want? Am I giving away things that I don’t want? Who am I and what do I want to keep doing?"
"It seems to me there is a change in what audiences want to see…I can only hope that’s correct, because there’s an awful lot of people of my age around now and we outnumber the others."
"Where you get people who want to take a picture of you or take a picture of them with you."
"The taking of vows that are not feasible or that are beyond one's capacity would betray thoughtlessness and want of balance."
"Start changing yourself if you want to change the life around you."
"Education should be so revolutionized as to answer the wants of the poorest villager, instead of answering those of an imperial exploiter."
"I want for India complete independence in the full English sense of that English term."
"I want India to come into her own and that state cannot be better defined by any single word than Swaraj."
"With God as witness, I want to proclaim this truth, that the way of violence cannot bring Swaraj, it can only lead to disaster."
"The villagers want bread-not butter-and disciplined work, some work that will supplement their agricultural avocations which do not go on for all the 12 months."
"If we want to impart education best suited to the needs of the villagers, we should take the vidyapith to the villages."
"The safest rule of conduct is to claim kinship when we want to do service and not to insist on kinship when we want to assert a right."
"We have to be the change we want in the world."
"I simply want to tell the story of my experiments with truth...as my life consists of nothing but those experiments."
"There is no such thing as 'Gandhism', and I do not want to leave any sect after me."
"For my own part, I do not want the freedom of India if it means extinction of English or the disappearance of Englishmen."
"That I want to destroy British imperialism is another matter, but I want to do so by converting those who are associated with it."
"I do not want India to rise on the ruin of other nations."
