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"Anybody can say they want to be the greatest ever. I take pride in it. If you're around me long enough and watch me work, that's what I'm striving for. I won't stop until I am."
"I hope someday you see this is all life wants: for you to be your own kind of beautiful & not the kind that makes you forget who you are."
"It is true that when you smoke DMT, for example, at a sufficiently high and prepared dose, you get elves, everybody does. All you need do, is inhale deeply three times, and you know... You want contact? You want elves? You want alien contact? You'll have that!"
"I don’t want anyone putting any limits on me."
"Figuring out what to wear is much easier if you first think about what effect you want to create."
"To get all that life wants for you, apply what I call the Boomerang Effect: Give out what you most want to see come back."
"When we are at the worst times of our lives, when we are battling with something, or struggles, whatever it may be, when we are at our highest point as well, when things are going really well, we want somebody to comfort us and be there for us and to say, 'Well done.' That's Jesus!"
"I made so many films which were more important, but the only one people ever want to talk about is that one with [Humphrey Bogart]."
"News is what someone wants suppressed. Everything else is advertising."
"If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself."
"I want to leave, to go somewhere where I should be really in my place, where I would fit in . . . but my place is nowhere; I am unwanted."
"A powerful woman is someone who exudes confidence and can be tough but fair and kind. And also knows how to get what she wants."
"Is today the day? Am I ready? Am I doing all I need to do? Am I being the person I want to be?"
"Ask for what you want. Believe that you deserve it, and then allow Life to give it to you."
"Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure."
"I don't want to end up being a circus act, doing my most famous tricks when I'm 70."
"I have a confidence in my understanding of formal aesthetics and I don't want to be aware of it or make that my problem."
"What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning."
"I just want to make the best music of all time with my best friends."
"We want to appeal to everyone and get rich quick. We want to be millionaires. I've got this plan to buy Tasmania you see."
