"I know what I want to do and it makes sense to get going."
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"If you want a religion that makes sense, then I suggest something other than Christianity. But if you want a religion that makes life, then, I think this is the one."
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"You can start where you are with what you've got and go wherever it is you want to go."
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"God wants to use you to make other people happy! And the happier you make others, the happier you will be because you reap what you sow."
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"When all of this music sounds like you know what you want to say, then it will have been of all worth, ever. You will be something complete unto yourself, present and unique."
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"We need to focus on the kind of human beings we want to have and the kind of society in which we want to live."
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"I want to have the freedom to do whatever I want."
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"If someone asks me what inspires me, I always say, "That which is missing," because I don't want to copy everything that's already happening. I feel like when you copy, you blend in, and when you blend in, you get lost."
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"Buy not what you want, but what you have need of; what you do not want is dear at a farthing."
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"You don't ever want to go out there and not be the best. You want to be the best cop that you can. Be the best writer you can be. Everybody has their goals. Everybody has their dreams."
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"This concern with the basic condition of freedom -- the absence of physical constraint -- is unquestionably necessary, but is not all that is necessary. It is perfectly possible for a man to be out of prison and yet not free -- to be under no physical constraint and yet to be a psychological captive, compelled to think, feel and act as the representatives of the national State, or of some private interest within the nation, want him to think, feel and act."
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"To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope."
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"All I know is that the first step is to create a vision, because when you see the vision – the beautiful vision – that creates the want power."
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"We don't want to be free from fear. All that we want to do is to play games with it and talk about freeing ourselves from fear."
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"There are people who are not wealthy because they want to be comfortable."
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"Labeled a delinquent. That's the only kind of label I want to be crucified under."
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"Imagine, as realistically as possible, the place where you want to be in the near future, the state you wish to reach and the Universe will help you and guide you"
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"No religion will ever make me forget the condition of our people in this country...No God, no religion, no nothing will make me forget it until it stops, until it's elimitnated. I want to make that point clear."
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"I don’t want to be a product of my environment. I want my environment to be a product of me."
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"Our expensive welfare state is fueled by the destructive notion that 'greed' is when you want to keep your own money but 'compassion' is when you want to take somebody else's."
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