"The one thing a person wants in life is usually something basic that money can't buy."
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"I once wanted to prove myself by being a great actress. Now I want to prove that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll be a great actress."
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"I want to be an artist, an actress with integrity, and that includes all kinds of parts."
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"I won't be satisfied until people want to hear me sing without looking at me. Of course, that doesn't mean I want them to stop looking."
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"I want the world to see my body."
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"Vitali [Klitschko] does want to fight me, but his promoter wants to be bigger than him. This is another situation of politics in the sport."
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"[Kirk] Johnson throws some heavy punches and is a knockout fighter. This is what people want to see. They want to see a fight, they want to see punches and they want to see action."
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"There are still a lot of Mike Tyson fans out there, and a lot of disbelievers in the first fight, and they want to see us fight again. I am the emperor. If he wants to fight, I am here. If he does not, I understand."
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"She did not want to talk of her sorrow, but with that sorrow in her heart she could not talk of outside matters."
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"When people go to a web page, the thing that they want more than anything else is instant clarity."
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"Because I'm English, I try not to make any purely American references, because I want to limit how much I'm pretending to be American."
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"There are two extremes to avoid: being completely absorbed in your pain and being distracted by so many things that you stay far away from the wound you want to heal."
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"How can I defend myself against what I want?"
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"The tragedy of our lives is that, while we suffer from the wounds afflicted on us by those who love us, we cannot avoid wounding those we want to love."
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"I loved to teach, I loved my students, but I wanted to find a community. I prayed: "Lord, show me where you want me to go. I will go wanted wherever you call me - but please be clear.""
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"Waiting is a dry desert between where we are and where we want to be. (Finding My Way Home)"
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"Active waiting means present fully to the moment, in the conviction that something is happening where you are and that you want to be present to it."
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"Community life is not easy for somebody like me, who is used to living by himself and doing what he wants. It's a demanding life, and you quickly get in touch with your own handicaps and weaknesses."
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"There is a human striving for self-transcendence. It's part of what makes us human. With all of our flaws we want to go a little bit further than we've gone before and maybe even further than anyone else has gone before."
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"I hate purity, I hate goodness! I don't want virtue to exist anywhere. I want everyone to be corrupt to the bones."
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