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"Does it ever stop? The wanting you?" "Even when I've just left ye. I want you so much my chest feels tight and my fingers ache with wanting to touch ye again."

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Drake Rapper, singer, songwriter
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"I'm obsessed with perfection. I want to work. I don't want to stop. I want to take advantage and make myself the best possible me that I can be."

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Charles Bukowski Poet, Novelist
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"But my whole life has been a matter of fighting for one simple hour to do what I want to do. There was always something getting in the way of my getting to myself."

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Trip Lee Rapper, Author, Pastor
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"That's the new picture of the good life that I want to paint - living the way that God created us to live. That's what the good life is."

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Simone de Beauvoir Philosopher, Writer
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"I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end."

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Ice Cube Rapper, Actor
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"I used to love to draw. I didn't want to go to art class because I felt that would be too corny when I was young, but architectural drafting was the cool thing to do because there was more precision. It taught me a lot about building and structures and doorways and frames and windowsills."

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Philip Johnson Architect
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"Architects are pretty much high-class whores. We can turn down projects the way they can turn down some clients, but we've both got to say yes to someone if we want to stay in business."

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David Bowie Musician, Actor
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"Everything we look at and choose is some way of expressing how we want to be perceived."

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