"A lot of Americans don't have a passport, never will have a passport. Not only will they not travel, they don't want to travel."
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"If you really want to rebel against your parents: outearn them, outlive them, and know more than they do."
"I can die anytime I want. I wish I could do the same with life."
"I want to change things for the better, just like everybody else."
"If the truth is told how I want to be remembered... as someone who cared. Someone who worked really hard and someone who didn't sit around."
"It's always been impressive to me when someone can really do what they want onstage. The audience has confidence in the performer and the performer has confidence in the crowd."
"If you really want a true confrontation, you treat your opponent with respect."
"I'm not trying to amass people in the streets. I just want them to be more aware."
"Whom do you call bad?--Those who always want to induce shame."
"Dead are all gods: now we want the overman to live."
"We want to be poets of our life first of all in the smallest most everyday matters."
"We should turn our death into a celebration, even if only out of a malice towards life: towards the woman who wants to leave--us!"
"Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances."
"He who humbles himself wants to be exalted."
"Acknowledge your will and speak to us all, "This alone is what I will to be!" Hang your own penal code up above you: we want to be its enforcers!"
"Of all evil I deem you capable: therefore I want the good from you."
"Even the most honest writer lets slip a word too many when he wants to round off a period."
"The danger in happiness - "Now everything is turning out right for me; from now on i'll love every turn of fate - Who wants to be my fate?"
"I want to speak to the despisers of the body. I would not have them learn and teach differently, but merely say farewell to their own bodies-- and thus become silent."
"Joy wants the eternity of all things, wants deep, wants deep eternity."