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"A man who carries a cat by the tail is getting experience that will always be helpful. He isn't likely to grow dim or doubtful. Chances are, he isn't likely to carry the cat that way again, either. But if he wants to, I say let him!"
"When I want to read something nice, I sit down and write it myself."
"The worst thing you can do to a man is to tell him he can have what he wants."
"On Becoming a 'Lady': What every mother wants her daughter to be."
"I want to go to the gym every day otherwise I feel really bad. I just want to get more toned and healthy."
"I love modeling but also see it as a platform for the million other things I want to achieve and create in life."
"I think people just probably don't want people to think that they're vain."
"I'm just not a private person. It's not like I do things because I want things to be public; it's just that's my way of expressing myself, and I happen to be very famous."
"Of course I want people to show up to the concerts and I am sure for that to decline would be a difficult thing."
"I don't want to be tied down. I don't want to settle down. I don't want I love you."
"I've got friends who didn't vote. I want to smack them upside the head."
"We as beings are very contradictory, complicated creatures that work in our best interest and against our best interest. In a certain way, I want my work to have all that messiness."
"I know Quebecers don't want to relive old battles; they prefer to build for the future."
"I want…” he said, then hesitated, taking a breath of air and lifting his chin. “I want one pure thing in my life,” he said loudly, his voice ringing in the red-tinted air. “I want one thing I can point to and say, ‘That is good, and it’s a part of me."
"I want one thing I can point to and say, 'that is good, and it's a part of me.'"
"A demon was asking me what I wanted. My eyes flicked to Al, and he shrugged. “What do you want?” he said softly."
"I just want my name back so my life can go back to chaotic and weird instead of chaotic and desperate."
"You want to tell me, and I have no objection to hearing it."
"If you work hard and be persistent, you will achieve whatever you want to do."
"I want to change awareness."
