"The moment our dignity is undermined, we get up in arms and want to see our dignity restored - especially if we are humiliated."
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"I feel like each possession is a battle and you never want to lose a battle."
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"A lot of success in life and business comes from knowing what you want to avoid: early death, a bad marriage, etc."
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"There needs to be an app that edits what I say versus what I want to say."
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"If you want to know how to please a woman, just talk to a neuroscience major from Columbia."
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"Michael Scofield is someone everyone can relate to, but nobody would want to be in his shoes."
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"Mysteries are not to be solved. They eye goes blind when it only wants to see why."
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"I have one last request. Don't use embalming fluid on me; I want to be stuffed with crab meat."
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"Society or culture or whatever you might want to call it, has created us all solely and wholly for the purpose of maintaining its continuity and status quo."
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"Not to want to say, not to know what you want to say, not to be able to say what you think you want to say, and never to stop saying, or hardly ever, that is the thing to keep in mind, even in the heat of composition."
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"You act with your soul. That's why you all want to be actors, because your souls are not used up by life."
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"I believe in the person I want to become."
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"A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants."
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"You are the master of your destiny. You can influence, direct and control your own environment. You can make your life what you want it to be."
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"[To Oleg Cassini:] Just make sure no one has exactly the same dress I do ... I want all of mine to be original & no fat little woman hopping around in the same dress."
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"the serpent if it wants to become the dragon must eat itself."
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"True freedom is the right to say something that others don't want to hear."
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"Small causes are sufficient to make a man uneasy, when great ones are not in the way: for want of a block he will stumble at a straw."
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"Well, you know how it feels if you begin hoping for something that you want desperately badly; you almost fight against the hope because it is too good to be true; you've been disappointed so often before."
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"We feel that we have to be right so that we can feel good. We don’t want to be wrong because then we’ll feel bad. But we could be more compassionate toward all these parts of ourselves. The whole right and wrong business closes us down and makes our world smaller. Wanting situations and relationships to be solid, permanent, and graspable obscures the pith of the matter, which is that things are fundamentally groundless."
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