"I don't want somebody sucking up to me because they think I am going to help their career. I want them sucking up to me because they genuinely love me."
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"We do not always get what we want. Sometimes life presents us with surprises."
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"If I am to serve as an instrument of deceit, at least let it be with a clear conscience. I do not want to be considered either so affectionate or so loyal a servant as to be found fit to betray anyone."
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"I do not correct my first imaginings by my second--well, yes, perhaps a word or so, but only to vary, not to delete. I want to represent the course of my humors and I want people to see each part at its birth."
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"I think if I weren't married to [Barack Obama], I'd want him to be in there."
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"I always want to be on the cusp of being in the best shape that I can be."
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"I would be depressed if I felt I could never eat the things that I love. I also don't want my girls to be obsessed about food."
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"I always want to be on the cusp of being in the best shape that I can be. What I'm discovering is that the older you get, the more work you have to do to stay there."
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"It's all so personal, isn't it? It's hard to talk about work without talking about things that are personal. Work is personal. I don't want to talk about my personal life, but it's on my mind, and it's in my work."
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"If you have the expectation that I have to be a certain way, then I feel the obligation to be that way. The truth is I am not what you want me to be."
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"And what is the right woman, the right man? Someone who wants to go in the same direction as you do, someone who is compatible with your views and your values-- emotionally, physically, economically, spiritually."
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"It's incredible what we can do if we really want to do it. All we need is to be aware of what we are doing and to return to the authenticity we were born with."
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"Love has no resistance. Whatever we do is because we want to do it."
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"Practice makes the Master. You can reconcile what you are and what you want to be."
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"He who's down one day can be up the next, unless he really wants to stay in bed, that is."
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"I know why they don't like me because they want the money I have."
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"There's no way I would want to hurt him or bust him up. That's why, for the sake of the family as well as himself, I will take him out in the opening round."
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"I just want to try everything. I want to see how good I can be, the best I can be at what I'm doing. I want to do everything. You know? I want to be in a musical. I want to do everything. I want to try and sing."
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"what's the matter?" he asked "nothing" "what do you want me to do for you?" "i want you to be old. ten years older. twenty years older" what she meant was: i want you to be weak. as weak as i am."
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"Revolution in Love’. Can you tell me what you mean by that? Do you want free love as against bourgeois marriage, or monogamy as against bourgeois promiscuity?"
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