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"I never am really satisfied that I understand anything; because, understand it well as I may, my comprehension can only be an infinitesimal fraction of all I want to understand about the many connections and relations which occur to me, how the matter in question was first thought of or arrived at, etc., etc."
"I am alone again and I want to be so; alone with the pure sky and open sea."
"You buy a Ferrari when you want to be somebody. You buy a Lamborghini when you are somebody."
"Trust not a woman when she weeps, for it is her nature to weep when she wants her will."
"If you want to fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down."
"Everything you want to be, you already are. You're simply on the path to discovering it."
"People say, "How would you like to be remembered?" I don't want to be remembered. Gimme a break. What I want is to hear what's great about me now. Let me hear it! In the box you don't hear these eulogies."
"I have a very strict gun control policy: if there's a gun around, I want to be in control of it."
"God doesn't want something from us. He simply wants us."
"Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought"
"The further I get, the further I want to go"
"I do not want you to hear that I LOVE you, but I want you to feel it without me having to say."
"Only small minds want always to be right."
"Be happy with what you have. Be excited about what you want."
"I can change your life, make it so new. Make you never want to go back to the old you."
"If you want to control a population... give them a God to worship."
"First words on the first telephone - "Mr. Watson - come here - I want to see you.""
"I want a storm to come and flood us into a song that no one wrote."
"I am. I am, I exist, I think, therefore I am; I am because I think, why do I think? I don't want to think any more, I am because I think that I don't want to be, I think that I . . . because . . . ugh!"
"Young people want to learn, they are thirsty for knowledge, they want to understand and remember. The main thing is to teach them where not to go. Oppression, not to go; dictatorship, not to go; racism and prejudice, absolutely not to go. This is a moral plan [for society]."
