"If you want a testimony, you are going to have a test."
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"If you want to get somewhere in this life, learn to draw beautiful women."
"I don't want to just be fully rapping my whole life."
"I've never felt like I needed to change. I've always thought, 'If you want somebody different, pick somebody else.'"
"Beware of looking for goals: look for a way of life. Decide how you want to live and then see what you can do to make a living WITHIN that way of life."
"There's only X amount of time. You can do whatever you want with that time. It's your time."
"Affirm divine calmness and peace, and send out only thoughts of love and goodwill if you want to live in peace and harmony. Never get angry, for anger poisons your system."
"If you're co-founder or CEO, you have to do all kinds of tasks you might not want to do. If you don't do your chores, the company won't succeed. No task is too menial."
"Don't you ever mind," she asked suddenly, "not being rich enough to buy all the books you want?"
"I want so much that is not here and do not know where to go."
"I just want to lobby for God."
"If you want to learn to swim you have to throw yourself in the water."
"True philosophy must start from the most immediate and comprehensive fact of consciousness: "I am life that wants to live, in the midst of life that wants to live.""
"I want to live darkly and richly in my femaleness."
"If you're going to be a wannabe, make sure you 'wannabe' something great. The most shocking thing about wannabes, is they largely want to be something irrelevant, vein, or just plain petty."
"Oh, it's always the same,' she sighed, 'if you want men to behave well to you, you must be beastly to them; if you treat them decently they make you suffer for it."
"I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love, If you want me again look for me under your bootsoles."
"Loafe with me on the grass—loose the stop from your throat; Not words, not music or rhyme I want—not custom or lecture, not even the best; Only the lull I like, the hum of your valved voice."
"If you want it you must obtain it by great labor."
"If you have a sense of style and purpose and will you don't want to compromise."