"This life is temporary, this body is temporary, but while I'm here I want to get as much out of it as I can"
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"Hawaii is the best form of comfort for me. When I die, I want to be cremated, and I want half my ashes spread in the Pacific around the island, the rest on the property."
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"Figure out for yourself what you want to be really good at, know that you'll never really satisfy yourself that you've made it, and accept that that's okay."
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"My belief is that to have no wants is divine."
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"If there's something I can do and I feel it should be done, I just want to do it. I just don't want to leave it undone because I'll sit back and say, why didn't I do that? Why didn't I start that business?"
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"I had no desire to be famous; I just wanted to make the greatest music ever made. I didn't want anyone to know who I was."
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"As long as there are guns, the individual that wants a gun for a crime is going to have one and going to get it."
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"For what it’s worth, it’s never too late to be whoever you want to be."
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"If you want to become full, let yourself be empty."
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"I don’t want to be an anti, against anybody. I simply want to be the builder of a great affirmation: the affirmation of God,who loves us and who wants to save us."
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"Freedom is the right to tell others what they don't want to hear."
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"If you want me to believe in your redeemer, you are going to have to look a lot more redeemed."
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"Brimming. That's what it is, I want to get to a place where my sentences enact brimming."
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"If you want love and abundance in your life, give it away."
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"Armistice Day has become Veterans' Day. Armistice Day was sacred. Veterans' Day is not. So I will throw Veterans' Day over my shoulder. Armistice Day I will keep. I don't want to throw away any sacred things. What else is sacred? Oh, Romeo and Juliet, for instance. And all music is."
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"What we want is not power, but simply combination in order to elicit the largest possible giving."
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"Christ says, 'Give me all. I don't want so much of your time and so much of your money and so much of your work: I want You.'"
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"We want our children to live in an America...that isn't threatened by the destructive power of a warming planet."
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"I just want people to know the facts and science and the information... measles is preventable."
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"I'm holding out a little hope personally because I want to be back, but this injury could take a year to fully recover. The last thing I want to do is feel like I'm OK, come out early and be vulnerable to further injury."
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