"If you want to find out what a writer or a cartoonist really feels, look at his work. That's enough."
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"If you were to ask me what I want to do - I don't want to be a celebrity, I want to make a difference."
"Find the thing you want to do most intensely, make sure that’s it, and do it with all your might. If you live, well and good. If you die, well and good. Your purpose is done"
"It is not my duty to spend my money in my country, but it is what I want to do. There is nowhere else I would like to invest."
"Think of it as you want it, not as it is!"
"If someone doesn't want me, I'm not going to hang around and win them over."
"People prefer to believe what they want to be true."
"Sometimes I just want to be with my family and watch movie and eat some popcorn. But when I step on the mat I know there is no other place I'd rather be."
"There are guys who want to shoot the last shot and others who want to pass off. I want that last shot."
"Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react. There are some things we can't control and some things that do happen to us that we can't take back, but how we deal with it afterwards is our future... I think anybody can do anything they want if they stay positive and determined."
"I want you always to remember me. Will you remember that I existed, and that I stood next to you here like this?"
"News is something somebody doesn't want printed; all else is advertising."
"I'm not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the composer."
"You don't want another Enron? Here's your law: If a company, can't explain, in one sentence, what it does... it's illegal."
"The existence of forgetting has never been proved: We only know that some things don't come to mind when we want them."
"That's one thing about me, and I think that's what most of my fans enjoy about me, that I don't hold nothing back. I do exactly what I want to do, and say exactly what I want to say."
"Canadians want to see real hope restored, not false hopes raised."
"Invention is by its very nature disruptive. If you want to be understood at all times, then don't do anything new."
"There are some things you don’t have to know how it works – only that it works. While some people are studying the roots, others are picking the fruit. It just depends on which end of this you want to get in on." -- Jim Rohn"
"Critics, mathematicians, scientists and busybodies want to classify everything, marking the boundaries and limits... In art, there is room for all possibilities."