"The only way on Earth to influence other people is to talk about what they want and show them how to get it."
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"If you want to be a good conversationalist, be a good listener. To be interesting, be interested."
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"I just like being a kid. I enjoy it, I don't want to grow up."
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"I don't want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about."
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"When one is not understood one should as a rule lower one's voice, because when one really speaks loudly enough and is not heard, it is because people do not want to hear. One had better begin to mutter to oneself, then they get curious."
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"People want to be happy, and all the other things they want are typically meant to be a means to that end."
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"I don't want to do anything halfway. It has to be perfect."
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"If you knew who God made you to be, you'd never want to be anyone else."
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"Man cannot do without beauty, and this is what our era pretends to want to disregard."
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"Who doesn't want to be comfortable all day long?"
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"She is Cuba. If you want to love her, you have to be with her, but you can't be with her in her current state. It's the point of view of all exiles - you have to leave the thing you cherish most."
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"One must work and dare if one really wants to live."
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"The more you understand what somebody wants, needs, and fears, the more you can figure out how to add value."
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"I'm the rebel totally going against the grain. I always want to do the extreme. I want to get as many people looking as possible."
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"What Americans don't want to admit ... is that not only is there not a contradiction between state regulation and freedom, but in order for us to actually be free in our social interactions, there must be an extremely elaborated network of health, law, institutions, moral rules and so on."
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"You go to your TV to turn your brain off. You go to the computer when you want to turn your brain on."
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"I don't think I've arrived. I think I'm continuing to get there, getting closer and closer to where I want to go. But I'm not there yet."
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"It’s okay to be discouraged. It’s not okay to quit. To know you want to quit but to plant your feet and keep inching closer until you take the impenetrable fortress you’ve decided to lay siege to in your own life—that’s persistence."
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"It doesn't affect me because I look at the internet as the new radio. I look at the radio as gone. [...] Piracy is the new radio. That's how music gets around. [...] That's the radio. If you really want to hear it, let's make it available, let them hear it, let them hear the 95 percent of it."
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"People don't want other people to be people."
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