"Poor and free rather than rich and enslaved. Of course, men want to be both rich and free, and this is what leads them at times to be poor and enslaved."
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"But if you only knew how many things I want to say and don't."
"If you want to accomplish something, you must first expect it of yourself."
"If you want me to speak for two minutes, it will take me three weeks of preparation. If you want me to speak for thirty minutes, it will take me a week to prepare. If you want me to speak for an hour, I am ready now."
"I want to embrace my full self, as natural as I can be."
"Who will you have to become, to achieve all you want?"
"If you want to be rich, don’t allow yourself the luxury of excuses."
"Do today what you want for your tomorrows"
"To be truly happy is a question of how we begin, and not how we end, of what we want and not what we have."
"It's not the consumers' job to figure out what they want"
"a good writer should draw the reader in by starting in the middle of the story with a hook, then go back and fill in what happened before the hook. Once you have the reader hooked, you can write whatever you want as you slowly reel them in."
"Know what you want - and get it"
"No negative, all positive, affirmative. I am, God is, everything is in me. I will manifest health, purity, knowledge, whatever I want."
"It's never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be."
"I want to do more drama. Comedy is the path of least resistance for my company. People know we can do them. People know they get a good response. People want to make them. Who am I to push up against that?"
"Not everyone coming to you with a problem wants a solution. They are attached to the attention it brings them."
"If you see that some aspect of your society is bad, and you want to improve it, there is only one way to do so: you have to improve people. And in order to improve people, you begin with only ONE thing: you can become better yourself."
"I'm all for ERA. I want to see women equal to men - not so damn superior like they've been."
"I make myself rich by making my wants few."
"You want to make him interested in you? Then pretend to be embarrassed in his presence-"