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"I've read horoscopes before and what they say. But I would actually love to not be what somebody writes down - I don't want to be described. I don't want you to be able to read something and say, "This is how Wayne is." I'd rather you meet me and decide. I'd rather be different, basically."
"Whatever you do, just don't stand still. Make the changes you need today, so you can live the life you want, tomorrow."
"Time is everything. Anything you want, anything you accomplish - pleasure, success, fortune - is measured in time."
"It is the nature of stone to be satisfied. It is the nature of water to want to be somewhere else."
"Do you want to be great? Pick up a broom and sweep the floor."
"I'm a doctor of cowshit, pigshit, and chickenshit.....when you doctors figure out what you want, you'll find me out in the barn shoveling my thesis."
"Why do so many people chose to spend their whole life destroying paths they didn't even want to follow, instead of following the one path that would lead them somewhere."
"The demand for organic food is growing at a remarkable rate. Consumers have made it clear that they want organic produce and every sector of the food chain is responding, with the kind of results we have just seen."
"You want to have a future where you’re expecting things to be better, not one where you’re expecting things to be worse."
"The safest way to get what you want is to deserve what you want."
"All I want to know is where I’m going to die, so I’ll never go there"
"If you want others to have a good opinion of you, say nothing."
"In 1904, 20 per cent of journeys were made by bicycle in London. I want to see a figure like that again. If you can't turn the clock back to 1904, what's the point of being a Conservative?"
"Refuse to criticize, condemn, or complain. Instead, think and talk only about the things you really want."
"If you want to write, keep cats."
"If you ask any lady they want to be taller, they want to be slimmer, you know, and they want a waist. I'm not here to make people look like a sack of potatoes."
"If you want to work on your art, work on your life."
"If you want to end war and stuff, you gotta sing loud."
"Of course {I'm bisexual}. If I fell in love with a woman tomorrow, would I feel that it's okay to want to kiss and touch her? If I fell in love with her? Absolutely! Yes!"
"The earth, that is sufficient, I do not want the constellations any nearer, I know they are very well where they are, I know they suffice for those who belong to them."
