"I want to find someone who's really magnetic but who isn't going to do anything bad to me. It's hard."
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"Those who reach decisions promptly and definitely, know what they want, and generally get it."
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"Be politically correct, but please don't bother other people with conversation about being politically correct, because that's the end of everything. You want to create boredom? Be politically correct in your conversation."
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"Love is when you find that thing, when you want to give more than you want to take."
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"I didn't know what to say. I felt like crying, Goddammit everybody in the world wants an explanation for your acts and for your very being."
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"It's not necessary to tell all you know. It's not ladylike -- in the second place, folks don't like to have someone around knowin' more than they do. It aggravates them. Your not gonna change any of them by talkin' right, they've got to want to learn themselves, and when they don't want to learn there's nothing you can do but keep your mouth shut or talk their language."
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"I don't want to be a movie star. I want to be in movies that are stars."
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"I don't want to be called a point guard, but I can't stop it."
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"I cry a lot. My emotions are very close to my surface. I don't want to hold anything in so it festers and turns into pus - a pustule of emotion that explodes into a festering cesspool of depression."
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"Many things are lost for want of asking."
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"If you want to go somewhere, goto is the best way to get there."
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"I can't live where I want to, I can't go where I want to go, I can't do what I want to, I can't even say what I want to. I decided I was a very stupid fool not to at least paint as I wanted to."
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"I want real things ... music that makes holes in the sky."
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"That's the whole point of good propaganda. You want to create a slogan that nobody's going to be against, and everybody's going to be for. Nobody knows what it means, because it doesn't mean anything."
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"That's the ultimate thing I want to do in making music - to be able to inspire somebody else."
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"If the people really set their minds on anything it is impossible to prevent their getting what they want."
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"Which way you ought to go depends on where you want to get to."
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"I don’t understand anything...and I no longer want to understand anything. I want to stick to the fact...If I wanted to understand something, I would immediately have to betray the fact, but I’ve made up my mind to stick to the fact."
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"That's what I want, that kind of recklessness where the poem is even ahead of you. It's like riding a horse that's a little too wild for you, so there's this tension between what you can do and what the horse decides it's going to do."
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"When you want to read the book, come read the book. When you want to come talk to me and be my friend, come talk to me."
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