"Readers want more of the same from you. So stick to one genre."
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"I want to promote poetry to the point where you got all the baldhead kids running around doing poetry, getting the music out of the way and having only words, the spoken word, and then see what happens."
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"I very much want to inject gay culture into the mainstream. It's not an underground tool for me. It's my whole life."
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"Just know that if you want to be a boxer you're going to get your face beaten constantly but then you may end up being a Mayweather or an Ali at the end of the day."
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"Every time I reach a new peak, I see a new one I want to climb."
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"We must be the world we want to create."
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"We have to tackle the triple malady which holds our villages fast in its grip; want of corporate sanitation, deficient diet and inertia."
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"There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something."
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"It makes no difference where you go, there you are. And it makes no difference what you have, there’s always more to want. Until you are happy with who you are, you will never be happy because of what you have."
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"I don't have any plugs or tucks but people do what they want. I look at it as mutilation."
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"If you're a big Nirvana fan, a big Hole fan, then I understand why you would want to get to know me, but I'm not my parents."
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"I want to be the most durable person on the planet."
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"I want to be able to raise my kid. I was totally being a martyr about it at first, thinking I could totally do it on my own, which I did for a while. I've hired a babysitter before, but as for a full-time caregiver... for a control freak like me, it ain't gonna happen!"
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"It's so painful to be next to someone you feel strongly about and know you can't say the things you want to."
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"If you have an idea of what you want to do in your future, you must go at it with almost monastic obsession. [...] You have to go at it single-mindedly and let nothing get in your way."
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"The time to begin writing an article is when you have finished it to your satisfaction. By that time you begin to clearly and logically perceive what it is you really want to say."
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"To reconnect with nature is key if we want to save the planet."
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"I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself."
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"People always want reasons for things ... but sometimes there are no reasons."
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"Let me live my life the way I want to."
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