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"The food was so good that with each passing course, our conversation devolved further into fragmented celebrations of its deliciousness: 'I want this dragon carrot risotto to become a person so I can take it to Las Vegas and marry it."
"They were conquerors, and for that you want only brute force--nothing to boast of, when you have it, since your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others."
"I want to sing simple things for the simple lives of simple people."
"Married love burns as fire, and seeks nothing more than the mate. It says, "I want only you""
"Don't make assumptions. Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want."
"Attention is the ability we have to discriminate and to focus only on that which we want to perceive."
"It doesn’t matter how much you love someone, you are never going to be what that person wants you to be."
"I'm a bad guy. But if I was a good guy, nobody would want to pay to see me fight."
"I don't have to be what you want me to be."
"These girls want nothing to do with last season's clothes."
"Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman!"
"Women themselves have the right to live in dignity, in freedom from want and freedom from fear. On this International Women's Day, let us rededicate ourselves to making that a reality."
"If I want to be a loving, generous, giving person, I'm not going to test the waters. I'm simply going to be a loving, generous, giving person."
"You are not making the change because you are a bad person and you are doing it wrong. You make changes because you love yourself and you want to improve the quality of your life."
"All these questions about do you want to be king? It's not a question of wanting to be, it's something I was born into and it's my duty. . . . Wanting is not the right word. But those stories about me not wanting to be king are all wrong."
"Society wants to put us in a box and say, OK, you do this and you do that and you do this, and I'm like, no, I like this, I like that."
"Not for me. If I want to tune everybody out, I just take off my glasses and enjoy the haze."
"We want wealth, but there are many other things we want very much more. Among them are peace, honor, charity, and idealism."
"You tell yourself that you aren't something or that you can't be something, and you know what? It will become true. You have to decide who you are and what you can do and then go after what you want. Because believe me, no one is going to give it to you."
"You can get to where you want to be from wherever you are-but you must stop spending so much time noticing and talking about what you do not like about where you are."
