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"I was very much into buying contemporary art, but I've just decided I want to get rid of it all. Not that it's not great art, but all of a sudden my mood has changed, and I want to go back to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century masters."
"If you don't know what you want, you will probably never get it."
"I have made noise enough in the world already, perhaps too much, and am now getting old, and want retirement."
"Every time I go to Comic-Con, I'm jacked. I want to dress up and walk the floor and answer questions, because I'm excited about it. It's like making new friends."
"Civilization, in the real sense of the term, consists not in the multiplication, but in the deliberate and voluntary reduction of wants."
"The Tao is in all things, in their divisions and their fullness. What I dislike about divisions is that they multiply, and what i dislike about multiplication is that it makes people want to hold fast to it. So people go out and forget to return, seeing little more than ghosts."
"We all prospect, and don't even know we're doing it. When you start the dating process, you are actually prospecting for the person you want to marry. When you're interviewing employees, you are prospecting for someone who will best fit your needs."
"When you have talked yourself into what you want, right there is the place to stop talking and begin saying it with deeds."
"When people in authority want the rest of us to behave, it matters-first and foremost-how they behave."
"You aren't ever going to be anything in this world unless you do what you want to do, when you want to do it--don't plan anything, just go out and do it."
"Offer them what they secretly want and they of course immediately become panic-stricken."
"The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse. Would you notify the telephone operators and everyone else that I'm to be known simply as Mrs. Kennedy and not as First Lady."
"I want to be a mayor who helped, really helped."
"If you want to get rid of counterfeit money, put it in the collection plate at church."
"The thing I want more than anything else? I want to have children. I used to feel for every child I had, I would adopt another."
"It is fatal to look hungry. It makes people want to kick you."
"In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it."
"The corporations plainly want academic scholarship to create a web of mystification that will avoid any public awareness of the way in which power actually functions in the society, and the faculty has caught the message and they do it magnificently."
"Remember, the U.S. is a powerful state, it's not like Libya. If Libya wants to carry out terrorist acts, they hire Carlos the Jackal or something. The United States hires terrorist states."
"I don't want to pass because I can't stand insincerities and shams. I am just as much Negro as any of the others identified with the race."
