"I liked those ladies! They were helpers, and they danced.' These are the words I want on my gravestone: that I was a helper, and that I danced."
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"Whatever you love most, you fear you might lose, you know it can change. Why do you look from left to right when you cross the street? Because you don’t want to get run over. But, you still cross the street."
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"When I was younger I didn't want to listen to anybody, but now more than ever where I am in my life I understand how important it is to listen, observe, absorb, and let that all come out through your music."
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"I don't want the public to see the world they live in while they're in the Park (Disneyland). I want to feel they're in another world."
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"If you want to learn something, just steal it."
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"I want to return to the womb, anyone's."
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"I usually want to crawl into the ground after I make a film, almost invariably."
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"People are only influenced in the direction in which they want to go, and influence consists largely in making them conscious of their wishes to proceed in that direction."
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"All I want out of life is that when I walk down the street, folks will say, "There goes the greatest hitter who ever lived.""
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"I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed."
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"I discovered very early on that if you wanted a thing, you went for it - and you got it. Most people never go anywhere, or want anything - so they never get anything."
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"What We want is to make it possible for our unfortunate people to live a life of industry for it is by steady work alone that we hope for our physical and moral rehabilitation. For this reason above all we have undertaken to rally our people around our ideal."
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"People say to write about what you know. I'm here to tell you, no one wants to read that, cos you don't know anything. So write about something you don't know. And don't be scared, ever."
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"I want there to be a life for the street element. Instead of we always getting shut out. Instead of defenseless, having power."
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"I guess I've always lived upside down when I want things I can't have."
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"We just can't love without God. God wants for us want we want for ourselves. These basic things are not that hard to grasp. We just have to have faith, and faith is a gift. We just need to accept it."
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"If we want to end this lifetime higher than we began, we can expect an uphill road."
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"Choice is the only tool we have that enables us to go from who we are today to who we want to be tomorrow."
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"If you are part of a society that votes, then do so. There may be no candidates and no measures you want to vote for ... but there are certain to be ones you want to vote against. In case of doubt, vote against. By this rule you will rarely go wrong."
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"If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all."
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