"When you move with this thought that 'I want', then the mind wanders. When you move with this thought that 'I have received', then you are content."
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"Be careful who you get advice from. I get advice from people who are where I want to be."
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"If you want to be rich, think big, think differently."
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"The lunatics have taken over the asylum and we can do anything we want."
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"Anything that doesn't make sense, I don't want to give too much of my brain to."
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"If you want more of something, subsidize it; if you want less of something, tax it."
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"What a man wants is a mate and what a woman wants is infinite security."
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"Life’s never a postcard of life, is it? It never feels like how you’d want it to look."
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"In a rational society we would want our presidents to be teachers. In our actual society we insist they be cheerleaders."
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"I didn't want to choose one world. I wanted to be part of both. I didn't want to see only one side of the sky. I wanted to see it all."
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"We cannot be all the writers all the time. We can only be who we are. Which leads me to my second point: writers do not write what they want, they write what they can."
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"I do not believe in abortion at will. I do not believe that if a woman just wants to have an abortion she should... I do believe if you have an abortion you are committing murder."
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"It's amazing what happens when you put your interests out into the universe and make it known what you want."
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"I don't want to disappoint - that's a nightmare to me."
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"Hip-hop artist, especially the older ones, are the ones who new hip-hop was a worldwide phenomenon before the mainstream caught on, so hip-hop artists are forward thinkers. We want to stay with the new."
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"If you don’t want your life to be 'messed up', don’t fool around with those who have messed up theirs."
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"If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry."
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"The fragile wants tranquility, the antifragile grows from disorder, and the robust doesn't care too much."
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"I don't want to be remembered as the girl who was shot. I want to be remembered as the girl who stood up."
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"I don't cover my face because I want to show my identity."
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