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"I'm always trying to do the impossible to please people. It comes from not being secure in myself and not looking at the things within I have to fix. Sometimes you keep going because you don't want to face the truth."
"My idea of a true feminist is a woman who feels free enough to do whatever she wants."
"You pay to have a good time, you don't always want to pay to be schooled or sad or reminded how bad you got it. To me a movie theater ain't always the place for that."
"Do what you have to do until you can do what you want to do."
"An option hides where we don't want it to hide."
"I'm always on the phone because I'm usually not with the people I want to be with."
"I do not regard the procuring of peace as a matter in which we should play the role of arbiter between different opinions ... more that of an honest broker who really wants to press the business forward."
"Everyone who wants to know what will happen ought to examine what has happened: everything in this world in any epoch has their replicas in antiquity."
"Judge me all you want, just keep the verdict to yourself."
"The outer conditions of a person's life will always be found to be harmoniously related to his inner state...Men do not attract that which they want, but that which they are."
"Everybody is worried about dying, but the cause of death is birth, so if you don't want to die, you don't get born!"
"Slaves do what others want. Servants do what others need."
"I haven't a great Jazz band and I don't want one."
"Americans want to go to heaven without dying."
"I want to be a skater."
"Do something everyday that you don't want to do."
"I can teach anybody how to get, what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want. Once you are crystal clear about the intended end result that you seek to produce, all the ways that it can become a done deal start to reveal themselves to you. There are many who have accomplished exactly what you want to achieve and could show you the way. You are not ready to ask them because you are not clear and you have not determined which questions need answers."
"Being wealthy isn't just a question of having lots of money. It's a question of what we want. Wealth isn't an absolute, it's relative to desire. Every time we seek something that we can't afford, we can be counted as poor, how much money we may actually have."
"One of the reasons many people don't have what they want is neglect. Neglect starts out as an infection and then develops into a disease."
"Fascination is one step beyond interest. Interested people want to know if it works. Fascinated people want to learn how it works."
