"If the Good Lord made a mistake in us people it was in making us want to live when we’ve got the least excuse for it."
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"I want you to remember what was good in me, not what was most awful. The people you love should be allowed to keep their worst to themselves."
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"The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine"
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"I just want to do something that matters. Or be something that matters. I just want to matter."
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"I think we have to accept a wide variety of positions on gender. Some want to be gender-free, but others want to be free really to be a gender that is crucial to who they are."
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"I guess I became an actress because I didn't want to be myself."
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"Christ wants to slay reason and subdue the arrogance of the Jews."
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"Because you want to keep an air of calm and cool."
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"If you put your mind to doing whatever it is you want to do, good things can happen."
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"For me personally, I don't pray using words - it is just with my intent. Why do I need to pray with "words," to something external, when I know what I want?"
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"But what I want most of all is a normal life."
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"I no longer look at my life and times in the motion picture industry as my career. I just look at it now as something I like and want to do."
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"People want to be amused, not preached at, you know. Morals don't sell nowadays."
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"We don't want women to really know men, because then they'll find out how much we need them."
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"What the Bible says is what God has disclosed and we want to approach this sacred text with cognitive reverence."
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"Now go away then, and leave me alone. I don't want any more of your meretricious persiflage."
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"Before we can be cured, we must want to be cured."
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"It is not enough to want to get rid of one’s sins, we also need to believe in the One who saves us from our sins."
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"If we want to find God, we have to look within, into the realm of deep mind-a realm that science has yet to explore."
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"No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern."
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