"When I want to treat myself, I will almost always get myself a new handbag."
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"I want the world to see, you can have a million stones thrown at you and you can still be positive."
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"I want to be remembered for only one thing: my contribution to aviation."
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"If you want to be happy, make someone else happy. If you want to find the right person in your life, be the right person. If you want to see change in the world, become the change you want to see."
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"We want to see the newest things. That is because we want to see the future, even if only momentarily. It is the moment in which, even if we don't completely understand what we have glimpsed, we are nonetheless touched by it. This is what we have come to call art."
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"Sometimes, you have to step outside of the person you've been and remember the person you were meant to be. The person you want to be. The person you are."
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"Just because it's all you want, doesn't mean it's all you need."
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"I want minimum information given with maximum politeness."
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"If you want things to be right, you have to do them yourself"
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"And some places you been before are so great that you don't ever mind going back. Some places you been before you don't ever want to go back, you know, like Montreal in the Winter."
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"I don't want to be Tom Cruise. I'm not after some movie blockbuster career. That's not the kind of work I'm interested in. And frankly, it's not the kind of work I'm ever going to get."
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"One must beware of ministers who can do nothing without money, and those who want to do everything with money."
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"I am an optimist because I want to change things for the better and I know that blood has to be spilled and disharmony and cruelty are necessary to do that."
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"You want to be loved because you do not love; but the moment you love, it is finished, you are no longer inquiring whether or not somebody loves you."
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"Sometimes it [music in my head] is a curse, but it's also a blessing. It is a gift that I am completely grateful for. That's why I keep [making music], because I don't want to be ungrateful for the gift."
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"If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now."
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"To be an artist — actually, to be a human being in these times — it’s all difficult. … What matters is to know what you want and pursue it."
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"Everyone wants to work in America. Maybe not blockbusters or Terminator, but to have the choice."
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"We asked Jane Fonda if she would like to meet American pilots in Hanoi, but she refused, she didn't want to."
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"So South Korean ability is very much limited to handle North Korean, you know, difficulties. So we don't want to see an immediate collapse of the North Korea regime."
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