"If you want to be a warrior, you have to train."
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"The trouble is that my heart is loath to be without love even for a single hour. ... If you want to keep me forever, then show as much friendship as love, and more than anything else, love me and tell me the truth."
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"I'm my own person, and I want people to know me for who I am."
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"Have them all shot. I don't want any of my workers dissatisfied."
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"Avoid working directly under somebody you don't admire and don't want to be like."
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"I hide my documents in many different places on my computer, because I often write things that I would never want anybody to read, at least unedited, and I'm paranoid that someone might figure out what the password to my computer is and maliciously read my Word documents. So a lot of the time I lose things I've written and/or completely forget about them."
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"I want to live for something. I don't want to live to get charity food to give me enough strength to go back to get more charity food."
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"God knows what is best for you, and He wants to reveal it to you and show you what you ought to do."
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"Dream up the kind of world you want to live in. Dream out loud."
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"Pleasantries are low entropy, biased so far that they stop being an earnest inquiry and become ritual. Ritual has its virtues, of course, and I don't quibble with them in the slightest. But if we really want to start fathoming someone, we need to get them speaking in sentences we can't finish."
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"If you want to develop courage, then simply act courageously when it's called for. If you do something over and over again, you develop a habit. Some people develop the habit of courage. Some people develop the habit of non-courage."
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"I always want to defeat supervillains - it's just the chicken-and-broccoli diet that I'm not into."
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"We’re only here briefly. And while I’m here I want to allow myself joy."
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"One should want only one thing and want it constantly. Then one is sure of getting it. But I desire everything, and consequently get nothing."
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"I don't want to be a great actress. I want to be a sexy movie star."
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"If I can mean to people - if I can symbolize the ability to pursue gender equality, racial equality, and to be truthful about our experiences, then, absolutely, that's what I want to be."
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"We must wash literature off ourselves. We want to be men above all, to be human."
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"I really prefer to be kind of anonymous. Because when people know your whole history, they have a tendency to relate to you differently and maybe put you up on a pedestal. I want people to just be normal with me. I just want to live my life."
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"Don't ever give up what you want in life. The struggle is worth it."
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"We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to."
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