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"It took us three years to build the NeXT computer. If we'd given customers what they said they wanted, we'd have built a computer they'd have been happy with a year after we spoke to them - not something they'd want now."
"Remember, it's Ok to get what you want from life."
"In case anybody asks you about my position on capital punishment, you can tell them I favor it; and if they want to know why, you can tell them this story."
"Every one wants to command, and no one wants to obey; and this is owing to the absence of that wonderful brahmacharya system of yore. First, learn to obey. The command will come by itself. Always first learn to be a servant, and then you will be fit to be a master."
"I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love."
"All I want is blackness. Blackness and silence."
"Don't be dependent on anyone else. I want to go everywhere, look at, and listen to everything. You can go crazy with some of the wonderful stuff there is in life."
"In America, they want you to accomplish these great feats, to pull off these David Copperfield-type stunts. You want me to be great, but you don't ever want me to say I'm great?"
"I embrace my blackness, just as I do my conservatism and my Christianity, but I don't want to be defined or pigeonholed by any one of the many elements that make up my character."
"The happier and more stress-free you are, the more people will want to be around you and the more your friends will respect you."
"I can’t tell you just how wonderful she is. I don’t want you to know. I don’t want any one to know."
"God knows, we don't want prayer."
"One must dare to show what he wants. You have to go and ask for things rather than wait for them to happen."
"I'm not claiming to appeal to the same people that Christina Aguilera or Britney Spears are going to appeal to. I'm not trying to. I'm doing what I want to do."
"I'll stop doing everything that I do when I don't want to do it anymore."
"If you want everything, you first have to give everything up."
"I always want to read the script before I totally commit."
"She is the mother I never had, she is the sister everybody would want. She is the friend that everybody deserves. I don't know a better person."
"I think it's like the '60s - we're going to see another revolution in film where these new filmmakers stand up and take ownership of what film is and mould it into what they want."
"It’s great that in life you do something that you want to do because you like doing it and you’re not bored. I’m not bored at all. I’m even interested in lots of things, more so today than before."
