"I want taxes to be less, that the people may have more."
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"What do the Republicans say? Donald Trump? They say they're just going to roll back the Dodd-Frank regulations. They want to undermine the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau."
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"I could never be Charlie Chaplin. But the films that were made by people like him, or Gene Wilder, or John Candy, the people that inspired me so much were the people that were able to combine humor with heartbreak so beautifully and fluidly. Those films I think were what inspired me to want to come to L.A. and audition for movies."
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"Anyone who says he wants to be a writer and isn't writing, doesn't."
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"Everything that we want is downstream... And you don't have even have to turn the boat and paddle downstream, just let go of the oars, the current will carry you."
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"Make a decision and then make it right. There just are no wrong decisions. You could go this way, or that way, and either way will eventually get you to where you want to be. But in the moment you start complimenting yourself on the decision you've made, in that moment, you come back into vibrational alignment with who-you-really-are."
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"Death is what men want when the anguish of living is more than they can bear."
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"I feel very uncomfortable when I eat in restaurants. I'm obnoxiously polite with the waiters: 'I just want a tuna sandwich. I'll go get it. You sit here - I'll get it, I'll make it."
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"Want to be happy? Don't live competitively. Be content who you are. Live at peace with yourself and the losers below you."
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"You want to save more fish? Eat more broccoli."
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"My interest in well-being evolved from my interest in decision making - from raising the question of whether people know what they will want in the future and whether the things that people want for themselves will make them happy."
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"Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant."
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"You have been trapped in the inescapable net of ruin by your own want of sense."
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"K--: 'When they say "I am my own person," "I do not need a man," "I am responsible for my own sexuality," they are actually telling you just what they want you to make them forget."
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"I was satisfied with haiku until I met you, but now I want a Russian novel, a 50-page description of you sleeping."
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"I've met a few people who were passive-aggressive, but I've never met anyone who was aggressive-passive. I don't want tacos! Maybe."
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"Everything that I am or will ever be is in the music. If you want to know me, just listen."
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"God is patient with us to become the God's children he wants us to be but you really can see him weeping."
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"And I'd like to leave quite a few friends behind and I hope I will. Other than that, I don't want nobody putting me on a pedestal when I leave here. I'm just one of the people ... just me."
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"Why are people born? Why do they die? Why do they want to spend so much of the intervening time wearing digital watches?"
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