"Thinking that what you want equals what's best for you is a dead end."
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"Everyone wants peace, inside and outside, and we would all have it if we knew how. Now we know how. It begins with you."
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"It’s no longer a question of can I do it. It’s a question of: Do I want to do it?"
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"Obviously, you always want to win, but you want to win by skiing a race that you're proud of and you feel like you really challenged yourself and left it all out there."
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"Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know."
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"I want ... to consort with people whose emotions are not ... cold and standoffish."
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"You have to color outside the lines once in a while if you want to make your life a masterpiece."
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"I want to be cremated so people won't come to worship at my bones."
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"I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly."
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"I don’t want to do a cocktail party. I’d rather people left my shows and vomited."
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"How fatally the entire want of humor cripples the mind."
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"I really believe, or want to believe, really I am nuts, otherwise I'll never be sane."
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"I don't mind working, holding my ground intellectually, artistically; but as a woman, oh, God, as a woman I want to be dominated"
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"It must be hard to be a model, because you'd want to be like the photograph of you, and you can't ever look that way."
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"Women writers should write a lot if they want to write. Take the English women, for example. What amazing workers."
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"What I want you to understand, is the full evil of those who claim to have become convinced that this earth, by its nature, is a realm of malevolence where the good has no chance to win. Let them check their premises. Let them check their standards of value. Let them check - before they grant themselves the unspeakable license of evil-as-necessity - whether they know what is the good and what are the conditions it requires."
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"Nothing is ever enough when what you are looking for isn't what you really want."
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"I have so much in my life. I want to be of value to the world."
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"I want to use my gifts to tell the truth, and to tell it as beautifully as I can."
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"Do you know that conversation is one of the greatest pleasures in life? But it wants leisure."
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