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"What a weird thing smoking is and I can't stop it. I feel cosy, have a sense of well-being when I'm smoking, poisoning myself, killing myself slowly. Not so slowly maybe. I have all kinds of pains I don't want to know about and I know that's what they're from. But when I don't smoke I scarcely feel as if I'm living. I don't feel as if I'm living unless I'm killing myself."
"Enough of these phrases, conceit and metaphors, I want burning, burning, burning."
"I DON'T CARE!" Harry yelled at them, snatching up a lunascope and throwing it into the fireplace. "I'VE HAD ENOUGH, I'VE SEEN ENOUGH, I WANT OUT, I WANT IT TO END, I DON'T CARE ANYMORE!"
"I'm doing what I want to do."
"You can do what you want, but saving love doesn't bring any interest."
"No labour is too mean for one who wants to earn an honest penny."
"If you want riches, you must refuse to accept any circumstance that leads toward poverty."
"I don't want one play to define me as a player."
"You don't disarm any white community by confining yourself to any particular method. If you want freedom, then you should get freedom like Patrick Henry said, by whatever method is necessary."
"My hopes are that I can give my children security, health, and the confidence to create the life they want and serve others."
"If you want respect for your past, it means that you have a problem with your present and even more with your future."
"Virginity is the ideal of those who want to deflower."
"He lives well who lives retired, and keeps His wants within the limits of his means."
"It's not like I'm starved for company - I have a few very good lady friends - but there's only a certain amount of times a woman wants to see you and never go out for dinner."
"Never relinquish clothing to a hotel valet without first specifically telling him that you want it back."
"...it behooves us to adapt oneself to the times if one wants to enjoy continued good fortune."
"The less I have, the freer I am to do whatever I want to do."
"I want to be an actor, maybe a comic actor but a real actor."
"Her business manager said, you know, Gilda [Radner] left you that house. That's when I decided to stay and test it out. And after about a month, the roots grew, and I didn't ever want to live anywhere else for the rest of my life - travel, yes, but not to live anywhere else."
"A certain harmony should be kept between actions and ideas if we want to fully develop the effects they can produce."
