"Cunning and treachery proceed from want of capacity."
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"We want a few mad people now. See where the sane ones have landed us!"
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"My money buys me the freedom not to be a member of the corporate structure. And I certainly don't feel guilty or hypocritical about that. The way our economy is set up, if you don't want to be a corporate moron and you don't want to be enfeebled in the streets, you must earn enough to know that you'll never have to go to them for money."
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"I don't want to be rich, I just want to be loved."
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"The outside world wants me to have glamour; my fans want me glamorous. I won't let them down."
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"Some men want whores on the eve of battle, and some want gods. Jon wondered who felt better afterward."
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"It's best that I hide my real personality. I cannot tell you what it is because I don't want to go to prison."
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""Don't you want to join us?" I was recently asked by an acquaintance when he ran across me alone after midnight in a coffeehouse that was already almost deserted. "No, I don't," I said."
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"The press is owned by wealthy men who only want certain things to reach the public."
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"Acting is the only time when I truly maintain the spontaneity that I want to be present at all times."
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"As more consumers demand less sugar, the food and beverage manufacturers will eventually come into line with what the consumers want."
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"The lover wants no partiality. He says, Be so kind as to be just."
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"If you want to keep getting what you're getting, keep doing what you're doing."
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"It's my party and I'll cry if I want to."
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"You may charge me with murder--or want of sense-- (We are all of us weak at times): But the slightest approach to a false pretence Was never among my crimes!"
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"You have to run as fast as you can just to stay where you are. If you want to get anywhere, you'll have to run much faster."
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"its no surprise to me that anyone hardly tells the truth about how they feel. The smart ones keep to themselves for good reason. Why would you want to tell anyone anything that's dear to you? Even when you like them and want nothing more than to be closer to them? It's so painful to be next to someone you feel so strongly about and know you can't say the things you want to."
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"If an architect wants to strengthen a decrepit arch, he increases the load laid upon it, for thereby the parts are joined more firmly together."
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"All beings so far have created something beyond themselves; and do you want to be the ebb of this great flood and even go back to the beasts rather than overcome man? What is the ape to man? A laughingstock or a painful embarrassment. And man shall be just that for the overman: a laughingstock or a painful embarrassment."
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"We are responsible to ourselves for our own existence; consequently we want to be the true helmsman of this existence and refuse to allow our existence to resemble a mindless act of chance."
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