"If you wish to understand a philosopher, do not ask what he says, but find out what he wants"
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"The better world we want is coming. It's just waiting for us to stop at nothing."
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"If we behave like those on the other side, then we are the other side. Instead of changing the world, all we'll achieve is a reflection of the one we want to destroy."
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"The want of occupation is no less the plague of society than of solitude."
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"I said to myself, 'I want to die decently'."
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"You don't want to negotiate the price of simple things you buy every day."
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"I never play characters that are like me because I'm a boring person. I wouldn't want to see me in a movie."
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"I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started."
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"If someone gives you $1,000,000 you'd better become a millionaire so you can keep the money. Success doesn't want to hang around incompetent people."
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"You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway."
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"There are seminars that teach us how to cope with depression, sickness and relationship break down. But God wants us to overcome."
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"When we enter into a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, something wonderful happens: God begins to change our desires, and we want to be more like Him."
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"Being beautiful can be a curse, especially if you want to be an artist and create."
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"Everything you want in life has teeth."
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"I don't know of anything better than a woman if you want to spend money where it will show."
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"Let him who wants a true church cling to the Word by which everything is upheld."
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"And to tell the truth I don't want to let go of the wrists of idleness, I don't want to sell my life for money, I don't even want to come in out of the rain."
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"Even though I build buildings and I pursue my architecture, I pursue it as an artist. I deliberately keep a tiny studio. I don't want to be an architectural firm. I want to remain an artist."
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"I am what I wanted and I want what I am."
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"Anyone who wants to achieve something, needs a lot of work."
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