"If I have an agenda or a goal, no one is going to deter me from what I want to do."
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"I want to be the bridge to the next generation."
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"Society teaches us conditional love; i.e., "I love you if you are the way I want you to be.""
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"There's nothing wrong with making mistakes, just don't make the same ones. We don't want to duplicate them."
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"I like strong women - not necessarily a masculine woman - but I like strong women...say a woman who runs a C.E.O. corporation. I like a strong woman with confidence - massive confidence - and then I want to dominate her sexually."
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"Bill [Gates] and I believe philanthropy can only be effective if it starts things and proves whether they actually work or not. That's the place that governments often don't want to, or can't, work."
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"You want a CEO that understands they need to build a team around them that's sharper and smarter than they are."
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"On some days you get what you want, and on others, you get what you need."
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"arouse in the other person an eager want. He who can do this has the whole world with him. He who cannot walks a lonely way."
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"If you want enemies, excel your friends; but if you want friends, let your friends excel you."
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"If we want to make friends, let's greet people with animation and enthusiasm."
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"You can get ahead in the world. But you will have to work, you will have to want tremendously to accomplish something, and then be willing to pay the price. Are you willing?"
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"I want God, not my idea of God."
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"We do not want to merely “see” beauty. We want to be united with it, to receive it into ourselves, to become part of it."
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"It is because they have no Oyarsa,' said one of the pupils. It is because everyone of them wants to be a little Oyarsa himself,' said Augray."
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"The pose begins when you want to leave it."
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"I don't want you folks to do a lot of talking. Just shut up and get out of the way."
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"Success is a matter of luck. If you want proof, ask any failure."
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"Thinking is compulsive: you can't stop, or so it seems. It is also addictive: you don't even want to stop, at least not until the suffering generated by the continuous mental noise becomes unbearable."
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"If you accept that a relationship is here to make you conscious instead of happy, then the relationship will offer you salvation, and you will be aligning yourself with the higher consciousness that wants to be born into this world."
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