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"If you want things to change to different things, you must think different thoughts. And that simply requires finding unfamiliar ways of approaching familiar subjects. Ask and it is given."
"I suppose each of us has his own fantasy of how he wants to die. I would like to go out in a blaze of glory, myself, or maybe simply disappear someday, far out in the heart of the wilderness I love, all by myself, alone with the Universe and whatever God may happen to be looking on. Disappear - and never return. That's my fantasy."
"If you want to be loved, love and be loveable."
"Nothing forces us to know What we do not want to know Except pain"
"Want freedom? Get organized. Want to get organized? Get creative."
"The world's a stage, and I want the brightest spot."
"There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father."
"Take advantage of each small success. In this way you close the gap between what you want from life and what it is giving you."
"If somebody wants to shoot up and die in front of you, more power to them. The herd has a way of thinning itself out."
"When people decide they want to be free, there is nothing that can stop them."
"Ubuntu really says if you want to be nice to yourself, start in a way by being nice to the other."
"So every time I make a new circuit, a new time around, then I change the show. You can't change the songs; people still want to hear "Lady Sings the Blues" and they still want to hear some of the oldies."
"My mom just died. We blink and another decade passes. I don't want to reach the end of my life and regret not having given my days everything in me to make them worthwhile."
"Generally, old media don't die. They just have to grow old gracefully. Guess what, we still have stone masons. They haven't been the primary purveyors of the written word for a while now of course, but they still have a role because you wouldn't want a TV screen on your headstone."
"I'm busy gettin rich. I don't want trouble. I made enough for 2 niggas, boy, stunt double."
"I want people to know that the fight is worth it."
"We do what we have to so we can do what we want to."
"It's easy when you grow up in fear to act out of fear. I don't want to embrace that fear; I prefer to be kind."
"Money makes life easier but I don't want to be rich, not at all."
"I’m very interested in sublimation. I love the way Francis Bacon talked about the grin without the cat, the sensation without the boredom of its conveyance… I’ve always wanted to be able to convey figurative imagery in a kind of shorthand, to get it across in as direct a way as possible. I want there to be a human presence without having to depict it in full."
