"If you want to know where God is, ask a drunk."
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"We want very good leaders who have a lot of power."
"Why would you want to invest with a guy whose thought process says, "If a second layer of fees is good, then let's add a third layer."
"I dont know if Im a heartthrob or if I want to be one! I heard that I get the most fan mail. Its very flattering, and lovely to be popular with the public."
"Don't make to others what you don't want them to make to you."
"God doesn't want you to go to church. He wants you to want to go to church."
"Stay away from restaurants that have menus in five languages. Thats always a tourist trap. You want to eat where the locals eat."
"Legacy is a stupid thing! I don't want a legacy."
"They Want You To Be A Docile Apathetic Consumer"
"Do you want to trust your life in God's pocket or keep it in your own?"
"Well, I try my best to be just like I am, But everybody wants you to be just like them, They sing while you slave and I just get bored"
"A lot of people from the press want to talk to me, but they never do."
"The best thing about being 55 is that I know enough now to know what I want and what I don't want-and what I want is to have fun."
"Selling out is doing something you don't really want to do for money. That's what selling out is."
"I think sometimes when you begin to examine things - like yourself - suddenly you can just freak out and not want to go any further."
"Failure is a prerequisite for great success. If you want to succeed faster, double your rate of failure."
"The starting point of great success in your life begins, in the simplest terms, when you discipline yourself to think and talk about only the things you want and refuse to think and talk about anything you don't want."
"How do I know that I don’t need what I want? I don’t have it."
"... one cannot be happy in exile or in oblivion. One cannot always be a stranger. I want to return to my homeland, make all my loved ones happy. I see no further than this."
"The mathematician knows some things, no doubt, but not those things one usually wants to get from him."