"Germany had the misfortune of becoming poisoned, first because of plenty, and then because of want."
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"When you're miserable, you don't want anyone around you to be happy."
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"The interviewer should just tell me the words he wants me to say and I’ll repeat them after him. I think that would be so great because I’m so empty I just can’t think of anything to say."
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"If you want to help the poor, don't be poor"
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"Money is a guarantee that we can have what we want in the future"
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"Some black filmmakers will say, "I don't want to be considered a black filmmaker, I'm a filmmaker." I don't think that. I'm a black woman filmmaker."
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"If men want to oppose war, it is statism that they must oppose."
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"Never ask people. Not about your work. Don't you know what you want? How can you stand it, not to know?"
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"I don't want to have lived in vain like most people. I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to all people, even those I've never met. I want to go on living even after my death!"
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"I didn't really want to live, so anything that was an investment in time made me angry... but also I just felt sad. When the hopelessness is hurting you, it's the fixtures and fittings that finish you off."
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"Everything wanna be loved. Us sing and dance, and holla just wanting to be loved."
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"Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants."
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"What you really want to do in investments is figure out what's important and knowable. If it's unimportant or unknowable you forget about it."
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"Stop using sentences in your material world that reflect what it is you do not want to be."
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"If you want somethin', go get it. Period."
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"I want to represent the idea that you really can make what you want I believe I can create whatever I want to create."
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"I love you. Okay? Want it louder? I LOVE YOU. Spell it out, should I? I ell-oh-vee-ee why-oh-you. Want it backward? You love I."
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"If you want to make marijuana legal, you've got to stay straight long enough to f - vote."
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"All over the world, relationships between men and women are very, very tricky and very difficult and you don't learn anything. It's not an exact science, so you can't learn anything. You're always going by instinct and your instinct betrays you because you want what you want when you want it."
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"The ideology of this America wants to establish reassurance through Imitation. But profit defeats ideology, because the consumers want to be thrilled not only by the guarantee of the Good but also by the shudder of the Bad."
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