"Love what you have. And then go for what you want."
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"Gradual school is where you go to school and you gradually find out you don't want to go to school anymore."
"I want to make a dent in the universe."
"Who wants a stylus. You have to get em and put em away, and you lose em. Yuck. Nobody wants a stylus."
"The only thing I want to be satisfied in life is to do one reunion tour with Guns N Roses. I would like to finish what I started with them."
"Information wants to be free, because the cost of getting it out is getting lower and lower all the time."
"As soon as I think that I am a little body, I want to preserve it, to protect it, to keep it nice, at the expense of other bodies; then you and I become separate."
"You can be anything you want to be, and you can start today, instead of waiting for some opportunity."
"You must ask for what you really want."
"Hear this if you can: If you want to reach him You have to go beyond yourself And when you finally arrive at the land of absence Be silent Don’t say a thing Ecstasy, not words, is the language spoken there"
"people want you to be happy, don't keep serving them your pain"
"There's courage involved if you want to become Truth."
"I want my fans to know I'm there for them. I want them to see every part of me. I am never going to leave them."
"I guess that’s the thing about a hero’s journey. You might not start out a hero, and you might not even come back that way. But you change, which is the same as everything changing. The journey changes you, whether or not you know it, and whether or not you want it to."
"I've had meetings where a guy actually told me, "What we're trying to figure out is how we can control you." In the meeting, to me! Why do you want to control me?"
"I have so much I want to tell you, and nowhere to begin."
"I want to commit the murder I was imprisoned for."
"You’ll soon find out some wizarding families are much better than others, Potter. You don’t want to go making friends with the wrong sort. I can help you there.” He held out his hand to shake Harry’s, but Harry didn’t take it. “I think I can tell who the wrong sort are for myself, thanks,” he said coolly."
"I want to die violently instead of fading out sentimentally."
"I want to know you moved and breathed in the same world with me."