"I've never wanted to be the boss."
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"The things she most wanted to tell him would lose their meaning the moment she put them into words."
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"I wanted to avoid, special IO for terminals."
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"It would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness would have made him unable."
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"I wanted my own words. But the ones I use have dragged through I don't know how many consciences."
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"I wanted to be an oceanographer, actually. It's a way of going underwater. I've always been interested in how deep it was, you know."
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"Also I wanted to be able to love And we all know how that one goes, don't we? Slowly"
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"Everything worthwhile, everything of any value, has its price. Everything anyone has ever wanted has come neatly wrapped up in its penalties."
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"I have such a great band. We had played all this material on the road. I just wanted to let it fly."
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"All I've ever wanted, since I was a child, was to do something wonderful."
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"I really wanted to talk to her. I just couldn't find an algorithm that fit."
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"I did not care what it was all about. All I wanted to know was how to live in it. Maybe if you found out how to live in it you learned from that what is was all about."
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"I was a sloppy kid, wanted to be just wild."
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"I just wanted to move out of Portland to do something."
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"I was deeply uncertain of who I was and who I wanted to be. I really thought I wanted to be a much cooler guy than what I was."
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"I wanted to be an actress, and I wanted to be a model."
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"I always wanted to be loved."
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"I always wanted to be a superhero."
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"I wanted to write for Broadway."
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"I wanted the whole world or nothing."
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