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We're right to say that a culture that can't tolerate free speech is... there are a wide range of po...

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A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of knowledge is also a dangerous thing.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of knowledge is also a dangerous thing.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of knowledge is also a dangerous thing.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of knowledge is also a dangerous thing.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of knowledge is also a dangerous thing.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of knowledge is also a dangerous thing.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of knowledge is also a dangerous thing.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of knowledge is also a dangerous thing.

I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them thei...

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Women are so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will compliment one anot...

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I was a brownie for a day. My mom made me stop. She didn't want me to conform.

History is full of really good stories. That's the main reason I got into this racket: I want to mak...

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Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don't move.

There are women who take it to the wire. That's what they are looking for, the ultimate confrontatio...

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The future of publishing is about having connections to readers and the knowledge of what those read...

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Evolution doesn't care whether you believe in it or not, no more than gravity does. I want to rekind...

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I am a person who has many dreams. But as soon as I accomplish one, I move on to the next. That's my...

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And I want to do it the right way, like everybody else, not just a famous figurehead that gets a job...

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What drives me now is the fact that I feel like I still have so many tricks that I want to learn and...

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I don't think I could ever do a network sitcom because the humor is often based on some trite circum...

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Because I want to be remembered.

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Sherman AlexieThe Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

I don't want to criticize any other designers, but I have to say that many of the people involved in...

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A lot of people these days are not music lovers - they just want to be famous which is a very differ...

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I just want to work, and learn from people I respect and admire.

I want a big church wedding.

I turned down many chances to be on TV before 'Pop Idol' because I really wasn't interested in being...

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It was a perfect marriage. She didn't want to and he couldn't.

Strength is leading when you just don't want to lead.

The bomber will always get through. The only defense is in offense, which means that you have to kil...

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I do not always know what I want, but I do know what I don't want.

When my car runs out of gas, I buy a new one. I don't want to ride around in a quitter.

In school, many of us procrastinate and then successfully cram for tests. We get the grades and degr...

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I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.

If we want to travel into the future, we just need to go fast. Really fast. And I think the only way...

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I want to put a ding in the universe.

You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get i...

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We hire people who want to make the best things in the world.

We want to reinvent the phone. What's the killer app? The killer app is making calls! It's amazing h...

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Maybe nature is fundamentally ugly, chaotic and complicated. But if it's like that, then I want out.

I don't like politicians, and I don't like politics. I definitely don't want to be associated with a...

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I want a language that speaks the truth.

But recently I began to feel that maybe I wouldn't be able to do what I want to do and need to do wi...

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A lot of people seem to want to make the institution of marriage substitute for a real relationship.

Just because I haven't yet had any project surgery, I'm not going to knock it, because I think women...

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Never was I supposed to hear the words 'He says he wants to see you.' But now that I have, there's n...

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I made some truly awful movies. 'Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot' was the worst. If you ever want someone...

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It's so sad: anything that has to do with God, people want to dispel.

I hope to submit to the little pamphlet magazines here 'freelance' and perhaps shall join the Labour...

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He thought himself awake when he was already asleep. He saw the stars above his face, whirling on th...

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Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of pe...

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What people tell me they take away from my books is that they can shape their lives, they can achiev...

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All I ever want is to return to either Bangladesh, my motherland, or India, my adopted home.

Rebellion is what you make of it. When you've been on a tour bus for two months straight, and then y...

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Millions of Americans are standing up and saying, 'We want our country back!' Republicans, Democrats...

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On the Left, the best and brightest go into politics - Barack Obama is the epitome of the perfect le...

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I choose the likely man in preference to the rich man I want a man without money rather than money w...

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Wealth and want equally harden the human heart.

My dad always taught me to never be satisfied, to want more and know that what is done is done.

In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by renderi...

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Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never l...

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If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.

Those who want to reap the benefits of this great nation must bear the fatigue of supporting it.

Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it f...

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It took the madmen of yesterday for us to be able to act with extreme clarity today. I want to be on...

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The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all th...

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He who does not accept and respect those who want to reject life does not truly accept and respect l...

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Women are like cars: we all want a Ferrari, sometimes want a pickup truck, and end up with a station...

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We could say we want the Web to reflect a vision of the world where everything is done democraticall...

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Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractiv...

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I want to run for the Senate from Tennessee. Not now, but when I'm 50, when music dies down a little...

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I have three daughters, so I can't be as tough as I want to be. When you have kids - especially daug...

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What new technology does is create new opportunities to do a job that customers want done.

Celebrate what you want to see more of.

I think television's become a downright dangerous thing. It has no moral barometer whatsoever. If yo...

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Logic only gives man what he needs,” he stammered. “Magic gives him what he wants.

The trickster's function is to break taboos, create mischief, stir things up. In the end, the tricks...

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I want to support the whole idea of the humanities and teaching the humanities as being something th...

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As a kid, I did want to be an old-timer, since they were the ones with the big stories and the cool ...

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Once you have speech, you don't have to wait for natural selection! If you want more strength, you b...

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The best thing about being rich is the freedom freedom to do whatever you want whenever you want. It...

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I want to make movies about my country from my point of view.

People's real hopes and dreams can be distorted and misdirected and packaged until you're not sure w...

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You have to be clear what your message is and what you're doing. I mean, Miley Cyrus is an amazing t...

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I love food and feel that it is something that should be enjoyed. I eat whatever I want. I just don'...

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I'm as famous as I want to be.

If I go onstage, I want to give people everything they want and more. I'll wash their car for them o...

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Books are better than movies because you design the set the way you want it to look.

If you want to make the best of yourself, you don't necessarily need to diet - you need to wear the ...

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I don't want to use the term 'plus-size,' because, to me, what the hell is that? It just doesn't hav...

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I love all kinds of bread. Whenever I crave junk food, I want salty things like peanuts or potato ch...

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Theater and poetry were what helped people stay alive and want to go on living.

You do not want to get married at 22! Especially if you're famous, because girls are going to be thr...

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You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.

I don't understand', I say,'why they care what I think, as long as I'm acting how they want me to.''...

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Ignorance breeds antipathy. Until I got to know how computers worked, I didn't want anything to do w...

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Why do writers, say, give up a job in economics and decide to write poetry? Or, why do they give up ...

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I've told several writers this, and, again, I get back to it, but if you want to make God smile, tel...

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We've been a bit too defensive about the European Union rules. We don't want to become protectionist...

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Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in...

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