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Do dirt, get dirt. So I treat people with the same respect that I want.

If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don't want, you suffer; even when yo...

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Dan MillmanWay of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives

All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we ...

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It's clear that policymakers and economists are going to be interested in the measurement of well-be...

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To get what he wanted, a man had to give other people what they wanted.

I want a pit crew... I hate the procedure I currently have to go through when I have car problems.

I owe everything to Nirvana. But I can't let that overshadow the future. For the first few years, I ...

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There's a schizoid streak within the family anyway so I dare say that I'm affected by that. The majo...

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What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at...

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If we didn't want to upset anyone, we would make films about sewing, but even that could be dangerou...

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Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to ...

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Everybody has to be able to participate in a future that they want to live for. That's what technolo...

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I'm a culture vulture, and I just want to experience it all.

The world sometimes feels like an insane asylum. You can decide whether you want to be an inmate or ...

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Life gives you plenty of time to do whatever you want to do if you stay in the present moment.

I want my music to do the explaining.

I want you to take away the hope because that's the thing that's killing me.

Liberals should not overplay this weapons of mass destruction card, because you want me to tell you ...

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My dad had been shortstop when he was in college, and you know, when you're a kid, you want to be ju...

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I always have tried to treat people with respect, the way I want to be treated.

If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it...

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If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

I learned something from that. If someone asks me something that I really don't want to do, I say no...

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I can do whatever I want - I'm rich, I'm famous, and I'm bigger than you.

Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs. Instead of imagining that ou...

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Our politicians are stupid. And the Mexican government is much smarter, much sharper, much more cunn...

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I keep telling these millennials it's all about them to get into politics and start making things ha...

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Sometimes we want what we want even if we know it’s going to kill us.

Putting your time in at the office; dutifully spawning your two point five; smiling politely at your...

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What if the heart, for its own unfathomable reasons, leads one willfully and in a cloud of unspeakab...

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It's not about outward appearances but inward significance. A grandeur in the world, but not of the ...

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I'm pro-forwards. Do I want the Seventies to come back? No. The haircuts were terrible. Everyone sta...

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Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it.

Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn't want me to be too famous too young.

I want someone who can trust that my big hands are going to take care of them.

If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. T...

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I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their...

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Movies don't make people act a fool. People act a fool because they want to act a fool.

Try to find someone with a sense of humor. That's an important thing to have because when you get in...

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If you want to be a rock star or just be famous, then run down the street naked, you'll make the new...

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You know, most people, they want to go to Hollywood. They want to be a star. They want to be a rock ...

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I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for ...

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The politician in my country seeks votes, affection and respect, in that order. With few notable exc...

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What the government wants is something they never had before. They want total awareness. The questio...

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I know what men want. Men want to be really, really close to someone who will leave them alone.

It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot ...

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Everyone wants to look for something of their own, a house of their own, a child of their own, a par...

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I want to thank the Academy for its courage and generosity.

I don't know much about politics, and I don't want to know. That's why I rarely involve myself in po...

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I think a lot of people who feel as though they desperately want to be married oftentimes simply des...

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I don't labor over my drawings. I want to get freedom in the line.

If you want to grow a giant redwood, you need to make sure the seeds are ok, nurture the sapling, an...

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I like the word 'autopilot' more than I like the word 'self-driving.' 'Self-driving' sounds like it'...

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Just because I managed to do a little something, I don't want anyone back home to think I got the bi...

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More than anything else, I want the folks back at home to think right of me.

We are different, in essence, from other men. If you want to win something, run 100 meters. If you w...

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If you want to run, run a mile. If you want to experience a different life, run a marathon.

I'm very romantic and of course I want to be in love.

I've probably earned the right to screw up a few times. I don't want the fear of failure to stop me ...

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I don't want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about.

I do promotion when it is necessary, but I always want to get back to the music.

Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. ...

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When your mother asks, 'Do you want a piece of advice?' it is a mere formality. It doesn't matter if...

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When you're in a relationship you want it to work. My parents did, I did. But we are not taught how ...

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Artists need some kind of stimulating experience a lot of times, which crystallizes when you sing ab...

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If you really want to receive joy and happiness, then serve others with all your heart. Lift their b...

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Being a funny person does an awful lot of things to you. You feel that you mustn't get serious with ...

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There are many things we do not want about the world. Let us not just mourn them. Let us change them...

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Luckily I don't have to buy shoes anymore, because I design them! I'm off tour, so I can dive in and...

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I ain't scared to do another dating show, but I ain't really trying to. I want to do a talk show or ...

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Science's domain is the natural. If you want to understand the natural world and be sure you're not ...

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I want to stay healthy, keep fit, eat well, keep a low profile and be a good dad.

I think my attitudes about the past are very traditional. You can't ignore history; you can't escape...

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I don't want to do architecture that's dry and dull.

It isn't sufficient just to want - you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the th...

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I don't want euro bonds that serve to mutualize the entire debt of the countries in the euro zone. T...

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The one thing I regret is that I will never have time to read all the books I want to read.

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plo...

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Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plow...

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A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any p...

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If you don't care about science enough to be interested in it on its own, you shouldn't try to write...

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Happiness isn't getting what you want, it's wanting what you got.

Interesting things come your way but as you get older, your lifestyle changes. I don't want to trave...

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What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote they are willing to let men govern as long as they g...

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After a while, you just want transportation, and things like cool cars or motorcycles are all about ...

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In Rome it seems as if there were so many things which are more wanted in the world than pictures.

I started a youth center in Houston. The kids would come in and want to learn to box; they wanted to...

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The question isn't at what age I want to retire, it's at what income.

The technology keeps moving forward, which makes it easier for the artists to tell their stories and...

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'Star Wars' is fun, its exciting, its inspirational, and people respond to that. It's what they want...

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To have what we want is riches but to be able to do without is power.

If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.

On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

What man wants does not matter.

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George R. R. MartinA Dance with Dragons

I want to thank you for taking time out of your day to come and witness my hanging.

I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace.

When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone...

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I think Hefner himself wants to go down in history as a person of sophistication and glamour. But th...

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