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Wants Quotes (page 542)

Neil Gaiman quote: "All your questions can be answered, if that is what you want. ..."
All your questions can be answered, if that is what you want. But once you learn your answers, you can never unlearn them. Neil Gaiman
Being myself includes taking risks with myself, taking risks on new behavior, trying new ways of 'being myself', so that I can see who it is I want to be. Hugh Prather
Do the best you can. But I want to emphasize that it be the very best. We are too prone to be satisfied with mediocre performance. We are capable of doing so much better. Gordon B. Hinckley
As for us, He has appointed the job of permanent unemployment. If he wanted us to work, after all, He would not have created this wine. With a skinfull of this, Sir, would you rush out to commit economics? Rumi
Do something everyday that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain. Mark Twain
I love this world," he added. "That is what rules my life. When I die, I want to have done all in my power to leave it in a better state than it was when I found it. At the same time I know that this can never be. The world has grown so complex that one voice can do little to alter it any longer. That doesn't stop me from doing what I can, but it makes the task hard. The successes are so small, the failures so large and many. It's like trying to stem a storm with one's bare hands. Charles de Lint
The saddest day of your life isn't when you decide to sell out. The saddest day of your life is when you decide to sell out and nobody wants to buy. Norman Spinrad
When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them. Marilyn Monroe
Give me hunger, pain and want, Shut me out with shame and failure. From your doors of gold and fame, Give me your shabbiest, weariest hunger! But leave me a little love. Carl Sandburg
The people who want regeneration to be permanent are fanatics for the happy ending, dissatisfied with themselves and with anyone else, unrealistic men and women, anti-Christs, who were entertained by the miracles but learned nothing from Calvary. John O'Hara
Some make you sing and some make you scream. One makes you wish that you'd never been seen. But there's a shop on the corner that's selling papiermache, making bullet-proof faces, Charlie Manson, Cassius Clay. If you want it, boys, get it here, thing. David Bowie
Whenever I talk to anyone I care about, I am always seeking approval. There is always a pleading lilt in my voice that demands love. Even the people I work with, the ones I am supposed to have a professional relationship with, all business, get pulled into my need. I can't help it. I want to be adored. Elizabeth Wurtzel
Steven Brust quote: "I'm told I'm very charming when people do what I want."
I'm told I'm very charming when people do what I want. Steven Brust
Remember, Montag, we're the happiness boys. We stand against the small tide of those who want to make everyone unhappy with conflicting theory and thought. Ray Bradbury
I tried to visualize my jealousy as a yellowy-brown cloud boiling around inside me, then going out through my nose like smoke and turning into a stone and falling down into the ground. That did work a little. But in my visualization a plant covered with poison berries would grow out of the stone, whether I wanted it to or not. Margaret Atwood

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