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What Americans don't want to admit ... is that not only is there not a contradiction between state regulation and freedom, but in order for us to actually be free in our social interactions, there must be an extremely elaborated network of health, law, institutions, moral rules and so on.

If you listen carefully, you get to hear everything you didn't want to hear in the first place.

Everything in the universe wants to be loved and accepted. Our personal work is to find the love and acceptance within ourselves.

It’s okay to be discouraged. It’s not okay to quit. To know you want to quit but to plant your feet and keep inching closer until you take the impenetrable fortress you’ve decided to lay siege to in your own life—that’s persistence.

I don't think I've arrived. I think I'm continuing to get there, getting closer and closer to where I want to go. But I'm not there yet.

Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old - old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Learning happens when someone wants to learn, not when someone wants to teach.

I want my paintings to look like what's going on outside my window rather than what's inside my studio.

Do today what you want for your tomorrows

Write down everything you want to do with your life and then spend the next 25 years doing them.

All you can do to the past is to never want to be like it.

If I have to die, I want to combust in the middle of one of my classes.

It could be that people want to consume sculpture the way they consume paintings - through photographs... I'm interested in the experience of sculpture in the place where it resides.

I just want everyone to know that even though Hogan won at Summerslam I still pinned him 1, 2, 3.

I want to separate sin from crime. You may have to ask forgiveness for your sins from God, but not from the Minister of Justice. There's no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation.

We want our leaders to be fair dinkum, as much among us as above us.

I'm going to a special place when I die, but I want to make sure my life is special while I'm here.

I want to die painting.

Critics, mathematicians, scientists and busybodies want to classify everything, marking the boundaries and limits... In art, there is room for all possibilities.

To live the life you've always wanted, you must confront the issues you've always avoided.

Love the people you think you'd want to be with in the hereafter.

I have always wanted to be liked and respected.

Just speak yourself into existence. Whatever you want, speak it. You can see it.

It doesn't affect me because I look at the internet as the new radio. I look at the radio as gone. [...] Piracy is the new radio. That's how music gets around. [...] That's the radio. If you really want to hear it, let's make it available, let them hear it, let them hear the 95 percent of it.

We can make the trains run on time but if they are not going where we want them to go, why bother?