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As long as you're growing in your profession and you're respected, you're going to stay as clean as you can, because you've got something that you love that you don't want to lose.

I never really wanted to be a singer - not with any longevity. But I always wanted to be a writer.

I mean that you always know what results will come from one or another of your actions; but in a strange way you want to do one thing and get the result that could only come from another

I do not regard the procuring of peace as a matter in which we should play the role of arbiter between different opinions ... more that of an honest broker who really wants to press the business forward.

You get to be famous or have some notoriety and there are so many people who want a piece of you.

She is the mother I never had, she is the sister everybody would want. She is the friend that everybody deserves. I don't know a better person.

If you care too much about what others think then you ultimately become what you think they want you to be.

In our society, everyone wants to be a celebrity overnight.

If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

I want you to buy this pit bull. This will protect your valuables.' I don't own anything very valuable. If I buy the pit bull, that would be the most valuable thing I own. I'd have to buy something to protect it then.

When you have mega-corporations that have record profits, but they don't want to share even a little bit of that with their workers, we are actually putting our communities at peril.

You want to love unconditionally everything you do, or don't do it.

The only advice [for new writers and poets] I can offer is to be yourself: not the self someone else wants you to be, but the self you are. Enjoy yourself and your life. But most of all travel and eat. That's how we learn.

I was just praying quietly in tongues and I found that a really helpful way to pray. There are other times when I use the gift when I really feel I don't know what to pray or how to pray. I know what I feel but I just can't quite put it in to words, and I use that, I find it a helpful gift. I don't think you need to speak in tongues, I don't think all Christians do speak in tongues, nobody has to speak in tongues, nobody's forced to, but if somebody wants to I think it's a good gift.

You want to know what scares people? Success.

Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said: I am not commanding you, but I want to treat the sincerity of your love by comparing it to the earnestness of others. The words made me choke up again, and just as I was about to cry, the meaning of it suddenly became clear. God had finally answered me, and I suddenly knew what I had to do.

The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.

I'm a size 10. I could be a size 8 if i wanted to, but i'm effin hungry

Anyone who really loves you wants you to be authentic. And anyone who doesn't want you to be authentic doesn't really love you.

I'm always on the phone because I'm usually not with the people I want to be with.

An option hides where we don't want it to hide.

I want to save my people. That is the purpose of my life

What editors are obliged to appear to say that men want from women is actually what their advertisers want from women.

I'm always trying to do the impossible to please people. It comes from not being secure in myself and not looking at the things within I have to fix. Sometimes you keep going because you don't want to face the truth.

I spend way more than I should...and way less than I want.