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I want to be good. I can't bear the idea of my soul being hideous.

Well, one must be serious about something, if one wants to have any amusement in life.

If you want to be a doormat you have to lay yourself down first.

I don't want to earn a living. I want to live.

I don't blame David Stern because a player gets on the court and he doesn't put out competitively. No one can make you play if you don't want to play.

Accept your friends for who they are, not for who you want them to be.

I merely observe that all living things are manipulated. As long as there is a will, it is bent and twisted constantly. Only the dead are allowed the luxury of freedom, and then only because they want nothing, and therefore can't be thwarted.

So I want to ask you a hypothetical question. My favorite kind. Next to rhetorical ones. I can nap equally well through either kind.

Listen: if I am a painter and I do your portrait, have I or haven't I the right to paint you as I want?

I want to know if you can see beauty even when it's not pretty, every day, and if you can source your own life from its presence.

I want every day to be a fresh start on expanding what is possible.

Do what you want to do, when you want to do it ... and not a moment sooner.

If you want to be happy, live discreetly. Does that make sense in English?

I find you want me to furnish you with argument and intellects too. No, sir, these, I protest you, are too hard for me.

Blest that abode, where want and pain repair, And every stranger finds a ready chair.

A lady wants to be dressed exactly like everybody else but she gets pretty up- set if she sees anybody else dressed exactly like her.

I'm a sociable person. I want people to know where the f - I came from.

The basic philosophy behind [switch putting] is you always want a hook putt. So for a left-to-right breaking putt, you're going to want to hit it left-handed and vice versa.

When we went on the air, I didn't want to be interrupted for an act-one curtain.

I never met who I really wanted to meet, and that was Charlie Chaplin.

I mean they're making remakes of my films and I'm not even dead yet! Why would you want to make a remake?

I like my life. I like my friends. I don't want to go anywhere else.

I don't want to be the next big anything. I just want to play for people and that's it.

On staring out at a gloomy day: First you must realize that it is the day that is gloomy, not you. If you want to be gloomy, too, that's all right, but it's not mandatory.

Never marry a man you wouldn't want to be divorced from.