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- Science is a tool, and we invent tools to do things we want. It's a question of how those tools are used by people.
- If I pick up a book with vampires on the cover, I want there to be vampires. If I pick up a book with spaceships…
- The object is very clear in the fight against racism; you have reasons why you're opposed to it. But when you're writing a novel, you…
- Make the verses flow together. If a following verse has nothing to do with the previous, you may lose our listener/reader. You want a smooth…
- Where do you draw the line, between love and greed? We never did know, we always wanted more. We want to take it all in,…
- Walking was not fast enough, so we ran. Running was not fast enough, so we galloped. Galloping was not fast enough, so we sailed. Sailing…
- You can never read your own book with the innocent anticipation that comes with that first delicious page of a new book, because you wrote…
- But I keep going on with this sad and hungry and sordid, this limping and mutilated story, because after all I want you to hear…
- Why is it we want so badly to memorialize ourselves? Even while we're still alive. We wish to assert our existence, like dogs peeing on…
- If you want what's in the package you should at least know how to get the string off, is what I say.
- We want to get there faster. Get where? Wherever we are not. But a human soul can only go as fast as a man can…
- Despite their cool poses they wear their cravings on the outside, like the suckers on a squid. They want it all.
- The reason they invented coffins, to lock the dead in, preserve them, they put makeup on them; they didn't want them spreading or changing into…
- They will not let you have peace, they don't want you to have anything they don't have themselves.
- I don't want to see anyone. I lie in the bedroom with the curtains drawn and nothingness washing over me like a sluggish wave. Whatever…
- What is it the I'll want from you? Not love: that would be too much to ask. Not forgiveness, which isn't yours to bestow. Only…
- What I need is perspective. The illusion of depth, created by a frame, the arrangement of shapes on a flat surface. Perspective is necessary. Otherwise…
- At the very least we want a witness. We can't stand the idea of our own voices falling silent finally, like a radio running down.
- Ah men, why do you want all this attention? I can write poems for myself, make love to a doorknob if absolutely necessary. What do…
- People cry at weddings for the same reason they cry at happy endings: because they so desperately want to believe in something they know is…
- EXTINCTATHON, Monitored by MaddAddam. Adam named the living animals, MaddAddam names the dead ones. Do you want to play?
- Maybe I don't really want to know what's going on. Maybe I'd rather not know. Maybe I couldn't bear to know. The Fall was a…
- Remember,' she'd tell her staff, 'every customer wants to feel like a princess, and princesses are selfish and overbearing.
- I want to be held and told my name. I want to be valued, in ways that I am not; I want to be more…
- It's his word against the Commander's, unless he wants to head a posse. Kick in the door, and what did I tell you? Caught in…
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- If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — Pietro Aretino
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
- Whenever a toddler sees a pile of blocks, he wants to tear it down. — J. J. Abrams
- I know how the American people care for that democratic principle. They want to see their vote respected. As we in Haiti… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I try to work on shows that I would want to watch. — J. J. Abrams
- It's our hearts and brains that we should exercise more often. You can put on all the makeup you want, but it… — Kevyn Aucoin
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave - so let us let them leave. — Mahmoud Abbas
- The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. — Richard Bach
- I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service. — Richard Bach