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- No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their…
- Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf.
- A red rose is not selfish because it wants to be a red rose. It would be horribly selfish if it wanted all the other…
- It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their absolute…
- The moment that an artist takes notice of what other people want, and tries to supply the demand, he ceases to be an artist.
- I don't want to earn a living. I want to live.
- If a woman wants to hold a man she has merely to appeal to what is worst in him.
- A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. Its beauty comes from the fact that the author is what he is.…
- The public has always, and in every age, been badly brought up. They are continually asking Art to be popular, to please their want of…
- Never buy a thing you don't want merely because it is dear.
- The value of an idea has nothing whatsoever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it. Indeed, the probabilities are that the…
- I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.
- Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
- There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
- I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.
- You must have a cigarette. A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more…
- If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.
- I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.
- In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the…
- He is some brainless, beautiful creature, who should always be here in winter when we have no flowers to look at, and always here in…
- It is a sad thing to think of, but there is no doubt that genius lasts longer than beauty. That accounts for the fact that…
- Men always want to be a woman’s first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about these things. What…
- If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.
- When you really want love you will find it waiting for you.
- Young men want to be faithful, and are not. Old men want to be faithless, and cannot.
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- 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
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