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"When you focus on want, you become an endless cycle of wants."
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"Only those who want everything done for them are bored."
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Personal Development
"Don't say "the White House wants." Buildings can't want."
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Personal Development
"I don't want any vegetables, thank you. I paid for the cow to eat them for me."
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Personal Development
"I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center."
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Personal Development
"Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know."
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Personal Development
"What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others."
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"Tyrants seldom want pretexts."
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Personal Development
"You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say."
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"Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do."
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"Well, first of all it's entertainment. That stops us becoming too pretentious or thinking we're great artists."
Artist
"There's a part of me that wishes I'd never said one single solitary word on any subject publicly. Then I could have been the tortured poet, and there's so much mileage in that. But it's too late to stop now."
Now
"All audiences should be slightly off balance."
Audience
"You want the audience to be uncomfortable."
Want
"The thing I do, really, is a communication with audiences more than any achievement through records."
Achievement
"People want to hear about the extremes of human nature. They want things that are larger than their own lives, and more romantic, and not necessarily of their own experiences."
Nature
"I probably wrote three-quarters of the songs without an instrument in my hands."
Music
"I want people to come to my music without prejudice. I want them to get the music first. And who I am isn't that important. If they like the songs to me that's a good thing."
Music
"I think the reason kids get into drugs and smoking is they don't have anything to do."
Drugs
"As the writer, you're always a presence in the song. If you get close to what human beings are like, you're writing about common experience. We all do much the same things, so if you nail somebody, then you've also nailed yourself."
Experience
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