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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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"I don't want any vegetables, thank you. I paid for the cow to eat them for me."
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"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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"Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know."
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"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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"You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say."
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"It's not that I'm afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens."
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"Buddy Rich is one of a kind; he's a genius, and that's all there is to it."
Genius
"As a singer, the biggest joy I have are the arrangements."
Joy
"I didn't really have an act per se - a theatrical performance, as opposed to just: here I am, folks, and you're all supposed to be dead quiet while I sing eight or nine songs, then get off the stage."
Performance
"I was a singer professionally when I was four years old, and I did not really begin to play any instrument - the first one, of course, was drums - till I was about nine years old."
First
"How many radio shows I did is lost to memory now; it's in the hundreds - maybe even close to being in the thousands - for the span of years from the time I was eight till I was about fifteen."
Time
"It may sound a bit like an army barracks, but the truth of the matter is: there must be some time laid aside for arranging, time for working on either a book or an article - I've written two articles in the last four months for the New York Times book review section."
Time
"But, in fairness to them, too, the popular song per se is really a pretty shallow medium to perform in."
Popular
"So I'm sorry, I'm going to continue to talk to the people, because I do believe that if they get to know you and what you are as a human being, they can more appreciate what you are as a performer."
People
"There isn't a dearth of it, but I will confess that it's harder for me to find songs on which I'm willing to invest anything from ten to fifteen hours writing an arrangement than it was in times past."
Past
"Talking money is crass; so I'm not going to tell you what I made last year."
Money
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