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"But I want you to know that what I'm doing here I'm doing as a ballplayer, a major league ballplayer."
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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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"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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"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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"Eventually we want to do a puppet musical with turntables in the orchestra pit."
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"The audience is the camera. I don't want the audience to sit and watch, I want it to move."
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"I don't have any pangs to where I want to be with the Broncos."
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"I realized there was something I didn't quite like in myself that I didn't want to hear about."
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"I want to do everything in the world that can be done."
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"All the grand work was laid for people who came after me. The Supreme Court decided not to give it to me, so they gave it to two white guys. I think that's what they were waiting for."
Work

"I lost money, coaching jobs, a shot at the Hall of Fame."
Money

"I'm a child of the sixties, I'm a man of the sixties. During that period of time this country was coming apart at the seams. We were in Southeast Asia. Good men were dying for America and for the Constitution."
Man

"I'll also say, yes, I think the change in black consciuosness in recent years has made me more sensitive to injustice in every area of my life."
Change

"But I want you to know that what I'm doing here I'm doing as a ballplayer, a major league ballplayer."
Want

"Remember when I told you about the American dream? That if you worked hard enough and tried hard enough and kicked yourself in the butt, you'd succeed? Well, I think I did, I think I did."
Dream

"I was told by the general manager that a white player had received a higher raise than me. Because white people required more money to live than black people. That is why I wasn't going to get a raise."
Money

"If you destroyed the underpinnings of this great American sport, you are a hated, ugly, detestable person."
Sports

"I was leaving probably one of the greatest organizations in hte world at that time for what was probably one of the least like, and, by God, this is America."
Time

"People try to make a Greek tragedy of my life, and they can't do it. I'm too happy."
Life
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