"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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"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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"Only those who want everything done for them are bored."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

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"If you want to be loved, be lovable."

Ovid, Roman Poet

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"What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others."

Confucius, Chinese Philosopher

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"I don't want any vegetables, thank you. I paid for the cow to eat them for me."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

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"It's not that I'm afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens."

Woody Allen, American Director

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"They didn't want it good, they wanted it Wednesday."

Robert A. Heinlein, American Writer

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"When we do a movie with the studios, they wouldn't be asking us to do it, I don't think, if it was a movie they wanted to get into themselves. What you see is what you get with us, so they let us do what we want to do."

Joel Coen, American Director

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"It's great to want to be part of something, but it's a different thing completely to believe wholly in some type of movement, and to give everything for that something."

Brandon Boyd, American Musician

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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."

Kurt Vonnegut, American Author

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"You might not always get what you want, but you always get what you expect."

Charles Spurgeon, British Clergyman

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"Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh."

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"It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ."

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"Thousands have lived without love, not one without water."

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"In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him as often as they like, but he must never, never be unfaithful to them."

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"Only those who want everything done for them are bored."

"If you want to be loved, be lovable."

"What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others."

"I don't want any vegetables, thank you. I paid for the cow to eat them for me."

"It's not that I'm afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens."

"They didn't want it good, they wanted it Wednesday."

"When we do a movie with the studios, they wouldn't be asking us to do it, I don't think, if it was a movie they wanted to get into themselves. What you see is what you get with us, so they let us do what we want to do."

"It's great to want to be part of something, but it's a different thing completely to believe wholly in some type of movement, and to give everything for that something."

"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."

"You might not always get what you want, but you always get what you expect."

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"Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh."

"It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ."

"Thousands have lived without love, not one without water."

"In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him as often as they like, but he must never, never be unfaithful to them."

"Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud."

"Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good."

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