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"When we describe what the other person is really like, I suppose we often picture what we want. We look through the prism of our need."
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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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"What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others."
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Personal Development

"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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"Eventually we want to do a puppet musical with turntables in the orchestra pit."
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"Because you want to keep an air of calm and cool."
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"When we describe what the other person is really like, I suppose we often picture what we want. We look through the prism of our need."
Want

"Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we can't even describe, aren't even aware of."
Tradition

"Values are not trendy items that are casually traded in."
Values

"I regard this novel as a work without redeeming social value, unless it can be recycled as a cardboard box."
Work

"There's a trick to the Graceful Exit. It begins with the vision to recognize when a job, a life stage, a relationship is over - and to let go. It means leaving what's over without denying its value."
Life

"We owned what we learned back there; the experience and the growth are grafted into our lives."
Experience

"The things we hate about ourselves aren't more real than things we like about ourselves."
Hate

"We criticize mothers for closeness. We criticize fathers for distance. How many of us have expected less from our fathers and appreciated what they gave us more? How many of us always let them off the hook?"
Family

"Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience - unless they are still up."
Experience

"In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right."
Journalism
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