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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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"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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"So if you're a robot and you're living on this planet, you can do things that you can't do in real life - things that you wished you could do: like fly; like have a car that flies; like have furniture that is alive."
Life

"If you really want to tell stories, do it and don't be dissuaded."
Want

"I just took the idea that King Kong was too big for everything and reversed it and put George in a land of giants, which is basically what every kid goes through anyway - that, you know, the world is made for grownups, for tall people, for the giants."
People

"I like stirring things up. I'm on the side of the kids more than I am on the adults. And occasionally I find some adults that have that same mischievous streak, so I don't get in too much trouble."
Kids

"Almost everything in 'A Day With Wilbur Robinson' has some basis in truth. And yes, my sister did pay me to feed her grapes while she talked to her boyfriend on the phone."
Family

"And I was lucky enough to have teachers that really, really looked out for me and really encouraged all that. And in rural Louisiana, that was a rare thing back then."
Childhood

"I have known lots of adults who enjoyed similar enthusiasms as a kid and weren't encouraged and then didn't go anywhere with it and so they're unhappy in their jobs as adults."
Employment

"I raised frogs every spring in our house from tadpoles and by end of summer our house was overrun with frogs."
Nationality

"The only road to the highest stations in this country is that of the law."
Nation

"And they're also very good at math, these super boogers, and so they teach Billy the ways of mathematics."
Childhood
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