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As soon as you stop wanting something, you get it.

Andy Warhol, American artist, film director, and producer (1928–1987)

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It isn’t sufficient just to want-you’ve got to ask yourself what you’re going to do to get the things you want.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt, president of the United States from 1933 to 1945 (1882–1945)

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Men most often know what they want, yet they are not always sure how they feel. Women most often know how they feel, yet they may not always know what they want.

It does seem as if the more one gets the more one wants

I want, I don’t want.
How can one live with such a heart?

Margaret Atwood, Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, pépiniériste and inventor (born 1939)

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I want everything back, the way it was. But there is no point to it, this wanting.

Margaret Atwood, Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, pépiniériste and inventor (born 1939)

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You can get anything you want in this life if you help enough other people get what they want.

Zig Ziglar, American motivational speaker (1926-2012)

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You deserve someone better than me. Someone young and idealistic…someone who can experience things for the first time along with you. I'm not always kind, and I have more faults than I'd care to name. All I can promise is that I'll want you until my last breath.

It isn't sufficient just to want - you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt, president of the United States from 1933 to 1945 (1882–1945)

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Money's easy to make if it's money you want. But with few exceptions people don't want money. They want luxury and they want love and they want admiration.

In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people.

When you want something you've never had, you have to do something you've never done.

Ziad K. Abdelnour, Lebanese-born American investment banker, financier, activist and author

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He thought himself awake when he was already asleep. He saw the stars above his face, whirling on their silent and sleepless axis, and the leaves of the trees rustling against them, and he heard small changes in the grass. These little noises of footsteps and soft-fringed wing-beats and stealthy bellies drawn over the grass blades or rattling against the bracken at first frightened or interested him, so that he moved to see what they were (but never saw), then soothed him, so that he no longer cared to see what they were but trusted them to be themselves, and finally left him altogether as he swam down deeper and deeper, nuzzling into the scented turf, into the warm ground, into the unending waters under the earth.

Undue significance a starving man attaches to food
Far off ; he sighs, and therefore hopeless,
And therefore good.

Partaken, it relieves indeed, but proves us
That spices fly
In the receipt. It was the distance
Was savory.

I don't want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted just like that, and it didn't mean anything? What then?

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