Adolfo Bioy Casares Quotes
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Indians invest more in Britain than in the rest of European Union combined. It is not because they want to save on interpretation costs, but because they find an environment that is welcoming and familiar.
Narendra Modi
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I'm an actor; I want to play roles, not a role.
Ed Westwick
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Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it.
Iris DeMent
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When readers close the covers on 'Running the Rift,' I want them to understand that it is not a genocide novel but rather a story of hope and rebirth.
Naomi Benaron
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People believe what they want to believe.
Tab Hunter
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Well, mostly I just want to be an actor. I love being an actor, and I don't want to be a spokesman for anything, I don't want to do anything crazy or fancy like that.
Rainn Wilson
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We want to believe that we're invulnerable, and that people who get tricked deserve it. Well, they don't. And someday the arrogant types who mock the gullible are likely to get their turn to wear the dunce cap.
Walter Kirn
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Businesses can't afford to react to what their customers want; they need to anticipate their needs.
Parker Harris
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I don't like getting out when I could be painting. And when I'm painting, I don't want anybody else around.
Captain Beefheart
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I'm focused on energy only. And I know what I'm talking about. And I don't want to be distracted on other things.
T. Boone Pickens
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I've always been like this - insecure - because I'm striving for something that can't be attained. I don't just want to be OK at this: I want to be the best at it, and I've never achieved that in my mind.
Victoria Pendleton
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I never let anything stop me from doing what I want to do.
Sally Pearson
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I feel nothing can push you till the time you want to get pushed.
Yami Gautam
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When you want something very dearly, you make the time.
Nana Mouskouri
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Mehlis will go all the way and we want to go all the way. These arrests show that no matter how high the perpetrators are, they will face the consequences of what they did.
Rafik Hariri
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I never really wanted kids. I didn't not want them, but motherhood just wasn't something that pulled at me.
Edie Falco
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There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I haven't yet done.
B. B. King
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When, you know, I'm busy and Nancy Pelosi is busy with our mop cleaning up somebody else's mess - we don't want somebody sitting back saying, you're not holding the mop the right way. Why don't you grab a mop, why don't you help clean up. You're not mopping fast enough. That's a socialist mop. Grab a mop - let's get to work.
Barack Obama
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I'm not looking to set a standard... but, I believe I have offered a challenge to others with my work.
Talib Kweli Black Star
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Putting on someone else's clothes is like putting on a mask.
Nancy Jo Sales
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I can't stand watching myself on TV.
Ed Westwick
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The thing you notice here after America is how refreshingly ordinary people look because they haven't had their chin wrapped around the back of their ears.
Ian Mckellen
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Perhaps we always want the person we love, to have the existence of a ghost.
Adolfo Bioy Casares