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I didn't want to become a pure mathematician, as a matter of fact, my uncle was one, so I knew what the pure mathematician was and I did not want to be a pure - I wanted to do something different.
Benoit Mandelbrot
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I want to be like Bruce Springsteen or something, making songs that are relevant.
J. Cole
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When you work somewhere and you feel comfortable, you don't want to leave. You want to stay there forever.
Felix Hernandez
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People always want to be on the right side of history; it is a lot easier to say, 'What an atrocity that was' then it is to say, 'What an atrocity this is.'
Natasha Trethewey
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It's such a paradox. You come from this place where you want fame; you don't want to be bourgeois, but you want to be successful. You want to be accepted, but you also want to be going against the grain. You want to be on the outside, but you want to be on the inside.
Dan Colen
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There are 1.3 billion people in China, and they all want a Buick.
P. J. O'Rourke
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The first thing I look at with a project isn't who's directing, whether it's a big film; it's the character and whether I want to tell her story.
Ophelia Lovibond
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Preparation, mastery, can help you overcome your fear, but mastery alone is not enough. There has to be something you want that’s worth more to you than your fear.
Roy H. Williams
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I do not want to repeat myself. I want to reach for something I've never attained. This is the excitement of art.
T. C. Boyle
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Saying what you believe others want to hear is, of course, a form of lying.
Karl Ove Knausgard
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I found a belief system that worked for me, and I said, you know what, 'I actually do want to give being with men another chance.'
La'Porsha Renae
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Sometimes when you make a record and it's not successful, you just don't want to go through that process for a while. You want to have your wounds heal.
Gary Wright