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I want to keep making records as long as I can, but I don't know how long you can be taken seriously in rap.
Eminem

Long, Keep, Making

The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.
Robert Frost

Best, Society, Against

You know when they have a fishing show on TV? They catch the fish and then let it go. They don't want to eat the fish, they just want to make it late for something.
Mitch Hedberg

Show, Fish, Fishing

A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.
Gerald R. Ford

Government, Everything, Give

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.
T. S. Eliot

Important, Mean, Done

I think people should be allowed to do anything they want. We haven't tried that for a while. Maybe this time it'll work.
George Carlin

Work, Time, While

When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it.
Jim Rohn

Bad, Find, Enough

The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.
George Bernard Shaw

Moment, Become, Against

A basketball team is like the five fingers on your hand. If you can get them all together, you have a fist. That's how I want you to play.
Mike Krzyzewski

Basketball, Together, Play

You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
Vernon Howard

Life, Succeeded

When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.
Paulo Coelho

Universe, Achieve, Helping

Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer to your goal.
Elbert Hubbard

Done, Thought, Goal

Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.
Les Brown

Life, Else, Accept

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.
George Bernard Shaw

Anything you really want, you can attain, if you really go after it.
Wayne Dyer

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To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
Bertrand Russell

It's hard to tell with these Internet startups if they're really interested in building companies or if they're just interested in the money. I can tell you, though: If they don't really want to build a company, they won't luck into it. That's because it's so hard that if you don't have a passion, you'll give up.
Steve Jobs

Money, Passion, Hard

When you're young, you look at television and think, there's a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that's not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want.
Steve Jobs

Business, True, Down

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.
George Bernard Shaw

Life, Work, Live

I want to be all used up when I die.
George Bernard Shaw

My friends and family are my support system. They tell me what I need to hear, not what I want to hear and they are there for me in the good and bad times. Without them I have no idea where I would be and I know that their love for me is what's keeping my head above the water.
Kelly Clarkson

Love, Family, Good

The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.
George Bernard Shaw

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.
George Bernard Shaw

Knowledge, Child, Pursuit

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
Dolly Parton

Rain, Put, Rainbow

I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Interested, Status, Quo

Liberals seem to assume that, if you don't believe in their particular political solutions, then you don't really care about the people that they claim to want to help.
Thomas Sowell

Care, Help, Political

Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.
Clint Eastwood

Change, Sometimes, Hands

If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.
Woody Allen

God, Laugh, Him

'But I don't want to go among mad people,' said Alice. 'Oh, you can't help that,' said the cat. 'We're all mad here.'
Lewis Carroll

Help, Said, Here

It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.
Elbert Hubbard

Everything, Cannot, Learn

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