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I wish I wasn't... There's nothing good that comes out of that. You get more visibility as a result of it.
On being the worlds richest man, in an online advertising conference in Redmond, Washington, as quoted in The Guardian (5 May 2006) -
I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way.
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I wonder that we Americans love our country at all, it having no limits and no oneness; and when you try to make it a matter of the heart, everything falls away except one's native State; -neither can you seize hold of that, unless you tear it out of the Union, bleeding and quivering.
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I would like people to appreciate science in the same way they appreciate the arts.
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I would like to get rid of the homophobes, sexists, and racists in our audience. I know they're out there and it really bothers me.
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I would never have amounted to anything were it not for adversity. I was forced to come up the hard way.
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I would rather be ashes than dust. I would rather that my spark would burn out in a brilliant blaze than be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
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I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.
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I would still like to have that luxury, to be able to just sit and draw for hours and hours and hours. In a way, that's what I do as a writer.
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I would there were no age between ten and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out the rest; for there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the anciently, stealing, fighting.
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I wouldn't have turned out the way I was if I didn't have all those old-fashioned values to rebel against.
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I wouldn't mind dying - it's the business of having to stay dead that scares the shit out of me.
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I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.
Faceboek (2011) -
I write plays about things that I can't resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.
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I write to tell my grandchildren where they come from, and what their grandparents were up to, and I hope they will in their own way continue. I invite anyone else to listen in.
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I'd get to within a yard of that door you walk through and the thing would go mad. I used to carry an X-ray in my briefcase, to show them. But I had all the metal taken out.
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I'd happily just stay on the road. Getting home from America, sitting in my kitchen with a cup of tea, staring out of the window is pretty depressing. I didn't have a tour manager to tell me what to do so I had to start reaching out to people and making plans. That was hard. You become very vegetable-y.
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I'd never chosen to be alone, but that was the way things had turned out, and I'd grown used to it.
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I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day; I'd rather one should walk with me than merely tell the way: The eye's a better pupil and more willing than the ear, fine counsel is confusing, but example's always clear.
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I'll play out the string and leave baseball without a tear. A man can't play games his whole life.
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