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I don't want to delude myself. No one lives forever. But I want him to have this book experience. To enjoy his legacy.


Joan Felt

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ANDREW TO Don't lie to yourself?
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SHANE L. KOYCZAN Get this (economic plan) passed. Later on, we can all debate it.
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ELIZABETH GILBERT Makes me nervous. I want him to get a hit right now. I don't want him to go down. I want him to stay...
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YOUNG THUG Be who you want to be not what others think you should be.
BILAL SAIF Because I want to be remembered.
SHERMAN ALEXIE We dont know what were going to go home to, ... If we dont have anything anymore, Im not sure I want...
IAN WILLIAMSON So this is going to be drill!?
DEYTH BANGER I have learned that I must take a holiday at least once each year if I want to survive!
MAELLE GAVET I’m like that. Either I forget right away or I never forget.
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ELEANOR ROOSEVELT When BEE in life not desirable , how can FREEBIES be.
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ADAM PEATY I dont want to be broke down I want to be built up and vice versa I dont want to break down but buil...
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RABIH ALAMEDDINE I think to myself:
I don't want to survive this one
I want to burn up in the wreckage
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 DON'T SET...
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LEO TOLSTOY I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.
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T.L. MARTIN Every time I write a new book, I want to push myself to try something different.
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JOYCE RACHELLE Legacy does matter to me, and I want to leave a good one in MMA.
DANIEL CORMIER I ALWAYS enjoy myself. And if I didn't enjoy myself in this experience, I should be locked away for ...
DIRK BENEDICT We grew up learning to cheer on the underdog because we see ourselves in them.
SHANE L. KOYCZAN Sometimes becoming drug free has less to do with addiction and more to do with sanity.
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D'QWELL JACKSON 511I love you. And I'm going to keep loving you even after you don't know I exist.
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GEORGE BEST I think that we don't want to let this thing hang out there forever, but I don't want to be driven b...
DON PERATA I don't want to second-guess him, ... I applaud his decision to do this.
DAVID MCINTOSH I really want to love somebody. I do. I just don't know if it's possible forever and ever.
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DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Suicide is an option for the unwise,but for the wise suicide has got no room to be given an option.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Suicide is never the solution to life's problems but hope.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) When the mind is filled with positivity the thoughts of suicide becomes virtually non existing.
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MIKE TYSON I want to be successful, and I want to do good, but I also want to be myself.
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NICHOLAS SPARKS I have already joined myself in marriage to a husband, namely the kingdom of England.
ELIZABETH I (SPOKEN TO HER PARLAMENT) I want to hit him, step away and watch him hurt. I want his heart.
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BOBBY W. MILLER I don't want one night. I want all nights. I want all of you, forever.
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ROGER PARKER O yes youwl want to think on that you dont want your mouf to walk you where your feet dont want to g...
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GRETCHEN RUBIN Innovation! One cannot be forever innovating. I want to create classics.
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SUKI WATERHOUSE I want to murder him in his sleep, A. No, I want to murder him when he’s awake so he can see the j...
ELLE KENNEDY If I want to get out of here, I have to be the one to save myself.
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PRITISH PATTANAIK To learn, sometimes you have to feel the fool.
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BRIAN AUSTIN GREEN You're going to have to find out where you want to go. And then you've got to start going there.
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JOAN RIVERS Classical, Romantic, and Baroque music, that's what I really like.
JOAN ARMATRADING I think bare legs in winter are idiotic. Unless your naked pins are toned, tanned and veinless, it&#...
JOAN COLLINS When I was in fact a child, six and seven and eight years old, I was utterly baffled by the enthusia...
JOAN DIDION I adore my apartment in New York. It was a ballroom that I remade, so it's like a loft but done ...
JOAN RIVERS My grandmother spoiled my father rotten, and he grew up expecting women to do whatever he wanted. Wh...
JOAN COLLINS During the 'ballad' years for me, the politics was latent; I was just falling in love with t...
JOAN BAEZ I think America has a bad rap right now... and hopefully Obama will change that.
JOAN CUSACK Acting for me is not a bad habit like smoking that I must make an effort to quit. I love acting; I l...
JOAN CHEN I consider you as old as you look and feel. And in that case I feel - I feel I'm about 39, like ...
JOAN COLLINS I'm concentrating on staying healthy, having peace, being happy, remembering what is important, ...
JOAN JETT Part of my act is meant to shake you up. It looks like I'm being funny, but I'm reminding yo...
JOAN RIVERS I was voted the most beautiful girl in the world in 1958, and courted by every young, available man ...
JOAN COLLINS I used to not be confident. My father certainly didn't add to my confidence. When I was 17 or 18...
JOAN COLLINS I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes and six months later you have to start all ov...
JOAN RIVERS I blame my mother for my poor sex life. All she told me was 'the man goes on top and the woman u...
JOAN RIVERS Doing 20 minutes of stretching, light weights and floor exercises three times a week takes the same ...
JOAN COLLINS I know who you are, and I am not impressed.
JOAN JETT Maybe that is the purest and most radical kind of religion – simple attention. Present-moment awar...
JOAN TOLLIFSON Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw f...
JOAN LUNDEN I caused my husband's heart attack. In the middle of lovemaking I took the paper bag off my head. He...
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