Findings:

• No one wants to be a nihilist
• I want to be a whale when I grow up. Or a squid.
• The ones with their priorities straight don't know how to get what they want, and the ones who get what they want have messed up priorities.
• But I don't want to be Princess Leia!
• Don't be a smartass and offer up a contrived solution that *technically* solves the puzzle but goes against its spirit
• When I grow up (I want to be an old woman)
• I've never seen a glacier up close, but I've touched your hand. It felt so cold.
• I want to be a dirty old man when I grow up
• Don't want to be lonely no more
• Help wanted. No previous experience necessary. Martyrdom not required but highly suggested.
• I may be lying in the gutter, but I am looking up at the stars
• Reality can't be whatever I want it to be, but maybe it's not so clear-cut, you know?
• You may be a noder, but you ain't no dancer
• you can give up, but there will always be those who do not
• But, my dear sir, if you educate them, they will no longer be Baptists
• Close, but no cigar
• Death arrived shortly thereafter, but we were both far too busy to bother with one another just yet
• things that no one controls and can't be sold
• I want to be a sherpa when I grow up
• No one can be unhappy with a fresh box of crayons
• My skin will remember your skin, but I will no longer know. I will be a ghost forever
• No one can be in two places at once
• What do you want to be when you grow up?
• when I am King, we will have no such things, but, my lads, if the old king my father were dead, we would be all kings.
• Then the walls started to bleed again and I just KNEW I'd be the one cleaning it up.
• All the things she had at one point wanted to be
• i wish i felt like teaching today, but i just want to be selfish
• No one can know what you want unless you tell them
• I'm straight, but you might be the one
• There's a sign on the wall. But she wants to be sure. Cause you know sometimes words have two meanings.
• People tell us who they are, but we ignore it, because we want them to be who we want them to be.
• I want to be a pirate when I grow up
• No, and I've always wanted to go. I memorized the inscription one time in school.
• No one wants you the way you are
• They grow up. No one told me.
• What I want to be when I grow up
• Together we kept bobbing up and down and no one came to save us.
• I Do Not Want To Be One Of Those People
• words I've wanted to tell you but never seem to be able to
• there are people who are gone but wanted me to be happy
• It ought to be broad daylight, but the shadow that envelops the story shows no signs of brightening
• After this, everything got louder and no one could be heard
• I don't want to be a weeping mass of emotion, but I am
• No One Here Is Ever Going to be President: Noders raise things in the city where things fall down
• When I grow up, I want to be a pretzelman
• No one can be totally logical
• Your first relationship will be nuked: Don't give up
• So You Want to Be a Rock and Roll Star
• Information wants to be free
• Really quick (I really can't be bothered to cook now) dinners
• It's not that we're more attractive in the darkness or that one of us may be drunk
• An apocalypse is no time to be wearing a ballgown.
• When I look into her eyes, I no longer care about what the world thinks. This is what it feels like to be alive.
• Who Wants to be the Next US President?!
• You find yourself being chased not only by the bad guys, but also by what should be the good guys
• I want to be a cog
• May the world be a better place when I wake up
• What would existence be like for a child born with no senses?
• That's what I want to be too, frankly
• No. 43: How Not To Be a Geek
• So you want to be an air traffic controller
• The Bus Driver Who Wanted to be God
• A Scene That, To Understand, One Must Be A Led Zeppelin Fan
• I want the real you - not this superficial being you pretend to be
• Many girls want to be carnal with me because I am such a premium dancer.
• people do, on the whole, have the right to be who they want to be
• The Wild West Is Where I Want To Be
• Want to be a werewolf
• I always knew I would have a 21st birthday but I never thought I'd be 21
• Social contract theory = Treat people the way you want to be treated
• There can be only one
• It is not our noise at all, but we are lucky to be listening
• You know it is going to be a strange day when you wake up dead
• I just want to be friends
• Who Wants to be a Millionaire?
• Starving in the greenhouse
• Don't be afraid, you've just got your eyes closed
• Sometimes I want to be an object of desire
• The music makes one's blood boil and long to be in some obscure, untamed place with the one you love
• His love was enormous; it cleared rooms that desperately wanted to be full.
• How to be strong for her, when all you want is to depend on her
• people who were not to be trifled with; people who would dance, and had no notion of walking
• One more robot learns to be something more than a machine.
• There will be no more stories to read
• Spiral, spin, ride the whirlwind, knowing when the drumming stops, there will be no second dance
• "Life" appears to be a zero-sum structure, but we're running the numbers again
• Life must be lived forward, but it can only be appreciated sideways
• I just want to be a drummer
• I want to be woken by you climbing through my window
• The cat that didn't want to be rescued
• The zombie revolution will not be televised. But it will be tweeted.
• No place I'd rather be
• So you want to be an editor (document)
• On two concert, I'm shootive collective photo but small, fat, bald headed technologist be insane
• I ought to be grateful, but instead I'm angry
• A kiss may not be the truth, but it is what we wish were true
• Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it
• I want it to be more like the things I write
• How does it feel to be one of the beautiful people?
• There shall be no more cakes and ale?
• So You Want to Be a Wizard
• Information doesn't want to be anything
• Rules by which a great empire may be reduced to a small one
• I Want to be a Hulkamaniac
• Now he can be loved. Now he is no more.
• I want to be somewhere between two points of nowhere
• Limiting the number of fuzzy shirts allowed in one room
• you have to be close to catch it
• Let's Make Up and Be Friendly
• I set the alarm clock anyway, knowing I would be up all night
• It will be a hot day and these two ice cubes. We will melt, become one.
• Spikey the Werm may be a Werm, but he's got quite an imagination nonetheless!
• So you want to be a star?
• all I want to be is holding your hand
• I may be cold and calculating, but that doesn't make me a computer
• Hot pursuit
• What the American people want politics to be
• In such bounty there can be no shortage
• I'm not one to be had for the wanting, Sir
• Don't trust Elves; they may want to be your friends
• She may be pretty and have more money than me but she doesn't write songs about you.
• Pirates and ninjas: why they should be friends but can't be
• One day, E2 will attain sentience. And I'll be there to see it.
• I wanted nothing more than for the ocean to be calm and still
• Not to die but to be reborn...
• Rebeca Martinez
• I thought that I wanted this. I didn't realize it would be so hollow
• i want to be a dj
• Information wants to be paid
• I don't always want you to be nice
• Be the change you want to see in the world
• Maybe even this will one day be pleasant to recall
• I Would Be Content To Live For But A Day
• I wanted to be
• the nodeshell that didn't want to be rescued
• So you want to be a telephone engineer
• Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I shall fear no evil -- for tonight I have broken my own heart, and my soul is too empty to be afraid.
• I don't want to be successful
• How to tell whether a figure can be drawn in one stroke
• I don't want to be alone
• A child who will clearly grow up to be as demented as me
• Information wants to be deleted
• So you want to be a DJ?
• I'm gonna be sad and then I want you to make me laugh
• If someone wants to do something and it isn't hurting you... DON'T BE A FUCKING DICK
• Nothing could be close to quite like this
• This poem can be put off no longer
• Any fool with a dick can make a baby but it takes a real man to be a father
• Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy
• Think no more, lad; laugh, be jolly
• To all the cold people who want to be warm again
• I am blind when I want to be
• I Just Want You To Be Happy
• What I really want is for my troubles to be a puddle on your shoulder
• I may be a trenchie bitch, but you forget we wear combat boots!
• Who Wants to Be a Millionaire Game at McDonald's
• One should be careful to whom he gives the finger
• No threat should be taken lightly
• I Want to Be Inside You
• I want to be alone until God rips a rib out of my chest and makes me a woman
• They try to be quiet but you know they are there with their weird coppery breath.
• He didn't want to be Gary anymore
• I want to be the air around you.
• He may be a son-of-a-bitch, but he is our son-of-a-bitch
• I come home, she lifted up her wings. I guess that this must be the place.
• How to be a moron in any city but Baltimore
• I was Dan for fifteen minutes and I never want to be Dan again
• Boy, I was sure lucky to be born into the one true faith!
• Be a model or just look like one
• One need not be a chamber to be haunted
• All I ever wanted to be
• Any function can be represented as the sum of an even function and an odd one
• Want to be a lawyer?
• I want to be a muse
• I want to be caught
• Why would a lapsed Catholic want to be married in the church?
• This Train Will Be Taking No Passengers
• So you want to be evil
• We couldn't be anywhere else but here
• So, you want to be a philosopher
• Your first writeup will be nuked: Don't give up
• I couldn't possibly be the only one who doesn't see empathy as a curse
• I don't want to be here when you don't call.
• If ifs and ands were pots and pans there'd be no work for tinkers
• English may be a "living language," but Latin is not -- so get it right.
• You'll be something special one day. And you -- you have to take care of your sister.
• To be hoist by one's own petard
• Want to be shot in the US or beaten in the UK?
• My life may no longer be my own

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