To have more time.
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John Prescott
Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007
To learn to relax and enjoy it.
Abigail Breslin
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Ten more cats (I've got two).
A dog. (I don't have one because we're back and forth over the Atlantic and it would be cruel to leave it.)
It would improve the quality of all of our lives if we just got rid of all unessential vehicles in New York City.
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Spend your time on something meaningful. Not on parties, and not on taking it easy. That’s not good enough. […] When you’re young, you think: Let’s party, do drugs, drink, waste it all, right? But as you get older, you look at what you’ve accomplished. And when you get old, you’ve run out of time. You have to ask yourself: Why am I here? Can I contribute anything to humanity, to society, my work?
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Last year when I had a pulmonary embolism – it was a very scary time.
That performance art has become a part of mainstream art.
That my nose and chin will touch.
His holiness the Dalai Lama and his ability to forgive.
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