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People would love to be rich, but they're looking for the easy way. Who wouldn't want to win the lottery? Just to score.

You always have certain strengths and certain weaknesses, and you want to compensate for your weaknesses... I have a real duty to earn the trust of the faculty. I don't just deserve it. I have to earn it.

If an actor is bored, then they are boring to an audience. I definitely don't want to ever be that.

I really want people to know me, to find out about me, and if they really like me, to stick with me.

That's libertarians for you - anarchists who want police protection from their slaves.

There isn't a specific person in my mind that I'd want to play. Yet.

If pro-abortionists want to commit intellectual suicide and deny scientific facts, that's their problem. But there's no reason a civilized society should fund their anti-scientific outlook - or accept its inhumane consequences.

I want to go to bed richer than when I woke up. The pursuit of wealth is a wonderful thing, but the thing is you have to be honest about it, you have to tell the truth.

I believe in love at first sight. You want that connection, and then you want some problems.

Before, I was so stupid. But, you know, when you have friends who died on the street, you say, okay, let's calm down. It's not the kind of energy I want to have in life. I want to go slower, and longer.

No one wants to spend too long inside their own darkness.

I'm having a great life, and I want to go on having one.

I'm fascinated by furniture design and interiors, and I want to try designing all that stuff.

I want to rid the country of corruption and return our economic environment.

I don't want to look back. I want to keep going forward, I still have something to say to people.

I don't have a goal but I just want to work on movies that I really like.

I want to be happy; why do I do things that make me unhappy?

I don't want to be left in the past. When I stand next to Kylie, Beyonce or Rihanna, I don't want to be a decrepit old lady.

I respect the fact that people have worked hard all week and want to go to the movies on the weekend and be entertained.

I don't want that to be the headline.

Wealth and want equally harden the human heart.

I want my photos to be fresh and urgent. A good photograph should be a call to arms.

There are women who take it to the wire. That's what they are looking for, the ultimate confrontation. They want a smack.

I just remember Bruce Lee blowing my mind on the screen, and I thought to myself, Thats what I want to do for a living when Im older. Bruce Lee was so magnetic and charismatic and held the screen so well.

I want to create a little chaos and make people's heads turn.

I want to raise my own baby. I don't want my baby crying for some other strange lady, some nanny. I am not down with that.

I am a blank slate - therefore I can create anything I want.

I don't want to be limited or ghettoized in any way.

Margaret Thatcher was not a malicious person. She was a person who couldn't see, or didn't want to see, the unfairness and disadvantaging consequences of the application of what she thought to be a renewing ideology.

And at least in poetry you should feel free to lie. That is, not to lie, but to imagine what you want, to follow the direction of the poem.

I don't want to know movie directors. I don't want to be close to them. I don't want to interfere with their work. I don't want them to interfere with mine.

You don't send a man to his death because you want a hero.

I don't need anybody to market or promote me. If people don't want to hear this music, then it's not for them. You cannot please everybody.

But there are certain books I would never put on a Kindle because you want to be able to look at graphs and photos or the footnotes and maps. You can't see that.

I want to do a record with Monica Lewinsky.

If I want my children to learn what bomba and plena is, I will teach them.

Feast of the Holy Innocents The most thrilling thing you can ever do is win someone to Christ. And it's contagious. Once you do it, you don't want to stop.

I want to see the writers strike because the writers, god bless them, are the only true commies we have in Hollywood.

I want to do a show about a woman who's juggling a career with a relationship.

I have an aversion to being mislabeled. Here's a label I'd accept: I'm an 'individual.' I'm someone who can't follow, and doesn't want to lead.

I don't think anyone wants to cuddle a zombie.

I once saw Dizzy Gillespie at a live show, and it made me want to go home immediately and start writing.

What I want to give in the theatre is beauty, that's what I want to give.

I suggest that what we want to do is not to leave to posterity a great institution, but to leave behind a great tradition of journalism ably practiced in our time.

We do not attract what we want, But what we are.

People have the right to say what they want to.

Who wants an orange whip? Orange whip? Orange whip? Three orange whips.

I'm not even sure I have a style! All I know for sure is I don't want to look like everyone else.

I've developed an audience over the years and I don't want to loose them.

Money gives you the power to do whatever you want to do. I like the idea of being in complete control of my life.

Mommy smoked but she didn't want us to. She saw smoke coming out of the barn one time, so we got whipped.

We are not afraid of nuclear weapons. The point is that if we had in fact wanted to build a nuclear bomb, we are brave enough to say that we want it. But we never do that.

Anybody, anywhere in the world, all they want is to be free, to choose what they want to do without having someone tell them how to do it.

If you want to become a great chef, you have to work with great chefs. And that's exactly what I did.

I just want to live happily ever after, every now and then.

I just want to keep being creative, and I want to feel inspired by a role, and I want to keep acting.

I could never live a nonproductive life and I feel that I have lived a productive life as far as I want to in terms of this company that I have for so many years.

Any committee that is the slightest use is composed of people who are too busy to want to sit on it for a second longer than they have to.

There's nothing worse than people who want to make you feel better when you are losing. I just want to smack them.

I really want to have actors contribute their own ideas, with phrasings and ideas on all levels.

When what you do and care about is aligned with what the market wants and cares about, you've created a recipe for career success.

I didn't want my parents to support me. I wanted to prove that I could do it by myself.

I can do anything you want me to do so long as I dont have to speak

The stardom thing happened and now I'm trying to make a comeback, if you want to call it that.

You don't want to spend your life explaining yourself.

If you want to tell stories, be a writer, not a filmmaker.

I have only one eye. Do you want me to look at the road or the at the speedometer.

I want my life to effect the balance to the positive.

All I really want to do is someday be in a western. If I could be on a horse with a rifle, I would be a really happy camper.

Under my contract with Capitol, I have complete freedom to do just about anything I want in my own way.

I want you, as a reader, to experience what I experience, to let that other world, that imaginary world that I have created, tell you things about the real world.

We want every human being in the womb to be safe, not have these babies be killed to solve some dilemma.

I have liberal friends. They are misguided, they are wrong. I disagree with them. I don't want them to vote. I want them to go on vacation in November.

If you're hit with a lawsuit that's untrue and the reasons you're hit with it aren't clear to you, there's a very big inclination on people's part to want to take responsibility for it - that this must be happening because I'm a terrible person, I did something, and I'm getting repaid for it.

I cannot just write a frivolous book, a la-di-da book. Everything isn't la-di-da. There is something that's going to pull you up short. I want to reassure young readers. I want to comfort them, to not fear the unexpected.

I want it to be remembered that Ozzy was the first celebrity who was brave enough to open up his private life to the public. He was the first.

I don't want to live in a culture of despair. I'd like to live in a culture of hope.

I don't want to deal with big, grand themes in my stories; art has nothing to do with themes. When you deal with themes, you are not creating; you are lecturing.

My parents always told me that you always want to be the worst of the best. If you are the best, you never learn.

I just want to thank everyone for their support. Sometimes friends need the help of their friends to get by.

Everybody wants to be led. Except for me. I want to lead.

I don't mind being a symbol but I don't want to become a monument. There are monuments all over the Parliament Buildings and I've seen what the pigeons do to them.

I never let anything stop me from doing what I want to do.

I simply want to take a break and catch my breath. But I also think that, sometimes, the bravest thing you can do is to deliberately keep some time free and see what the world throws at you.

You don't want to play a character you can't inhabit or commit to fully.

I don't have children, but we all want to protect whatever we love in life.

We are America; we don't torture. And the moment that is not the case, I want off the train.

I don't want to think that the stories are finite; I want to feel that they can go on forever.

But recently I began to feel that maybe I wouldn't be able to do what I want to do and need to do with American musicians, who are imprisoned behind these bars; music's got these bars and measures you know.

Directing, I just feel comfortable. I know what I want. I know what I want from my crew. I lead by example. I have limitless energy as a director.

I liked the name Saadiq and didn't want to be known as an artist as Raphael Wiggins.

Rivalry is one of the factors pushing me. While my back was turned, the Norwegians managed to achieve the first Arctic crossing in winter. I didn't want the same to happen in the Antarctic.

I want to be able to talk about changing the world through your actions and being a generation that is aware and a force to be reckoned with - and at the same time be dancing.

I don't want to do an action movie, because I've acted in them, and they're so boring to do, because they're so technical. The headache of that is daunting. But, if it were an action movie with really interesting characters, how great would that be?

My hair is a wild, untamable beast! I like letting it grow; my bangs grow whatever way they want and I kind of follow their rule. So side bangs, poof bangs - it's kind of unpredictable.

He never wants anything but what's right and fair; only when you come to settle what's right and fair, it's everything that he wants and nothing that you want. And that's his idea of a compromise.

I've decided to do what I want to do in life and follow my own path as an artist, so I've decided not to participate in any sort of nostalgia in which I'm marginalized as a pop icon of yesteryear.

I feel liberated, empowered, inspired and motivated. Fear holds you back from achieving what you want in life.

Whatever story you want to tell, tell it at the right size.

I never want to try to be a spokesperson for health and wellness because I most definitely am not the most in shape person in the world.