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You can't expect everyone to love you. I'm not someone who just wants to throw out hate, just because.

God, George Bush makes me want to slash my wrists. He's so embarrassing I have to leave the room when he's on the news. What a monkey.

I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.

People will always have an opinion, but you have to live life the way you want to. It's very easy to tell others what to do, but difficult to implement it on yourself.

You want a happy ending, but not such a ridiculous happy ending that it doesn't mean anything to anybody.

No rules. Don't be afraid to do whatever you want. Cooking doesn't have to have rules. I don't like it that way.

The last thing I want to do is to make the mistakes of the past.

I think we should be able to work until we want to stop, which is what I'm going to have to do.

If you've really loved a book, or a movie for that matter, really loved it, what you want is that same book again, but as if you've never read it. And when you get something unfamiliar, you feel betrayed.

If we want to truly regain the public's trust, we can provide greater accountability and transparency with a simple step. Let's start by communicating to our constituents about the votes we take.

He's nice enough not to want to be associated with a nasty remark but not nice enough not to make it. Lacking the courage of one's nastiness does not make one nice.

Exeter City's trip to Old Trafford will be a great day for their fans but that is about it - they won't get the result they want against Manchester United.

When I shoot actors, I have that dilemma. I want the actor to be good, and sometimes I have to push them to a place that isn't pleasant. I always think: 'Is it worth doing for the sake of the movie?' But I have to remember the bigger picture.

But, the relationships that I see work - As long as they're telling the truth, and saying the things that you don't ever want to have to say to another human being.

God may not be there when you want him but he is always on time.

I don't put the pressure on myself to be a very successful movie star. I want to enjoy being an actor and I want to be challenged by the roles I take.

I'd fired anyone who was involved with Creed. I didn't want anything to do with the music business. The entire press and industry hated me, so what was the point?

In the end, all Republicans want to make sure we don't increase taxes. That's where we differ with the Democrats.

I want to bring passengers on my airplanes to present to them my product.

I want to wage war against illiteracy, poverty, unemployment, unfair competition, communitarianism, delinquency.

I want to always find new ways of reinventing myself.

There are still things I want to do but they're not necessary for me to do. I'm not clinging to anything that I can't open my hands and let go.

Hardly any generation wants to take the whole of the last generation, it just wants to take its best bits.

I like to have everything smiley and happy for my husband. Men don't want to see a grumpy face at the end of a hard day.

Philly gave me my ambition and drive to get more. It's a reminder to stay on top of my game. That's not a place I want to go back to.

The thing that you're faulted on today is not that you are too tough, or not that you aren't careful. It's that you might have been too soft. People want that red meat now because you have to keep up with the mood and the mood today is harsh. It really is.

I find that once you start helping others, it makes you feel better about yourself. It helps you figure out what you want to do with your own life.

I don't want to have to say, Honey, you know, could you turn off the sports channel because I'm not a big sports fan, and I don't love the television being on just for the sake of turning on. I'd like turning on for some thing specific.

I really want to keep on opening doors for myself, and others who want to come in.

I am not a pop musician; I don't want to play bubble-gummy pop stuff.

From this it follows that con-sideration for other persons or for other living beings is very vital for goodness and want of consideration for other people makes human beings selfish, regardless for other people's good.

I'm not a ball in a pinball machine. I know what I want.

Geometry is moribund. I want a lilt and joy to art.

I want to direct, produce, and write, learning as I go.

I like men with quick wit, good conversation and a great sense of humour. I love banter. I want a man to like me for me - I want him to be authentic.

I think every writer doubts themselves, every day. You procrastinate because you're afraid. You're always afraid it's not going to be as good as you want it to be.

I want to be the best version of myself - intellectually, emotionally, and physically. So I like to wear clothes that I feel comfortable in, that reflect that.

I want to be a good actor more than anything - someone you can respect.

I want the BBC to be a mass market public service broadcaster still funded by the licence fee... and the licence fee is more durable than many people in the commercial sector believe.

If some woman tells me how she feels about something, my immediate assumption is that she wants an answer, or that she wants me to solve her problem. In fact, all she wants to do is share, or show how she feels.

Good analysis is very useful when you want to convert a political decision into an investment. It can also go the other way and drive policy

I need to make sure that when I'm running out to the drugstore I'm not wearing a Biore strip or something. Not that I expect anyone to recognize me, but on the off chance they do, I just don't want to embarrass myself.

As an actress I find the most enjoyable part of acting is really just to please the director. I just want to please my director.

It is in the public interest to know what our governors are up to. If they are up to doing good, then they are only too happy to let us know. When they are up to no good, they want that kept secret.

You just have to keep trying to do good work, and hope that it leads to more good work. I want to look back on my career and be proud of the work, and be proud that I tried everything. Yes, I want to look back and know that I was terrible at a variety of things.

I want to be able to sing well, but I have the worst voice in the world.

Let's be honest: I just want a Super Bowl ring.

I gained 60 pounds, and I'm proud of it. Why do I need to watch my weight when I'm pregnant? I could eat whatever the hell I want to eat.

If you want to provoke, you should provoke someone who is stronger than you, otherwise you are misusing your power.

I want to know about what makes an athlete tick.

I just want to keep going with the soaps. Maybe it's because I'm just so used to them. I was 21 when I started 'Passions' and did that for nine years. It's what I know.

I'm not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the composer.

I want to be a young dad. By 25 or 26 I want to see myself, like, married or start looking for a family.

If I'd learned nothing else, it was this: If you want to be a great writer, be a man. If you can't be a man, write like one.

I like globalization; I want to say it works, but it is hard to say that when six hundred million people are slipping backwards.

God wants man to fulfill his commands as a human being and with the quality peculiar to human beings.

To get where you want to go, you can't only do what you like.

People tell me they idolise me, want to be like me, but I tell them, 'trust me, you don't want my life.' I've been a very tortured soul.

I'd like to do a pop album with an R and B influence. I definitely want to have those big ballads with the uptempo hits as well.

I want to do stories that inspire people.

It is strange, how quickly people want to obligate their poets, as it were, on the exile.

Absolutely eat dessert first. The thing that you want to do the most, do that.

One of the biggest gifts you can give a child is confidence, because confidence will take you miles - more than talent, more than anything else. So yes, I want my children to have confidence and to be kind.

I will say that I've been lucky enough never to have to do a job I didn't want to do, or a play I wasn't in love with.

I want to see, that's all. This is my life. I want to see

I want to do a big Broadway musical, at some point. I would love to do that. To do something there would be super-cool.

Every one of us is an artist, and as an artist, you really can stroll into any venue that you want, as long as you take your time to learn the etiquette of that venue.

I would love to play a nun. I used to want to be one when I was a kid.

If you really want to help the American theater, don't be an actress, dahling. Be an audience.

I'm working class, and want people to know I'm not unintelligent and all the other cliches that come with it.

I always want to learn but I am sure on my dying day I will feel like I left something in the bucket.

I meet people who are famous, and it's made me realise that fame has huge lifestyle disadvantages. I'm nervous about that. I don't want to become a celebrity.

With comedy, you really want to work things out beforehand.

The average tourist wants to go to places where there are no tourists.

For the rich, it's not about getting more stuff. It's about having the freedom to make almost any decision you want.

I just follow great people. If you want to play like a pro, you learn from the pros.

I eat whatever I want, junk food included.

So while you're an athlete, and you have that platform, what you want to be able to do is make it work for you as much as possible, because there's going to be life after sports.

I felt sometimes too responsible as an actor because people promote violence or weird things that I don't want to be part of.

Sometimes you make a record that is what you want to hear. I've made a couple of those, idealized creations of what I wanted to hear. Then there are records that are what you feel.

Our mothers and fathers want change. They worked all of their lives, but today live in destitution.

Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see. There is an interest in that which is hidden and which the visible does not show us. This interest can take the form of a quite intense feeling, a sort of conflict, one might say, between the visible that is hidden and the visible that is present.

You want to do something that shows some type individuality and talent and imagination - at the same time, you want to be truthful to the predecessors, because obviously the audience liked something about them and you have to replicate that experience to a certain extent.

I know some people will be surprised to hear it, but I've found that my music, whether its blues or rock, or whatever you want to call it, can be channeled into a positive direction that actually helps people.

I was playing this horrible part. I didn't didn't want to play it because the character was an awful racist. But I'm glad I did it because I met Sidney Poitier.

Nobody wants to be a lawyer - it's hard work. But it was kind of my academic route.

That's why editors and publishers will never be obsolete: a reader wants someone with taste and authority to point them in the direction of the good stuff, and to keep the awful stuff away from their door.

I said I didn't want to spend most of my life in Holidays Inns, but I've checked and they've all been redecorated. They're marvelous places to stay and I've thought it over and that's where I'd like to be.

I am the American Dream. I am the epitome of what the American Dream basically said. It said you could come from anywhere and be anything you want in this country. That's exactly what I've done.

I want to be remembered as the person who helped us restore faith in ourselves.

I want to direct films, because I am a painter and a sculptor and I've done a lot of writing.

When you introduce something new to a country, you want to do it right. Generally, that means you have to do it yourself.

We need to find the courage to say no to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

I want to be a part of great things.

I just want you to know you aren't going to church with a crook

I'll happily mentor anyone who wants mentoring, and most of that goes on by internet rather than face to face.

There is a percentage of people who want to be a little bit outside their comfort zone and I am one of them, someone who lives on the edge.

The important matter is freedom. When the people choose what they want, it is good for them and for us.

I don't censor myself, but I don't want to force my sick-skewed version of the world, either.

I've never wanted just part of the package, part of the prize. I want it all!