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A sore arm is like a headache or a toothache. It can make you feel bad, but if you just forget about it and do what you have to do, it will go away. If you really like to pitch and you want to pitch, that's what you'll do.

An author's characters do what he wants them to do.

I want less and less control with music. Just playing music without any idea of composition or writing.

I did not want my people killed. I did not want bloodshed.

You don't go to war with the President you want, you go to war with the President you have

What I’ve learned is that if you really want to be successful at something, you’ll find that you put the time in. You won’t just ask somebody if it’s a good idea, you’ll go figure out if it’s a good idea.

America is grappling with cultural diversity, and I just want to put a show on that represents the world in which I live.

I want to party in space because I make alien music.

Old age has got to start creeping up on me one day soon, and frankly I'm very scared. I don't want to be old. I've always felt so young. And I want to stay that way.

I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality.

We want all the Palestinians back in their homeland, and then there can be a fair referendum for people to choose the form of state they want. Whoever gets the majority can rule.

I couldn't care less about actors' trailers and food on sets and stuff like that - I just want to act

I don't want anyone to feel sorry for me because of the fact I haven't got any true friends! I'm fine the way I am.

I don't want foreign policy developed just by one party and ride roughshod over the other party,

It's in our best interest to put some of the old rules aside and create new ones and follow the consumer-what the consumer wants and where the consumer wants to go.

You can tax the rich all you want. The problem is there aren't enough of the rich.

I want to run until I can't run

There are two traditions in Northern Ireland. There are two main religious denominations. But there is only one true moral denomination. And it wants peace.

I always have a backlog of like seven movies that I want to make.

I have a lot of nervous energy. Work is my best way of channelling that into something productive unless I want to wind up assaulting the postman or gardener.

I never want to do the same things twice. I like surprises.

If you want to stay young-looking, pick your parents very carefully.

Everybody thinks if you do one thing, you can't do something else. So I like the fact that I can be versatile if I want to.

I have had the most wonderful time on 'EastEnders' and I will miss you all. The show has changed my life and I want you all to continue the good work, because I'll be at home watching you.

I know how I felt when I saw things like 'Fame' on television when I was growing up and how that was an exceptional magnet for me to want to explore the theater. I can only assume that 'Smash' is doing that for anyone who is halfway interested in theater already.

If you want to create a great product, just focus on one person. Make that one person have the most amazing experience ever.

If I am to be a chauvinist pig, I want to be the number one pig.

I didn't want people to say his brother Bing sings better than he does.

Puerto Rico is one of those places you can be as quiet or as crazy as you want, because there's so much nightlife. I have to take the craziness carefully.

If I were on the field, I'd want the manager sticking up for me. Sometimes players are dead wrong, ranting and raving, but you stick up for them. They appreciate that.

I want to be remembered as a guy who tried his best and did his best

A bad liver is to a Frenchman what a nervous breakdown is to an American. Everyone has had one and everyone wants to talk about it.

I want you to see that I'm looking. Look at me look at you. I'm cool with that.

People want change but not too much change. Finding that balance is tricky for every politician.

Mathematicians are like managers - they want improvement without change.

Don't go away. I don't want to be alone. I can't stand being alone.

Time passes faster and faster, but with every project I always want to find the next challenge and the next challenge is just as exciting as the previous one.

Be very strong... be very methodical in your life if you want to be a champion.

I want to express the utmost intensity of the color, bring out the quality, make it expressive.

Figure skating is not a hobby. Its my work, which I want to do, and do well.

I am Evanescence. I am the only original member. I have basically hired the band. Evanescence has become me. It is mine and it's exactly how I want it to be.

Change is a process: future is a destination. People want a sense of hope, possibility and pride about Britain.

Whatever you want to do with your life, you really got to want it. And if you want it, and you work hard, it will happen.

The audience wants to be attracted not by the critics, but by a great story. You must deliver to the audience emotion - and when I say emotion, I mean suspense, drama, love.

We're not going to have the America that we want until we elect leaders who are going to tell the truth - not most days, but every day.

The surprising thing about fatherhood was finding my inner mush. Now I want to share it with the world.

I'm just competitive. It doesn't matter what it is. I want to win.

I want to know where is that committee in Switzerland that sits to decide what is in and what is out. I don't listen to the formula makers. I think maybe I have a selective hearing disorder.

I don't want this big stardom thing. I just want a good script.

It sounds really stupid, I hate making cosmic comments like this but, I just let it do what it wants to do.

Like most parents, I want everything for my kids that I didn't have. But I don't intend to spoil them. I just enjoy everything that comes naturally with parenthood.

Once a profound truth has been seen, it cannot be 'unseen'. There's no 'going back' to the person you were. Even if such a possibility did exist... why would you want to?

I can understand how some people might resent me for having the audacity to continue playing music, but it'd take a lot more than that to stop me from doing it. I started Foo Fighters because I didn't want to retreat.

I just go where my heart tells me, where my gut tells me to go, where I'm enjoying my life the most, where I feel like I can have the most success. I've truly enjoyed my experience in NASCAR, to the point that I want to do it full time.

Seems like everything people oughta know they just don't want to hear. I guess that's the big trouble with the world.

If you really hate George Bush, you don't want to read about his hobbies or that he's nice to his friends or that he's good company at dinner.

News in printed form is in secular decline. However, news delivered the way consumers want it is growing and thriving.

I've read somewhere that when you're writing, you should stop while you're doing well so you always want to go back to work.

You cannot isolate yourself from the crowd - even if you want to.

I don't want to wait 20 or 50 years for something to be done about petrochemical pollution.

Publishing the lyric books, poetry or comics of other musicians I know. That's the thing I really want to break into!

Well I don't want to talk about myself, that's so rude and egotistical.

I never want to let my teammates or coaches down, so I always fight through the days when I am exhausted or experiencing discomfort with injuries and headaches.

I can't just decide myself what's being built. Someone decides what they want, then I work for them.

Being a funny person does an awful lot of things to you. You feel that you mustn't get serious with people. They don't expect it from you, and they don't want to see it. You're not entitled to be serious, you're a clown, and they only want you to make them laugh.

I take pride in everything I do. I don't want to be handed anything. I want to earn it.

That's how I judge a quarterback: Either you make plays or you don't. I don't even want to talk about mechanics.

The only reason I would have liked to have gone to university is because I like cricket. Not a very good reason to want to go, but as good as any, I suppose.

Archaeology is the peeping Tom of the sciences. It is the sandbox of men who care not where they are going; they merely want to know where everyone else has been.

I want our government to encourage and protect freedom as well as our traditions of faith and family.

I've always wanted to be a Meryl Streep or a Natalie Portman. I want to do all kinds of different movies, to be a chameleon. I don't want to limit myself.

You can go into Mark Twain's material and prove anything you want. He was against war. He was for war. He was against rich people and he was for them. He was a kaleidoscope

I've got such a disgusting, wide, smug grin on my face all the time that my friends just want to slap me. I've never been so happy.

I've always thought that the stereotype of the dirty old man is really the creation of a dirty young man who wants the field to himself.

I want my pictures to be things. I want them to be made up of marks that are physically and individually self-sufficient.

If bitterness wants to get into the act, I offer it a cookie or a gumdrop.

I only want my work to make people happy.

Everybody wants blockbusters. I like to see a few pictures now and then that have to do with people and have relationships, and that's what I want to do films about. I don't want to see these sci-fi movies, and I don't want to do one of those. I don't understand it.

Poetry is the most intimate of all writing. I want to speak first from me to myself and then from me to you.

I don't mind playing absolute bastards... I just don't want to play the grouch.

If you give what can be taken, you are not really giving. Take what you are given, not what you want to be given. Give what cannot be taken.

There's a rule of writing: if everything is funny, nothing is funny; if everything is sad, nothing is sad. You want that contrast.

If you want to do things, do things.

Being rich and famous has never been my goal at all. I love to act and I want to be able to do really great parts.

I have to choose my words carefully because I don't want to sound like one of those who goes on about how things were better in my day.

You cant think about things you want to change. Just be yourself.

My stories are very compact. I want them to say the most complex things in the simplest way.

After months of want and hunger, we suddenly found ourselves able to have meals fit for the gods, and with appetites the gods might have envied.

I want more job. I want to die entertaining.

As a person, I'm polite - I want to please.

I mean... if you're raised as a decent human being, killing somebody is against every moral thing you've ever been taught. And so, generally, in combat it's 'krauts,' the 'gooks,' the 'yanks' - whatever you want to do to try and make it so that it's not a human being.

What we all want is public safety. We don't want rhetoric that's framed through ideology.

I sometimes shy away because I don't want to be too 'showy-offy' but the older I get I think, 'You have a handkerchief, put it in your pocket.'

Marc if you want me to go to the bottom of the pool, I'll go there.

You live overseas, you see these exotic places and you want to know about them. But, weirdly, it also made me homesick for all these very prosaic places in America.

The corporation is one of the great unheralded human inventions of destruction. It is a way to absolve from any personal liability a bunch of people. They form together in a massive ID and they do whatever they want.

Intelligence alone does not get us where we need to go or even necessarily where we want to go. For that, the human creature must exercise harder-won capacities of wisdom, and wise action.

The sad thing is that I feel so boring because 'Twilight' is literally how every conversation I have these days begins - whether it's someone I'm meeting for the first time or someone I just haven't seen in a while. The first thing I want to say to them is, 'It's insane! And, as a person, I can't do anything!'

We didn't really want to be an overnight success as that brings with it its own problems.

I don't want to be made pacified or made comfortable. I like stuff that gets your adrenaline going.