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Sometimes I want to party, sometimes I want to fight and sometimes I want to cry.

Never be ashamed of what you feel. You have the right to feel any emotion that you want, and to do what makes you happy. That's my life motto.

For every 10 good things, there's always some jerk that wants to say something bad.

All the girls today want to be famous, but they haven't earned their spurs.

I think a lot of people want to be remembered the way they were, as opposed to the way they are now.

You can take things that Jimi Hendrix took, from Curtis Mayfield or from Buddy Guy for example, because we are all children of everything, even Picasso. But if you want to stand out, you have to learn to crystallize your existence and create your own fingerprints.

Political debate is of no interest to me. What I want are practical solutions.

I just want to live in peace and quiet.

It's a great feeling to know that 100 cops want to stop you doing something and they can't.

I don't want to go bald, I don't know what's coming up next.

I've never worked to make money. I understand we've got to eat and all that, but I never said I want to be a multimillionaire or a billionaire. To me, that's of no significance. I work to have the accomplishment.

A significant number of pages and sentences that the administration wants to keep in a classified status have already been released publicly, some of it by public statements of the leadership of the CIA and the FBI.

People don't come to stadiums only to see results. They come to see a reaction, they want to see we are also human, that we can cry or laugh.

I'm not a song and dance man, so you're not going to see me on 'Glee' anytime soon. If you want that show to continue, keep me far away from it.

If you want to get out of medicine the fullest enjoyment, be students all your lives.

I would never consent to a lame publicity stunt at a time when I already want to hide.

And if I want to get involved in choosing sides, I usually pick hockey or football.

If you want a CEO role, you have to prepare for it with a vengeance.

I want to have a career that evolves as I go on.

With a horror movie, you dont want to anticipate where things are going to go.

No, I wouldn't want the paparazzi ever following me in my life.

I'm very comfortable with how I look. I always have been. I think I look pretty good. There's nothing I want to change. I'm pretty happy with what I've got.

Kevin Smith is so great in 'Kingdom Come,' isn't he? He's kind of this very earthy poet. He just has this immediate gregariousness, like, you kind of just want to be his pal.

Rulers who want to unleash war know very well that they must procure or invent a first victim.

I know that many students take personal responsibility for their education and succeed as a result. I want them to know they are not alone - that Nevada's system can and will support them.

I don't want to be a reality retro star.

I think the radio is kind of cool, because you're really free to do whatever you want, because you can go into another world. Whereas in TV, you have to make that world.

I'd seen people overstay their welcome and I didn't want that to happen at all.

I don't want to be in the Jerry Sandusky business.

I put a lot of time and energy and thought behind what I do and the characters that I create, and I don't want to do anything peripheral that is going to make an audience see me up there on the screen rather than who I'm playing.

I think sometimes when you begin to examine things - like yourself - suddenly you can just freak out and not want to go any further.

Meryl Streep's got talent, she's got skills. I'm sure she wants to be on 'Cougar Town,' right?

I never play a villain that I don't have something I can either do or say so the audience sees there is something redeemable about them. In other words, I don't want to do evil for evil's sake. I don't want to do Jason slasher movies. There's no point in that.

I like learning stuff. The more information you can get about a person or a subject, the more you can pour into a potential project. I made a decision to do different things. I want to do things that have a better chance of being thought of as original. I do everything I can to disrupt my comfort zone.

We're on this planet for the briefest of moments in cosmic terms, and I want to spend that time thinking about what I consider the deepest questions.

Music is pretty much the lifestyle, not the music itself. The lifestyle really pulled me off the street. Made me want to do something organized and positive.

The nature of honesty is that if someone has information or knows something about you that you don't want heard, then they have power over you.

But we want peace, I would move all my people down this way. I could then keep them all quietly near camp.

If you want to be around in 10 years you've got to do something to differentiate yourself from the pack.

We just want to be remembered before something is set in stone.

As a creative person, you want to start with a blank canvas.

I don't want to be considered 'the Latino rapper.

I want to show that the dividing lines between sanity and mental illness have been drawn in the wrong place.

If my fans want to call me a love God, then so be it!

I tried the paleo diet, which is the caveman diet - lots of meat. And I tried the calorie restriction diet: The idea is that if you eat very, very little - if you're on the verge of starvation, you will live a very long time, whether or not you want to, of course.

It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?

You have to make a choice when you start to sing and decide whether you want to service the music, and be at the top of your art, or if you want to be a very popular tenor.

All wealth consists of desirable things; that is, things which satisfy human wants directly or indirectly: but not all desirable things are reckoned as wealth.

I believe I can do anything. If I decide I want to be a doctor tomorrow, I'm going to be a doctor.

So the poet, who wants to be something that he cannot be, and is a failure in plain life, makes up fictitious versions of his predicament that are interesting even to other persons because nobody is a perfect automobile salesman.

I want all my pain to count for something.

I'm always a little innately shy when I first talk to a girl, and I think I always will be! But I think that's a good thing. You don't want to lose that.

One has to take initiative in life to achieve what he or she wants.

I can't convince you to put the drink down if you're an alcoholic, you have to want to do that. I can't convince you to stop eating the cookies when you're a diabetic. You have to do that. And that takes responsibility.

Pour not on the comforts you want, but upon the mercies you have. Look rather at God's ending in afflicting, than to the measure and degree of your affliction.

As an actor, you want a director who makes you feel comfortable in a place that you can really create and try a lot of different things.

If I feel the part is right, and I know that the producers and the director want me, I'd go for broke. Always.

I always want to give more than I gave yesterday.

When I go on the set, I'm so rushed. When I see the actors at rehearsal, when I love it, I want to keep the mood - my mood and the actors' mood also. So I have to push the crew faster. I don't want to lose the mood.

Your face makes my soul want to eat chocolate pudding!...

What I want to happen is to be really creative, and to play something new in the improvisations, every time.

The thing is, the reader doesn't want to hear about bad times.

If you have men who will only come if they know there is a good road, I don't want them. I want men who will come if there is no road at all.

Music as background to me becomes like a mosquito, an insect. In the studio we have big speakers, and to me that's the way music should be listened to. When I listen to music, I want to just listen to music.

Analysis is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off?

Treat everyone the way you would want to be treated... this can be applied to any situation.

You got the ball in your hands and you're in command, and if you get your good pitch where you want it, nobody's gonna hit you.

I just want to be a better guitar player, really.

You have to love what you do to want to do it everyday.

It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.

I am not afraid of death, but would not want to die in some obscure or pointless way.

You can do anything you want to do.

Never trust anyone who wants what you've got. Friend or no, envy is an overwhelming emotion.

It's not easy to come somewhere new and have to find your place. You might feel someone doesn't like you, or you might need to find new friends. It's not easy, and I don't like this kind of thing. It's not easy, so you want to protect the players who are alone.

It is not a woman I want - it is all women.

I have no want or desire to solo. I'd rather create melodies and accompanying parts.

The best thing we can do if we want the Russians to let us be Americans is to let the Russians be Russian.

I'm a different person. I don't want to be titled as Courtney Love and Kurt Cobain's daughter. I want to be thought of as Frances Cobain.

I have an economics degree with a minor in sociology. The reason I have that is because I want to do a ministry in urban areas and help with underprivileged kids.

Deficit reduction is not an end in itself. It is the means to an end. Canadians must now decide what kind of country they want to build with the hard-won dividend.

We all know we have a finite period of time. I just feel if I'm going to be alive, I want to be challenged - to be as immortal as possible. The path to that isn't an easy way, but it's a rewarding way.

I don't think I want to win anything I think I want to die unadorned.

If Colleen Howe had been a hockey player, she would have been a centremen. I can see her as a centreman because you can do what you want and go wherever you want to go.

I am richer than Davy Crockett. I can settle back and do what I want to do. And what I want to do is card tricks and magic.

Life is a succession of crises and moments when we have to rediscover who we are and what we really want.

We want to lead a country where people will be less greedy. Where people will know that the commonwealth of Nigeria belongs to all Nigerians, where people's wealth depends on the people around you. If you become a rich person and everyone around you is poor you are very poor.

I want to be a part of something that's good and intellectually challenging.

So war is an extremely sad business, because the majority of people don't want to be in it.

I want a woman to feel the cut of the scissors in the clothes.

The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.

Music is essentially an emotional language, so you want to feel something from the relationships and build music based on those feelings.

In addition to removing our democratically elected government, Israel wants to sow dissent among Palestinians by claiming that there is a serious leadership rivalry among us. I am compelled to dispel this notion definitively.

I want people around me who call me out and hold me accountable.

I remember everything, even the dates. But I don't want others to remember the details, just the image.

I believe you can make forces of good and evil work for you, to get what you want.

Teddy Roosevelt... once said, 'Speak softly and carry a big stick.' Jimmy Carter wants to speak loudly and carry a fly swatter.

More immediately, I'm currently working on another Dracula in which there will be connections with ancient Egypt. That's about as far as I want to go in commenting on current work.

Whoever wants to know something about me - as an artist which alone is significant - they should look attentively at my pictures and there seek to recognise what I am and what I want.

I want someone who can keep me on my toes, has a good sense of humor and a good heart.

So you shouldn't really flatter yourself that they want to be your buddy. They don't. Generally. They want you for some reason or other, and you just have to fend that off all the time.