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I don't want to compare myself to Picasso, but he had four or five periods in his life. Any good artist grows and changes and matures.
What makes you so certain?" "But I am not certain," I told him. "Nothing is certain. You want certainty?" "Yes!" "Then you want death.
An attempt to write nothing but characterization will soon bog down; I for one don't want to have somebody tell me about someone else.
So now I have a collection of poetry by Aaron Neville and I give it to people I want to share it with. I'd like to publish it someday.
No." Mosca bit her lip and shook her head firmly. Books no longer seemed quite enough. I don’t want a happy ending, I want more story.
When I was in the studio with Madonna, we would work 12-hour days. If you want to work with the best, then that's what you have to do.
I suppose you retire from trying. If you retire from trying, you think, "Maybe love will just come my way if I don't want it anymore."
I'm not the girl for superhigh fashion because I don't have the right body. When I want to get dressed up, I'm a Roberto Cavalli girl.
I want to do just, like, regular art. Whatever is made today on canvas goes up against all of art history. Its the most radical thing.
Through Jesus, your past is explained, your present has a purpose, and your future is secure. What more could you really want in life?
As crises came up later on - "Oh, we have to compromise, and the record company wants to do this," I'd be like, "No, I don't have to."
I believe we can proactively choose to believe whatever we want instead of merely letting our beliefs coalesce as reactions to events.
We want to get full value out of labour so that we may be able to pay it full value. It is use - not conservation - that interests us.
I believe that when you really want to do something, you should go ahead and do it. I mean, I feel fear, but I never let that stop me.
You want people to identify with the person on the screen or in the theater, but you don't want them to identify with you as a person.
No matter what it is in life that you want kid, just want it worse than anybody else [and] work harder than anybody else to get there.
When I really love a movie, I don't want to spoil it by too frequent visits. But I like to come back to certain films, which I admire.
Can you remember when you didn't want to sleep? Isn't it inconceivable? I guess the definition of adulthood is that you want to sleep.
Well, I try my best to be just like I am, But everybody wants you to be just like them, They sing while you slave and I just get bored
When you can look forward, and the road is clear ahead, and now you are going to create something - that's as happy as I'd want to be.
Nowadays I'd describe myself as earnest, terribly earnest. I'm the person who wants everybody in the room to feel important and happy.
If you want to be on top, you've got to have broad shoulders, because as fast as you get there, the faster they try to knock you down.
You have to be the person you want to be - and start now. If you don't begin the process yourself, you're going to be waiting forever.
Well, I wouldn't want to say that I started it (rock 'n' roll), but I don't remember anyone else before me playing that kind of stuff.
When I die, my only wish is that Cambodia remain Cambodia and belong to the West. It is over for communism, and I want to stress that.
Chaos is more freedom; in fact, total freedom. But no meaning. I want to be free to act, and I also want my actions to mean something.
I have been standing on the side of life, watching it float by. I want to swim in the river. I want to feel the current. -Loving Frank
Ultimately I want to be able to create whatever I want whenever I want. And if that doesn't work, I don't mind just doing weird plays.
I don't consider myself a skilled enough instrumentalist to be able to create the atmosphere that I want with just my guitar by myself.
I think people don't like when you're not confident about what you're pitching, and they don't want to invest in you or get behind you.
But who wants to be foretold the weather? It is bad enough when it comes, without our having the misery of knowing about it beforehand.
You want to know the hardest thing about being smart? What? I pretty much always know what's going to happen next; there's no suspense.
The central question in this election [2016] is really what kind of country we want to be and what kind of future we'll build together.
As a leader, people push you. They really want to keep pushing you until you get aggressive. Then they say, "Oh, see, it doesn't work."
I never want to travel while I'm on vacation anymore. The only vacations I want to take now are ones where I just go and sit somewhere.
Except if it has some historical meaning for them to have Tibet under their control. I don't understand why [ Chinese] want it so much.
When I rely on my faith, I know God wants to reward and bless me but not because of some great act that I did but because of who He is.
I really do know what I want with my life. I think that keeps me from making bad decisions and spending time doing stuff I don't enjoy.
I did not want to be labelled the designer who survived the atomic bomb, and therefore I have always avoided questions about Hiroshima.
Then I realize from the hollow sound of her gun's click that her gun isn't loaded. Apparently she just wants to slap me around with it.
When you train six to seven hours a day to be the best in your sport, you don't want that to be overlooked. I don't train for my looks.
If you really want to make a friend, go to someone's house and eat with him... the people who give you their food give you their heart.
I was never somebody who grew up going, 'I really want to be a singer in a band,' and I never had any ambition toward anything, really.
Why does McDonald's have to count every burger that they sell? What is their ultimate goal? Do they want cows to surrender voluntarily?
If we want to cultivate a true spirit of democracy we cannot afford to be intolerant. Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.
I care about money, very much. I want it. I don't ever want to be without it. My mother once said about me, 'Elaine has to have money.'
I want to understand how best to create and preserve a form of higher education that we value but that is in jeopardy for many reasons.
If you want to have great sex, find a partner who really turns you on. Pills are merely props, and props can turn out to be a big drag.
One thing my dad once said to me, "You either want to be right, or you want to be happy. To be happy, there's gotta be a conversation."
We must look within ourselves, become responsible and provide fresh solutions if we ever want to do more than complain,or make excuses.