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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.
I applied for a job at Starbucks. One of the questions was, 'Why do you want to work at Starbucks?' Uh, because my life is in shambles.
I want to go on living even after my death, And therefore I am grateful to God For giving this gift... Of expressing all that is in me.
When I do stand-up... I get to do whatever I want to do. There's no boundaries. You'll get to know me. You'll leave with a piece of me.
If you are ever going to move beyond where you stand at that moment you have to conjure a picture in your head of where you want to go.
Every now and again I want to go to the beach and be in the sun, but that's a very rare feeling, so I could live in London, definitely.
One skill you want to master in this day and age we live in, if you want to have an extraordinary life, is the ability to learn rapidly
Now my eyes are turned from the South to the North, and I want to lead one more Expedition. This will be the last... to the North Pole.
I didn't want to play there when I first found out I was sold to Brooklyn, but I'm tickled to death. I'm glad I could play in Brooklyn.
Let us secure not such books as people want, but books just above their wants, and they will reach up to take what is put out for them.
A woman can do anything she wants as long as she doesn't do anything she wants! She can go anywhere she likes as long as she stays put!
I want to go when I want. It is tasteless to prolong life artificially. I have done my share, it is time to go. I will do it elegantly.
I feel like it's very important that I'm doing what I'm doing, and I want to keep honoring that and try and do it as honestly as I can.
What I want is to live of that initial and primordial something that was what made some things reach the point of aspiring to be human.
Everybody has a choice. I am not here to shove my light down everybody's throat. For those who don't want it, I have nothing to defend.
In a complex and troubling world, who wouldn't want to simplify? Everybody does. Everybody wants to simplify and put up a picket fence.
You want to feel that you can do something creative that you love without being picked apart and mutilated for other people's pleasure.
[O]ne can scarcely be frightened off writing what one wants to write for fear an obscure reviewer should patronise one on that account.
I love making music. I never stop. I want to keep it moving forward. I like to go into the studio and make hits. It makes me feel good.
Nobody can pretend to know what people want to read or hear or see. People rarely know it themselves; they only know it after the fact.
Some people thrive under pressure, but pressure can also ruin your performance, it can push you down angles which you don't want to go.
There's one way to do showbiz, if you want to do it perfectly, you have to be disciplined and you have to be ready to work really hard.
I have a new dream I must be a politician to save this country. There are so many crises in our country. I want to remove these crises.
I don't have any intentions to return to England. I would go back if I could return as a free person. I don't want to return to prison.
I don't have to edit myself. I get to be me, warts and all, and that's ultimately what people want, and to trust each other implicitly.
I've found that taking shortcuts will get you to the place you don't want to be much quicker than they get u to the place u want to be.
You can do anything you want to. Follow your dreams; because if you say you can't do it, you'll spend the rest of your life proving it.
I won't be satisfied until people want to hear me sing without looking at me. Of course, that doesn't mean I want them to stop looking.
The grand canyon which yawns between the writer's concept of what he wants to capture in words and what comes through is a cruel abyss.
Start enjoying the things you like about yourself, and if there are things you want to change, either get to work on it or get over it.
If you're right & I'm not, I'm going to be hell to live with, she said. So, you better think about that next time you want to be right.
I can look at something that others (might not) and I can see the value in it. I can make that film a film that everybody wants to see.
I hate women who say they can eat whatever they want, because I don't relate to that at all. It isn't fair! I absolutely live for food.
I always want to have fun and be silly and be childish. I'm very childish. I am at my happiest when I am a child and I am just playing.
And here is the lesson I learned in the army. If you want to do a thing badly, you have to work at it as though you want to do it well.
If I advocate cautious optimism it is not because I do not have faith in the future but because I do not want to encourage blind faith.
I'm not afraid to delay the schedule to make sure that this is the film that I want, that this is the best that I can do at that point.
If you want meaning, you read poetry or a novel or something, you don't read song lyrics. You're supposed to listen to them with music.
If we want a book to do more than what it does, that's a condemnation. If we want it to do more of what it does, that's an endorsement.
What I told you before is still true. I want to know that when you're with me, it's because you want to be, not because you have to be.
There's only one thing that everyone in this world has in common: whether you want to love somebody and you want to be loved in return.
I just don't want you to feel uncomfortable about this," he says. Say: "Hey. I am a very cool person. I am tough." Show him your bicep.
Women are good listeners, but it's a waste of time telling your troubles to a man unless there's something specific you want him to do.
I don't want to disrespect hip-hop by being something I'm not. I'm Pooch Hall. My strength is in front the camera and holding dialogue.
The art of cookery is the art of poisoning mankind, by rendering the appetite still importunate, when the wants of nature are supplied.
I don't want people to get the impression that I just got money and now I'm cocky, because I'm not. I'm just a little overly confident.
When you work hard and you treat people great, regardless of what it is that you're doing, naturally people want to help and do things.
Are we all clear that we want to build something that can aspire to be a world power - not just a trading bloc, but a political entity?
My friends and I have all been super motivated to work and to do the work that we need to and want to and think should be in the world.
I want to own a network. I want to own a network where you can turn it on with your family all day long and get positive reinforcement.