If I can't do what I want to do, then my job is to not do what I want to do. It's not the same thing, but it's the best thing I can do.

What is the motive which operates in every man's breast to counteract the impulse towards the gratification of his wants and appetites?

When you know that someone close to you is going to die, there's a natural tendency to want to spend as much time with them as you can.

I think that sometimes love gets in the way of itself - you know, love interrupts itself. We want things so much that we sabotage them.

I change lyrics to the songs all the time, too. I don't know if it matters in a lot of ways because you can take what you want from it.

You must discriminate between those who claim to help you and only want to manipulate you and those who are free, who never manipulate.

BP CEO Tony Hayward said he would just like to get his life back. He wants to get his life back. You know, I say give him life plus 20.

I love producing! It's so much fun to start with a blank canvas and create the picture you want to create and see it all come together.

Sometimes a movie knows you're watching it. It knows how to hold and keep you, how, when it's over, to make you want it all over again.

Whether you're throwing up or breaking up, you want your girlfriend right there! I don't trust women who don't go to their girlfriends.

I understand people have to go to work and earn money and bring up kids, but I always thought, "Why can't I just do what I want to do?"

Just getting out of your town seems to be a pervasive thing in England. But I don't want to keep grinding the axe forever, it's boring.

Fans want to make sure that they see things resolved, they want to get some closure, a great ending. I think they're going to get that.

That's my answer to the question what is your strongest emotion, if you ever want to ask me: Curiosity, old bean. Curiosity every time.

The first step in providing economic equality for women is to ensure a stable economy in which every person who wants to work can work.

I'm going to skate exactly the way I want to, create programs that I like, and everything will fall into place where it is supposed to.

I want the presence of God Himself, or I don't want anything at all to do with religion... I want all that God has or I don't want any.

The punctuation of anniversaries is terrible, like the closing of doors, one after another between you and what you want to hold on to.

The last thing I want to be known as is 'The Girl Who Got Raped'. The big turn around you make in your head is from victim to survivor.

The people want wholesome dread. They want to fear something. They want someone to frighten them and make them shudderingly submissive.

Language always betrays us, tells the truth when we want to lie, and dissolves into formlessness when we would most like to be precise.

There are so many options in animation right now and this is such a great time to make animated movies that I want to make another one.

My goal with everything that I do is to present things in a way that I would want to see if I was in the audience or buying the record.

I'm just about equality, period. It's not like, I'm a woman, women should be in charge! I just want there to be equality for everybody.

I want to become the first European floor leader to succeed in the NBA. I want to be the standard-bearer and prove we can succeed here.

The one thing I never want to do is act drunk or act high. You don’t do it from a mental kind of place because then you’re just acting.

I used to want to be the black dude in 'The Last Dragon.' I wanted to be Ralph Tresvant from New Edition - I thought he was super cool.

And that's it; that's why I want to teach; that's the one and only compensation: to make a permanent difference in the life of a child.

Words can never really help you say, what you want them to anyway. And words can never really help you see, what you really want to be.

Daily, constantly, we choose by our desires, our thoughts, and our actions whether we want to be blessed or cursed, happy or miserable.

Becoming an actress takes a lot longer than being a star. I don't want to be a star. I want to be an actress. I want to build a career.

Because of what I did when I was 10 years old, I'm not living from paycheck to paycheck, and I can do things because I want to do them.

We all choose things, and we also all choose against things. I want to be the kind of person who chooses for more than chooses against.

Democrats, you know, want to identify with and relate to what you're feeling, what you've been bummed out about, where your head is at.

I want my fans to love themselves. It's almost like I want to hypnotize them so when they hear my music they love themselves instantly.

Even though people are under economic pressure, they still want to support those brands with values that are compatible with their own.

I can’t say, "I eat whatever I want when I want," but I have come up with some great treats for myself that are healthy and satisfying.

Isolated, she managed somehow to feel free—albeit with a freedom that made her want to smash a hole in the very center of the universe.

I'm an individual. I do not want to get into a pissing match with an organization that is a de-facto gigadollar-turnover multinational!

Democracy? I want nothing to do with a system which operates on the premise that my rights don’t exist simply because I am outnumbered.

I do make a conscious effort to not repeat old patterns, instead of being like, But they don't want me! I haven't always been that way.

When you got it going, you got it going. I just keep my focus down the stretch. Thats when I want the ball. Im just not afraid to fail.

Sacrifices have to be made if you want to make a dent in the world, and that's what I started out to do - to make a dent in pop culture.

I want vasopressin, washed caffeine, Jumpstart, ginkgo biloba, guarana, and any intelligence enhancer introduced in the last five years.

The point about melody and beat and lyric is that they exist to engage you in a very particular way. They want to occupy your attention.

I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money.

There are two things every woman really wants: one, she wants to know that a man really loves her, and two, that he isn't going to stop.

When Allah grants us the sense to ask Him for forgiveness, then He has granted us a huge favor. It's a sign that He wants to forgive us.

If you want to become an infinite source of love, then go on sharing love as much as you can. Don't be a miser; only misers lose energy.

It was a relief to be able to do my own band, because I was very responsible for all this amazing music I didn't want to mess up before.

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