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You are the master of your destiny. You can influence, direct and control your own environment. You can make your life what you want it to be.
The world still wants to ask that a woman primarily be pretty and if she is not, the mob pouts and asks querulously, 'What else are women for?
If a man cannot tell what he wants to do, then he must find out what he ought to do. If desire has become complicated, then hold fast to duty.
If we don't want temptation to follow us, we shouldn't act as if we are interested. No one ever fell over a precipice who never went near one.
Big Bang Theory' is not my kind of show. It's not my humor. I don't like multicam comedies. I don't want an audience to tell me when to laugh.
When it comes to the military, I don't want to discuss things. I want to let - I want to let the action take place before the talk takes place
[Adolf] Hitler needed, he didn't want to kill Jews, he wanted to expel German Jews, and therefore it's not entirely corroborating your theory.
How can one change one's entire life and build a new one on one moment of love? And yet, that's what you make me want to close my eyes and do.
When you come off something really disappointing, you want to come back and kind of regroup and get involved in something positive right away.
I want what we all want," said Carl. "To move certain parts of the interior of myself into the exterior world, to see if they can be embraced.
The few who profit from the labor of the masses want to organize the workers into an army which will protect the interests of the capitalists.
The older we get, the less prone we are to putting off what we really want to do, therefore you will be able to seek out new directions later.
I don't really know what I want, other than good sequences, whatever that means. What I find is always a matter of chance, judgment, and luck.
God's got you in the palm of His hand. You won't leave one second before your time. If God wants you to be here, then you're going to be here.
My music is very emotional. The reason why I want to play music is very emotional. I want to call out my emotions and package them into music.
We can't do both. If you want us to lead, don't criticize us. And if you want us to play a supporting role, then tell us who is going to lead.
The fact is that a liberal Democrat doesn't want to talk about ideology because they don't want to explain publicly what they're really doing.
If I can make one generalised statement, and generalised statements are never entirely true, nobody wants to be talked down to, kids included.
I do my best to please everybody, far more than they'd ever guess. I try to laugh it all off, because I don't want to let them see my trouble.
I've learned to never expect or require performances that exceed the player's ability. If they just equal their ability, that's what you want.
If you've got a brand new administration coming into office you want to have, at the very least, a national security team in place on day one.
I love acting, but being an actor for hire only serves so much, and then you want to fill your well up again and be charged by something else.
I'm looking very much forward to growing older. I want to be an exhausted older woman but with a very full life behind me and one still going.
I want to sing more in Spanish. I want to sing the songs of Granados; the songs of Montsalvatge. To do things that truly I've not done before.
Want to know where the action in a culture is? Watch where new language is turning up and where the lawyers collect, usually in that sequence.
Whether I'm interested [in something] or not, step one is read the script and figure out if a character is someone I'd want to explore or not.
I just want one person I can rescue and I want one person who needs me. Who can't live without me. I want to be a hero, but not just one time.
Yet the basic fact remains: we live in a world marked by violence, and if we want to protect others, we sometimes have to be willing to fight.
Men who have a lot of charm have it in place of something real that you are eventually going to want from them and find that they do not have.
China is absolutely one of the biggest players in the world and if Britain wants to be connected to the world it has to be connected to China.
All I know is that the first step is to create a vision, because when you see the vision – the beautiful vision – that creates the want power.
If we take something to be the truth, we may cling to it so much that when the truth comes and knocks on our door, we won't want to let it in.
I want my movies to be audience experiences. As much as I like Michael Haneke, I'm not going to make a Haneke film. That's just not in my DNA.
Eating is not one of the things that I do now to deal with pain, because I don't ever want to do that. But I isolate myself, that's what I do.
Change happens when you understand what you want to change so deeply that there is no reason to do anything but act in your own best interest.
I don’t want to love you,” I forced out through the thickness in my throat. “God, I hope you do, because you own me completely,” he whispered.
I've always believed that if you want to really try and make a great film, not a good film, but a great film, you have to take a lot of risks.
I don't want to be the ingenue anymore. It's nice to be glamorous, but I don't want to always be an object of desire. Because it doesn't last.
In time they could not even fly after their hats. Want of practice, they called it; but what it really meant was that they no longer believed.
I suppose when I started out I would have liked to have been the darling of critics or something, but everybody wants to be loved and admired.
Do you want a world with . . . more joy and happiness? Then find your own joy and happiness and contribute to the joy and happiness of others.
If I want to be a loving, generous, giving person, I'm not going to test the waters. I'm simply going to be a loving, generous, giving person.
If you want to save a species, simply decide to eat it. Then it will be managed - like chickens, like turkeys, like deer, like Canadian geese.
I didn't want to get that ring around my lips from practicing the trumpet, because I thought the girls wouldn't like me. So I never practiced.
If there's something good, then I'm going to want to work. If there's something that I feel like I'd be compromising myself on, then I'd pass.
I want you to know that I have nothing against Orlando, though you are, of course, far more likely to get shot or robbed there than in London.
I do not want to make this charge. I do not see how it can succeed. I would not make it now but that General Lee has ordered it and expects it.
He who does not want to die should not want to live. For life is tendered to us with the proviso of death. Life is the way to this destination.
This willingness to be frank and plain about the way that the world is, is a good first step. But that doesn't mean that you get what you want.
Oliver's heart tried to pound its way out of his ribcage, but he ignored it. "I'm in love with Petunia," he announced. "And I want to help her.