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All biographers, no matter how sympathetic, end up using their subjects as mirrors to figure themselves out. I don't want to be anyone's mirror.
On your birthday today, don't Look up 'Life Expectancy' coz I suspect As you've reached 60, you want to be happy, Trust me, you'll be depressed.
If you want India to lower tariffs and facilitate more free trade, then I think Indian producers also have a right to enter the European market.
When work resonates with a person, whether it is literature or film or music, then they want to know more about the artist. That's very natural.
In high school, I would drive my teachers batty. They would make a statement, and I would say, 'Why is that?' They didn't want to be questioned.
When I came to Ole Miss, everyone expected me to bring the program back to its glory days. I didn't want to put that kind of pressure on myself.
I remember writing 'All I Want Is You' and hoping it would get me out of trouble. I haven't stopped writing songs or getting into trouble since.
The poor must be wisely visited and liberally cared for, so that mendicity shall not be tempted into mendacity, nor want exasperated into crime.
Why would I want to run for Congress and continue to get tainted with all the things that people get tainted with as they come along the system.
I want to hear as much music as I possibly can before I leave this mortal coil but it's impossible to hear it all because there's so much of it.
What's the point of prolonging your life if you don't enjoy it? It's your body. Do whatever you want with it. Better to wear out than rust over.
For men who want to flee Family Man America and never come back, there is a guaranteed solution: homosexuality is the new French Foreign Legion.
Anyone can express himself or herself, but what writers and poets want to do in their work, more than simply express themselves, is communicate.
Those who lead inspire us Whether they are individuals or organizations, we follow those who lead not because we have to but because we want to.
Kids are more genuine. When they come up and want to talk to you, they don't have an agenda. It's more endearing and less piercing to your aura.
Do what you want as long as its paying off for you. But once its become a liability, then something is wrong and you better find out what it is.
If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings and films and me, and there I am. There's nothing behind it.
It was the kind of talk that made me want to break off a limb and take to whacking her and that bunch of hypocrites across the back of the head.
A woman was taking a shower. There is a knock on the door. Who is it? Blind man! The woman opens the door. Where do you want these blinds, lady?
Playing rock 'n' roll music, it's going to be integrated, but being black you didn't want to go into some neighborhood where you weren't wanted.
I have more fun, and enjoy more financial success, when I stop trying to get what I want and start helping other people get what they want.
I want to be surprised and entertained by a movie, so that's what we're trying to do for the audience. Obviously, we also have to sell the film.
Politeness is not always a sign of wisdom; but the want of it always leaves room for a suspicion of folly, if folly and imprudence are the same.
All those men who end up disappointing you. After a while, you don't even want to have feelings anymore. You just want to get on with your life.
Shaw is like a train. One just speaks the words and sits in one's place. But Shakespeare is like bathing in the sea - one swims where one wants.
You know, I try to avoid Googling myself, but sometimes I slip up. Sometimes I just want to see how the world is viewing me on a particular day.
Why am I beating my hair up? Because I want it to look like something that it isn't? These are questions that I've been pondering my whole life.
If I want to feel as if I'm being sucked down a fathomless gloomy tunnel for hours and hours then I have a complete set of Schopenhauer at home.
Ironically, my rabbi was a bar mitzvah Nazi. So I got bar mitzvahed. And though I didn't want to, the theme of my bar mitzvah party was Madonna.
I want to hold you like a kitten in my shirt, and still I want to spread your thighs and plow ye like a rotting bull. I dinna understand myself.
The best thing about the Internet is that it's limited to however you want to do it. You don't gotta talk to everybody, just use it as a outlet.
Every artist picks what they want to put out there, what image they want to portray, and what they want people to know about where they're from.
I pray to be like the ocean, with soft currents, maybe waves at times. More and more, I want the consistency rather than the highs and the lows.
In my experience lust only ever leads to misery. All that suspicion and jealousy and anguish it unleashes. I don't want those things in my life.
Challenging is good, like good conversation, yes? Who wants to have dinner with the same old easy listening music sounding friends all the time?
There are directors that I want to work with and that I admire. You can love a script, but if it doesn't have a good director, it won't be that.
I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center.
I mean, you always want everybody to pat you on the back and tell you you're wonderful every time you do something; I think that's human nature.
I want us to raise the national minimum wage, because people who live in poverty should not - who work full-time should not still be in poverty.
There are tons of things I'd love to do. I want to do comedy. It's not that I don't want to play a superhero, but I got to play Conan and Drogo.
What we want is not more little books about Christianity, but more little books by Christians on other subjects--with their Christianity latent.
When someone asks about a career in fashion, I say start at the bottom. If you want to start a business, you have to know it from the ground up.
Camp Taylor is a foundation that I'm connected with right now, and anything I can do to help them and help those kids is something I want to do.
Do you want me to ride you like a rented mule, or do you prefer to be Mr. Missionary Position? I'm fine with wither, so it doesn't matter to me.
I always have a sense of where I want to end each season, emotionally and relationship wise and with the theme, and I'm always able to hit that.
Magic happens when you tell the universe what you want it to do for you; miracles happen when you ask how you can be of service to the universe.
Rather than thinking, 'If I do this, and in five years I'll be where I want to be,' you're better just doing something that makes you happy now.
Tell no one the secret that you want to keep, although he may be worthy of confidence; for no one will be so careful of your secret as yourself.
When your focus is social change and not financial change why wouldn't you want to share that openly? Innovation only succeeds when it's shared.
It's extremely seldom that anybody wants me to change what I've written about them. Generally I portray them in a good light, if they're friends