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Normal! He thought. Normal! I don't want things to be normal. Normal is always being left out, never belonging.

Believe that if Allah wants you to know something, someone will tell you.

The gods throw the dice and they don't ask whether we want to be in the game or not.

Sometimes you have to show them what they want to see in order to get them to show you who they really are.

Sometimes we find that we like our thoughts so much that we don't want to let them go.

We can gradually drop our ideals of who we think we ought to be, or who we think we want to be, or who we think other people think we want to be or ought to be.

There might come a point where I don't want to be in this industry at all.

Seeing results flow from my gifts is my greatest pleasure as a philanthropist - whether exonerating a jailed innocent or completing a Frank Gehry building. I want to enjoy my philanthropy.

It's always funny to me how your movie becomes no longer yours and people interpret it how they want and react how they want to react to it, and it's fun to kind of watch that happen.

It is strange, how quickly people want to obligate their poets, as it were, on the exile.

I like to keep my Twitter pure. I don't want to sell my followers anything.

I think the most important thing about what musicians do is the music. You can be as big an arsehole as you want but if you're not making good music, you won't get away with it.

For a lot of my childhood, I didn't want to direct movies because I didn't really know what directing was.

Filmmaking is something I have to do. It's not something I particularly want to do.

I love to fantasize still, as I did as a little boy. If I see a movie, I want to fantasize about what it's all about.

People want to hear clean sounds; they don't want to hear coughing in the background, pages turning.

What we preach is what we get. We are farmers sowing seed. If we are unhappy with the harvest we’re reaping, we should sow different seed. If we want different results, we preach different messages.

I mean, knowing people, people are terrified of the unknown and they want to just kill the unknown.

Every little increase in human freedom has been fought over ferociously between those who want us to know more and be wiser and stronger, and those who want us to obey and be humble and submit.

This is the value for me of writing books that children read. Children aren't interested in your appalling self-consciousness. They want to know what happens next. They force you to tell a story.

Everybody wants to shine a little bit, even a wallflower.

There is nothing more dangerous than a philosopher who wants to change the world

I don't wanna make hood music, I don't wanna make street music, I want to make world music, global music, international music.

The thing with me and endorsements is it's harder for me to get endorsements because of the simple fact that I want in.

Never settle for anything less than you want.

He that lendeth to another in time of prosperity, shall never want help himself in the time of adversity.

Before all it's necessary to look after the Soul, if you want the head and the rest of the body to function correctly.

People want the right to die at a time of their own choosing. Too many families have watched helplessly as a relative dies slowly, longing for death.

There is one universal truth: All women, all over the world, want to look beautiful. That is always the theme of my designs.

If your children want to alter society, listen to their reasons and the idealism behind them. Don't crush them with some clever remark straight away.

It's very important that every movie I do makes money because I want the people that had the faith in me to get their money back.

I do count on a changing of tides. All too often, what could be a critics' darling today becomes tomorrow's target. I don't want to be too blasé about it.

Be okay with who you are. And that you can't choose your parents or what life you were born into, but you can choose the kind of person you want to be.

People don't want to pay 8 or 9 dollars to go see a problem that they have in their life, on screen. They pay to get away from that. That's why they watch soap operas

My hero wants to belong too, but he doesn't want to give up all the things he came to value in the west.

It doesn't interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love, for your dreams, for the adventure of being alive.

What do women want? A guy they can't drive crazy. There aren't many around. But they try. They can't help it, it's their nature.

The idea of not getting a gun is not because I'm afraid of guns, it's not because I think guns are wrong, it's because it's impractical, it's stupid and it's exactly what they want me to do.

The mind can be our best friend and advocate in getting what we want in life, or it can pull the brakes on and be a nasty little foe – the choice is yours – choose your attitude.

There is no such thing as a soulmate...and who would want there to be? I don't want half of a shared soul. I want my own damn soul.

I would love to work with someone like Kevin Spacey as he could pass on what I need to learn.

If you have a car and you win a race, you cannot just settle for that. You must try and make the car better. We're a good car but you always want a bigger engine.

I have no interest in becoming a tax exile and living somewhere I don't want to - I just want to be at home with my family.

Can't you just like a girl who likes you back?' 'None of them likes me back. I may as well like the one I really want.

Remain in wonder if you want the mysteries to open up for you.

When you're managing a large number of people, you learn that incentives matter tremendously. You really want people to be rewarded for doing the right thing for the customers and the organization.

I often think, no one wants to read this. No one wants to hear this. My own work makes me cringe sometimes, cringe in a "there's nothing I can do because it had to come out like this" kind of way.

I just don't think that I could be the kind of actor I want to be and not be honest with myself. Honesty is very important to me as an actor and as a person. I didn't even think about it.

It makes me proud, and it makes me scared. More than anything, I want to be an actor and I want to keep working, and I think there's a danger in being perceived as a poster boy for something.

When I'm healthy, I can still pitch. I know I can still pitch at that level and get the results that I want.