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I believe that it was a testament to the change of power from the company to the fans because the more the fans ate it up, the more the company gave them what they want.

He [God] wants us to talk to him as to a friend or father - authentically, reverently, personally, earnestly.

I appreciate photographs which celebrate harmony. I don't particularly want to look at chaos. I see enough of that at home.

If we really knew who God created us to be we would never want to be someone else.

My feeling about the Internet or anything else is that the more it tends to become a cult, the more I want to call it into question.

I'd like 'Morning News' to become a great first edition electronic newspaper, so that the 'New York Times' will want to watch us.

I'm leaving because I want to spend more time with my wife in Chicago.

I don't dislike children, I just don't particularly want to be around with them a lot. Problem is, neither do their parents.

I don't hate America. I love America. I want it to be better. The only way we can get it to be better is to realistically criticize what's wrong with it.

I believe only foreigners should run for president...Face it, the presidency is a lousy job. And who does lousy jobs we don't want anymore better than foreigners?

When you hear a lobby called Partnership for a Drug-Free America, just remember - they do not want a drug free America. They want an America free of drugs that are their competitors.

Did you see Britney Spears at the Video Music Awards? I don't want to say that that performance was a disaster, but after the show, I saw Rudy Giuliani having his picture taken standing on her.

The idea that I hear from the right wing in the last few decades, is that any sort of sacrifice is an affront to my liberty as an American to be a pig the way I want to.

I'm just honest. They [asians] don't want to see black people generally in their movies.

As a loyal American and I think a patriotic American, no, I don't want Sarah Palin to be president.

'Peace' is when nobody's shooting. A 'just peace' is when our side gets what it wants.

I don't think the fossil fuel industry will listen, not until we build up a lot of pressure. I do think we can persuade some shareholders that they don't want to be involved in this enterprise.

My guess is that liberating the fossil fuel industry to frack anywhere they want will drive down the rate at which we're converting to sun and wind. And it's entirely a rate problem at this point.

There's a part of all of us whose impulse is to say, "Let's keep everything the same until I die and then you can do whatever you want afterward." And that's a difficult part.

The good movies that people want to keep are probably creating their value more than anything else.

I think we probably have a racial death wish. We don't understand anything about where we live, and we don't want to.

Drinking again? Go to hell. All I ever do is make some movies that made a lot of money now leave me alone, I want to have some fun.

To people who want to be rich and famous, I'd say, "Get rich first and see if that doesn't cover it."

I think we're all sort of imprisoned by - or at least bound to - the choices we make... You want to say no at the right time and you want to say yes more sparingly.

People that don't want to get down to the business at hand. Instead of just doing less, we have to find ways of doing more with less. That's the key to the future.

The world's going to change climatically. We just want to control the change. We want to have a high quality of life for billions of people as we pass through this era.

I'm a sensationalist. I'm a big mouth. I get attention. In this world you have to - if you want a mass-market presentation, you have to get attention.

Women have a right, I believe, to do whatever they want as long as they don't break the law.

A good filmmaker is someone who can look at a piece and go, "This camera's really going to be a character. I want people to feel like they're being punched."

The writers are pretty political and they want to get as big an audience as they can - they want the popular vote.

Runners...you're competitive, but you want to have fun, too. You want to enjoy life. And runners really get to do that, I think-after we recover.

If people want go-along, get-along politics, I am not their guy.

So I look at a lot of stuff now that I did and some of it looks tame to me, but my interest in terms of what I want to say with it is a little different

If you're involved in an accident and you're at fault $500,000 may not be enough. Do you really want to lose your house because you failed to spend an extra couple of hundred bucks?

Graphite also absorbs the shock of a hit. The first (graphite) clubs that came out were too flexible, but now you can get them to be just as firm as you want and need.

[Music is] so inspirational in terms of making me want to become better.

One thing I want to teach my son is sensitivity to other people. I want to teach him not to be this macho freak.

I don't care what you do, I just don't want to be a mud hippie like you. [From 1994 woodstock]

I played St. Jimmy on Broadway I sort of caught the acting bug. But I didn't want to go full-bore into it because I have a lot to learn.

If you have children, you don't want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It's just not good.

Never act like you want it, darlin'. Act like you wouldn't own it if they paid you. Tell them it's dirty, broken...a useless thing. Then make an offer.

I hate losing more than I want to win.

If someone is talking to you and tells you that you ought to do something, and you can tell they mean it, those are the scary people. Those are the people you want to watch out for.

Sometimes we don't want the bad guy to get caught because otherwise the story is over. You want to at least see it through to the end.

Independent films now, they want to give you $2 million to make it, 21 days to shoot it and they want 10 movie stars in it.

I'm not really a guy who wants to be a director, anyway.

Kids won't watch older movies - they want to see what's hip right now.

I've watched other directors as an actor and I picked up little things here and there about cameras, [but] I wouldn't consider myself the guy you'd want to hire to do Star Trek.

People want the truth but they only want the truth so they can talk bad about you on the blog or on television. They want you to tell them the truth and it screws everybody.

I never met a politician who didn't want to be a guitar player in a rock band. I've got the opportunity to say what I believe in.