I Want Quotes

I don't care too much for thinking about the past. The truth is just another story. You can remember it any way you want; it's never gonna be the same twice.

Most of our cities built since the war are bland. They're modernist, they're cold, and now architects want to go back to that.

Everyone has a desire, if not a need, to use their individual signatures. Whenever people meet to talk about a project, even stuffy old businessmen, they say they want to create something new.

I don't micromanage the interiors. People ask me to and I say no. I don't want to control everything.

I can't just decide myself what's being built. Someone decides what they want, then I work for them.

Democracy is a problem and we don't want to get rid of it.

I think there is a level of altruism that wants to help fellow human beings.

Religion must remain an outlet for people who say to themselves, "I am not the kind of person I want to be." It must never sink into an assemblage of the self-satisfied.

I am not the kind of person I want to be.

Ultimately, all things are known because you want to believe you know.

People had said to me New York is kind of cutthroat and people walk past you on the street. I find it the opposite. I find that people want to talk.

Actors want to show off and dance in front of you and get your love, because they don't think they're worthy of it in any other way.

The public wants to know why or why not. They don't want to know how you're going to do it.

The visual is important. "Let's get to work" says let's get it done, and that's what they want.

I think we may very well, in many areas, get likelihood, but not certitude. We don't want certitude anyway, do we?

I don't think people want to see someone buy a congressional race.

I love films where I'm looking around the world a little different now that I've seen that. I want something that nourishes my view of the world.

When you are writing for an artist you are trying to get into that artist's point of view. What does that artist want to say? What do they care about? And musically, you want to show off that artist.

I have four children, and I want them to grow up in a country that has a working First Amendment.

My guitar wants to kill your mama.

When I was a kid at first I wanted to own a candy shop. I guess every kid wants to - we just want to have access - free access.

We can afford all that we need; but we can not afford all [that] we want.

The American people want their government to act, and not merely to talk, whenever and wherever there is a threat to world peace.

Bombing teaches you how badly you want to become a comedian. Because unless it's a burning desire, you'll quit when the consistent bombing becomes too much to take.

It wasn't quite a question. It was more of an invitation to tell him whatever I chose. Eldric game me a choice, and it was this that made me want to tell him everything.

People want to work with somebody who feels shame, who worries about the perceptions of others. Dishonesty is something we don't like in others.

Women, children, Tyroleans and preachers want to create a new kingdom of God, but the God of their kingdom looks like women, children, preachers, and Tyrolians.

If God wants us to pray without ceasing, it is because He wants to answer without ceasing!

I try to maintain a high level of coolness. Which means I've gotta look at lot of magazines. I've gotta look at a lot of ads to see what people want to wear.

Our music has always been instant reactive and I guess taking our time to absorb things and say what you really want to say could be much more offensive than anything we've ever done.

When they come out to my shows they like me but trying to get them to come out to my shows they're like "I don't want to go and see that old guy" But when they do they totally get it.

Are you sick and tired of men sniveling and whining about how we women want to smother them? If you can still hear them whining you aren't holding the pillow down hard enough.

I tell people if I want to make a film I just go make it so you can make yours.

Twelve million illegal immigrants later, we are now living in a nation that is beset by people who are suicidal maniacs and want to kill countless innocent men, women and children around the world.

Clearly, the Chinese know that we want a good relationship with them

So China will be having to make some choices as to whose side it wants to be on. Hopefully, this will be the beginning of a major improvement in our relationship with them, if they choose correctly

Trying different things is very important to me. I see people and want to wear their clothes and drive in their cars for awhile. Thats probably one reason I became an actor.

Sometimes I feel like my childhood has been taken away from me just a tiny bit. But if you want to achieve your goals, you have to sacrifice some things.

My image is very important to me. I want to bring a good face to my family. That's the way I've been raised.

Once your name gets out, people just want to crack you.

I would love to play for Real Madrid. And I want to win a World Cup for the U.S. so bad. When the women won it, everybody went crazy. I would love to be part of something like that.

Sometimes I even amaze myself, and sometimes I do things that make me want to punch myself in the face.

The man of culture is one of the poorest mortals alive. For simple pedantry and want of good sense no man is his equal. No assumption is too unreal, no end is too unpractical for him.

You only have to talk to artists to see that they work according to rules, and that they know all too well that they can employ only certain means to achieve the ends they want.

If are in a situation with too many people in your life and you want to go into higher attention, look in the mirror. You are being blocked. Do something about it. It might be hard.

If you think you are a vile slime, that means that you aspire to something higher...It's because you have a sense of perfection, and you obviously want that, that you find something wrong.

It's up to you to avail yourself to knowledge. Knowledge doesn't need you. The idea of a compassionate God was formulated, obviously, by someone who didn't want to do any work.

Start simply everyday by asking yourself, "What is the dharma today? What should I do? What is right? What does the universe want from me?"

It is much more likely that you will attain liberation if you want liberation for others, than just for yourself.

Selfless giving is being nice and there are times we don't want to be.