I Want Quotes

Every time I get something that's different than the last thing, I get excited. I don't want to play the same thing, every single time.

When I'm watching TV, I'm always drawn to those female characters who are doing something that I would want to do.

I'm insanely girly. I like having the door opened for me. I want to cook dinner for my boyfriend. And I can't wait to have babies.

I think the legacy that I'll leave is just a great entertainer, and that's what I want to be remembered as, a great entertainer.

I believe artists are too focused on the younger crowd. Why would you want to focus on them? Let them do what they do. You continue to do what you do.

I was trying to find my way into the music business still, but I didn't want to portray something that I wasn't. I really wanted to be just me.

When you are starting out you're inspired by so many different things, you just want to be the best, man...and you're just so ambitious; your drive is just at a million!

I find that fashion recently has been a little too hasty. Often times, it's put together quickly to catch the attention of the media, and I didn't want to do that.

Work is a great thing. This is something my father taught me. He didn't want me to grow up to be somebody's wife.

There's the concept that if I do this big budget project, then that will help me do the things I really want to do and bring more money to those films.

I could almost say it is my religion. I guess that sounds pretentious, but I want to live and breathe cinema.

I think it's an interesting thing to have to produce an album that you'll want to listen to for 50 minutes.

You can write very obtuse and abstract lyrics, and if they want to, people are going to find something amazing that you're saying.

It's hard to play a laptop in the midst of band and have people want to buy your t-shirts and CD's.

Where there is no waste, there is no want.

If Im going to invest the time in a novel, I want something more than the entertainment you get out of most genre fiction.

Alexey Brodovitch used to say, "Astonish me." We as the team at Bazaar hear that everyday because we want to surprise people.

I firmly believe that Harper's Bazaar is the star. I am there to make it the best it possibly can be, but there should be no confusion. I want to put Harper's Bazaar front and center.

Nobody wants to say that the man [Obama] is a Marxist. Okay, so he's not a Marxist. He's a progressive! This is semantics.

If falling in love is anything like learning how to spell, I don't want to do it. It takes too long.

Even in the news division of Fox - which I want to make very clear and I have from the very beginning - I am not a journalist. In fact, I wear that as a badge of honor.

When you live in an alcoholic family or an abusive family, you tiptoe, you don't want to step on any mines.

[Tyler Perry] has the luxury of not doing the political stuff, which is really where I want to be as a company.

One hundred guitarists making lots of noise would not be something you'd want to listen to.

It's not good to be in a situation where people don't want to direct you or don't want to question something.

There's a lot of talk about division right now in America, and I really want to unite people and go like: 'Those are my problems, too, I feel that, too."

I think people want to feel stuff right now.

I spent 15 years on the road between touring and recording and I never saw anything. I want to enjoy life.

My daughter is almost a young lady. She's going to be 10 years old in December and I want to be there day-in and day-out.

I remember everything, even the dates. But I don't want others to remember the details, just the image.

A president can be as strong as she wants to be.

More and more men are raising children or want to be close to their kids. They don't want to just lead work-obsessed lives and end up 50 years later with an engraved watch.

Go out and find your own stories.That is what I want to tell you.

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.

Gratitude never radicalized anybody. I don't care if they recognize the past, I just want them to get angry about the present and keep going.

Feminism isn't whatever you want it to be.

Society certainly encourages women to be victims in every way. I mean if we want approval, we have to sing the blues, even as singers we sing the blues.

The kind of power I want is the power to persuade. But I do not want the power to tell other people what to do.

Worry less about solutions from the top or the idea that there is a solution, but try to do whatever you can and instill in each action the values that you want to result.

The one thing you don't want to be is a sucky clean comic. I hate sucky clean comics! It's like Christian rock, bro. I'd rather listen to gospel and Christian rock. That's cheating!

But some people want attention so bad they want you to see them angry at you.

Be happy with your stereotype. Asians - that's the stereotype I want. Being the smartest person in the world? You're the smartest, what are you complaining about? You know what I get? 'Wassup?

I understand people have to go to work and earn money and bring up kids, but I always thought, "Why can't I just do what I want to do?"

I'm a long way off finishing the LP, but I've got an idea in my head of exactly how I want it to look and sound.

There's just so much stuff that sounds like Flying Lotus now - I really like what he does, but I don't want to be like him. The new stuff is more experimental.

That’s right, I’m crazy. But, I don’t ever want to go back to being of sound mind again. I don’t think I’ll ever be able to. Because as crazy as I may get, I only have eyes for Ju Yoo Rin.

There is nobody that wants to win more than George Steinbrenner.

A nation will rise no higher than the strength of its homes. If you want to reform a nation you begin with families.

Be modest in your wants...There is nothing that will cause greater tensions in marriage than grinding debt, which will make of you a slave to your creditors.

Do the best you can. But I want to emphasize that it be the very best. We are too prone to be satisfied with mediocre performance. We are capable of doing so much better.