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I take the world very personally. I take history personally; I want to place myself in the larger context.

Creating the world we want is a much more subtle but more powerful mode of operation than destroying the one we don't want.

The difference between magic and miracles is this. Magic is when you use your mind to tell the Universe what you want. Miracles is when you ask the Universe what it wants and how you can serve it'

We're often afraid of looking at our shadow because we want to avoid the shame or embarrassment that comes along with admitting mistakes.

What the ego doesn't want us to see is that our pain doesn't come from the love we weren't given in the past, but from the love we ourselves aren't giving in the present.

I am persuaded that the greater part of our complaints arise from want of exercise.

I think it's important to share emotion, feelings. Everything the words can't explain. I just want to convey what I'm feeling, thinking.

I think everybody's got a presentation. Everybody looks a certain way because they want to convey a certain image. You look a certain way because you want people to listen to you in a certain way.

A lot of people don't want to make their own decisions. They're too scared. It's much easier to be told what to do.

Actors always want to be musicians, and musicians want to be actors

Do not ever go back to that from which decided to leave. As much as you did not ask, and how would you not want to own. Having conquered a mountain, begin to attack the other.

They've said I want to direct pictures. I couldn't direct traffic.

The one thing a person wants in life is usually something basic that money can't buy.

I once wanted to prove myself by being a great actress. Now I want to prove that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll be a great actress.

I won't be satisfied until people want to hear me sing without looking at me. Of course, that doesn't mean I want them to stop looking.

The thing about 'Star Trek' is that it is not judgmental. You can do what ever you want, within reason.

I can't blame Angela Merkel for saying she wants a strong euro.

I'm doing more than just making songs for the radio. I want it to be a well rounded sounding experience.

Racist people are few, in the minority. But you can do nothing to change them. You can talk, you can do what you want, but you can't do anything because they are just stupid people.

I won't do reality. That is done. And I don't want people following me around with a camera 24 hours a day.

Everyone knows Jordan as a winner, and that's what I want to be known as at the end of my playing career. Someone who's won multiple NBA Championships and has made a difference in the NBA.

People asked me what I want as an epitaph: 'He tried'

I said I didn't want to run for president. I didn't ask you to believe me.

Usually I'll go to San Diego to hang out with my parents if I want to unwind

I'm tired of reading about history, I want to make it.

Comedy is what I really want to do and propel.

It's not fair. It's not. But then, that's the game. It makes life great. The fact that it ends when we don't want it to. The ending gives it meaning.

Teacher: What do you want to be when you grow up? Marji: I'll be a prophet.

But violence is news, to a certain extent, and people don't want complicated news. Because as soon as you realize things are complicated, your life becomes more complicated.

If you know a little bit the psychology of human beings, you have to understand that if you say something you should not do, then everybody wants to do it.

Adaptation of books is never a success. When the author wants to make it, it's even worse.

Time and space, and freedom. That's what I want most. Isn't that true for all of us?

If you really believe in the message you're preaching, you want as many people as possible to listen.

CONVICTIONS are lessons learned from experiences we’d never want to go through again, but wouldn’t trade for anything in the world.

When we cling too tightly to what God did last, we often miss what God wants to do next.

If power is abstraction, which many black men, black women, and people of color have very little voice in, well, then I want to sit at the table.

I'm the kind of person who if I was playing the role of someone who got shot, I'd probably want to get shot so I knew what it felt like.

Create the world you want to see.

We allow the actors to do whatever they need to do or say to accomplish the goals that they want to accomplish.

As long as Fidel Castro is alive we [the American Government] will not normalize relations with Cuba. We don't want it, and he certainly doesn't.

Cuba will find its own way, regardless of what the U.S. wants. This has always been the case, not just since 1959.

If one book's done this well, you want to write another one that does just as well. There's that horror of the second novel that doesn't match up.

What annoys us most in other people is oftentimes the same area God wants us to grow in ourselves.

If we could see, even for a split second, the depths of God's love for us - all we'd want to do is worship and prayer would never seem a chore.

As a father of young girls, I want to publicly thank all women who dress and carry themselves like ladies. Your example is a gift.

Particularly as a Jew, I don't like missionary work. I've had it focused on me, and I don't like it. Let people be what they want to be.

Well, enforcement theater is OK if it's reality theater. In other words, obviously, you want to make it clear, you want to make people see that the law is being enforced.

If the sins of the flesh ever got old I didn't ever want enough years on me to know it.

Spirituality in Washington can be more of a - I don't want to say it - but, a networking opportunity. Religion is often used opportunistically in the political conversation.

Nothing will enrich your life as much as the appreciation of art. If you want to 'Live Rich', you have to - absolutely have to - include art in your life.