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Our most important public service will always be the NHS. And I want to say something clear and unambiguous about the future of the health service.

The British prime minister will want to have a strong and positive relationship with European leaders always.

The British people rejected politics as usual and government as usual. They want and need a new approach to running this country.

It doesn't mean anything when we go back to Sydney and its round one and we're starting from scratch in the NRL. That's the one we really want.

Our youth want less adult contact if that co ntacttreats them like boys. They want more adult contact that treats them like young men. Tired as they are of the former, they are hungry for the latter

If you do an original film and you want to cut a scene out you do it. But when you do a shot by shot remake you don't have that option and every scene has to work again.

Never say no. It always depends on what's possible. I don't care so much where it is; it's what I want to do that matters.

If the thumbnail version of the Iraq war was that Bush lied about WMD, the thumbnail version of Obama's war in Afghanistan is that the generals pushed him into a war he didn't want to fight.

I like a great degree of compression. I like to mix lateral steps with forward ones. I don't want the prose ever to feel simply functional - at least not for any stretch.

If people want insights, if they want to swim in the currents of their own time and share the experiences of their time, then it makes sense to engage with the artists of one's own time.

I write because the act of writing itself is what drives me. It's a private communication within myself - nothing more or less. This doesn't mean I do not want to share with people.

If the economy is growing, people want to employ more workers. If you hire more labor, wages go up.

Trump has said that he wants to remove the tax deductibility of interest. If he can do that, fine. But I hope that Trump knows that it's not the President that sets tax policy. It's Congress.

People don't want to commit until they have clarity, but clarity comes with movement.

I'm willing to submit to the sovereignty of the consumer, but I just want to know what they say.

Twitter is about creating whatever persona you want to create and either sticking with it or changing it or evolving it or contradicting it, and I've done all that stuff.

With stand-up, you can be as freeform as you want to be. You can say what you want, how you want, at any moment without constraint.

As an actor, you can show up on a set and be on a TV show for three or four years, or whatever it is and, by the end of it, you just want to do something else.

I mean, I've been in a hundred and fifty films; I don't want to just sit around and talk about things.

Bashar Assad clearly doesn't want to hear anything that impugns his government.

Don't ask your customers what they want. This rule is based on the view that they probably don't know. You have to fully understand them, the context for their needs and their major dissatisfactions.

People need to be inspired. They need to hear and believe a story. If you want them to be self-motivated, you need to engage them.

Good intentions are simply not enough. Our character is defined and our lives are determined not by what we want, say or think, but by what we do.

Even the most careful and expensive marketing plans cannot sell people a book they don't want to read.

When I'm not working I'm a slug - a full slug. I am not good at the in-between. I'm either fever-pitched or want to just pass out on a beach with a really sleazy book and eat a cheeseburger.

Hollywood would much prefer the author be dead, so that they can buy the book and do what they want to do with it.

My background is in math and science, and I thrive on complexity, and I think lots of people do. People love puzzles; it's human nature to want to solve puzzles.

You know, it's hard as a writer to lose characters (and actors) you like. You really don't want them to die because you're not going to get to see them anymore.

If people want me to go round and talk to governments and others then I feel that responsibility which is why I am on the road a good deal of the time and why I'm not slowing down.

And realising that humour is the most powerful way to make a political statement and say the things that you want to say. And it's not used enough, at least not in the U.S.

Maybe it's a sick fantasy of mine, but I am really looking forward to a debate between a general and a deserter. Plus, I really want to hear President Bush have to say, "Yes, General, No, General."

I'm very blessed and fortunate that people want to go see my movies.

The American media wants to pump you full of fear.

If you're white, and you really want to help change things, why not start with yourself?

Wall Street, the banks, and corporate America, has been able to call the shots here. They control our members of Congress and they get what they want.

Children have to be motivated to want to learn to read. Reading must not be taught simply as a school exercise.

Everyone is interested in war, in that people don't want it to happen. I'm much more interested in peace than in war but it's important to understand why we fight.

By the end of the week, if I'm still alive, I get to write whatever I want about it all.

Whether it's on the streets of Philadelphia or New York or Chicago or Atlanta or in a classroom in Newtown, Connecticut, people want to be safe.

Everyone felt comfortable with these guys and what their vision was, and when they said they want to keep the staff intact, that was very encouraging.

I have a great family, good friends, a nice girlfriend, my own house. I have got everything how I want it to be.

I guess people recognize me, but I'm not a household name. Two out of every five people who come up to me know my name. The one thing I don't want is to be followed by paparazzi.

When I'm focused, there is not one single thing, person, anything that can stand in the way of my doing something. There is not. If I want something bad enough, I feel I'm gonna get there.

I know it won't be eight medals again. If you want to compare me to that, that's your decision, not mine. I'm going out there to try to accomplish the things that I have in my mind and in my heart.

Different films have different places in people's lives. I don't get to see a lot of films, so I want to watch films I learn from.

People don't want to be plagued by not knowing-they want answers.

Call it stubborn, call it ignorant, call it what you want, but I don't think I have to join a particular faith or culture or creed or religion just to fit in.

To be able to play somebody that says and does pretty much whatever he wants is great.

If you are going to be on TV for however many years, you want to make sure that you have writers that are giving you something to work with, and I got that in spades.

I don't travel for fun, because I travel so much with my work; when I'm not working, I mostly want to stay home.