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The last person one wants to be is themselves. Sadly, that is the best person to be.

I'm not excusing crime or those who bring poison into the community, but I do want brothers and sisters in prison to know someone cares.

Stupidity has no friends, and wants none.

I've always thought that the stereotype of the dirty old man is really the creation of a dirty young man who wants the field to himself.

Peace we want because there is another war to fight against poverty, disease and ignorance.

When I see the migrant workers broken bodies and eyes without hope, I want to embrace and wipe away their fears. It makes me angry and helps me to keep fighting the oppressive system.

It's not easy to know who you are and it's very painful and takes a lot of time and that is why a lot of people don't want to put in the effort.

The source of my difficulties has always been the same: an inability to accept what to others seems natural, and an irresistible tendency to voice opinions no one wants to hear . . .

My Mother's an actress, and she's always told me, "Boy, you're an actor." I would look forward to seeing if I'm any good. I want to be good at it, that's the only thing.

Yes, there's one thing I do want. I want to be aware of the minutes and the seconds, and to make each one count.

Some see the glass half full, some see it half empty, and some see it crawling with toxic alien parasites who want to devour your pancreas.

I don't think I will do a Mafia character again. I want to get away from the violence a little bit, because it is starting to bother me personally.

We're not just horror fans. We're film fans. I love action films. I want to do action films. I want to do romantic comedies. I love all this stuff. So, if I find the good material, I'll do it.

When I was a kid, my father told me every day, 'You're the most wonderful boy in the world, and you can do anything you want to.'

I cannot remember a time when I did not want to go to Africa to study animals.

The greater the value of what we want, the greater the sacrifice we will have to make.

If people want to know the truth, why don't they just come to me and ask?

No one wants to see or read about a dull subject. I don't consider myself a dull subject.

Banter is often a proof of want of intelligence.

Through most of my career I've made a decent living making movies no one wants to see.

We are possessed by the things we possess. When I like an object, I always give it to someone. It isn't generosity-it's only because I want others to be enslaved by objects, not me.

When it comes to energy, cost isn't everything - but it's a lot. Everybody wants cheap power.

For Jesus, who lived so lightly on this earth, He didn’t even have a place to lay His head. I want so deeply to be like You.

I have a lot of favorite films. I tend to love the silliness of 'Bringing Up Baby.' 'Charade' is fantastic. 'His Girl Friday,' the banter in that, that alone made me want to be a writer.

There are actresses who build themselves, and then there are actresses who are built by others. I want to build myself.

I'm a woman who wants her chocolate.

When you say that I have followers, let me assure you that I do not want followers, nor would I ever encourage the idea of following.

Direction determines destination. So the question you must ask yourself; 'Are all the disciplines that I'm currently engaged in taking me where I want to go?'

There are times when I feel uninspired and I don't want to compose. I call these my 'bewitched' periods. I have to be touched with a magic wand.

Basic anatomy. That has got to be the ongoing frustration: Why can't my fingers do what I want them to do? Not being able to play what I hear in my head - that is the ultimate source of frustration.

You can’t talk mediocrity and expect to have victory. You are prophesying your future. If you want a shift to occur, you’ve got to think positive.

A lot of it [success] is luck. That's a huge part of it that no one wants to talk about. You just got to be in the right place at the right time.

Some actors, I think, want to feel that they are as creative as the writer. And the answer is, frankly, they're not.

I believe in the mystery, and I don't want to take it any further than that. Maybe what I mean by that is love.

Only now that I loved a grenade did I understand the foolishness of trying to save others from my own impending fragmentation: I couldn’t unlove Augustus Waters. And I didn’t want to.

When his rolls royce was mobbed by fans the chauffeur said: ''do you want me to get them off the car?'' and Lennon replied: ''No - they paid for it, they can wreck it

I usually have a very clear idea of where I want a song to go, sometimes very specific notes, but I'm generally open to suggestions.

The secret of good health and happiness is to have rather small illnesses throughout your life which you can rely on to stop you doing anything you don't want to do.

Death is like my car. It takes me where I want to go.

Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities.

There are a lot of people who want to give orders and be bossy that don't deserve respect.

If a man says, "I'll call you," and he doesn't, he didn't forget. . . . he didn't lose your number. . . . he didn't die. He just didn't want to call you.

If God didn't want man to hunt, He wouldn't have given us plaid shirts.

I think about legacy a lot, hopefully at the end of the day they say I was a good bluesman. That's all I want.

I'm a one-woman guy. I think that if you can find someone you want to spend the rest of your life with, you should marry them instantly, and try to stay married.

The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.

If you get raised up having everything you want and then get put out in the world and try to live your own life, you've never had anything to train you how to live.

We must become the people we want our children to be.

God gave people 2 ears and 1 mouth because He wants us to listen twice as much as we talk.

I write so much because my cat sits on my lap. She purrs so I don't want to get up. She's so much more calming than my husband.