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Let's let people live their lives and do it the way they want to do it.

In my life and career I want to embrace ageing because I think that's what's interesting.

I'm not really playing for the money, ... I just want to go out there and have fun. I really missed it so much last year.

Every candle that gets lit in the dark room must feel a little rejection from the darkness around it, but the last thing I want from those who hold a different world view to me is to accept me.

I like playing for the purple and gold. This is where I want to finish up.

There were decades I didn't play sober. I thought, Who would want to? But at some point, I decided that if it was important enough to me to keep doing it as art, I should do it with all my tools.

He resisted for a while and there were some legal boundaries, you know, keeping me from being near him or his family, but in the end, love overcame. And I got what I wanted. I always get what I want.

Sometimes it would be nice to just have some red wine with dinner, but it's not worth the risk. I have a great life, a great situation. Why would I want to risk self-destructive behaviour?

I'm not an executive. I can do it, I have the mind for it, but there's a life that you have to lead, and you have to give up your creative freedom. That's what I don't want to give up.

My father is incapable of showing much affection, or even of carrying on a conversation. I didn't want to have a relationship with him just because he's my blood relative. It would bore me.

I wanted to have the adoration of John Lennon but have the anonymity of Ringo Starr. I didn't want to be a frontman; I just wanted to be back there and still be a rock and roll star at the same time.

Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Normally my problem is that I'm too inquisitive and want to do everything.

If anyone tells you that you can't achieve your dreams, or puts you down, make your hand into a claw and tell them you're a little monster and you can do whatever the f*** you want.

It is fair to write about the change in your magazines. But what I want to see is the change on your covers ... When the covers change, that's when culture changes.

Clean up your own backyard. Change by example. Just be the way you want others to be and hope they pay attention.

My brand was always going to be based on my personality. I didn't want people hiring me for what I said. I wanted them hiring me for who I am.

I learned drumming as a second instrument because I didn't want to sing. Sometimes I would quite like to be left in the back, in the darkness by myself.

At a stage when young people want more than anything to be like everyone else, they find themselves the least alike. Everyone their age is growing and changing, but each at his or her own pace.

If I'm learning something, that's all I want to talk about.

Storytelling, a primitive art, is as old as the beginning of mankind. People want to receive what's out there in the form of stories, not just facts, opinion, analysis.

The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business--or almost anywhere else for that matter.

You got to risk it if you want the biscuit.

History is a needle for putting men asleep anointed with the poison Of all they want to keep.

But if you're talking about fine art work, then I think you have to ask yourself some pretty deep questions about why it is you want to take pictures and what it is you want to say.

I'm not contented to capture the world. I want to change it.

Domestic abuse happens only in intimate, interdependent, long-term relationships - in other words, in families - the last place we would want or expect to find violence.

In Los Angeles, it's like they jog for two hours a day and then they think they're morally right. That's when you want to choke people, you know?

I don't like my whole life dragged out. I don't want anyone to know about me, because I don't think I'm very interesting... I like my work. I like what I gave. And that was it.

If you know the voice you're writing for it's such a shortcut. It's such a catalyst to creating the kind of energy you want.

If you start doing things because you hate others and want to screw them over, the end result is bad.

For God's sake, Marks, do you think anyone really wants a glance at those dried-up matchsticks you call legs?

People who don't want to weather some of the rough periods miss out on something better.

Isn't this the best part of breakin' up? Finding someone else you can't get enough of. Someone who wants to be with you, too.

I am a real person that cares about his art and cares about what he's doing - I have a heart and a soul and want to touch people and give.

Grandmothers are to life what the Ph.D. is to education. There is nothing you can feel, taste, expect, predict, or want that the grandmothers in your family do not know about in detail.

No one wants to hear about the labor pains, they just want to see the baby.

Your bat is your life. It's your weapon. You don't want to go into battle with anything that feels less than perfect

I've been accepted at Cambridge University. I want to study Chinese history and archaeology. I want to become a student. I want to read Chinese history and go on a dig.

It's no go the merry-go-round, it's no go the rickshaw All we want is a limousine and a ticket for the peepshow.

I ask for help. I tell Life what I want, and then I allow it to happen.

I know I chatter on far too much... but if you only knew how many things I want to say and don't. Give me SOME credit.

Those fighting for free enterprise and free competition do not defend the interests of those rich today. They want a free hand left to unknown men who will be the entrepreneurs of tomorrow.

Being called gorgeous is not a bad thing! But at the same time, I don’t want to thrive on people’s opinions of me.

I think my speeches are hilarious. I think I'm a natural comedian, but I like denying people the chance to laugh. I want to deny you the relief of the punchline.

The Lord does not want us to "miss supper." In fact, He has a great feast prepared for those who return clean and pure through the door.

People like to see honest persons. So I certainly will advise many young people who want to participate in politics, honesty is the best policy.

Pettiness of mind, ignorance and presumption are the cause of stubbornness, because stubborn people only want to believe what they themselves can imagine, and they can imagine very few things.

People want to hear the dirt. But this is not really anything I want to talk about.

My daughter is a fan of mine but she doesn't want to be too obvious about it because I'm her mum and it's not cool.