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I never met a rich man who was happy, but I have only very occasionally met a poor man who did not want to become a rich man.

We are advocates of the abolition of war, we do not want war; but war can only be abolished through war.

A staple of my personality is that I want what I want - and Im willing to do without until I get it.

You have to wake up and you have to run if you want to survive.

Can a man be poor if he is free from want, if he does not covet the belongings of others, if he is rich in the possession of God? Rather, he is poor who possesses much but still craves for more.

When you start from nothing, when you come from nothing, it makes you hungry. I am proud of where I came from and I know what I want. I want to win.

I still listen to older music a lot more than new singers. I listen to whatever's on the radio, but when I want to listen to something that moves me I put on a Stevie Wonder record.

The cynics in life are the people who are always trying to do things for people who don't want things done for them.

I'm not used to seeing the ball go wherever she wants. As a pitcher, I like to be - I don't want to say perfect, but I want to know what the ball is going to do.

What I wasn't prepared for were the feelings of anxiety that it stirred in me. I wasn't prepared for the initial feeling of I don't want to have to do that again. I was scared.

I read all the great philosophers but most people just hear what they want to hear and it makes it easy for them to brand us devil worshippers.

Please don't make me a joke. End the interview with what I believe. I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one... I want to be an artist, an actress with integrity...

The studio people want me to do "Good-bye Charlie" for the movies, but I'm not going to do it. I don't like the idea of playing a man in a woman's body - you know? It just doesn't seem feminine.

Be able to live alone, even if you don't want to and think you will never find it necessary.

I have my life, my world. I do what I want, without annoying anyone.

When you've got 10,000 people trying to do the same thing, why would you want to be number 10,001?

How doe we create the world we want, rather than a world that just happens to us?

You're charging money to have people come watch you play; I want them to feel taken someplace good or provoked into thinking my way for an hour and a half or two hours.

Have the #‎ life you want by being fully present to the life you have.

We are now so far advanced in our denial of evil that we want to rationalise it away.

To practice the process of conflict resolution, we must completely abandon the goal of getting people to do what we want.

Anybody can change, but they have to want to change.

The biggest problem in politics is that you help some S.O.B. get what he wants and then he throws you out of the train.

This (writing) is the love of your life. It's what I want to do when I wake up. Nothing feels so absorbing, so fulfilling.

It has been rightly said that what a critic wants to understand he must, at one time, have deeply loved, even if only for a fleeting moment.

And I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people will get to the promised land

I've been thrown out of schools and fired from jobs. I don't want to work. I can honestly say I haven't done an honest day's work in my life.

All these things that enter your head are assignments. You write them up and then throw them out there and if someone wants to do it, your assignment is done.

How many therapists does it take to change a lightbulb? One, as long as the lightbulb wants to change.

I'm a man, and I think every man wants to be No. 1.

When you're part of the opposition you want to stay. It's part of your identity. You're useless if you leave. You feel like you have failed.

Rolling down the windows, yeah I got an air conditiona, but I got a sound I want the whole world to listenta.

Well Lord, I'm still on the case. I'm still doing what Dr. King and Pops want me to do. I'm still on that freedom highway, and I'm going to walk on it until Dr. King's dream is realized.

I received a letter from the Reich Ministry of Sports. They want me to split from Joe Jacobs, my manager since 1928.... I really need Joe Jacobs. I owe all my success in America to him.

God serves the choosy. They know what to want.

I want you, I need you, but there ain't no way I'm EVER gonna love you. Now don't be sad, cause two out of three ain't bad.

I try to live with the idea that karma is a very real thing. So I put out what I want to get back.

When everything changes we learn who we really are. What’s really important. What we want most. We discover the truth in moments of disarray.

The shell must be cracked apart if what is in it is to come out, for if you want the kernel you must break the shell.

Sometimes, we don't get what we want. . . But this is a benevolent universe. And once in a while, we do.

Men who have a lot of charm have it in place of something real that you are eventually going to want from them and find that they do not have.

I think everybody wants to be their own person and be an individual.

There are no innocents in Gaza, don't let any diplomats who want to look good in the world endanger your lives - mow them down!

Nobody wants to hear Metallica at lunchtime.

People can say what they want in the Labour Party.

Architects love to rethink a project - that's what we do. If something is successful, like a house or a kettle, in this case, it's a great compliment when someone wants another one.

The minute it gets to a runway, you're tempted to do some high jinks. I don't want to show something I won't produce. I want people to wear the clothes I show.

I don't mind dying if I have to, but I'm damned if I want to pay for the guarantee. I'm sorry.

Anything is possible as long as you want it, you work for it. Doesn't matter what anyone else thinks, the only person that can really put pressure on you is yourself

Eat all the junk food you want as long as you cook it yourself.