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... one cannot be happy in exile or in oblivion. One cannot always be a stranger. I want to return to my homeland, make all my loved ones happy. I see no further than this.
The mathematician knows some things, no doubt, but not those things one usually wants to get from him.
Germany had the misfortune of becoming poisoned, first because of plenty, and then because of want.
Really, I'm a neurotic perfectionist. Every single word in the script is the one that I want.
I've come to recognize songwriting as something that I do, and I want to be good at that. At that craft, if you like. I want to practice it.
I'm not interested in parts where they are looking for a good-looking guy. I want to be a weird little sidekick in a crazy comedy and then play like a dark drama or a thriller.
When you work with kids, people tell you to be very delicate, but that's the last thing you should do with kids. They feel patronized if you're like that. They just want you to be normal.
I can't tell a story in the white man's language, so I say what I want to say with my paintings.
In cold and heat, in rain and wind, the soul united to God says, "I want it to be warm, to be cold, windy, to rain, because God wills it."
Self-sabotage is when we say we want something and then go about making sure it doesn't happen.
Once an interesting idea or theme occurs to me then I would want to write a poem about it. The rest, frankly, is not difficult.
I am very needy for friendship and I hate men. I want to f - - them, but I can now say I'm engaged - get away from me.
As a writer, its important to stay true to your story without giving a hoot about publishers, critics and readers. You should do your karma as an author the way you want to, and rest is up to God.
To me, feminism means equality between men and women. I want to make people laugh and also point out some injustices or inequalities I see.
To the girls that gave me a hard time in high school. I want to say thank you. This is a victory for all the nerds out there.
You really need to be able to eat the burger like you're loving it. I don't want somebody that's going to go out there and say, "Well, I don't eat burgers."
I'm a family man, I have kids, and I go to the movies. And I'm just going to make the kind of movie I want to see.
Language also encodes our past. We want to know who we are. To know who we are, we have to know who we used to be. Consequently, our literature, written in the past, anchors us in that past.
My wife and I want to try swapping. We want to go to one of those key parties where you put your keys in a bowl. But we just want to upgrade our car.
In Washington, a confidential assistant is someone who, if you don't want to know something, you go and ask him and he won't tell you.
When people are convinced you want something FOR them rather than something FROM them, they are less likely to be offended when you challenge them.
The interviewer should just tell me the words he wants me to say and I’ll repeat them after him. I think that would be so great because I’m so empty I just can’t think of anything to say.
It must be hard to be a model, because you'd want to be like the photograph of you, and you can't ever look that way.
I have a massage when I want to relax. I love being pampered. I love island massages when you're outside in the fresh air.
What we really need to be understanding is that all of these things matter and they all stem from the fact that certain people live with power and authority and they want to maintain it
I think people can be trusted to know what makes them unhappy. Maybe we don't always know what we want exactly, but we can usually say what we don't with a fair amount of specificity.
Because we build the worlds we wouldn't mind living in. They contain scary things, problems, but also a sense of rightness that makes them alive and makes us want to live there.
It's funny how you can be mad at someone one moment and want to hug them the next.
As to that leisure evening of life, I must say that I do not want it. I can conceive of no contentment of which toil is not to be the immediate parent.
Real breakthroughs are not found because you want to develop some new technology, but because you are curious and want to find out how the world is.
I know each conversation with a psychiatrist in the morning made me want to hang myself because I knew I could not strangle him.
I think a lot of people are so scared of failure that they don't put everything they have into whatever they want to do. I think, in turn, they write their own destiny.
It concerns us to know the purposes we seek in life, for then, like archers aiming at a definite mark, we shall be more likely to attain what we want.
To be clear, we the Department of Education want curriculum to be driven by the local level. We are by law prohibited from directing curriculum. We don't have a curriculum department.
If I were going to war I would want to be alongside an Englishman not a Frenchman. The Frenchman would think too much.
He wants to live on through something - and in his case, his masterpiece is his son. All of us want that, and it gets more poignant as we get more anonymous in this world.
When I decide to write a story, I don't think too much about what I want it to be, I just let things come naturally and this is how it turns out. It's just how my subconscious works.
Everyone is made differently and that's what makes us beautiful and unique. I want girls to look in the mirror and feel confident.
You know, my brother won't walk out of a restaurant with me anymore because he doesn't want to be linked to me as my new 'mystery man.' Same with my close guy friends.
First I have tried to achieve the highest quality of technical facility possible so that I have at my fingertips the availability to create anything I want. Then I paint.
The best way to help Burma is to empower the people of Burma, to help us have enough self-confidence to obtain what we want for ourselves.
Some black filmmakers will say, "I don't want to be considered a black filmmaker, I'm a filmmaker." I don't think that. I'm a black woman filmmaker.
The reason you want your kids to pay attention in school is you haven't the faintest idea how to do their homework.
The main reason guys will never admit to having even the teeniest clue about what women really want is because if they did, they'd have to do something about it.