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I'd hate to feel in a comfort zone while I am working. That's not the way I like to do things. I want to be pressurized and challenged every day.

When you say, "History is written by the winners," you like to think about someone who isn't you. You want to think, "Oh, that's the juggernaut I'm standing against." But you're probably part of it.

I wanted to write a book that would leave open many riddles and mysteries, even to me. Of course in some cases I do know the answers, but in many others I don't know and don't want to know.

The teacher is commodified, the school is a shop, the subjects are consumer goods. To read, to think, to reflect, isn't a question of want, it's a question of need.

The stories I'm interested in are challenging ones, and maybe that requires a little bit more of you. I love my job and I want to earn the right to do it every single day.

I would be the worst president in the history of the United States. Unless you want the apocalypse to happen really soon then yes, I'll run for president.

Any song I don't feel good about, I shelve. Anything you ever hear me sing, it's because I want to.

Everyone always says it's a blessing to look a lot younger than my age, but sometimes I just want to look my real age.

Literature is man's exploration of man by artificial light, which is better than natural light because we can direct it where we want.

I have no interest in being famous. I just want to make famous photographs.

The world's a stage, and I want the brightest spot.

Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid says he will not seek re-election. Harry said he wants to spend more time with his family. As I always say, check with your family.

Hillary is in Iowa to listen to what the people are saying - because if you want her to speak, that will cost you $200,000. So she's there listening.

Self-esteem can be so exhausting. I want to cut my hair, change my clothes, erase the pimple from the near-tip of my nose, and strengthen my upper-arm definition, all in the next hour.

The audience perceives only what the actor wants to do to the other actor.

Good intentions, regular worship, Bible study, do not prevent blindness. Part of our sinful nature instinctively chooses to see what we want to see and to ignore what we want to ignore.

God has called every Christian to international missions, but He does not want everyone to go. God calls some to be senders.

Young people need their own private places which mothers don't belong to, even if they want mother all around the edge of that.

I prefer to cry alone, Pride? No. I just want to avoid trial of people who don't know the reason of my tears.

I don't have a six-pack. Maybe I don't even want a six-pack. It doesn't sound very appealing.

There's nothing wrong with having a desire to want nice things.

There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father.

A passion for life is one of the most attractive qualities in a human being. If you want a teammate or a life mate who loves to be around you, all you need to do is love to be around.

Everybody thinks if you do one thing, you can't do something else. So I like the fact that I can be versatile if I want to.

If somebody wants to shoot up and die in front of you, more power to them. The herd has a way of thinning itself out.

A player dreams of being a superstar, but he doesn't want people flocking all over him asking for an autograph.

If you don't love your fellow man, women, person, then you don't have anything. If you don't treat your neighbor as you would want to be treated that to me is the fundamental message.

We do what we have to so we can do what we want to.

I even asked [Saniyya Sidney] why she wanted to be an actor and she said, "I'm serious about this. These other little kids they want to play, and I don't have time for that."

I get to be in movies where it's mostly dialogue, and I want to be in something, that for me, feels like kickboxing.

When people decide they want to be free, there is nothing that can stop them.

Ubuntu really says if you want to be nice to yourself, start in a way by being nice to the other.

My mom just died. We blink and another decade passes. I don't want to reach the end of my life and regret not having given my days everything in me to make them worthwhile.

Our loving Heavenly Father wants us to become more like him. God understands that we get there not in an instant, but by taking one step at a time.

I have no desire to look back, I only want to look forward to the things that are still ahead of me.

Once you see the outcomes and the results, and you see how many people are helped and benefitting, you want to keep on doing it because it's so simple.

Only a catastrophe gets our attention. We want them, we depend on them. As long as they happen somewhere else.

Martin Luther King took us to the mountain top: I want to take us to the bank

Baseball's still a game. I don't want it to be work. I want it to be a game.

Complexity is acceptable as long as it is intelligible and necessary. We want to avoid needless complications.

Also, I realized a lot of kids are listening to me. Whether I want to be or not, they're looking up to me.

I'm very impatient, so I was like, 'I want to be able to do whatever I want now.' But even the biggest stars - you look back and they weren't overnight.

If the poet wants to be a poet, the poet must force the poet to revise. If the poet doesn't wish to revise, let the poet abandon poetry and take up stamp-collecting or real estate.

How to get rich ... whenever I meet people, that's usually what they want to know from me. You ask a banker how he makes bread. You ask a billionaire how he makes money.

I'm learning something all the time. That's the way I want it to go, and that's the way I'll go until I am no longer on this planet.

It is ridiculous to take on a man's job just in order to be able to say that 'a woman has done it - yah!' The only decent reason for tackling a job is that it is your job and you want to do it.

A message to parents who think legalizing weed will make their kids want to try it: they will anyway.

We may not always get what we want, but surely we will get what we deserve.

Now, I'm simply working with people I want to work with. I just want to have good working experiences and let the dice fall where they may.

You wanna do this...you wanna go right now...do you want to, GO?...then go get The Rock a bologna sandwich because this doesn't concern you.