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Our souls are getting older and we're tired of doing things the same old way. We want to find some real solutions.

How’ is always more important that ‘what.’ See if you can give much more attention to the doing than to the result that you want to achieve through it.

I took a plane from New York City to Los Angeles for an audition. I met all the people. After that, I was told to have another audition, but I didn't want to go there again.

It is a happy circumstance that when nature gives us true burning desires, she also gives us the means to satisfy them. Those who want to win and lack skill can get someone with skill to help them.

I think the moment you start trying to please a fan base is when you start going downhill. I'm going to always, always write about what I want, even if it doesn't necessarily cater to most of them.

I don't kind of want to be known as a one-trick pony who just does the adult-alternative song once a year that makes it onto the radio and people sort of think it's nice.

I have enough of a sense to know what works for me and what doesn't, without going into some big thing and analyzing what I do. I'm in a position that allows me to do what I want to do, and I do it.

When I finally put my guitar in the case the last time, I want to be remembered just as a singer, not as a country singer or pops singer - just a singer.

It takes a kind of shabby arrogance to survive in our time, and a fairly romantic nature to want to.

Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame - to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a hell.

What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

If the business community and political elite want to go to war they find it easy to mobilize domestic consent.

If someone wants to transmit a high-quality service with no interruptions and 'guaranteed this, guaranteed that,' they should be willing to pay for that.

People who want alternative information have to try so hard to find it.

The Internet is showing us what it thinks we want to see, but not necessarily what we need to see.

'Hostel' is that's how I feel about what's going on in Iraq. There's people that just want money and people are being sacrificed for it.

That is my major preoccupation, memory, the kingdom of memory. I want to protect and enrich that kingdom, glorify that kingdom and serve it.

My number one advice to high school girls is birth control. You want to keep all your options open for as long as possible? Birth control.

Reason can never reconcile one to life: nothing allays the wants one cannot explain.

[On Ronald Reagan:] The President doesn't want yes-men around. When he says no, we all say no.

Be of good cheer, for you will never want, for the bullet was meant for me, though it hit you.

It is a fundamental right for people to be allowed to love who they want to love and marry who they want to marry and stop holding on to some form of discrimination that it's just isn't fair.

It was something she didn't want me to do because she thought the rejection would ruin my self-esteem. My father was, like, 'If she wants to try it, let her try it.'

The work I care about is terribly simple. I observe. I try to entertain. But above all I want my pictures to be emotional. Little else interests me in photography.

Never open a book with weather. There are exceptions. If you happen to be Barry Lopez, who has more ways to describe ice and snow than an Eskimo, you can do all the weather reporting you want.

It's very homely, this castle. It doesn't have huge ballrooms. I didn't want a cold, cavernous place.

I am really a very shy person. If I appear, it is because of the music, not because I want to be seen.

Contentment comes not so much from great wealth as from few wants.

I love being single. I can come and go as I please and stay out as late as I want to.

Everybody wants to rule the world.

Before I die, I want to help as many people as I can make their dreams become a reality.

I'm old-school. I like action, but I want to see somebody fall in love. I want to see that life stuff.

All the rest of us - you and me and even the thousands of soldiers behind the lines in Africa - we want terribly yet only academically for the war to get over.

If you focus upon whatever you want, you will attract whatever you want. If you focus upon the lack of whatever you want, you will attract more of the lack.

I work as often as I want and yet I'm free as a bird

the theater should be free to the people just as the Public Library is free, just as the museum is free. ... I want the theater to be made accessible to the people.

I don't call myself an 'industrial designer,' because I'm other things. Industrial designers want to make novel things. Novelty is a concept of commerce, not an aesthetic concept.

Reactionary: One who wants the rules enforced so nobody can take his pile away from him the way he got it from others.

[In Bolivia] We want to overcome our historical problems with Chile. The sea has divided us and the sea must bring us back together again.

My function is not to reassure people. I want to make them uncomfortable. To send them out of the place arguing and talking.

Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.

I have two brothers buried in the military cemetery in Texas. I don't want to see any more of that.

I don't care about truth. I want some happiness.

The reason one writes isn't the fact he wants to say something. He writes because he has something to say.

The farmers may be the backbone of the country, but who wants to be a backbone?

My children didn't when they were little because I thought that they had to be of a certain age. I hoped they liked me well enough not to want to see me in that sort of a spot.

What the world needs now is more Americans. The U.S. is the first nation on earth deliberately dedicated to letting people choose what they want and giving them a chance to get it.

I went from trying to get people just to listen to my music, not necessarily knowing me, to this. I didn't want to be known, because I didn't want to be Fetty Wap... Me, I'm just a background guy.

People don't want to be 'marketed to'; they want to be “communicated with.

My show is my statement. What I have to say is on the screen. My life is my own. I don't want to talk about my private self. Why should I?