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A forty and a blunt, that's all she really wants.

My childhood dream was always to be on Broadway. I wanted to end up in TV and film. It's kind of flipped, and I'm not mad about it, but my childhood dream is Broadway and I want to end up there.

I was lucky that my mother had a very well-adjusted perspective of the world, and never pressured me to do anything I didn't want to do.

Do you always want to be right or do you want to be happy?

Light comes to us unexpectedly and obliquely. Perhaps it amuses the gods to try us. They want to see whether we are asleep.

I think maybe written films are better than real films. You can see them in your head and yet everything is exactly as you want it to be.

No peace will arrive unless the U.S. or Pakistan want it.

Keep your mind on the things you want and off the things you don't want.

I know what you want. It is very stupid of you, but you shall have your way, and it will bring you to sorrow, my pretty princess. - The sea witch.

If people want a sense of purpose they should get it from their archbishop. They should certainly not get it from their politicians.

Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.

If you're a good journalist, what you do is live a lot of things vicariously, and report them for other people who want to live vicariously.

Curiosity doesn't matter anymore. These days people don't want to be transported to emotional territories where they don't know how to react.

Mr. DeMille's theory of sexual difference was that marriage is an artificial state for women. The want to be taken, ruled, raped. That was his theory.

For me, my business is my business and my house is my house. I don't want the public in my house.

A man wants a woman who will place him at the top of his priority list, not second but first. He wants to be the kingpin around which all other activities of her life revolve.

It is a violation which has obsessed the tyrants of the twentieth century. They do not want simply to kill their opponents, but to liquidate them, to deny that they have ever existed.

I think still it is very fine not to want children. There are far too many people in the world. It is my contribution to ecology.

I hate this image of me as a prim Edwardian. I want to shock everyone.

A woman was taking a shower. There is a knock on the door. Who is it? Blind man! The woman opens the door. Where do you want these blinds, lady?

God wants you to live for others and to live that presence well.

If I should ever be captured, I want no negotiation - and if I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress.

Some people thrive under pressure, but pressure can also ruin your performance, it can push you down angles which you don't want to go.

This acting job - it pays very well and you get to live a wonderful lifestyle, but it's something that I love doing, so I want to work with other people who enjoy it as well...

If there is unemployment in America, it is because the unemployed do not want to work.

Plenty of men can do good work for a spurt and with immediate promotion in mind, but for promotion you want a man in whom good work has become a habit.

I will not say it is not Christian to make beads of others faults, and tell them over every day; I say it is infernal. If you want to know how the Devil feels, you do know, if you are such an one.

They [China] have indicated that they’re trying to develop nuclear capability and they want to develop more aircraft carriers like we have. So yes, we have to consider them a military threat.

In the Bible it says they asked Jesus how many times you should forgive, and he said seventy times seven. Well, I want you all to know that I'm keeping a chart.

When you're a big girl like me, you want someone who makes you feel diminutive. I think fat guys are sexy.

Now son, you don’t want to drink beer. That’s for Daddies, and kids with fake IDs.

I'm a social writer in the sense that I want to record, but not in the sense of trying to change people's minds.

Nothing to impede progress. If you want to see the fate of democracies, look out the windows.

Don't miss understand me, I'm not getting soft, all I want is a couple days off.

I went to engineering school, I went to physics class. I said, 'Screw this, I don't want to be here. I'd much rather be at a club playing music.

I don't think many actors are the best judge of careers. I think generally we have good instincts about what we can do in terms of acting. And often they become directors, which I don't want to be.

Men want a woman whom they can turn on and off like a light switch.

People who are successful simply want it more than people who are not.

What's with the cute shoelace on your head?" "What this?" He flicked the end of the cord with his finger. "Yeah. Rambo called, he wants his bandana back.

I can do whatever I want.

I was thinking about picking up kayaking, but I didn't want anyone to think I had herpes.

A few people have said that I should change my name and the spelling so that people can say it, but I don't want to, I like it the way it is.

Unfortunately, in many cases, people who write science fiction violate the laws of nature, not because they want to make a point, but because they don't know what the laws of nature are.

But I don't really see myself as a role model. I'm not a dictator, or someone who wants to be adored!

I beg of you, you good people who want to hear stories told: look at this page and recognize the wisdom of my grandmother and of all old story-telling women!

I probably not as likely to say what's on my mind, and I think most people aren't. It's not something I would want to always be doing. So that's why I'm not a politician.

You have set standards for how you want to be treated and what you expect from yourself and for yourself.

In truth, I never consider the audience for whom I'm writing. I just write what I want to write.

If you've got bad news, you want to kick them blues, cocaine.

When you scratch the surface, every one of us has something that we deeply want to contribute to the world. All we have to do is step up and do it.