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I'd visit the near future, close enough that someone might want to talk to Larry Niven and can figure out the language; distant enough to get me decent medical techniques and a ticket to the Moon.

I love involving actors at all levels - and they have to know that I want to hear their contributions, with dialogue, with story suggestions, with script changes, whatever.

My mum gave up so much to have me, and now I want to repay her.

Bridesmaids proved there was an audience there that we knew was there. It proved that women go to the movies. They want to see story about themselves.

I wouldn't even hold my kids sometimes because I didn't want them to spit up on me when I was dressed for an awards show.

But, George and Steven asked me to write the Indiana Jones sequels, and I didn't want to.

On the silver screen, capitalists are usually vilified as greedy and heartless, while statists of every stripe are depicted as selfless, romantic idealists who only want to help people.

It's hard not to want to strangle people when you work with them for four years.

If I have to give up good fashion for a relationship, I don't want a relationship.

I could stop and say, Well that was a D minor, G seven, but I really don't want to know that. I just want to know that there's a combination of notes that makes a sound.

We've been given this gift, our planet, and we've found no other place in the universe that we can inhabit. I want to do something to create radical change to help save it. It's our responsibility.

At some point in your career, someone is going to tell you, "This stove is hot. Do not touch this stove." And the weird thing is, you'll want to touch it. But resist that urge, man.

The idea of sitting at home, not making music, just makes me want to throw up.

I knew Elvis Presley very well. He always felt somebody was after him. When you have that kind of a fear, that kind of an attitude, you attract people who want to do you harm.

The number one thing I want my videos to be is relatable.

[My book is] a collection of letters and essays about what it takes to be a young woman today. Mostly the taboo things that girls don't want to talk about, but once we do we realize we're not alone.

Of all the unhappy people in the world, the unhappiest are those who have not found something they want to do.

I try to keep a balance. I actually believe that children want normal parents, they don't want celebrities or important parents or anything different from all the other parents.

There's fatigue but also a deliberate desire to want to reach absolute perfection at every concert.

I wanted to come through with my own voice and, hopefully, have it affect people. I want people to know that I'm not an Elvis impersonator.

You have to work hard for it, but first you have to want it, and then you have to dream on it.

I have no problem with women in the military, if that's what they want to do.

It's all a matter of how agents want to handle their clients.

I don't have to steal bases. I steal bases because I want to.

A team wins with the elimination of mistakes and with people who want to win and can't stand losing.

I can't do anything I want to. I mean, I can't have my own TV show. I can't have my own movie. But within my little world, nobody tells me what to put on the albums.

Many people today don't want honest answers insofar as honest means unpleasant or disturbing, They want a soft answer that turneth away anxiety.

The Englishman wants to be recognized as a gentleman, or as some other suitable species of human being; the American wants to be considered a good guy.

We may not know how to forgive, and we may not want to forgive; but the very fact we say we are willing to forgive begins the healing practice.

Someone who wants to succeed has to overcome his own greed first

You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character.

The industry needs transforming. It’s for others to decide whether they want to get stuck in the past or whether they want to come on the journey.

Have compassion for everyone you meet, even if they don’t want it.

You have to look out for becoming trapped in a place where people want to see you all the time doing one thing.

People rightly want our political leaders - on all sides - to concentrate on minimising the damage to jobs, living standards and our savings from the banking crisis.

If a player demonstrated that he is the best, and a team decides, even so, we don't want to pay him, as in any other business, he should be able to play elsewhere.

In order to like someone you don't necessarily need to agree with them. It's part of our nature to want to connect.

Satan wants anxiety to hinder us from becoming effective servants of Christ.

My audience wants to see me beautifully gowned, and I have spared no expense or pains . . . For I feel that the best is none too good for the public that pays to hear a singer.

I used to just think about what my fans wanted all the time. But it just started feeling weird to me. I want to just show everyone who I am and stick to my vision. I have to trust myself.

It's about finding unique, one-of-a-kind films that I would want to see myself. I think Party Monster is one of those.

The people are as severe toward the clergy as toward women; they want to see absolute devotion to duty from both.

I don't do anything but sleep, when I'm not working. I have no life. I'm no fun. All I want to do is sleep and get ready for the next day. It's awesome.

Time is important to me because I want to sing long enough to leave a message. I'm used to singing in churches where nobody would dare stop me until the Lord arrives!

Be the change that you want to see

I'd like to do things to make money to save myself but right now I can't do nothing. If they want to put me in jail, they can do that. It's kind of tough.

I don't enjoy being a celebrity, I don't want any part of that or any part of that fame for fame... i'd actually rather die than be a celebrity slime!!!

One fine day as my mother was putting the bread in the oven, I went up to her and taking her by her flour-smeared elbow I said to her, Mama I want to be a painter.

I hate nostalgia, I want nothing to do with it.

I'm not running for Vice President, I'm not looking to be anyone's vice president, I want to be the president.