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New York's home. It's everything I'd want it to be. It's the most inspiring city I've ever been to, and I haven't been everywhere in the world, but I've been to quite a few places.

If the problem is Washington is corrupt, why on Earth would you want to give more power to Washington?

I let my [past] life in peripherally, because I'm interested in what's over there; I want to keep going forward.

War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.

The worst thing you can do if you want to start a fight is to use derogatory terminology.

Because we're trying, because we want, it's very hard to get.

I know my parents are really proud of me, and they think I've become successful, so that's nice, but there's still so much I want to achieve in my life.

My doctor said, for want of a better word, now that we've got medicines out here that can help, let's put you on one of them and say we're treating MS.

Why should I live my whole life where I don't want to be. [it's a good point - pretty hard to argue with that sort of logic really isn't it!

As far as I'm concerned, I'm a writer who's writing books, and therefore, I don't want to die. You'd miss the end of the book, wouldn't you? You can't die with an unfinished book.

Women in general want to be loved for what they are and men for what they accomplish.

It is a sad thing to want for happiness, but it is a terrible thing to see another groping about blindly for it, when it is almost within the grasp.

… It is not healing to see your childhood home, but it helps you measure whether you are broken, and how and why, assuming you want to know.

Sameness is what marketers want us to want.

I'm interested in human vulnerability. We are alone, and my portraits reflect this quality. I don't want anything to get in the way of this feeling.

It is not enough to want to make the effort... it's in the doing, not just the thinking that we accomplish our goals.

Self-discipline is a rigorous process at best; too many of us want it to be effortless and painless.

[Con] men have long known . . . that their job is not to convince skeptics but to enable the gullible to continue to believe what they want to believe.

All false practices and affections of knowledge are more odious to God, and deserve to be so to men, than any want or defect of knowledge can be.

Those who are born of parents broken with old age, or of such as are not yet ripe or are too young, or of drunkards, soft or effeminate men, want a great and liberal ingenuity or wit.

I love to play golf, and that's my arena. And you can characterize it and describe it however you want, but I have a love and a passion for getting that ball in the hole and beating those guys.

I knew out of high school I didn't want to go to college. I knew what whatever I did wouldn't have anything to do with college.

Derek Jarman shared the responsibility for making the film. He didn't necessarily know what he wanted - he knew what he didn't want - but you had to keep coming up with stuff.

Men often do things for women that they don't want to do, so that women will do things for men that they don't want to do.

I love museums. But I don't want to live in one.

Nobody wants to buy sour milk.

With comedy, you really want to work things out beforehand.

People get out of music what they want to get out of it, and all I try to do is do the same thing.

Any time you're trying to do a movie with a happy ending, it's very difficult because it's been done before and you don't want to be manipulative.

This policeman came up to me with a pencil and a piece of very thin paper. He said, "I want you to trace someone for me."

I'm working class, and want people to know I'm not unintelligent and all the other cliches that come with it.

Claim what is yours. You belong any where on this Earth you want to.

My goal, my aim is to be a superstar, but not in a cheesy way. I want to go to America and do what they do. But better!

So I think it is common knowledge that Hitchcock had fantasies or whatever you want to call them about his leading ladies.

All I mean is, I'm not the kind of audience comedy directors want at a test screening because I seldom laugh, and if I do, it's not very loud. That doesn't mean I don't like the movie.

I mean, I don't want to sound - of course it's very nice, people come up and say appreciative things about my work. But the loss, in terms of privacy and anonymity, is no small thing to me.

I believe in living life the way that you want to live it every day, and if you do that, you don't really need to have New Year's resolutions.

France? I don't want to be anti-French but there isn't a more unattractive group of people on the streets.

When I read about young designers selling 51 percent of their company to someone else, I cringe. I want to say, 'Don't do it - call me first.'

I worry constantly and obsess over things, but I just don't let fear stand in the way of doing something that I really want to do.

I like to be other people, not me. And when you're on the red carpet, it's like, 'Here's Tom Hardy.' I don't want to be me. That's why I play other people.

But Id say that probably 70 percent of the bunkering is more to give you an idea of the direction that you want to go or to save your ball from going into worse places.

Being in the Marine Corps was the best thing that ever happened to me. It can do a lot for a young guy. I owe a lot to the Marine Corps. If I had a son, I'd want him to be a Marine.

I just never really thought of not being involved, because when I write the songs I take them to a certain place and by that point I kinda know what I want them to sound like.

Virtually every magazine, newspaper, TV station and cable channel is owned by a big corporation, and they've squashed stories that they don't want the public to know about.

I didn't come to Hollywood to drink or get high, and I don't want to be considered a cool actor - I want to be a great actor.

I've made it clear to my agents that I want more interesting stuff.

So I rang up a local building firm, I said 'I want a skip outside my house.' He said 'I'm not stopping you.'

Trying too hard to follow every trend. You want to look fashionable and put-together, not like you hit every sale rack this season.

When you gone to get married? You need to have some babies. It’ll settle you.' 'I don’t want to make somebody else. I want to make myself.