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The superior man is distressed by his want (lack) of ability

Well, acting was just in me and I tried to avoid it. I didn't want to do what my parents did, you know?

In LA, too many people want to go the quickest route from A to B. Method acting offers them that.

I am not brave enough to not pay my income tax and risk going to jail. But I can say rather freely what I want to say with my art.

Life is brief and to have to spend every day of it doing what somebody else wants you to do is not the way to live it.

If I'm not doing the work I want, I usually suffer a psychological allergic reaction and get ill. It niggles when things get out of my control.

I don't like venison or sushi - I don't want to eat what some people think are 'luxurious' foods.

I would like to do a part that would stretch me. In America it seems to me that you just take your clothes off and that helps, but I wouldn't want to do that.

Director Oliver Stone says he's going to make a movie about Vladimir Putin. I can't believe anyone would want to work with that insane communist. And Putin is a little crazy as well.

I'm able to draw outside my own personal experiences. No one wants to hear the song about what I really did today, which is go get coffee and clean my apartment.

You people are telling me what you think I want to know. I want to know what is actually happening.

I am always motivated. I am ambitious and I want to always improve.

Latin life is rich with warmth, family values and history. I want to bring that beauty into American homes.

Put simply, there are many people who want to make movies and very few opportunities for them to do it.

I never wanted to be known as a local rapper. Not downing anybody, but you know Gucci, that's cool to me, but I want to be massive. I want to be Kanye. I want to be Eminem.

When I sing I don't feel like it's me. I feel I am fabulous, like I'm 10 feet tall. I am the greatest. I am the strongest. I am Samson. I'm whoever I want to be.

The country is suffering from musical-chairs syndrome. We all dance around for a bit and then when we try to sit down again, somebody doesn't have a chair. We're running scared; we want ours.

The more we get to know God, the more we want to know him better.

Failure to believe stems from moral failure to recognize the truth, not from want of evidence, but from willful neglect or distortion of the evidence.

I guess sometimes the past just catches up to you, whether you want it to or not.

One thing I want to make clear, as far as my own rebirth is concerned, the final authority is myself and no one else, and obviously not China's Communists.

If you have a lot of fans, you have a powerful soapbox, but you still have to have something to say when you're on that soapbox if you want to make a real difference.

When you've just done it, you're not sure. But when you've sat with it for a couple of hours and you don't want to do anything more to it, that's a great feeling. It can stand on its own two feet.

Winter testing is essential but there comes a point where you have had enough of all the rehearsals and the pretend racing. You just want to get down to the real action.

If you have the ability and want it bad enough, do it!

When you're in pain, tomorrow doesn't exist - just the pain - and the only thing that you want in the world is for it to go away.

Identity issues are hardwired into the way I think about character - it's almost as if I can't get away from them even if I want to.

What made me want to go into doing comics was I was working as a laborer with my father, a gardener.

Stay present. You'll always have time to worry later on if you want to.

A hero. You want to be one of those rare human beings who make history, rather than merely watch it flow around them like water around a rock.

Somewhere at the top of the pyramid in the invisible government are a few sinister people who know exactly what they are doing: They want America to become part of a worldwide socialist dictatorship.

I don't see money or a particular status as an actor as a goal, but I want to do the best work I can in as interesting a range of roles as I can.

No matter what techniques I use, I still want to go after the eternal, meaningful aspects of painting.

Businesses should no longer be allowed to depress wages by hiring illegal labor and then falsely claim that Americans don't want to do the jobs.

You can try to steal the thunder all you want, it just reminds people I'm the lightning. You rumble in the distance. I light up the sky.

Sometimes, when you want to make a difference in a person's life, stay out of it.

I've read stories that are set in a celebrity's house, and you know where it is and what it looks like and what's inside it, and that's not something I want anyone to know.

I have this certain vision of the way I want my comics to look; this sort of photographic realism, but with a certain abstraction that comics can give. It's kind of a fine line.

At some point, life starts to pass you by and becomes about avoidance. I want to stay clear from that situation, because I don't like that.

I am inclined to think that nothing could matter more than what people love. At any rate, I can think of no value that I would place higher. I would not want to live in a world without love.

People just want to have access to all of the world's music.

Larry wanted us to reposition the tower. We wouldn't, and won't. He's been holding back our fees. We want to get paid. And that's it. It'll get solved and we'll carry on with planning Ground Zero.

Children don't need learning. They need access to what they want to learn outside the home.

Because I'm short and slim, I can identify with somebody who's an unlikely fit for something and desperately wants to be part of it.

I still have issues around forgetting that it's my life and if I want to do something, I can do it.

To be acknowledged outside of my city is amazing to me, because I don't really feel like I did nothing distasteful. I made the music I want to make, and people started to like it.

I'm photographing all the time. I'm such a visual person and I don't want to miss that moment.

You have to be stronger than your fears if you want to get anything done in this life.

Your destiny is in your hands. Creating the life you want is only, and always, up to you.

With humor you have so many options with topics and length, I mean I can write humor essays in books now and they can be as long as I want them to be.