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You do not need proof for what people want to believe.

The economic disasters of socialism and communism come from assuming a blanket superiority of those who want to run a whole economy.

You just try to be nice to everybody and treat them all the same. Treat them how you would want to be treated.

Everyone wants to work with the big new producer or the hot new singer. The key is to find them before they're hot.

Today, people can say anything they want. Suddenly it gets in the rumor mill and then it evolves and then somehow it becomes fact and you say, What is this? You know, why don't you ask me?

If you take the approach that you want to scrape every last nickel off the table, that'll work one or two times, but after awhile, your reputation will precede you.

I was looking at people like Jim Morrison and David Bowie and Mick Jagger and I thought, Ah! I want to look like them.

It was more fun trying to figure out I Want To Hold Your Hand than to take lessons. By this time I knew basic chords

I can live a totally normal life and do everything I want to do just as long as I take my medication. My body will give me signals if it gets weak or fatigued, so I know when I need to take a break.

Of particular importance to us is the recognition... that what we want is a Europe of nations, not a federal super-state.

Leaders focus on what they can control, what they have, and what they want.

Life wants you to serve something more than yourself. When you serve something more than yourself, you are served. It's the most ironic thing in the world.

I don't own a computer. I have a nine-foot piano in my home to compose my messages. Why would I want a one-foot computer to do the same thing?

Women have to embrace ambition if they want to. I had a lot of trouble taking compliments in the beginning, and it's really important for women to embrace their title.

People are so scared to really voice who they are. They want to be politically correct. Just scared to see what other people's perceptions are.

Sounds so silly, but I want to accomplish getting my kids through college.

The war on Christmas. This is the most ridiculous right wing talking point I have ever lived through.The idea is that liberals want to get rid of Christmas.

Well, I don't think of myself as a diva. I'm too dorky! Look at my shoes. (Points to the aforementioned sneakers.) I always look like this. I don't always want to be "working."

I'm a dweller of the threshold and I'm waiting at the door, and I'm standing in the darkness, I don't want to wait no more.

It took me a while and a lot of hard times to figure out my purpose, I am so happy with my life. I just want to help make other people happy too.

It never seems to occur to anybody that some women may not want to find husbands.

My hair is a wild, untamable beast! I like letting it grow; my bangs grow whatever way they want and I kind of follow their rule. So side bangs, poof bangs - it's kind of unpredictable.

Next year we have to be even better. If we want to be a big club this has to be one of many.

I wanted to make people think of a totally different way of living from that which we, educated people, live. I would absolutely not want anyone to find it beautiful or good without a thought.

Criticism? An artist wants praise. Praise.

Once you really love a person and, if you want to be in a committed relationship the games need to stop. I mean, you can find some other games to play.

Every imperial agent wants to reduce what is possible to what is available.

With my writing, what I want to do is humanize the young people I write about.

When I buy a stock, I have kind of an idea where I want to sell it.

As long as you keep the audience on the edge of their seats, either scare them or keep them guessing, you can put anything in there that you want.

For it's home, dearie, home--it's home I want to be. Our topsails are hoisted, and we'll away to sea. O, the oak and the ash and the bonnie birken tree They're all growing green in the old countrie.

If ten men are carrying a log - nine of them on the little end and one at the heavy end - and you want to help, which end will you lift on?

My beauty secret is... nothing! I don't drink too much water. I don't eat very well. Sometimes I cheat and grab some chocolate. The best thing is to eat what you want, but not very much.

I like a girl who knows what she wants and makes me work for her

In America, they want you to accomplish these great feats, to pull off these David Copperfield-type stunts. You want me to be great, but you don't ever want me to say I'm great?

You never so much want to be happy with a woman as when you know that you're ceasing to care for her.

Don't ever give up what you want in life. The struggle is worth it.

With kids, they don't do what you want them to do when you want them to do it. Organizations don't necessarily, either. You've got to listen. You've got to learn how to influence.

I like men with quick wit, good conversation and a great sense of humour. I love banter. I want a man to like me for me - I want him to be authentic.

This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.

What you feel, what you desire and what you want is not what you are. You are a consciousness. Speak consciously and speak what your consciousness allows you to speak.

God told me once, 'I want you to come up to the lowest place.'

Life is not only knowing what you want but what you'll settle for.

The first essence of journalism is to know what you want to know, the second, is to find out who will tell you.

If you want something, go get it.

The more you learn, I think the more you realise who you are and what you want and what you believe and what you want to be and where you want to end up.

It had never once occurred to me that the paper I wanted to work for would not want me. Certainly I never expected to be rejected solely because I was a girl!

God, I want to die in you.

Life is a fight for territory and once you stop fighting for what you want, what you don't want will automatically take over.

You try to give away what you want yourself.