What Do We Want Quotes

The President is the last person in the world to know what the people really want and think.

Many people who want to be writers don't really want to be writers. They want to have been writers. They wish they had a book in print.

[There is no shortage of scientific talent.] But [I am] much less optimistic about the managerial vision [of the pharmaceutical industry] to catalyse these talents to deliver the results we all want.

Creative leadership impact increases in your 50's. When I turn 50 I want to say, "Nice start!"

Painters love paint itself: so much that they spend years trying to get paint to behave the way they want it to.

The American people want peace. They have long since ceased to talk of a hard or a soft peace for Germany.

People don't want to accept the responsibility for their own weakness, so they place the blame on something that they're not responsible for, like disease or genetics.

It's about bums on seats. If nobody wants to listen to what you are doing, it kind of defeats the purpose really, doesn't it?

We're an air bag society that wants guarantees on everything that we buy. We want to be able to take everything back and get another one. We want a 401-k plan and Social Security.

Its just that, when the orchestra look at me, I want them to see a completely involved person who reflects what we rehearsed, and whose function is to make it possible for them to do it.

If the woman in my life, the one that I felt I loved enough to want to marry, loved my children, I'd know then that her love for me was deeper than I could hope for.

God's not afraid of a mess. He wants to do a cleaning.

Not what we wish, but what we want, Oh! let thy grace supply, The good unask'd, in mercy grant; The ill, though ask'd, deny.

In a perfect world we don't want to be overly dependent on any single asset or be so dependent on the cycle or where one asset is the bulk of this company.

Okay, who wants to see me take off Snivelly's pants?

Actors tend to get better with age. You start cutting away the useless stuff and achieving a point of effortlessness and simplicity, which is all you want to do, with any art at all.

Ez fer war, I call it murder,- There you hev it plain an' flat; I don't want to go no furder Than my Testyment fer that. . . . . . An' you 've gut to git up airly Ef you want to take in God.

I feel like if you let someone else create your vision, then it's not true to your band. No one can ever do as good as you want, or as good as you can yourself.

It's a free country and I can keep my mouth shut whenever I want

Always think in terms of what the other person wants.

Can't a person be born where they want to be born?

I'm a pretty quiet guy, but if people want to think of me as a lady killer, I guess that's good.

So, it's a matter of that I want to take our music around the globe.

Banks also have to say no to customers. We can't always give clients what they want; it may not be in the client's best interest.

Every two, three years there is a movie about the Holocaust because they want you to remember and they want you to be reminded of what it was. When was the last time you seen a movie about slavery?

The same way that mid century modern architecture was in the 50s, I want to be as a human being. New. Different. Challenging the old. Function over frivolity. Clean living. Clean lines.

Summer movies are spectacles; that's what you pay 10 dollars to see. You want to get teased by effects sometimes. I think that will never stop.

There is not the hundredth part of the wine consumed in this kingdom that there ought to be. Our foggy climate wants help.

Researchers find it very necessary to keep blinkers on. They don't want to admit that the animals they are working with have feelings.

I think that if you idealise someone for so long, they can only disappoint and I wouldn't want to be disappointed by those people.

Each of us seems to have a main focus, a particular idea of practicality - a concept of 'what we want out of life' against which we judge our experiences.

There are two sides of the Velvet Rope. Those who want to be on the other side and those who are on the other side.

Texas is OK if you want to settle down and do your own thing quietly, but it's not for outrageous people, and I was always outrageous.

I'm getting Puppetmasters, too. They're one of my favorites. And they're coming out with new Puppetmasters. I try not to get everything, but I want so much.

To be one of the special ones, you've got to want to take that shot-you've also got to be willing to fail, learn from it, come back and take that shot again.

My idol, Gary Payton, played 19 years. I definitely want to try to reach that.

the best lies to tell are the ones people want to believe

How many people want to read about three disreputable pigs and a dopey wolf with a disposition towards house demolition?

One wants one's work to be the world, but of course it's never the world. The work is in the world; it never contains the whole thing.

Cubism is an anatomical chart of a way of seeing external objects. But I want to confuse the meaning of the act of looking.

Some members of Congress now are complaining they are underpaid. They want to propose a pay raise. You can't blame them. A lot of them took a big income hit when Enron folded.

Starbuck's is going to start selling instant coffee. This is for people who want the quality of Sanka, but want to pay the high Starbuck's price.

It's important to realize that the images are everywhere, not just where you want or expect them to be.

Love is the eternal quest: almost everyone wants to love and be loved.

When I'm shooting, really the audience I'm thinking the hardest about is that first test screening audience who I want to like the film and that first opening weekend audience.

Deficit reduction is not an end in itself. It is the means to an end. Canadians must now decide what kind of country they want to build with the hard-won dividend.

I don't represent myself as a star, but an actor who wants to make movies.

No matter how good somebody's life looks from the outside, you can be sure there's something about it you wouldn't want to have in your life.

I don't write for publishers, certainly not for critics, and not for readers, But I am delighted that so many people have found my books enjoyable and want to continue to read them.

Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to look at Haiti from a psychological perspective.