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I don't believe in pessimism. If something doesn't come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it's going to rain, it will.

I want to reconnect to my animal life.

I've never preached one sermon on money, on just finances. I want to stay away from it.

The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.

At some point you start seeing the difference between what you really want, and what is your priority order. I feel that today I know what I want. That's the problem with perspective, as well as focus and concentration.

Too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want to impress people they don't like.

I want a big church wedding.

Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.

You know, with the film industry crews, there's an odd mix between a very technical and a very artistic approach to the work, and sometimes as a woman you have to be a little bit careful about how things come out because people don't really want to listen if it's in a certain emotional tone or too strong.

Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing.

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

We hire people who want to make the best things in the world.

If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence.

I just want to make my music, and I want it to stand on its own.

If you want to go east, don't go west.

I still want to make a pop record. I want to make a more sonically current pop record. I maybe want to make people move a little bit more.

We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.

Don't go away. I don't want to be alone. I can't stand being alone.

Flattery and insults raise the same question: What do you want?

As soon as you think you can do whatever you want and you have whatever great professional in the world waiting to work with you, then you are sunk.

It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?

A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.

If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

I don't want to repeat myself.

You can fool some of the people all the time, and those are the ones you want to concentrate on.

It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it... anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

It's really fun to be in a film that's pure entertainment, that people want to go and see. I think, in the current climate, the state of things, people want escapism.

Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

I understand what it is for a woman to want to protect their children and give them the best they can.