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I want people to love me, but it's not going to hurt me if they don't.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.

This is what customers pay us for - to sweat all these details so it's easy and pleasant for them to use our computers. We're supposed to be really good at this. That doesn't mean we don't listen to customers, but it's hard for them to tell you what they want when they've never seen anything remotely like it.

If you don't want to work you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

I don't want to be singing my diary.

One has children in the expectation of dying before them. In fact, you want to make damn sure you die before them, just as you plant a tree or build a house knowing, hoping that it will outlive you. That's how the human species has done as well as it has.

I'm still driving along on the pop freeway of life. Thinking even further into the future, I definitely want to make an acoustic record. I want to try lots of different things.

I am not a demon. I am a lizard, a shark, a heat-seeking panther. I want to be Bob Denver on acid playing the accordion.

What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do. When we do what we are meant to do, money comes to us, doors open for us, we feel useful, and the work we do feels like play to us.

Often, when I want to consult my impulses, I cannot find them.

I simply want you to give to yourself as much as you give of yourself. By taking care of yourself financially, you will truly be able to take care of those you love.

What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning.

Be able to live alone, even if you don't want to and think you will never find it necessary.

Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

I haven't had that one great love, which is good. I don't want that to be in the past - I want it to be in the future.

Racism springs from the lie that certain human beings are less than fully human. It's a self-centered falsehood that corrupts our minds into believing we are right to treat others as we would not want to be treated.

I think directors should be confident in their leadership capabilities. I think directors should be confident in what they want to do.

I think suicide is sort of like cancer was 50 years ago. People don't want to talk about it, they don't want to know about it. People are frightened of it, and they don't understand, when actually these issues are medically treatable.

One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.

All film directors, even the ones using 3-D today, want you to look at what they chose.

If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill a president of the United States, he can do it. All he must be prepared to do is give his life for the president's.

A lot of things you want to do as part of daily life can now be done over the Internet.

No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

We don't want to turn the safety net into a hammock that lulls able-bodied people into complacency and dependence.

Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.

One of the things that was really an issue was I did not want to just be a woman secretary of state. I wanted to be a secretary of a state who was a woman, but not just chosen for that particular reason.

We have convinced over one billion members of the Islamic faith that we are prejudiced against their religion, that we would deny them freedom of religion, that we want suppress their culture and invade their governments.

You need a particular talent only to want to please. I don't have this talent.