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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.

If you are given a chance to be a role model, I think you should always take it because you can influence a person's life in a positive light, and that's what I want to do. That's what it's all about.

Hope and change? We're not doing that anymore. They're doing attack and blame. And so, I just think people are going to see through this. They want real leadership. They want us to get this country on the right track.

I want to reform the tax code so that it's simple, fair, and asks the wealthiest households to pay higher taxes on incomes over $250,000 - the same rate we had when Bill Clinton was president; the same rate we had when our economy created nearly 23 million new jobs, the biggest surplus in history, and a lot of millionaires to boot.

I think women want to take care of themselves, and I think having a voice in how that is done is very important.

Why does a man take it for granted that a girl who flirts with him wants him to kiss her - when, nine times out of ten, she only wants him to want to kiss her?

I want to look forward.

Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.

A lot of people don't want to make their own decisions. They're too scared. It's much easier to be told what to do.