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Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

In fact, most artists want to make things a bit more difficult for themselves as they go along, to challenge themselves.

I want to tell you a terrific story about oral contraception. I asked this girl to sleep with me and she said 'No.'

If I want to get work done, that's usually about 3 in the morning.

Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

I'm different than another person who wants to lay back and do nothing for rest of the life and talk nonsense on ESPN... I will not do that. I want to achieve something else.

I don't want to get into the 'who's a hostage-taker' discussion here, but what is the estate tax? It's a double tax on death. Economists will tell you that it's really not a tax that soaks the rich, but it's a tax on capital that deprives business investment and therefore job creation.

I like video games, but they are very violent. I want to create a video game in which you have to help all the characters who have died in the other games. 'Hey, man, what are you playing?' 'Super Busy Hospital. Could you leave me alone? I'm performing surgery! This guy got shot in the head, like, 27 times!'

I didn't want to set up a women's studies program. I thought women should learn to operate in a coeducational atmosphere, because, especially in national security and international affairs, it's male-dominated.

Honey, I am the chief of my train. If critics want to hop on board, fantastic. There's plenty of room. The KP train is fun.

I don't want to be in Terminator. I don't want to go to Hollywood.

Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.

I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.

I want my tennis to speak for everything.

Obscenities... I think a lot of dumb people do it because they can't think of what they want to say and they're frustrated. A lot of smart people do it to pretend they aren't very smart - want to be just one of the boys.

If I want to be alone, some place I can write, I can read, I can pray, I can cry, I can do whatever I want - I go to the bathroom.

Be sure what you want and be sure about yourself. Fashion is not just beauty, it's about good attitude. You have to believe in yourself and be strong.

Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.

I want to be different. If everyone is wearing black, I want to be wearing red.

If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.

I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it.

I just want to work, and learn from people I respect and admire.

Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy.

I'm singing what I want to sing based on the emotion of what that day feels like. That's what comes out of my mouth and guitar. That impacts people. They know anything can happen.

For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?' And whenever the answer has been 'No' for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.

So, in Europe, they're cutting people's retirement and health benefits. And that's what we want to avoid from happening. They're raising taxes, entering a recession. That's the kind of economic program that President Obama has put in place.

When I fight someone, I want to break his will. I want to take his manhood. I want to rip out his heart and show it to him.

I want to get married before I'm 30. And I'd like to win an Oscar before then.

If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior.