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The world knows that America will never start a war. This generation of Americans has had enough of war and hate... we want to build a world of peace where the weak are secure and the strong are just.

My soul is not my own any more. I cannot live like I want to. I am going to give up films.

I don't want to limit myself musically. It would be really limiting if we'd neglect something we really want to do, like explore other styles of music.

I do not think I should care to go on worshipping a Madonna even if she did wink. One cannot make much out of a wink. We want something more than that from the object of our adoration.

Certain people want to see me solely as a pop act, but there are many different sides to Christina Aguilera besides the pop girl.

Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.

Basically, I hate conformity. I hate people telling me what to do. It makes me want to smash things. So-called normal behaviour patterns make me so bored, I could throw up!

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.

I definitely want to go out and explore different personalities and different people.

I do not want horses or diamonds - I am happy in possessing you.

Any guy that's not working with the same amount of intensity and passion that I do, I don't want to know.

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.

At the descriptive level, certainly, you would expect different cultures to develop different sorts of ethics and obviously they have; that doesn't mean that you can't think of overarching ethical principles you would want people to follow in all kinds of places.

We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly.

So now 20 years later people want us to get together so they can take shots at all these old babes trying to get back some youth. I mean come on; I've been there. I know what the press would do.

Don't let other people tell you what you want.

I do not want a husband who honours me as a queen, if he does not love me as a woman.

I am a greedy, selfish bastard. I want the fact that I existed to mean something.

A lot of people have this ego need that makes them want to believe that Earth is the center of the universe and humans are the most important species, the supreme expression of creation.

I'm lucky to have the privilege of being able to choose what I want to do.

I want kids. I want a soccer team, and I want a husband.

I wrapped my Christmas presents early this year, but I used the wrong paper. See, the paper I used said 'Happy Birthday' on it. I didn't want to waste it so I just wrote 'Jesus' on it.

I want to do it because I want to do it.

I am an optimist because I want to change things for the better and I know that blood has to be spilled and disharmony and cruelty are necessary to do that.

You can avoid the press if you really want to and I don't walk around with five security guards either because I think that just draws attention.

I want to have it all.

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.

To make films like 'X-Men' work commercially - and also have some class - is one of the hardest things there is to do. I want to be seen to be able to cross lots of genres and still be 'fair dinkum,' as we say in Australia, which means genuine and true and, well, unique.

Most comedy is based on getting a laugh at somebody else's expense. And I find that that's just a form of bullying in a major way. So I want to be an example that you can be funny and be kind, and make people laugh without hurting somebody else's feelings.

I don't want to be wondering about how skinny I am, wondering what I'm going to eat because I don't want to gain and I want to look hot and young, always and forever.