Want Quotes

If we're destroying our trees and destroying our environment and hurting animals and hurting one another and all that stuff, there's got to be a very powerful energy to fight that. I think we need more love in the world. We need more kindness, more compassion, more joy, more laughter. I definitely want to contribute to that.

People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them.

Being an actor means being an instrument for someone else. I want to give myself completely.

If you've earned a position, be proud of it. Don't hide it. I want to be recognized. When I hear people say, 'There's Joan Crawford!' I turn around and say, 'Hi! How are you!'

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

I try to teach my heart not to want things it can't have.

Smoking sucks! The one thing I would say to my kid is, 'It's not just that it's bad for you. Do you want to spend the rest of your life fighting a stupid addiction to a stupid thing that doesn't even really give you a good buzz?'

I don't have a specific thing I want anyone to get out of anything I do.

It just seems to be a human trait to want to protect the speech of people with whom we agree. For the First Amendment, that is not good enough. So it is really important that we protect First Amendment rights of people no matter what side of the line they are on.

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.

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.

For me, my business is my business and my house is my house. I don't want the public in my house.

Staple a green card to their diploma - welcome to the United States of America! We want those people in our country.