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If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding.

But I also want to have a family with children one day, which is very important to me.

So, for instance, let me make this clear: You know I signed a statement. I will not raise taxes on anybody. I don't want to raise taxes on the American people.

Politicians like to tell people what they want to hear - and what they want to hear is what won't happen.

I always tell people I want to live to be 150 and they say why would you want to do that. I say, well there's a few people I haven't made mad yet, I want to get them.

I don't want to get pigeonholed.

Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

In reality, I never want to grow up.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Presents don't really mean much to me. I don't want to sound mawkish, but - it was the realization that I have a great many people in my life who really love me, and who I really love.

The last thing they want is a revitalized economy now. I'm not saying the Democrats don't want a strong economy. Don't misunderstand. They just don't want it now.

You can go into neighborhoods in the United States where people dress a certain way because they don't want to be out of touch, where boys wear pants down to their knees, which nobody has compelled them to do but they pick up the cultural norms, or where girls are improperly dressed by my eyes, but that's what they see in the media.

I really, specifically, love acting, and I think it's a really cool thing to be really indulgent and follow that. I have a lot of ambitions in life, but for the next few years, I just want to be an actor.

Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings.

When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, 'Oh yes - I already have everything that I really need.'

I'm not after fame and success and fortune and power. It's mostly that I want to have a good job and have good friends; that's the good stuff in life.

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

I guess I would ideally want to be 20 physically, but 40 mentally.

It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don't want victories anymore.

The only reason I don't want to commit adultery is because I love my wife and I love my lord.

I don't know what my calling is, but I want to be here for a bigger reason. I strive to be like the greatest people who have ever lived.

I still think of that guy I was without a wife or kids, and I still want to entertain that guy. The lonely guy, the frustrated guy, the guy with no money - this is the guy who needs to laugh.

If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.

Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

There are two things people want more than sex and money... recognition and praise.

I want to show audiences I can act.

I didn't want to be one of those women who wake up at 63 years old and realize they've missed the window of opportunity for marriage and children.

I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.

If you want to be a legitimate artist, it's more important what you say no to.

Maybe we ought to consider a Golden Rule in foreign policy: Don't do to other nations what we don't want happening to us. We endlessly bomb these countries and then we wonder why they get upset with us?